I am back! Chapter 2 and all. What makes this second chapter a bit hard to write is because I was wondering where the heck do I stop this chapter in and all.
I have also recently watched the Undertale theory video explaining how Chara wasn't as evil as people make them out to be. By the time I wrote the first chapter, I already kinda had a hunch but I didn't explore or research as deeply as that video did and all. But I did introduce a different concept in this fanfic that could either pass up as an Undertale theory or something exclusive to this fanfic
But regardless, I don't own any of these properties
BoBoiBoy stared wide eyed at Chara, who despite their (he or she? He really needed to ask them) height, had this glare that reminded him of some of the enemies he fought. A threatening one.
"Who are you?" Chara asked without any sign of expression.
"B-BoBoiBoy" BoBoiBoy replied. He just cannot help but feel intimidated by the child.
"How did you get here?" Chara asked. But before BoBoiBoy could answer everything turned white but then faded out. BoBoiBoy, who covered his eyes again, opened them and not only did he realised they were in a different area (well lit too) but that Chara was translucent.
"Chara... What happened to your body!?" BoBoiBoy nearly panicked but Chara only blinked and looked at him and the rest of his body.
"The same could be said about you" they said. BoBoiBoy was momentarily confused but later on realised that his body too was translucent!
"What the!?" he exclaimed. Chara however, focused their gaze onto something else and kept staring into that direction.
"What are you looking- woah!" BoBoiBoy was shocked to see another child nearby, though their body is fully visible. They looked identical to Chara though their hair are a darker brown and their skin are more yellowish. Their eyes seemed to be closed but even then they seemed as though they can actually see. Instead of green with yellow stripes, their sweater are navy blue with pink stripes. They also seemed to be standing on a bed of golden flowers. There was also light illuminating from above.
"Who... Are you?" BoBoiBoy asked. Chara kept staring at the other human with a glare.
"I'm-"
"Where's BoBoiBoy!?" a new voice, one BoBoiBoy recognized wondered.
"What the?" Chara grew irritated as the they and BoBoiBoy looked around, though they noticed BoBoiBoy instead felt excited.
"Yaya!? Fang!? Ochobot!? Ying!? Gopal!? I'm here!" BoBoiBoy shouted once he noticed floating above the three of them.
There was a large screen and in it were BoBoiBoy's friends looking worried while staring at them.
"Why is there just the kid? Where's BoBoiBoy?" asked Gopal. BoBoiBoy widened his eyes at the comment before laughing nervously.
"What are you talking about? I'm right here!" BoBoiBoy nervously said. He was hoping at the least that they were joking (however unlikely as that may be) and that they can see him.
"For someone who just fell down, Chara seems expressionless" Ying said.
"Are their eyes always closed?" Yaya said.
"Wait... Chara?" BoBoiBoy realised. Were they calling the kid with the purple sweater 'Chara'? Was that kid the only one they can see? They can't see Chara either?
All these questions confirmed one thing. The child is the only one his friends can see.
Realising this, BoBoiBoy knelt down, not realising tears ran down his cheeks. Chara looked at him, not even reacting to the behaviour while the other child, despite the comments by the others as seemingly expressionless looked at him in pity and worry.
"Am I... Going to be stuck here forever even if we win?" BoBoiBoy wondered.
"I-I don't know what's really going on but I'm sure you'll get to talk to them again" unlike Chara, the other child had a childish tone to their voice and sounded slightly more female. The child also seemed to care more than Chara.
"I'm Frisk by the way. They called you BoBoiBoy, right?" the child introduced herself (BoBoiBoy decided Frisk was a girl), though BoBoiBoy became confused once he calmed down and stood up.
"Frisk? Then why-" before BoBoiBoy could ask any further, Frisk started moving away from him and Chara.
"Well whatever happened, we have to get this over with" Fang's voice said and BoBoiBoy realised Frisk is the character his friends were playing as, though it did leave questions.
Why can only see Frisk? Why did they move Frisk before she could finish talking to him. Did they not hear her?
Regardless, once Frisk went through a door BoBoiBoy and Chara (who was surprisingly silent throughout the earlier conversation and BoBoiBoy decided Chara was a 'she') were transported into the next room. Light illuminated onto a single golden flower in the dark room. Strangely enough, the flower had a face on it. A happy one at that.
"Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower" the flower (with a male child voice and slightly echoed) introduced. At the same time, Ying's voice was heard repeating the words though with suspicions in her voice, making BoBoiBoy realise that they probably can't hear the dialogue and there were dialogue boxes instead. It still didn't explain why Fang moved Frisk while she was talking to him though.
"Golly! You must be new to the underground, aren't cha? Gee, someone oughta teach ya how things work here. I guess little old me will have to do" Flowey said as Ying repeated the dialogue.
