I woke up, but as I opened my eyes, some bright pink light blinded me. Having covered them with my hand, I rised on my elbows a bit. I looked around. I was lying in my bed, and outside there was shining… something. I looked at the clock. 07:38 a.m. It was very quiet. Only sometimes a strange chirping and hum were coming from the outside. I tried to get up. Whole body was aching and I wanted to sleep so much. Under my weigh the bed was awfully creaking almost for the whole house.

Suddenly I heard the sound of the opening door and a quiet conversation. I listened and managed to hear some words.

"So, how is she?" asked a high male voice.

"N-no. Y-yet nothing…" replied a female voice and I heard a sad sigh.

"I hope, she'll wake up soon," it was an another male voice, but rather metallic. "Although, it's a quite long time has already passed…"

"D-don't even t-talk about it!"

"Listen, we all are trying to hope for the best and be optimistic, but being in coma for such long time… it's not normal for both of them…" said the first man, and from this frase I shuddered.

These voices. God, how long haven't I heard them! How much I missed them!

"Alphy!" I yelled, hoping they to hear me. "Papyrus!"

There heard happy screams and fast approaching steps. In a second, the door opened. Alphys was the first, who came in (or rather, flew in); after her there were Papyrus and Mettaton. Al immediately set down to the chair and, in first seconds, almost strangled me. I also hugged her tightly. On emotions, I kissed her in the cheek. She has only noticeably blushed, but said nothing, and didn't even look at me. Papyrus and Mettaton were just standing nearly and tenderly looking at us.

"Thank God, you're alright," we said together after all.

In a while, we finally moved away from each other, and I hugged the others. Especially, I paid much attention at Papyrus. He had a new body, which was exactly identical to the previous.

"Oh, I see, that you have some new things. And where did you get them?"

"You think, Alphys won't deal with such a trifle?"

He smiled and looked at her. She averted her gaze down, but having seen my smile, she became a little braver.

"Y-yeah, that wasn't very difficult. O-only a couple of hundred p-prostheses, and that's all."

"Actually, how long was I lying here?" it was the most important question.

"Well, how to tell it… Six-seven months," Papyrus blurted out in one breath.

"What?!" I immediately became serious.

"What did you think? After such things you did, usually totally don't live on," said Mettaton, standing near the window and looking ahead.

"What happened to Chara?!"

"You… you've…" started Papyrus, pointedly glancing at Al and Mettaton, but robot suddenly interrupted him.

"When your arrows disappeared, I didn't see her or her soul there. Don't know how, but maybe she survived. Sorry, Papy, but we can't lie about such things."

"Wow… if even that power wasn't enough, then I don't know, what on the Earth can kill kill her… if it's possible…" though I strongly frowned after these words, I was grateful to Mettaton for telling the truth.

"B-but hey, th-there're also some good news," I immediately turned to Alphys, although I didn't know what could raise my mood again. "I-I managed to learn the nature of s-souls, s-so I… em… synthetically made it a-and… generally, w-we're on the Surface."

"Wha-… ho-… when?!" I finally chose the most important question, understanding, that she won't be able to answer on the others in any case.

"I-I think, in a few weeks after your b-battle."

I hung with my mouth opened for a few minutes. Somewhere inside I was happy, 'cause all this wasn't in vain. But… How could I miss our rising to the Surface and battle with humans?!

"Calm down, we didn't fight with humans," as reading my minds, said Mettaton.

"What?!"

"You know, not all the humans are bad," Papyrus dreamily rolled his eyes.

«Not all the humans are bad»… This phrase somehow really got me. And that's not because of it was ruining the purpose of my life — to revenge on humanity for everything. Although, because of this too. I've tried to remember something. Wait, they said: "…for both of them"… Suddenly something ached inside. A smile immediately went off my face. How could I forget about this?!

"How is Sans?!"

Due the surprise, guys flinched, but a second later again became crestfallen. Instead of happiness, on their faces there appeared sadness and despair. That didn't make me feel calmly. I repeated the question a bit slowly.

"What's wrong with Sans?"

"For first, calm down." Papyrus sat down on the bed next to me. It seemed, that he was the most depressed of all. "He's at our house." I opened my mouth to say something, but, anticipating my question, Papyrus interrupted me. "Grillby is with him now. He just, like you… In short, he hasn't woke up yet. But he's alive."

