AtonemenTale

Chapter 2

I'm probablyy going to update this evrey day then get back to The Plegian Prince. In the meantime, enjoy!"

Chapter 2: A second chance

"Wait up guys!" Lissa hollered. "We can't run that fast!"

Sonic was blazing on ahead with his friends close behind. Chrom and the others were struggling to keep up.

"Is that it up ahead?" Tails asked as they approached a white structure.

"Must be." Sonic said noticing a gold ring with a star in it.

They stopped when they reached it.

"Yes!"

Stage cleared!

Ring Bonus 0 0000

Time Bonus: 0:31 6000

Left Robin and his friend in the dust Bonus 25000

Total 31000

Rank A

"*whistles* That was tight!"

Yeah, predictable bad joke but I'm a Sonic nerd, what do you expect?

"Hold on…" Tails said looking back at the path.


After a minute or two Robin and the others caught up out of breath.

"*Huff* *Pant* G-gods, it's like chasing Sully's horse..."

"Took ya long enough." Sonic said.

"*Gasp* H-how can anything move this fast without throwing up?" Morgan groaned.

"*Huff* it certainly is saying something when Morgan of all people gets tired..." Lucina added.

"Well at least we reached the castle." Tails said looking up.

"What's with all the gray?" Amy asked.

"I'm gonna assume that they let the six-year-old who named the place take care of decorating." Sonic joked.

"This is no time for messing around. The hall must be in here somewhere." Shadow said. "We need to hurry."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Oh, wait." Tails said. "I found some unused cell phones in the lab. I modified them so we can call each other."

"What's a cell phone?" Morgan asked.

"You don't know?!" Amy asked in shock. "A girl always has one handy!"

"Well from what Robin told us his world sounds like a medieval styled one." Tails said. "I doubt the phone was evented yet."

"What does it do?" Lissa asked.

"It allows easy long distance communication."

"Sounds like the Wireless in Henry's world" Robin thought. (See Code Name F.E. Prologue)

"But since you guys can't use it then let's split up into groups of two with one person from each of our worlds." Tails said.

"Good idea." Robin said. "Chrom, you go with Shadow."

"What? Why?"

"Because seeing how we can't trust you to be careful we can at have him do that for you. Also, if you run off on your own again he can teleport to you."

"Oh for-I chase after one bandit on my own and you never forgive me for it!"

"Because you chased him right into an enemy ambush and would have gotten yourself killed if Frederick didn't get there in time!"

"Alright you two that's enough!" Amy said.

"Alright fine." Chrom grumbled. "Then by that reasoning we should leave this guy with whichever of you can't take things serious-

"Him." Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Shadow said pointing at Sonic.

"Gee, thanks for the support guys."

"Alright. We'll go together." Robin replied.

"Who will go with Morgan?" Lucina asked.

"I'll go." Tails said.

"What?"

"I'll be fine mom." Morgan said. "If something goes wrong I'll think of something! I'm a strategist after all!"

"There ya go! Two geniuses from two different worlds!" Sonic grinned. "Can't get better than that!"

"Very well."

"What about me? I can't fight!" Lissa said.

"I'll take care of you!" Amy smiled bringing out her mallet. "Anyone who tries to mess with you gets a taste of my Piko-piko Hammer!"

"Then if you get hurt I'll heal you with my staff! Girl power!"

"Okay then...guess that leaves Knuckles with Lucina." Tails said.

"Fine by me."

"Very well."

"Then let's hurry before time resets." Shadow said. "If you find anyone call me and I'll gather everyone. But don't try to fight them on your own. We know nothing about them and this world."

"Then let's go team!" Sonic said.

"Right!"


Chara was still waiting for something to happen. Whenever she tried to reach a button Sans pushed her away with his magic.

"there is nothing left for you now."

"Shut up."

"We can't do this anymore Chara...please...just listen to him..."

"Be quite! You started this I helped you bring it this far and now we're finishing it even if we have to wait all day!"

"so, uh, in my personal opinion... the most "determined" thing you can do here? is to, uh, completely give up. and...(yawn) do literally anything else."