"I'm feeling suspicious" Yaya's voice said.
"I'm pretty sure he's evil" Fang said. While the conversation between the outside players went on, BoBoiBoy noticed how tense Chara looked when the three found Flowey, as if she's being cautious or knew something was about to go wrong.
"What's wrong, Chara?" BoBoiBoy asked.
"Something about him... Feels off, yet familiar. I don't actually remember" Chara said.
"Don't remember?" BoBoiBoy wondered.
"I don't remember what happened to me before this. All I remembered is my name... Oh and I'm... Neither a boy or a girl" Chara looked away, slightly embarassed at the last part.
"Eh!?" BoBoiBoy was so shocked he ignored the conversation between his friends in the outside world. Keeping the same expression, he then turned to Frisk.
"How about you, Frisk?" he asked. Frisk just turned their head and nodded.
"Hurry up and let's get this over with!" Flowey said, irritated at both Frisk (confused as to why they turned away) and BoBoiBoy's friends who were still discussing about Flowey, unable to figure out what went on with all the conversations. This shocked Fang and he immediately went forward into the conversation.
"Why did you assume I'd ask something like gender?" BoBoiBoy awkwardly asked.
"Your expression?" Chara said.
"Ready?" Flowey said before Fang continued the conversation. From the perspective of those within the game world, a small red heart shape appeared from Frisk's chest.
"See that heart? That is your SOUL. The very culmination of your being" Flowey explained. Frisk started moving around though obviously not in control.
"We can move the SOUL" Fang's voice concluded. BoBoiBoy looked over to Chara, seeing them still kinda tense. He remembered about them not remembering but then they suddenly specified their gender.
"Your SOUL starts off weak, but will grow strong if you gain a lot of LV" Flowey continued before BoBoiBoy could ask anything.
"Huh... Levelling up huh?" he assumed.
'What's LV?' Frisk's voice suddenly popped into BoBoiBoy's head.
"What the!?" he exclaimed.
"I can hear it too" Chara commented. Frisk turned slightly to them, surprised of their reaction.
"What's LV stand for? Why, LOVE of course!" Flowey continued.
"What's the difference between Level and LOVE in this game, huh?" Fang's voice asked.
"You want some LOVE, don't you? Don't worry, I'll share some with you!" Flowey continued while Ying continued reading the dialogue. Everyone else, both in and out of the game, were slightly suspicious of this but the only way to move on is to continue the conversation. Flowey then summoned five pellets floating behind him.
"Down here, LOVE is shared through... Little white... 'friendliness pellets'" Flowey instructed.
"I don't thi-"
"Are you ready? Move around. Grab as many as you can!" before Chara could say anything, Flowey launched the pellets slowly towards Frisk's SOUL.
Meanwhile, in the outside world, Fang held the controller, like the others were just as unsure as to whether trust Flowey or not but when the pellets went down towards the SOUL, he cautiously moved it towards the pellets.
Within the game world, Frisk moved towards the pellets cautiously as Fang did, BoBoiBoy and Chara watching nervously. The boy wondered if he can do anything at all. Heck, could he still use his powers at all?
"AAAHHH!" Frisk suddenly screamed in pain as soon as they touched one of the pellets right before the knelt on the ground. Flowey's face turned into a creepy looking face. BoBoiBoy and Chara could only watch in shock as Frisk, looked up to the flower, scared.
"Ah! What the!?" Gopal's panicked voice filled BoBoiBoy's ears.
"I knew it!" Ying said angrily.
"Their HP is only one left!" Chara noted.
"Wait... HP?" BoBoiBoy asked. Chara looked at him disbelievingly.
"Just look carefully at them. You could see the HP bar" Chara said. BoBoiBoy decided to look closely at the child and finally noticed that Frisk seemed to be trapped in a small white box surrounding them. Behind the box was Chara's name to the left of the label 'LV1' with the HP bar, mostly red and only a bit of yellow at the left end, the numbers saying '1/20', indicating Frisk is in danger.
"You IDIOT!" Flowey began.
"In this world, it's KILL OR BE KILLED!" Flowey then continued. BoBoiBoy can only frown at the flower. He was extremely angry at the flower for attacking an innocent child who knew nothing. Adu Du at least only threatened those who are already deeply involved enough. BoBoiBoy's friends in the real world had started panicking slightly (except Gopal, who was super panicked)
"I wish I could use my fire powers and burn you... Then you'll see" BoBoiBoy muttered.
"You have fire magic?" Chara was suddenly interested with BoBoiBoy's threats that went unheard by Flowey.
"M-magic?" BoBoiBoy switched his attention towards them.
"Why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this!?" Flowey said as he summoned more 'pellets' surrounding Frisk.
