The endless white void hums and shivers as waves of magic rippled throughout the timeless space. The source of these powerful waves was the byproduct of reality warping spells. The one who casted them was Gaster, a being which should not exist in time nor space. He let up another blast of magic with the intent on wiping his targets out of existence.
He let out a lagging sigh, impressed and frustrated that a few mortals could dodge his attacks for so long. "I'm impressed you three are still holding onto such futile hope. If I were still connected to the material plane, I would have run out of magic by now."
A few small and exhausted breathes escaped their mouths. "Save your complements, glitchy trash bag!" Yelled a golden buttercup on top of a child's head, Flowey the flower. Flowey's true name is Asriel, or the dead prince of monsters. "We are just getting started!"
Then his true target, or is it technically targets? After all a being that can posses and link souls is rare and no one thought of what to call them. There was the corporeal one or the one who gets possessed, a small child with a blue jumpsuit and purple stripes. His ghostly eyes narrowed, not on them but the ethereal after image.
"He's right about that, we will never give up!" The after image agreed, anger in it's voice.
Gaster smiled with a cruel glee. "Ah, Chara, I thought you died inside of the child?" He did a bow as Flowey fired magical pellets at him. "Well then, in that case." The deadly pellets were destroyed as Gaster unleashed his magical presence. "It's time to go on the offensive. let's see you do more then dodge and resist the inevitable!" With a snap of a distorted finger he summoned a circle of fifty gaster blasters.
"Frisk, you have to let me posses you now! We can't reset if we die here, there is no time!" Gaster smiled at their fleeting hope. Even if Chara posses the human child his power would still overcompassed theirs like a casting shadow.
"No!" Frisk declined as they roll, duck, and jump over the beams of death. "What If genocide happens then countless monsters will die, it will be worse then this!" As Frisk dodged the last blaster, a bone shoots through their right shoulder. Frisk kneeled over from the pain of a shattered shoulder.
"Idiot!" Flowey yelled as he whips Frisk's Head with a vine. "If we die here, Gaster will do more then genocide! Imagine it, countless timelines at the tip of his fingers to play with or to destroy!" Frisk bowed their head as the dead prince fantasies the grim reality of the situation. "Literally all life in our multiverse will be wiped out! He won't commit genocide, but rather omnicide!"
Gaster hummed, it was past the line of no return and they will die no matter what happens. "My, my, it seams you can predict the future, oh wait there soon won't be." He conjured a bone to his side as he slowly approched the mortally wounded child and their friends.
Frisk was silent as the entity that should not exist would kill everything. "Alright..." They muttered as an aura of dark determination filled the small gap between the child and Gaster. The aura then disappeared and was replaced by the child's distorted visage. They look exactly the same except that their eye were opened with crimson red irises.
Gaster paid the increase of power no mind, it was insignificant after all. "So, now the mad sibling of the prince joins us. It does not matter even with the new affinity of monster slaying. Tell me Chara, how well can you control a soul that is not-" A drop of black liquid fall from Chara's right eye. "-compatible before going berserk?"
Chara opened a very small portal to thier inventory. They reached into the portal and pulled out a knife, just an ordinary kitchen knife. "To be honest, not much for a conversation." Chara then grabbed Flowey and opened another portal. "Azzy, I love you my brother, please forgive me."
"Wait, Chara what are you doing!? Stop wai-!" They tossed Flowey threw the portal as they felt the feeling they haven't felt for a long time, the need for carnage.
They started coughing up black liquid, it was a thing they knew all to well. "Well since that's settled." The crimson of the knife dimmed to a point where even gaster had troubled determining if it was black or red. "I will kill you!" They roared as the swallowed the white of their eyes, leaving only dim red irises.
Gaster shrugged at the display. "I would 'love' to see you try!" He waved his hand to summon three tall walls of bones. It would be easy to dodge as Gaster had planned, a simple trick. When they jump or move sideways away from the bones, his hidden gaster blaster will eliminate them.
To his surprise they charged right through the bones like it was nothing. Due to the shock of such a bold move the blaster could not react and was destroyed. He then understood why from just looking at their soul. Chara was consumed by corruption and can't leave the host's body. They now only had one simple train of thought, kill or be killed. They didn't care how just that they do it fast.