Chara then noticed something.

"Getting tired are we?"

An evil smirk formed as she had an idea.


Sonic and Robin were in what looked like a kitchen.

Sonic took a peak In the fridge.

"Dang, no chili dogs. And what's with all the cans of snails? What is this, France?"

Robin noticed white fur stuck in the sink.

"The place must have been abounded for a long time..."

"What tipped you off? The lack of actual food or the smell?"


Tails and Morgan found a bedroom that had two beds.

They first noticed two opened boxes.

"Maybe we can find a clue to where we are in here." Tails said.

"No harm in looking around I guess."

At first all they found were some clothes and kid's drawings with Chara or Asreil written on them but then while looking through a shelf Morgan found a small box with a lock.

"Find something?" Tails asked.

"Yeah but it needs a key."

"Hang on. I'll call the others and ask them to keep an eye out for it."


"Fine. Tell her to hold onto it in the meantime." Shadow said before hanging up the phone.

"A box that requires a key huh?" Chrom said. "Well maybe we should hold off on looking for it until we find that hall."

"Agreed. Let's move."


"Hmmm."

"Is something wrong?" Knuckles asked.

"It didn't take nearly this long for time to reset before...I suppose we should be grateful but that just makes me more nervous."

"Well worrying about it won't do us any good. Let's just try to think about what we can do right now."

"Your right."


The human was still tangled in dark tendrils. All this time both she and Chara were completely silent.

"Why did I have to do this? I finally gave monsters a perfectly happy ending and then I just threw it all away! I...I didn't want this...Sans...I'm sorry...because if me you..."

Zzzz

She then noticed the snoring sounds. He must have fallen asleep.

"At last. I was starting to think the idiot would never doze off."

Chara smiled as she slowly moved towards the FIGHT button.

The other child's eyes widened in horror.

"Sans! Sans, wake up, she's trying to-Mmmph!"

One of the tendrils holding her warped around her mouth.

"Be quite!"

The child desperately tried to scream as Chara reached for the button.

FIGHT

With a lunge forward they swung the knife.

Sans opened his eyes and moved just in time.

"heh, didja really think you would be able..."

Sans then noticed that the human's shirt changed colors from blue and purple to green and yellow. Their eyes turned black and were oozing with a black substance along with her mouth.

"what the...frisk?"

"HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!"

SLASH

9999999

It all happened so fast. They brought the knife down across Sans's chest. Red sprayed out of him.

...

"...so... guess that's it, huh?...just...don't say i didn't warn you." Sans said.

Tears welled up in Frisk's eyes as she dropped the knife.

"No...please no...not you too..."

"welp. i'm going to grillby's."

Sans slowly walked away.

"papyrus, do you want anything?"

THUD

He fell to the floor.

"Finally! It was fun at first but it's good to shut him up!"

Frisk's colors returned to normal.

"No...Sans..."

Nobody noticed Amy and Lissa looking from the other end of the hall.

"Oh no..." Amy gasped

"Huh? Is that girl...crying?"

"NOOOOOOOO! SAAAAAAAAANS! WHYYYYY?!"

The child fell to her knees and started to cry.

"you're a human, right? that's hilarious. I'm sans. sans the skeleton."

"take care of yourself, kid. 'cause someone really cares about you."

"nah, i'm rootin for ya, kid."

"Mom...*Hic* Papyrus...*Sob* Undyne...Now Sans...they're all gone! Why did I have to lose them?!"

"Oh come on partner, don't be sad. We're almost there!"

Suddenly her colors swapped again for a split second.

She slowly got up, picked up her weapon and walked away.

Lissa and Amy stared for a second before the situation snapped back to them.

"Come on!"

Upon seeing Lissa run up ahead Amy followed.

They knelled down next to the skeleton.

"Oh, gods..."

"You said you can heal right?" Amy asked.

"I'll try but it's going to be close...Call the others!"

"Right!"


"Hey, Sans?"

"hmm? what's up kiddo?"

"Did I make the right choices?"