"Damn it" Chara muttered angrily but then they heard BoBoiBoy muttering angrily about something while being covered with a fiery aura.
"You really do have fire magic... But it doesn't feel like it either" Chara commented. Frisk looked around them, also noticing BoBoiBoy's fiery aura.
"DIE!" Flowey shouted before giving out a maniacal laughter that even those in the outside world can hear.
"Eeeh! It's creepy" Ying commented, disgusted.
"We're gonna die!" Gopal exclaimed.
"More like BoBoiBoy is..." Ochobot muttered.
The 'friendliness pellets' that surrounded Frisk started closing in on them, with them, Chara and BoBoiBoy feeling completely helpless, especially the latter.
With Adu Du
Adu Du was very surprised that BoBoiBoy was seemingly absent. The programming on his machine ensured BoBoiBoy replaced the main playable character but obviously something went wrong. According to his machine, he WAS inside. What exactly happened?
Though what's amusing him right now was Flowey the Flower. Almost immediately the flower had almost killed Frisk, as Probe mentioned despite the ability to choose a name earlier in the game but Probe would not elaborate further ("Spoilers! Muehehehehe!" Probe said). Since Probe mentioned that, obviously Frisk will survive making Adu Du feel slightly disappointed. Then again BoBoiBoy would most probably fight back anyway. Or at least his friends.
But then, something else happened in his screen.
With BoBoiBoy
Suddenly, all the petals disappeared and Frisk's HP was full, surprising everyone, including Flowey.
"What just happened?" BoBoiBoy wondered before a fireball appeared nearby Flowey.
"That looks... Familiar" Chara noted. The fireball launched itself towards Flowey, hitting him and knocking him away.
"Familiar?" BoBoiBoy wondered.
"I... don't know" Chara said.
A large figure appeared before them, wearing a long purple robe with white long sleeves. Strangely it had a white goat head.
"What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth..." said the figure that sounds like a woman with a motherly tone in her voice, confirming this 'person' is female at least. Her assurance was accompanied by a more peaceful music, as if also trying to reassure everything will be all right.
'She's... We're safe' Frisk thought.
"She saved us! Hooray!" Gopal's voice exclaimed.
BoBoiBoy smiled a little as they are safe for at least a while, depending on what the game decided to do.
"She... Has fire powers too" he commented silently. He then turned to Chara for their reaction. To their surprise, Chara had lost their threatening glare and looked at the goat woman with relief. Unlike Frisk, who seemed still shocked from earlier, Chara actually seemed happy seeing her. Their facial expression indicate Chara might have known this woman.
"You know her?" BoBoiBoy asked.
"I... No. But somehow I feel like as if everything will be fine... She feels like a mother" Chara explained while the goat woman introduced herself as Toriel, caretaker of the RUINS.
"Mother huh? But she's a goat" BoBoiBoy said, looking at Toriel talking to Frisk.
"So is she teaching us- I mean... Frisk... How to survive here?" BoBoiBoy then asked. Chara turned to him then scoffed.
"Better get ready... For the tu-Toriel" Chara smiled as they emphasised on the keyword of the pun. BoBoiBoy shortly blinked before laughing nervously. Chara seemed totally different from earlier. One minute they were giving threatening glares and suddenly they're a normal kid.
"I'll guide you through the catacombs" Toriel finished as the game put them back into the overworld view.
"Come with me now, my child" Toriel then said before she moved into the next area up ahead.
"Time for the tutorial- Oh..." Fang's voice began noticing the pun followed by snickering noises. BoBoiBoy, Chara and Frisk nearly laughed too at the pun.
"Okay, okay let's keep moving" Fang said irritatingly as he made Frisk move into the next room.
There, a new music piece started. The room walls were purple and there were a pile of leaves in front of them with a yellow glowing light at the edge. There were two staircases leading to a single room above it. Fang had Frisk approach it. Chara too went close.
"The shadow of the ruins looms above, filling with you with determination. HP fully restored" Chara suddenly said. Yaya's voice also said the same thing. BoBoiBoy realised they can actually hear Chara's words. A menu then appeared in front of Frisk.
"And then we save the game" Fang said.
"Oh it's a save point" BoBoiBoy mused before Frisk moved up the stairs.
"Hey, BoBoiBoy..." as the three entered the next room (and Toriel started explaining about the puzzles), Chara called to BoBoiBoy.
"What is it?"
"Sorry about the glares and all" Chara said, embarassed.
"Uh... No need I guess" BoBoiBoy awkwardly answered.
"I was being cautious and all. Especially when I lost my memories, though I can kind of remember something else..." Chara continued slowly.