"Already lost to the desire I see? It will be your downfall!" He decided to end this, after all There was nothing to break in a beast's mind. A single blaster now with five percent of his total power. That would have far more power then Asriel's hyper goner, but then again the prince wasn't trying that time. It fired and just the waves it made cracked the white void around them. Annoyance crossed his face and he forgot about their last lifeline. "But it refused..."
In the epic center of the blast and the destruction of the void was Chara. The shattered soul came back together and their health restored. The aura of dark determination was back with its kill or be killed intent stronger then before.
"Even in that sanity deprived form you could still use that? I wonder who had forgotten you, or maybe who did you forget?" Chara let out a roar at his words, the liquid corruption had completely covered their body from head to toes. "This is...interesting." While the researcher in him was yelling at him to study Chara new corrupted form, he knew that enough was enough. The cannon fired again, but this time at seventy percent of his total power. The magical waves alone were enough to shatter and damage reality, the final impact will surly end it all.
Chara looked at the attack that will end all of existence. It was enough of a shock to bring them back into the edge of sanity. Frisk was also watching as an after image. They couldn't survive this, but maybe they could if. "Chara? What are you thinking?" Chara could not hear Frisk of course due to the corruption blocking the connection, yet that's what Frisk would probably say.
"Azzy, Frisk..." They pointed at the laser as a save point was summoned in the palm of their hand. Gaster was shocked at the appearance of the star-like object. You can't reset in a void, but there wasn't really a void anymore. "I couldn't save them..."
A bright flash of light and they were gone just before the attack landed it's eternal blow. Gaster blinked in confusion at the impossible spell and looked around his new indefinite and Timeless area.
"Interesting, the concept of time and space shouldn't even exist now yet you pulled a reset." Gaster could only see darkness of everything that is time and space, which does not exist like himself. "Could it be possible that, no that can't be right. To generate enough power for a spell like that is almost..." His sockets grew wide with inspiration, scientific glee, and wonder. "Their next test should be very, very, challenging."
Darkness and the ever creeping feeling of dread filled Frisk heart. Their mind drifted along the idea of being like Gaster, to not exist even as a concept. To bled out of existence when mentioned, but would still be aware of the world. That terrified them since Chara would pull that on them and Asriel if it kept them alive.
But that wasn't the case as they felt a chill wind and heard the sound of rustling grass. Frisk opened their eyes only slightly and found the night sky. It was beautiful, so much so that it blessed them with ignorance of what happen for a few seconds. It reminded them of blooky and his 'trash' meditation, then it made them thought of mettaton, then alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, Sans, Toriel, Asgore, Asriel, and Chara.
The thought of the latter two made Frisk jump up to search for said two. The search was over in a second as they saw the ghostly visage of Chara sitting on a hilltop a few feet away. The feeling of ignorance returned to them as they recall that Asriel mistook them for Chara, they are similar except in personality.
Chara had a green sweater with a yellow stripe and brown shorts. Their hair styles were also nearly the same color and look. Brown though Chara's was a lighter shade then frisk's hair and their style was more tame then Frisk's. It was no wonder Asriel thought Frisk was Chara During the journey.
Frisk started to approch Chara when they took note the sounds of wailing coming from the ghost. As a friend, Frisk would do everything in their power to help like the first time. So without warning from Frisk Chara got friendship tackled by them. They rolled down the hill and then Frisk realized that they couldn't actully tackle Chara. Chara was a ghost after all and so corporeal beings like humans would phase right through.
After tumbling to the bottom of the hill and dusting themselves off, Frisk looked back at the top. Chara was still in the same position unfazed by the friendship tackle Frisk learned from Undyne. From the bottom of the hill, Frisk got a better look on Chara's face then before. What Frisk saw was worst then they thought, the dead look.
Glassy eyes that could pierce the strongest of hearts and a frown that would cause anyone to lose hope.
Frisk broke that look when they emotionally 'fixed' Chara by giving them the friends they had made and reunited Chara with Asriel. Then just like that they understood why Chara was such a train wreak. To Chara this is the most painful experience the dead child had ever suffered as a ghost.
Frisk walked back up the hill and sat next to Chara. "Chara?" There was silence and even the wind died to give peace to the both of them. "What happened?"
"I'm so sorry Frisk, so, so sorry..." Chara was not crying as ghost don't have tears to shed. "I couldn't save them, I don't even know if I saved Azzy!" Chara wailed as her ethereal form shuddered from shame. "I'm selfish, only saving myself-!"