"where's this coming from?"

"I'm glad I saved everyone...I'm glad you're all free...but for some reason I scared...Like something terrible is about to happen."

"...i don't know what to tell ya kid. but hey, if something happens we're all here for ya."

"Promise?"

"heh. normally i don't do promises but ya know what? after all ya done for us i think i owe it to ya to make an exception for once."

"Yay! Thanks Sans!"

"heh. no problem kid. i don't mind throwing you a bone once in a while."

"Heh, heh! You and Papyrus are the best! You guys are like brothers to me!"

"why not? bro wouldn't mind that. our family can always use one more."

"Thanks, big brother!"

"I did what I could but...I don't know."

"Wait, look he just moved!"

"You alright there buddy?"

"Open your eyes!"

"zzz-wha-

Sans heard all sorts of voices. Wasn't he dead? And what was that dream about? He knew it felt familiar…but he didn't recall anything like that happening.

He opened his eyes and looked up to his surprise see five humans and what he thought were five monsters he never saw before.

"okay. i'm having one heck of a weird day."

"Join the party." Sonic joked.

"Are you alright?" Lissa asked.

Sans looked down to where he was hit. His clothes were still stained but the wound was healed.

"surprisingly yeah. looks like i cut it close."

"What's your name?" Morgan asked.

"i'm sans. sans the skeleton. didn't think other humans would show up so soon."

Sans then turned to Sonic and his friends.

"and I though all the monsters were evacuated."

"Who are you calling monsters?!" Knuckles grumbled.

"Calm down Knuckles. My name is Chrom and this is my sister Lissa, my daughter Lucina, my friend Robin and their daughter Morgan."

"I'm Sonic the hedgehog. And these are my pals, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Shadow."

"We saw you fight that kid earlier." Robin said. "Who was she?"

That's when it hit Sans.

"...her name is frisk. she was a good friend of ours until..."

The others stared and Sans struggled for the right choice of words.

"...i honestly don't know. suddenly she started killing people. she ain't the frisk i once knew..." the skeleton sighed.

"We think we have an explanation for that."

Sans brought his attention to Shadow.

"I'm surprised you didn't notice. You seemed aware of how she could rewind time."

"what? you notice the resets?"

"Resets?"

"yup. kid's got control over the timeline."

"Well, what our blunt friend here is trying to say is why would she constantly try to spare you if they knew you would just kill her?" Robin asked. "Maybe she wanted you to."

"i don't know how much you saw but I know what you're thinking. if there was any of the old frisk still in there they would have just reset the whole timeline."

"Alright, I would ask you what that all means but I think it's more important that you know this."

"know what?"

"We think your friend is being manipulated." Chrom said.

Sans sat there in silence.

"sorry, what?"

"It's true." Amy said. "After she thought she killed you she started crying. Not just for you but a bunch of other people."

Sans had no idea what to say. Instead he thought about what he saw just before he was hit. How Frisk was turned into something else.

"did papyrus know that might have happened? was that why he insisted on trying to talk to her?"

"Speaking of her, where is she?" Robin asked.

"She went down the hall." Amy said.

"What's down there?" Morgan asked.

"well that's where we keep the souls the king is-uh, oh."

"What?"

Sans hurried to his feet.

"i gotta help asgore!"

"Who?" Lucina asked.

"ya'know! asgore! king of the monsters! or as some of us like to call him, king fluffybuns."

"What?" Everyone asked giving Sans a weird look.

"never mind! thanks a skele-ton for the help but i better move!"

"We're going with you!" Sonic said. "I don't like the idea of letting that thing have its way with your friend or this world!"

"sorry but if the kid is being controlled this is my responsibility. A hedgehog like you should get the point."

With that Sans disappeared.

"hold on bucko. big bro's commin' for ya."

"Wait we-gah! Come on! Let's go find the king!" Sonic said dashing down the hall.


"How could you do that!?" Frisk shouted through tears. "I thought Asreil was you're best friend!"

"Oh please, you know that soulless flower wasn't him. And don't you mean we? But more importantly..."