"Let's go!

I almost jumped out of the bed, but Alphys and Mettaton stopped me.

"Y-you mustn't g-get up yet. Y-you're too weak."

"I don't care!" I've almost dropped one foot on the floor.

"Undyne, don't! We'll go to him, when your strength will recover at least a bit."

Mettaton grabbed my hand and tried to lay me back on the bed.

"But I need now!"

I tried to pull him away, but he just strengthened his grip and already began to get annoyed.

"You're again too overconfident!" he yelled, but then stopped, realizing, that it was already too hard for me.

This was the only phrase, which could calm me down in any moment. I immediately stopped trying to get up and calmly lay on my back. I really felt myself quite bad. Al and Papyrus looked at us with incomprehension. Mettaton went back a little and lowered his head. It seemed, that he was regretting about what he said.

"Sorry, I didn't want to remind of this…"

"No, it's nothing. Don't blame yourself," I waved.

"Em, what have you just talked about?" Papyrus finally decided to ask this question.

"Never mind. It does not concern you," I and Mettaton replied at the same moment. Although, for the last time, I've already managed to hate this phrase.

"By the way, Metta, being a brave moralist doesn't fit to you. Stay the same selfish bastard," I smiled, having decided to change the theme a bit. Deep inside I didn't want to offend him with these sentences.

"Who is selfish here?! Idiot…!"

"Proud."

"Abnormal!"

"Microwave!"

"Herring!"

"Mettaton!" Al and Papyrus interrupted our «intellectual conversation», accusingly looking at robot.

"What?! She started it!" he resentfully looked at me. "And, incidentally, I've saved you!"

"Okay, okay, sorry. But don't say, that you didn't miss this."

"No! Well… maybe just a little…" he said, didn't even looking in my side.

"Yeah, like in the old, good times…" I smiled to myself, remembering our constant fights in the Underground. "But still, the first phrase was completely serious."

Mettaton abruptly turned to me and gave me a disdainful look. But I noticed, that it wasn't quite sincerely, so I just hemmed and rolled my eyes. In a few seconds of portraying anger, robot, having seen my reaction, broke down and gently smiled. Hm, the sense of humor and self-irony finally woke up inside him…

The next few weeks went rather quiet. Alphys was living with me, while robots were building her new lab. I was seeing, that she's quite embrrased because of it, but also I felt, that she likes it. Mettaton was acted on a local popular dance show. Papyrus was sometimes coming to us to see me, and bringing his spaghetti. For my big surprise, his cooking skills became much better (!) and I was eating his dishes with a big pleasure. My health was recovering quite fast, so very soon I persuaded Alphys to go to Sans.

We were already standing in front of the exit and I was trying to find the key. Finally having felt them somewhere in Alphys' bag, I started opening the door, but after a few clicks of the lock, Papyrus few into the room. He almost knocked me down, but I stepped back in time. He managed to slow down only near the table. He stopped and, breathing heavily, put his hands on his knees. Despite, that he was standing with his back to us, it was obviously, that he had something serious. Having taken his breath a bit, he finally turned to us.

It was a sorry sight — smeared on his face fresh and already dried tears, shaking hands and head, crazy breathing. It wasn't making me happy in any case.

"What happened, Paps?!"

I quickly ran to him and looked into his eyes. For some reason I called him «Paps», though I have never cut his name.

"Don't call me like this anymore!" unexpectedly for me and for himself, he screamed. "Sorry."

"Why did you run? We were going to yours…"

"I have something important. You better sit down."

He heavily sighed and lowered his head. We obediently sat down beside him.

"Why d-didn't you just ca-"

"I couldn't call," a bit irritably he interrupted Al. "Sorry. It's just impossible to explain this by phone."

"So, what happened?!" I already wanted to know everything, but still there was some very bad feeling inside.

"Hi, everyone! Don't you have to be with Sans now?" suddenly Mettaton came in the house. "And, why is the door opened?"

"Shut up!" he was ready to almost kill the robot.

"C-calm down, h-he didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings."

"Yeah, I'm sorry."

"It's nothing. And what happened?" Mettaton sat down near Alphys.

