Undertale
The Human Influence
Rotation 2: Day 1
Awakening

"Frisk…? Frisk wake up!" A familiar voice lets out as Frisk is shocked awake. He blinks a few times, looking around. He's in his room in Toriel's house.

Five years ago, monsters ascended to the surface, much like his memories in the original ending of the world, the world without Asriel. For the longest time, Frisk thought his desires for saving Asriel were his own, but in reality they were an echo of the Unseen Influence's effect on him. He looks to one side of his bed to see his save point, the thing he uses before he goes to bed. He looks to the other side of his bed to see Asriel standing over him. Frisk looks on with sadness, still covered up in his bed.

"Finally, I was trying to wake you up for like an hour, what's up… … …wait, I know that look. You… loaded your save. What happened?"

"Asriel, so much happened… but…" He says, sitting up in his bed and throwing the blanket off. He stands up and hugs Asriel gently and slowly.

"But I'm glad you're here again…"
"I DIED?!" He bleats, shaking free of Frisk's grasp.
"We all did, Asriel."
"What the heck happened?! Tell me!" Asriel pleads, looking Frisk in his eyes. Frisk originally had his eyes forced shut within the events that transpired in the underground, but now it feels like ever since the Unseen Influence let go of this world, he's truly woken up. His eyes are now permanently open, and are in fact a very beautiful red color.

"You… know all the rumblings about the humans not liking monsters living on the surface?"
"Yeah, well everyone knows that, they sent us underground! But we've been working through as many channels as we can to retake our rightful place as citizens of the world, with you as our ambassador of course."

"Right, well… I loaded from a week in the future, and that all just… stopped."
"A week? You've saved your game every day since we arrived on the surface just to convince yourself this was real for the past five years, why did you stop saving for a week?"

"Because… …! BECAUSE…! A-Asgore's press conference, did it start?!"
"Yeah, it started like 30 minutes ago, I was trying to wake you up for it."
"How long will it take to get there?!"
"Frisk, what's wrong-"
"HOW LONG?!"
"A-ABOUT AN HOUR?"
"DAMN IT, WE DON'T HAVE TIME! ASGORE!"


As king Asgore Dreemurr gives his speech for peace between monsters and humans, an empathetic speech given by one who has seen firsthand the power and determination of humanity, something breaks the crowd of humans before him. Many humans panic and run from a single human in the crowd who wears a cowboy hat and duster. As the crowd breaks, Asgore can see the human before him.

Recollections flash in Asgore's eyes.


ASGORE
*ATK 80 *DEF 80
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Father, Husband, King. Asgore claims to want to unite humans and monsters in peace. Show the world the truth.


The being before him fires a bullet that he nimbly dodges! As the stadium clears out, save a few awe-struck witnesses to the battle about to take place, Asgore uses his monster magic to surround himself and the human in a ring of fire as he draws his red trident.

"You… I remember you… Clover…" He says with a heavy voice.
"It doesn't matter. Your lies end here, monster!" Clover yells out with righteous indignation, firing bullet after bullet at Asgore, having them penetrate his body and dealing damage!

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Clover lands perfect shots time and time again, and before Asgore knows it, he's already at half health! He retaliates with his trademark attacks, launching fireballs and attempting to slash with his burning weapon! None of the attacks connect even a single time! He grunts in pain, clutching his wounds as the human before him continues the attack, switching to his bootknife and slashing Asgore across the chest!

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"I don't understand, why are you here?! The Worldsoul restored our memories, and our future! Is this revenge for what happened to you?"

"Not just me, but everyone I've ever loved! My friends, and my ancestors cry out for vengeance! But besides their selfish desires, I can smell a dark taint within you! I will cleanse it from this world!"

"What are you talking about?!" Asgore yells out before howling in pain at another perfect shot from Clover's pistol!

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"Clover, wait-"
"Talking won't do any more good!" he yells, firing from both of his guns at once!

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Asgore falls to his knees at 1 hp. He looks up with a wincing gaze to see Clover aiming at Asgore's forehead with his finger on the trigger.

"Earlier this morning, I met up with the five others. Kindness. Patience. Bravery. Integrity. Perseverance. They're all dead now, because a monster from the underground ambushed and killed them. I couldn't fight it, but it had your face, Asgore."

"I… don't understand…"
"You didn't even take their souls. You just wanted to finish what you started. I honestly thought you were different. Goodbye." Clover says, pulling the trigger with an ear rattling gunshot ripping across the stadium.

The live feed to the king's speech was cut out before that final gunshot. Frisk and Asriel look dumbstruck at the television, but Frisk looks more horrified than shocked. He buries his face in his hands.

"D-Dad…?" Asriel slowly stammers.
"Asriel… I… I'm sorry I didn't wake up sooner. If I did… we could have gotten there and stopped this!"
"Then… then just loa…" Asriel tries to say, noticing beyond the window to this house.

"What the…?" He says, stepping towards the window. Frisk looks back.

"Asriel?" Frisk asks.
"Did you see that?" Asriel looks back.
"See what?"
"That black shade… it looked like my dad… it said something… it said… "load your game…" but…"
"I didn't see or hear anything."