Frisk looked down at her shadow and saw red eyes. Slowly a figure with light brown hair, red eyes and a green shirt with a yellow stripe rose up.

"C-Chara?"

"Finally I have all the LOVE and determination to be reborn! Now all that's left is to finish what we started!"

"W-what do you mean?"

Two buttons appeared in front of Frisk. ERASE and DO NOT.

"What's this?"

"Together we will erase this world."

"Why?"

"Isn't it obvious? The world is evil Frisk. Monsters, Humans and everything in between. They should all just disappear."

"But..."

"Do you still care about this world? What does it have left for you?"

Those words pierced Frisk' s heart. Everyone she cared about is gone. Those monsters were the only friends she ever had.

"I have nothing left...I'm all alone..."

"Exactly! Now go! Erase this pathetic world and it will all end!"

"...No."

Frisk hit the button that said DO NOT.

"No...?"

"I hurt enough people already. I won't do any more damage."

"Hmm...How curious. You must have misunderstood."

Frisk looked up to see Chara's eyes turn black.

"SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THE ONE IN CONTROL?"

Chara's eyes and mouth oozed a black substance as she charged at Frisk.

She grabbed her by the neck and lifted her off her feet holding the knife in her hand.

Frisk choked and grabbed the arm holding her struggling to breath.

"I HAVE ALL THE LOVE, EXP AND DETERMINATION I WILL EVER NEED. SO I NO LONGER NEED YOU."

Frisk was sacred. But the smiled as a single tear slipped.

"I deserve this."

"GOODBYE, PARTNER."

Suddenly Chara's soul turned blue.

"bye, bye yourself."

She was flung a far distance and Frisk fell to the floor gasping for air.

Once she could breathe normally she looked up to see who saved her.

"ya know kid, i wish you just told me that you were being controlled. being left in dark really gets under my skin."

Frisk couldn't believe her eyes that were once again starting to tear up.

"Sans...?"

"who were ya expecting? grillby?"

Frisk ran up and hugged him.

"Saaaaaans!"

"oof! heh, heh. easy kid. ya might break my funny bone."

"Why you!"

They turned to see Chara get up.

"is someone feeling a little blue?"

"JUST DIE!"

Chara rushed towards the two as she picked up her knife.

Wham

Suddenly a blue sphere rammed into her knocking her even further away.

The sphere morphed into the form of a creature that Frisk had never seen before but Sans was familiar with.

"Ya could have asked nicely. And by the way if anyone is blue here it's me."

"hey, buddy. i appreciate the help but i can handle this. no need to hedgehog the spotlight on me."

"Last I checked when you were on your own she nearly killed you." Robin said as he and the others approached.

Frisk stared at them is shock.

"You're...human? There are others?"

"Your name is Frisk, right?" Chrom asked. "Sans told us you're name after we helped him."

"We? Last I checked I was the one who healed him while the rest of you watched!"

"You're right Lissa." Tails said. "And thanks for hacking into that computer and setting up those phones so we could find this place and get here in time to-Oh, wait! That was me!"

"Not now." Shadow said as Chara stood up. Her eyes were red again.

"How interesting. I thought all the monsters we didn't kill were evacuated."

"Shadow, Amy and I are hedgehogs, Tails is a fox and Knuckles is a echidna! Get it right already!"

Chara ignored Sonic and turned to Chrom and his friends.

"And I certainly wasn't expecting more humans."

"Who the hell are you?" Robin asked.

The child laughed.

"I am Chara."

That name echoed in Tails and Morgan's minds. They knew they heard it somewhere before.

"chara? as in the first fallen child?" Sans asked.

"Yes. "Chara" The demon that comes when people call it's name. It doesn't matter when. It doesn't matter where. Time after time I will appear."

"O-kay. That's not confusing. Or weird." Morgan said.

"Heh, heh. It doesn't matter whether or not you can comprehend. I am no longer human like you."

"Then I have no problem cutting you down if you don't back off." Chrom said drawing Falchion.

Chara's eyes turned black.

"LET'S SEE YOU TRY."