Despite my morning condition, when I woke up in the evening due an alarm clock, I felt myself much better — it seemed, like there wasn't any temperature, the head wasn't aching anymore, and I was full of energy. Then I immediately looked at my belly. But for my surprise the cut just disappeared. There left only a barely noticeable scar, which wasn't aching at all. "Hm, Sans' tactic «In any unclear situation, just sleep» worked", I thought and smiled.
Everything went quite good in Alphys'. We watched anime, she finally showed me drawings of Mettaton. And although I was looking at it not at first time, and moreover, I've already seen the result of Al's work, I showed amazement and admiration. I was pleased to see her happiness again. Then I reminded her about my request. She asked, why am I so concerned about Mettaton, but without getting answer, just said, that she'll do everything she can.
God, it's a pity, that Alphy doesn't remember that… everything. At least that we were living together. I bet that now she doesn't even dream about it.
Well, I moved away from the theme. So, there was a week and a half until Chara's supposed arrival, and I needed to prepare somehow.
Finally, this ill-fated day came. I hoped Chara to arrive today. Deep inside I was a little afraid, that my plan won't be able to work, but the feeling of confidence was still prevailing. Today, as in that day, in Snowdin there was an impenetrable fog. Hm, strange. As I can remember, when Chara came here last time, there wasn't any fog or snow. But nobody has seen her yet, so I couldn't miss anything.
Being about to go out, I put on the warmest clothes I had, 'cause I had to stand in Snowdin for a few hours or maybe even more. I also hoped that everything won't go wrong because of fog. But I was trying to stay confident.
Fortunately, or not, but the snowfall was only in the forest, so I got there just in ten minutes. Having come to the right place, I went behind the nearest tree, so that walking along the road, it was very hard to see me. Although due to there it was visible maximum for a couple of meters in front of yourself, it had almost no sense. Yeah, it's quite cowardly to hit her in the back from the shelter, but… Come on, she's also not the most honest human in the world! And I just want nobody to be injured by her, and us to finally get to the Surface. But having screwed up my eye and waiting for Chara, I suddenly heard a familiar voice behind:
"Undyne?!"
"Sans?"
I finally could see a shape of him in a few meters in front of me. To insure, he came closer.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" he seemed too nervous to me.
"You have to understand me. You remember the previous reset, don't you?"
"P-previous reset…?" he repeated in a little trembling voice.
"Yeah, for some reason I started to remember the resets, don't look at me like this. Though, I'd rather forget the last one."
"What…? That's what Paps was telling me about… Wait, do you remember all the resets?" Sans asked cautiously.
"Of course no, only the last."
"Thank God."
It seemed, that my answer calmed him a little down, so he relieved exhaled and leaned his back on the nearest tree.
"And what happened in those?" this time I suspiciously looked at him.
"No, nothing, just a couple of so perverted genocides…" Sans started to name some timelines, having forgotten about my presence for a minute, but almost immediately came to his senses. "…and yet Dust*… Generally, I'm glad you don't remember all this."
"Hey… thank you for… saving me that time," I said after a few minutes of silence and put my hand on Sans' shoulder. "Really I… didn't think what I was doing."
"Heh, never mind. So, after all this could we be friends?"
"That was a stupid question," I smiled. "Of course, yes."
Suddenly I was distracted by a quiet crunch from the right. I looked at the road. It was enough only a second for me to recognize Chara in a moving shape. She was stepping carefully, instantly looking back. Near that fence Papyrus has made, the girl stopped and started to strangely turn her head around, as she was waiting for someone. "Hm, naive fool," I thought and angrily smiled. That moment the spears went out from the ground and pierced through her. A stifled groan came to me and in a second the shape disappeared. Some part of me was happy, but mostly I was rather surprised. Wow, she died from one my hit. Well, or my power has significantly grown up after all I went through, or that bastard's HP became much less, what is very unlikely.
I was brought from my thoughts by a little contemptuous laughter.
"What's wrong?"
"You think, you killed her? Hm, you know about the resets, but how about-?"
"Do you really think, I'm that naive?" I interrupted him in a bit offended voice. "Of course I know about saves."
"Really? And… what are you going to do?"
"Killing her until she will get bored of all this and will give up by herself," I replied calmly, also looking at Chara's shape and getting ready to soot at her.
It took a little more than five hours. During this time I got much tired, and despite the worm clothes, almost overcooled and got an inflammation of anything I only could. Even a fog managed to fade a little, but Chara was still trying to go pass me. But after all she gave up. I've stopped counting her tries and deaths a long time ago. I think, it was nearly two hundred fiftieth or somewhere like this. When her body didn't disappear after a few minutes, I finally exhaled with a great relieve, having leaned my back on the nearest tree.
"Yes! I've said, I'll do it!" I shouted, having turned to Sans, which has come to find out «how is my progress here» for the tenth time.
"Wow… Yeah, you were reall DETERMINED to kill her," he smiled and looked at me with admiration.
"Okay, let's go. We need to bring her to Asgore."
I pulled him to the body, but he suddenly stopped, having snatched his jacket sleeve from my hand.
"We? I thought you'll do it. You killed her by yourself, haven't you?"
"Well, let's say you were providing a moral support."
Having patted him on his back, I turned to the girl. I've already bent to look at her closer, but as I looked at her cloth and touched her, I shuddered a little. The sweater wasn't green-yellow, but light blue with two horizontal purple strips. Moreover, in her hand instead of a knife, she had ordinary, even not sharp stick. It was very strange. For some reason this sweater seemed quite familiar to me.
But as Sans looked at a bleeding body, from which there still were seen a couple of my spears, his happiness immediately went off the face. For a few seconds he froze, looking somewhere far away and trying to deny everything that is happening. Suddenly, having pushed me away, he rushed to the girl and started to shake her shoulders, whispering something to himself.
"Frisk… Frisk, no…" it was the only one I could hear.
"Frisk…" I slowly repeated. "Strange, why does this name seem to me so familiar?"
"Please, try yet once, kiddo…" without paying any attention at my question, he continued shaking the body. "You know her, she just got overzealous. Yeah, more than two thousand times, and what? I was doing the same, wasn't I? Please, do it yet once, for me. I promise, you'll be in save."
"What?!" I skewed from his actions. "Sans, did you completely get out of your mind?! Didn't you overcool-?"
I didn't finish, as in that moment girl's body disappeared, and Sans got up and looked at me happily. For a couple of seconds I got confused and was just looking into the emptiness. But then I felt an unbearable rush of anger, so that no one will envy Sans now. I couldn't match any words to say everything I think of him.
"What the fuck have you just done?!" finally I blurted out. "Are you crazy?! Does the cold affect badly on you or-?!"
"Calm down," he interrupted me unperturbedly, looking carefully at the door of the Ruins, "you'll thank me in the future for this."
"Wh-?! You-! Nghaa!"
That time I was already about to kill him, but suddenly some crunch came from the ahead and Sans ran into the fog. I just smashed myself in the forehead, but after all followed him in a quick step.
*DustTale — a timeline, where Sans killed everyone to improve his LV and kill Chara.