"Frisk, last time we were on this week, did we see dad get attacked like this?"
"No, we went outside and played. We heard what happened later."
"So you never saw that shade then either?"
"No, never. This is the first I heard of it."
"… I gotta go."
"Huh? Asriel? ASRIEL!" Frisk tries to stop Asriel as he runs out of the house.

Asriel finds himself at an old temple he discovered about a year ago, when he was reading up on the history of prewar humanity. After living his life as Flowey for so long, his capacity to read and absorb information from books is greater than even his mother's.

He steps up the black stone building in the middle of the forest. It's not very far from the main city, which sits in range of Mount Ebott. Within this temple's bowels he discovered a prophesy, a prophesy that rattled him to his core. Not even the Unseen Influence could have predicted this, so how is this possible?

Asriel uses his monster magic to illuminate the temple as he descends into the deepest parts of it. He needs to be sure. That monster he saw, the words Clover spoke, and the 7-day reset… it can't be coincidence. He arrives at the bottom of the temple and looks within it to see a strange blob of dark energy writhing on the floor.

"What the?! Show yourself!" He yells at it, drawing a Chaos Buster! As he commands, the blob forms into a mass before him! Soon, it takes a familiar if not ghastly shape.


NIGHTMARE ASRIEL, ABSOLUTE GOD OF HYPERDEATH
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"YOUNG PRINCE…!" A disturbingly familiar voice lets out talking to Asriel without opening its mouth.
"Y-You… but Frisk killed-"
"FRISK, THE EMPTY HUSK GIVEN SENTIENCE… HIS ACTIONS WERE FINITE, BUT CHARA'S… INFINITE!"
"I d-don't understand! W-Why are you here?" Asriel asks as the Nightmare before him bleed and howls with the most terrifying sound he's ever heard! Asriel can't close his eyes even as the nightmare charges at him with a flash of red and black!

"AAAAHH!" Asriel screams out, but to his astonishment, someone blocks the hit for him! He looks to see WORLDSOUL clashing against the monster in front of him!

"You alright?"
"FRISK! Oh my god, how did you know-"
"You showed me this place in the last timeline, I won't let you die! I won't let anyone else die!" Frisk yells out, slashing the Nightmare away and taking Asriel by the hand, running up the stairs!

"Do you think we can even run from this thing?!"
"Do you have a better idea?!" He says, looking over his shoulder every second making sure he's not being followed.

As they reach the top of the temple, they can see the sky is growing dark even though it's barely 10 AM!

"What the hell is going on?! What was that thing, Asriel?!"
"I… I think it's the demon!"
"The what…? But I killed the demon! I shot its entire essence into the Worldsoul and purified the darkness!"
"I don't understand it either, but it's the only thing that makes sense! We have to warn everyone!"
"Hold on, how did you know it was going to be here! Last time in the other timeline you ran from me and never came back! You got killed! Undoubtedly because of THAT thing, so what the hell?! What is so important about this temple?!"

"Th-There was a legend within it…"
"The legend of the determined human's army and the monster war?"
"Yes, but there was another one at the lowest level of the temple… a legend about a darkness with a black heart. It looked just like… Chara. I saw it scratched on the wall as if by a madman, but no one knows about it, I barely even found this place by reading a bunch of old dusty tomes, it was hidden by human magic dating back to the age of wizards!"

"Did the Unseen Influence create that legend?!"
"I don't see how it's possible, they originally just wanted to create a world for their own enjoyment, why would it include such a minute details for us to discover a decade after they left us? This prophesy must have existed before their actions."

"You and I both know that's not possible, this entire world is just a game! This prophesy did not exist, you KNOW that!"
"… I know, I know… but what then?!"
"I don't know, but we have to go now. This darkness is freaking me out, we don't even know if that thing is following us or not!" Frisk says with confidence. He runs down the stairs and into the dark forest. They run in the exact directions they need to in order to leave this magical forest, but something's wrong, they end up right back at the temple.

However, as they reach the temple, they can see 5 vaguely human looking shadows standing before it, each with a faint coloration about them. Blue, Green, Purple, Cyan, and Orange.

"You… you five… you're the fallen humans!" Frisk exclaims.

"There's… no… time…"
"You… must… run…"
"You… must… stop… Clover…"
"Or… there… will… be…"
"No… tomorrow…"

The five shades shine with a combination of light and it fires at Frisk and Asriel, blowing them out of the forest, causing the spell around this area to fade. Cars honk their horns and crowds gasp as the giant stone temple rises over the horizon out of nowhere, having hidden in a pocket dimension for countless years.

As Frisk and Asriel shake their heads, they can see a clock in the middle of the city.

"It's 4 AM? It's… tomorrow already?! That's insane, what happened?!"
"That Nightmare must have thrown us forward in time, that's why it's so dark."
"But why…? … Wait, no, NO! CLOVER!" Frisk cries out, looking at the news. Another monster massacre…

"I couldn't stop it again! He threw us forward in time so we couldn't stop Clover! … Mettaton…" Frisk lets out as Asriel looks over.

Before either of them can react, a military siren blares through the city. Something is happening…


Author's Note: I'm rehosting the Unseen Influence Trilogy on account of my patron vanishing. This story will be deleted if he ever returns. Until then, enjoy yourself.