Mothertale
Chapter 3: What does it mean to kill without HATE, and to be bitter when giving MERCY?
-Frisk/Chara P.O.V-
I find myself in the menu once more, standing across from Chara.
"You know if I wanted to kill you right now, you wouldn't win that fight." Chara glares
"Well what are you waiting for?" I call their bluff
They scoff and step forward with the knife "oh you really shouldn't have given me this chance! Let's see you weasle your way out of this one!" they exclaimed, our forms became black and white and I dodge the knife strike.
Fight begins
Chara attacks and misses
Frisk chooses Act- talk
"Chara, I need your help." I sigh
Chara attacks
They growl and slice once more…
"Chara, listen, I know the last time I asked you for help I made you more of a hate filled monster more than you already were… at least before you loved Asriel, you loved Asgore and Toriel… and thanks to my… perverted sentimentality… I made you lose that love."
Chara's attack increases, Chara gets angrier!
Chara rushes me again and slashes harder than before, roaring angrily, black ooze seeping from their eyes and mouth "YOU DID THIS! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW! YOU MADE MY BED I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU SLEEP WITH ME!"
I snicker "Sorry that sounded funny"
Chara's attack increases again
"I HATE YOU! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! YOU'RE AN UNFEELING SOCIOPATH JUST LIKE ME! I JUST HAVE YOUR HATE!"
They attack again, without a second thought I dodge under the slice…
"Chara things are at stake now. If Lucas gets more DT than us, his determination trait is going to give him control over the timeline. And if he's like us, he wont have a chara to put the hate into."
"THEN LET ME KILL HIM!" They exclaimed, they didn't attack this time
"No Chara! Their code has to be different. They might play by our rules but they brought their own! There are forces at work that is fucking with us! We need to break this cycle we have and change the game." I explain
Frisk is filled with determination
Chara doesn't care. Chara attacks
They put everything into their next attack, but they were too predictable… I'm not like sans… I won't get tired.
Frisk chose act- Kiss
After their strike misses, I grab them by the face and press my lips to theirs.
I fully expected them to stab me in the side and kill me, they technically could, in one shot… but they don't… instead the ooze of hatred floats away and they cry as I hug them close… Sapping some of the hate away…
Frisk's determination absorbed some hatred
Frisk's LOVE is now 10
Chara's LOVE is now 10
"Why?" chara tears up "I'm supposed to kill them all… You've chosen this route… its your fault" they cry softly, being more human now...
"And as much as I know I deserve to burn in the deepest and darkest part of fiery hell… There is something more important going on right now and I need your help." I reply softly…
"I know… how can I help."
We both turn and look too the game over screen, after recently dying from one of Lucas' also hysterical friends after waking up from something traumatic.
GAME OVER
? ✡ ? ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ?￢ﾘﾜ? ﾟﾑﾌ ?￢ﾘﾜ? ✡ ? ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ?￢ﾘﾠ ? ?￢ﾘﾜ. ? ﾟﾕﾆ❄ ?￢ﾜﾡ ?￢ﾜﾌ?￢ﾝﾄ ?￢ﾘﾼ✋?￢ﾘﾝ ? ✡ ?￢ﾘﾼ ?￢ﾚﾐ ? ﾟﾒﾧ ❄ ❄ . ✋ ?￢ﾜﾌ ❄ ❄?￢ﾘﾼ ?￢ﾜﾌ ? ✌ ? ❄ ❄ ? ﾟﾓﾪ ? ﾟﾕﾆ❄ ✋ ?￢ﾜﾌ ✋✞ ✡ ? ✌ ✌ ✋ ❄. ❄ ✌?￢ﾘﾟ ✌ ? ❄ ✌✋ ❄ ? ✋ ❄ ✋? ?￢ﾚﾐ ? ﾟﾓﾪ ❄ ✡?￢ﾘﾹ ? ✋❄ ?￢ﾘﾟ✌❄? ﾟﾒﾧ ✌?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾝﾄ ❄ ✌? ﾟﾏﾱ . ✋✞ ❄ ? ﾟﾓﾪ ❄ ✡ ✌✞ ❄ ?￢ﾜﾋ ? ? ﾟﾕﾆ❄ ?￢ﾘﾜ ✌?￢ﾜﾌ ?. ❄ ✡ ?￢ﾜﾌ ?￢ﾜﾋ ?￢ﾜﾋ❄ ?￢ﾝﾄ ✌❄ . ?￢ﾘﾜ ?￢ﾘﾼ ?￢ﾜﾌ ?... ? ﾟﾒﾧ ❄ ✋ ?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ❄ ❄ ?￢ﾝﾄ ? ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ❄ ❄ ? ?￢ﾜﾋ . ✋ ✡ ? ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ?￢ﾘﾜ ✋ ✞ ✋? ﾟﾒﾣ ✌ ✋ ? ﾟﾓﾪ ❄ ❄ ❄ ?￢ﾘﾜ ✌? ﾟﾓﾪ ✌ ?￢ﾜﾌ ?￢ﾘﾜ ✋ ? ❄ ✋?￢ﾘﾝ . ✋ ?￢ﾘﾜ ✞ ?￢ﾘﾜ ❄ ✌?￢ﾘﾜ ❄ ✌?￢ﾘﾜ. ✋❄? ﾟﾒﾧ ✋ ✡ ?￢ﾘﾼ ?￢ﾘﾜ?￢ﾝﾄ ✋ ❄ ?￢ﾝﾄ ❄ ?￢ﾜﾋ ?￢ﾘﾜ... ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ?￢ﾚﾐ ✡? ✋ ?￢ﾚﾐ ?￢ﾝﾄ ✌ ❄ ✌ ✡ ✠?