Chara stopped when Frisk looked at them with a forgiving look and it hurt Chara for that very reason. "It was not your fault, you were not in control it was Gaster." Chara was silent as Frisk continues. "I doubt you would save me and Azzy to be selfish, if the corruption was still in control we wouldn't be alive right now." Chara was silent at Frisk's reasoning, it didn't change the fact that everyone except them has-
"W-What are you doing?" Chara asked with their depressed wailing turning into a sad stutter.
Frisk had opened the small portal to their inventory. "To see if Asriel is alive." Frisk reached inside and was feeling for a very annoyed plant prince.
Chara covered their eyes, they didn't want their hopes erased even further.
"Hi Flowey," Frisk greeted with a friendly gesture as they planted the buttercup monster.
Chara checked and saw her sealed brother still alive. In the heat of emotional moment Chara tried to hug Azzy, but they forgot that about being a ghost part. Chara sighed as their body phased through the flower. "Can't win them all I guess." Most of the sorrow that enters Chara's heart vanished.
"Frisk, what the hell happened!? Why was I in the inventory space!? You of all people should know that I hate it in there!" Flowey shouted and he shakes some breadcrumbs off his petals. "Think I swallowed a spider in there..." He faked a cough in an attempt to show his disdain for the space.
Frisk giggled at Flowey's annoyance, it was a good nostalgia moment. "Well, Chara threw you in there so you wouldn't die from Gaster's attack." Frisk smiled, but soon that smile dropped that as the monster looked extremely confused. "What is it, Flowey?"
"That's well and good, but who in the hell is Chara? It was just you and me fighting glitchy trash bag." As Flowey stated that, Frisk and Chara looked at each other with wide eyes. "Who are you staring at, trash bag didn't mess with your brain did he!?"
Frisk was worried, but maybe if they did the memory restoration thing like when they fought Hyperdeath Asriel it might work. "Okay, Flowey If Chara does not exist then who's soul did you absorb to leave the barrier?" Flowey blinked as Frisk thought they won this.
"Easy, alphys' failed surrogate soul, lizard bastard!" He hissed as Frisk and Chara grew more worried. "I was going to use that new power by collecting souls from the recently dead, but it malfunctioned and I died on my dad's flower bed!" He gestures to himself, it seams something affected his memory hard. "I wouldn't think that I had to tell you that horrid experiance again, but then again you are an idiot~" He sang as his face morphs into his more scary one. "Now, where are we?"
Chara's dread returned as they would not think it's possible; however there is one way. "He forgot about me, I made Azzy forget me when we refused to die." Dropped on their knees losing all hope. "The only way to restore that is a reset, but our last save was destroyed by Gaster."
"But didn't you reset?"
"Who are you talking to, I'm right here don't ignore me!" Flowey shouted with an increasing anger.
"No a reset it turning back a clock for another possibility like a redo button. However; since Gaster was about to destroy the very concept of time and space I couldn't reset." Frisk stared back with a fish face, completely dumbfounded. "So I mustered all the determination I could and did...something interesting." They gestured at the bottom of the hill and to a feudal town a few miles away. "Imagine time is x and space is y, instead of changing either I added another variable. A parallel multiverse completely separated from our own like a slide in a pictograph, or z I guess."
Frisk blinked not even catching half of what Chara meant. "Uhh...I'm not alphys."
"Duh, you know what forget scrambled, he creamed your sanity!" Flowey was more sincere then he really should be.
Chara facepalmed and groaned. "It means we are in another universe that has no correlation to our own! However we won't change due to being bound to our universes rules, even if it doesn't exist anymore; I think?" Frisk nodded slowly only getting the first part.
"That's it!" Flowey shouted as he wrapped vines around Frisk's body, carful as to not accidentally crush them. "He did something to you I'm sure of it! Maybe that town can help us, if they don't I'll force them to."
"Flow-!?" Flowey's vines then wrapped around their mouth, effectively gagging them.
"Sorry, I'll make sure they fix you or they will die a horri-I mean painless death!" Flowey's face melted into his more monstrous one.
Frisk looked over at Chara for help, but they only shrugged. "Hey, I'll do anything it help unless it's to hurt Azzy." With a defeated sigh Frisk let Flowey dragged them to the seemingly small town of E-Rantal.
