Chapter 2: Memories and Murder
(Third person view, surface)
"Whats taking him so long? If he doesn't get here soon ill find him and beat him to a pulp for being late!" Undyne paces around outside the barrier, worried for her friend. "Where is the human? I baked him spaghetti with extra salt" Papyrus sits down, dangling his legs over the cliff side as he holds the burnt yet frozen spaghetti covered in salt, litrally. Everyone is either worried and panicking or confused like Sans. Sans knew about the time lines and was wondering what the kid was doing and if he was going to reset them from their happy ending like always. "Where is he? He hasn't died – that's for sure otherwise it would have reset back by now. So what is he doing" Sans thinks to himself as he peeks in though the entrance and sees a glimpse of a purple and blue sweater. 'I see him!' Sans shouts excitedly as he starts to set aside his worries. Everyone runs to the entrance, excited to see Frisk again.
Rose was carrying the body of Frisk, she was solid for the first time in years and felt comfortable with her body. Before Frisk she had felt slightly hollow like the only thing binding her together was magic but now Rose felt solid and whole with a constant warmth in her chest.
Rose still couldn't grasp why this complete stranger gave up his life for a monster like her. A pathetic monster who was the only of her kind from a condemned family of criminals.
She saw light and froze as she saw the sun for the first time, it was beautiful as it set, turning the sky different shades of pink purple and orange. Rose felt joy for the first time in years as she looked down at the human's body. It was still breathing but it was just a hollow husk of its self, the heart locket had lost its glow as she walked and was now a faint red. Rose grabbed the locket and undid the bonds around the human's neck. Her soul was on full display and had changed from its normal pink to red with a pink border. She held her soul and put it carefully in the heart locket to keep it safe. It glowed pink as she put it around her neck kissing it lightly as she walked forward.
'Hey I see him!' Rose heard a familiar voice but she couldn't put her finger on who it was. She gasped as a memory of hiding behind a lamp as a short skeleton told bad puns to another taller skeleton. Rose felt something in her that wasn't exactly her but was her smile and laugh at the recollection with genuine fondness for him. Another memory of the same skeleton looking down upon her with a smile appeared in her mind as she remembered her unfair trail were she was judged for an attempted crime she wasn't trying to commit. She grimaced as she remembered when she tried to run and a giant metal machine with giant teeth appeared in front of her, power crackling and sparking in its terrible maw. She remembered the splitting feeling in her head as he peered though her, seeing everything she had done and felt. He had known she was innocent but had still declared she was innocent and had watched with empty sockets as the monsters had beaten her, toyed with her like a puppet on strings, and nearly killed her. Then those same monsters had forced her to walk down into the lab for experimentation. The warmth of happiness disintegrated and left a shiver up her spine as she felt energy crackle in her frame.
She hesitated thinking about running away into the underground with the body of the human but knew she had to face them. She looked down at herself and noted that now her vines had grown into clothing with golden flowers blooming in random locations. She stepped forward and saw many monsters she recognized, The King, The Exiled Queen, The Judge, The Judge's Brother, The Executioner, and Alphys who is the closest thing Rose had to family. Rose stumbles as she walks and feels the sweat forming along her skin as the light hits her body, illuminating Rose and making her white fur glow slightly. Their faces immediately go from joy to confusion to sadness as they notice the monster carrying Frisk. Rose stops around a meter from the monsters, terrified as they just stand there; un-moving.
Sans is the first to move as he notices the heart locket glowing pink with a slight red tinge. Sans looks into Rose to figure out what happened and sees Frisk giving her his soul, his determination. "M-my child?" Toriel walked forward and took the body of Frisk in her arms and cradled him gently crying small tears onto Frisk, the human she had thought she had saved. A spear materialized and flew in between Toriel and Rose making them both jump back. Another spear hurtled towards Rose, faster this time and Rose just barely dodged. Undyne was angry and her only thoughts were to execute the criminal for trying to kill everyone with poison first and now killing the purest living being in existence. Rose got up and felt the heart locket glow and turn green as she grabbed a spear ready to defend herself. Spears rocketed towards Rose and she closed her eyes holding the spear sideways in a defensive position.
When she felt no pain she opened her eyes and saw Undyne looking even more frustrated by the fact Rose blocked them all. Dozens of spears hurtled at lightning speed towards her. The feeling returned and Rose lost control of her movements as her hands moved to block the incoming spears. The being inside Rose shouted it didn't want to fight using her mouth to talk. Rose finally figured out what it was, it was Frisk. Frisk shouted out how Rose hadn't murdered him, how he had given up his soul willingly to save Rose. Undyne stopped throwing spears for a moment before the volley of spears intensified making it harder for Frisk to dodge. "How dare you claim to be Frisk you... YOU MURDERER!" Undyne shouted before grabbing a spear and launching at Rose. Rose dropped the spear and her soul turned red again as she dodged to the side, the spear scratching her side and causing a health bar to appear. The health bar went down from 20 to 19 from the scratch. Rose wanted to fight back against Undyne, 'attack her and get justice against her fallen family' but Frisk prevented her from attacking Undyne. Alphys wanted to intervene, try and stop this senseless violence but didn't want to harm either of them. Papyrus leaped in between them noticing what was going on forcing Undyne to stop her charge, her spear inches away from Papyrus's chest. 'Undyne stop this needless fighting, Don't you see it? Frisk is still inside her!' Papyrus blocked Undyne from attacking Rose. Alphys leaped next to Papyrus as she blocked the way to Rose as well. Undyne felt betrayed as Alphys blocked the way to the thing that they thought was Frisk, it wasn't Frisk to her. To Undyne "it" was a murderer, a criminal, A genocidal freak, and the descendant to criminals. 'Step. aside. Papyrus' Undyne stood tall, looking down upon Papyrus who held his ground shakily. Rose knew that she had a chance to escape, hopefully get away from this madness and maybe even get Frisk's body back and try to find a way to give him his soul back. Rose took one step away from the protection of Papyrus and was stopped immediately by a blue spear directly infant of her. Rose panicked and ran out of safety, hoping to get to the cold dark safety of the underground. Rose stopped as spears came up out of the ground in front of her. Rose jumped back only to have a spear hit her in the chest. Rose felt her soul break into millions of pieces as she died feeling completely and utterly alone.