A new message… or at least a different version of the one from last time.
Chara squints at it, "It feels so familiar… god damn it! I saw it in passing when I was alive! I … I… I pushed him!"
I put a hand on their shoulder "Take it easy, can you make out any of it?"
"Words? Maybe…" They say looking hard at it… "True Lab? And … Fridge? It might just be jumbled error text frisk, I've probably seen that before."
"Maybe, but I'll go check the fridge in the true lab the next chance I get. Now let's go solve our current predicament."
"Alright, reload, lets get this over with." They sigh
I reload our save at the hospital, calling and re-explaining the disappearance of toriel and the others before walking to the room with both the Pink haired girl and the weird looking guy.
She wakes up in a hysteric battle roar, doctors and security run in as she exclaims
"PK FIRE!"
A fight begins
Kumatora uses PSI fire α
Everyone flies back out of the room, instead of taking the blast like last time, I dash away, "Boney! Lucas!"
In his medical gown lucas runs out with his dog as Kumatora bounds out of the room with fire in her hands…
"Kumatora!" He exclaims, tears in his eyes.
The tomboyish, pink haired girl stops… the flames dying down, Rushing forward and hugging Lucas tightly.
"Im so sorry"
Kumatora chose spare, and Lucas ended the Battle
I smile softly, they're so sweet
The smoking doctors comically walk up "Miss… were doctors… we aren't here to hurt you."
"Oh… Sorry." She replied, seeming stressed
"Will you please get back in bed so we can heal you?"
She looks to lucas who nods "This place isn't like New pork city, it's nice." He says softly.
She nods and barely manages to stand, moving just off adrenaline before, the docs help her back in bed as lucas joins us, sitting next to Kumatora.
Kumatora looks over to Duster "How's he?"
The doc looks over to his monitor… "Oh he's awake."
"No I'm not" Duster said tiredly rolling over and fake snoring.
They all laugh a little as Kumatora looked over too Lucas and hugs him close "who's this?" She asked looking to me
"This is Frisk. They found us and brought us here with his friends." Lucas said
"Thanks kid. I'm Kumatora as Lucas has probably told you" She said rubbing her face
"You should probably sleep" The doc says
"Yeah, get some rest you guys, I'll be by tomorrow to check on you."
"If they heal as fast as this they should be ok to go home tomorrow… your home I presume seeing as they have no insurance, or files of any kind?" The doc questions
"Yeah, King Asgore said he'd pay for them." I remind him
"That's right, I forgot when I get a fireball in the face." He says coughing up soot
"Oh shush, that wasn't even my most powerful fire attack" Kumatora says proudly
"Please don't throw more fire in the hospital, the sprinklers will go off." The doc chuckles reattaching the things to Kumatora "This will help with the pain, I'll let you fall asleep yourself if you can. We'll see if we can locate your parents." The doc concludes and leaves
There was a silence in the room, broken by a sniffle, I turn to see Lucas, trying to keep it together, doing pretty well but I've lived through enough timelines to recognize that face…
Apparently Kumatora recognized this too, looking to me and saying "Can you give us a bit."
I nod "I'm actually gonna head home, have a good day." I reply, before silently heading out, before I'm completely out the door I turn slightly to see Lucas and Kumatora in a tight labored embraced.
I sigh and head out of the hospital.
"We're going to the Lab now aren't we?"
I nod and take a few hours to hike up too mount ebott again, but now going through it backwards. Memory lane was a little more dull this time, now with a purpose, finding the true lab once more… now empty, cleared out with Alphys stuff…
I walk around a bit, with Chara's ghost walking with me…
"I always hated this place, Asriel loved it for some dumb reason. This is where he got that stupid Hyper Goner."
"You're still good ol' spiteful Chara" I reply
"The one and only."