'What else did you remember?' the two heard Frisk's thoughts questioning Chara. Frisk had already moved around the room (Toriel already left the room) , Fang went to the sign. Chara then went to the sign as Fang made Frisk try interact with the sign.
"Only the fearless may proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road" Chara read.
"Why did you come over just now?" Frisk asked.
"I felt like I was drawn to it" Chara simply answered as BoBoiBoy's friends figured out the sign's purpose was now null with the puzzle already solved by Toriel.
"By the way... Earlier about what you remembered..." BoBoiBoy started but then Fang moved Frisk to the next room, where Toriel had waited for them.
Fang then had Frisk (Chara) read the sign on the road and on the wall before moving on to Toriel.
"And about that... Aside from my name and some other stuff, I remembered... I was dead" Chara slowly said the last part.
"Wait what!?" BoBoiBoy exclaimed. Luckily no one heard him so he did not shock anyone else, save for Frisk who was a bit shocked by this but managed to keep their composure in front of Toriel.
"There was some plan between me and someone else... I don't remember all the details but I do remember our plan failed. When I woke up that was the first thing I remember- oh wait, gotta read those signs" Chara stopped as Frisk approached the signs by the levers Toriel marked for them.
As Frisk dealt with the levers (despite the earlier conversation, BoBoiBoy was surprised both he and Chara kind of knew as much as Frisk as to what Toriel had said to them), BoBoiBoy wondered if his presence here caused any big changes to the game, especially when he didn't even replace Frisk as the playable character.
The first time he got sucked into a video game, the game was simple enough. Them being there replacing the playable character was balanced by Probe and Adu Du replacing the game's villain.
When Papa Zola, BoBoiBoy and Gopal went into another game to save Papa Zola's wife, at least BoBoiBoy and Gopal were merely being player 2 and 3 in the game so the game's story was unaltered overall, save for the end when Mama Zila turned out to be the final boss and they brought her out too early (BoBoiBoy did wonder why his currently math teacher, Papa Zola did not say anything about it BEFORE then).
This game however, made BoBoiBoy an invisible companion, only to be seen by Frisk. Even Chara, despite being invisible can at least be heard via narrations. At least he can move freely now.
"Oh and yeah... That was about it" Chara came back and finished their earlier story. Toriel meanwhile congratulated Frisk for completing the puzzle.
"I wonder why exactly is she calling Chara 'my child' and not ask for their name?" Fang's voice asked.
"Now that you mention it, she also specifically said 'MY child' and that's a bit creepy" Gopal said.
"Don't tell me she's a kidnapper?" Yaya wondered.
As BoBoiBoy, Frisk and Chara started hearing all this, BoBoiBoy had started wondering about all they said.
'I don't know what to think of all this...' Frisk's voice entered his head.
"Chara what do you-huh?" BoBoiBoy noticed how Chara seemed both confused and slightly angry.
"No... She's not... I don't think so" they muttered, as if in denial.
'Chara?' Frisk mentally asked.
"Uh... I just... Sorry. I just felt like it" Chara said before Fang moved Frisk to the next room where they saw a dummy by the door to the next room. Everyone paid close attention to her words. The boys (and Ochobot), in particular were quite surprised of the option to interact with an opponent non-violently.
"We don't really have to fight huh?" BoBoiBoy mused to himself.
"I like that idea. We don't have to hurt anyone if we can go through the whole game like that" Yaya's voice said excitedly. As Fang continued the tutorial section, the screen flickered and Frisk's SOUL appeared on them but instead of being in a box, Frisk saw the dummy in front of green outlines of squares. A dialogue (which Chara narrates "You encountered the Dummy") box as well as smaller boxes that read 'FIGHT', 'ACT', 'ITEM' and 'MERCY' appeared. Frisk's left hand was held out on the 'Fight' option. The soundtrack also changed to an upbeat one. The kind that made them feel anticipated.
Chara slightly tensed at the sight of Frisk's hands on the 'FIGHT' button. However, Frisk's hands started moving to other options, putting both BoBoiBoy and Chara at slight ease. Fang picked the 'ACT' option and then the Dummy's name. Two options came up; 'Check' and 'Talk'
"We should simply talk to it" Yaya's voice urged.
"You talk to the DUMMY" Chara then narrated after Fang selected the 'Talk option'. A few seconds passed and Chara continued, "It doesn't seem much for conversation. TORIEL seems happy with you"
"YOU WON! You earned 0 XP and 0 gold" Chara then finished.
"That was easy" BoBoiBoy (as well as Fang's voice) said before Fang brought them back to the overworld view.
"Ah, very good. You are very good" Toriel commented as Chara and Frisk smile at the goat woman's praise.
"This is going to be a long game, isn't it?" BoBoiBoy wondered out loud, earning a questioning look from Chara.