We searched till we found the cold room, now warm sense the generator was shut down, we spotted each of the fridges and found one where the water leaking out of it disappears into the back behind…
"How do we move this"
Chara snickers "You should fight it"
Frisk enters a FIGHT
Fridge drips meanicinly….
"I was joking idiot"
Frisk chooses act
"No fucking way does this work."
Frisk makes anime eyes at the fridge
The fridge blushes and moves to the side
"OH GO FUCK YOURSELF!" Chara exclaimes
I giggle and walk inside the now revealed secret path, there was a broken panel on the floor as we enter a room of monitors and computers…
There was one entry lit up with the back up generators that Alphys probably forgot to turn off.
We approach it and read it to ourselves…
❄ ✡ ? ﾟﾒﾣ?￢ﾘﾜ ?￢ﾘﾜ✞ ❄
?￢ﾜﾌ ?
?￢ﾜﾌ ?￢ﾘﾜ
✡ ❄ ?￢ﾜﾌ ?￢ﾘﾜ
❄ ?￢ﾜﾌ ?￢ﾘﾠ ? ﾟﾒﾧ ?￢ﾘﾜ ? ﾟﾒﾧ ?￢ﾜﾋ
❄ ?￢ﾘﾟ✌?￢ﾚﾐ? ﾟﾒﾧ ? ﾟﾕﾆ❄❄✋ ?￢ﾘﾜ ?￢ﾘﾜ
?￢ﾘﾟ ❄ ✌?￢ﾜﾋ ? ✌❄✋✞
❄ ✋? ✠❄ ✠?￢ﾘﾜ ✋?￢ﾘﾜ ❄
?￢ﾘﾜ ? ﾟﾒﾧ
✋ ❄ ?￢ﾝﾄ✋
? ﾟﾓﾬ?
?￢ﾘﾟ✌❄ ?￢ﾚﾐ ✡ ? ❄?￢ﾚﾐ ❄ ✋ ?
"I didn't pick up any of that. But this looks like a font. So… We should ask Papyrus to read it."
"But we also need power to the rest of his place... I'll talk to Asgore to talk to the head of the science division and ask them to reconnect the CORE to Alphys' lab for a bit."
"We can do it now, Asgore is out to lunch with the Parliament council today… don't ask me why I remember that when he was yammering on about it the other week, but anyway. Call paps down here and while he's on his way call d- Asgore…"
"Sounds good." I yawn and take out my phone
Paps picks up immediately "HELLO HUMAN FRISK! I'M RUNNING DOUBLE SHIFTS FOR UNDYNE AND OUTSIDE THE CAFE WHERE ASGORE AND HIS PALS ARE EATING! WHAT DO YOU NEED!"
"I need you to put Asgore on the phone" I inform
"WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL HIS PHONE!?" He replies
"Cus I need to talk to you right afterward." I explain
"OKAY!" He responds
"Hello?" Asgore replies "Is everything okay?"
"Look this is urgent and not gonna make any sense, but it could be the key to finding toriel and the others."
He sighs "go on."
"I need you to talk too he ahead of the science division, paul was it? Have him turn back on the route to powering the underground, at least Alphys' old laboratory." I explain
Asgore thinks for a minute "Alright give me a second."
I hear talking for a second, "He said he'd do it, but it's going to take a minute. Also the council wants to talk to you tomorrow."
"That's fine, also will you live without Paps for a bit. I need him here."
"Yeah of course." He replies, before talking too Paps off mic.
"OK FRISK WHERE ARE YOU!"
I give him directions and stare at the font for several minutes before the power comes back on and the rest of the monitors and computers light up…
And an hour later I hear in the distance "FRISK! WHERE ARE YOU! I'M AFRAID TO FIND MORE OF ALPHYS STUFF DOWN HERE!"
"In here Paps!" I call out to him
"OOH DID YOU FIND ALPHYS BAT CAVE?"
"How do… nevermind. This is a font, can you read this?" I point too him the first monitor we read.
He looks and says "YEAH! SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW SPOKE LIKE THIS…. I THINK. IT SAYS…" he begins to read.
"ENTRY NUMBER SEVENTEEN
DARK
DARKER
YET DARKER
THE DARKNESS KEEPS GROWING
THE SHADOWS CUTTING DEEPER
PHOTON READINGS NEGATIVE
THIS NEXT EXPERIMENT
SEEMS
VERY
VERY
INTERESTING
...
WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK" He finishes.
"Hmm, Paps do you think you can teach me too re- Paps?"
Papyrus then holds his skull like a migrane and collapses, "MY HEAD FRISK! IT HURTS!" in a loud scream… before passing out.
End of chapter 3
Next chapter
Chapter 4: Ultimate battle