"Generally, when I was cooking spaghetti for you today, I've decided to go Sans yet once. Don't know, why. Maybe, it's just intuition. I opened the door, and then… there… blood, bones, glass…" a tear again ran out of his socket.

"What?!" we all screamed at the same time.

"I don't know, how could it happen," Papyrus was already whispering. "If I just came in earlier…"

"D-don't blame yourself. H-how could you know…?" Al grabbed his hand.

"I had to! A few minutes earlier I've hard a sound of a cracking glass, but didn't attach much importance to this. And when I came in the room, the window was broken. I'm the worst brother ever…" the last phrase he said under his breath but I still heard it.

"And is it correctly, that Sans… he is…" I still couldn't believe in this.

"Correctly," he sobbed. "Almost all his bones were scattered around the room."

"N-no, wait. If y-you could live w-without your body, then why can't we just assemble him?"

I wanted to believe, that Al's theory could be feasible.

"You know, the one thing, is when at least head is intact…"

"And have you noticed something else, when you came in the room?" I asked after a quite long pause.

"I think, no. Though… yes. A knife was lying near the window. Don't know, why, but it seemed a little familiar to me."

"A knife?" I remembered something. "Didn't you noticed anything on its hilt?" how much I wanted to hear «No».

"Yeah, something like a ball or an ellipse."

"Maybe a heart?" I've already realized everything, but still was trying to deny this.

"Maybe a heart. And why did yo-?" he suddenly stopped, having finally understood what I am talking about.

"N-no, not she… Not again…"

"Are you t-talking about-?!"

"Exactly."

Suddenly I heard some rustling and the laughter of a child from the behind. My blood ran cold. I turned back, till the end didn't want to believe in this. Chara, for my surprise, was a normal girl, and not how I saw her for the last time. I looked at guys. They were just sitting and looking at a girl with opened mouthes.

"You're not as stupid as you seem."

She grinned, came to me and touched my chin. I sharply jerked my head to the right, and she lowered her hand.

"I have just one question: how have you survived?" I asked, without paying any attention at her mockeries.

"You think, I can't save?!" she walked away and sat down on the couch, like she was at her own house. "You know, then I even started to worry. I've thought, you're stronger."

I remembered something. A long time ago Sans tried to tell me about resets, timelines… But then I was thinking, that he just had a nightmare. Lots of nightmares. And that's what he was talking about in that battle… When I've thought about him, the anger automatically woke up inside me. But I still tried to control my enthusiasm.

"But why only now?"

"I wanted everyone to know about that," Chara laughed again.

"I'll kill you…" I said involuntarily, but in a second I've already regretted about these words.

"Well, you can try. Again."

She, like at the last time, snapped her fingers and moved out from my house to an absolutely white room. Firstly I've thought, that nothing has changed, but looking around, I saw a huge cage made of glowing in a red light rods in the corner and a gun with laser near it. I was standing along in the center of the room. Suddenly Chara appeared in a few meters.

"So, let's finish this!" she has already swung, but having looked at the cage, hit herself on the forehead. "Oh, yeah. How could I forget this?"

She disappeared and in a second I saw Alphy, Papyrus and Mettaton in a cage behind. I ran to them, but an invisible wall stopped me. I've got a feeling of deja vu. Suddenly I heard fast steps and turned back.

"I think, now everything is ready," Chara transformed to her «hyper-form» again. "Now it's much harder," That moment in the right side there appeared a big timer, where it was set 30:00. "Half an hour. If you win, I'll die and never appear again. If you lose, your friends will have not quite good time," she pointed at a gun.

"Let's go!"

I was already about to attack, but then I heard Mettaton's voice, and we both turned to him.

"Hey, Chara, don't you remember, that I've «betrayed» you? Maybe, we'll deal with this at the same time?"

The girl was thinking for a while. From the one side, she could kill both of us at the same time. But with that she was risking with her life, 'cause her plan didn't include «two against one». But in the end she waved her hand and in a moment Mettaton was already standing next to me. I looked up to him with a surprise. Why did he become so noble?

"As you want."

Only as the robot appeared in front og the girl, we both quickly orientated and a second later behind her there materialized a couple of bombs and a few my arrows. However, even without looking back, she easily managed to avoid them. Suddenly I heard a couple of deaf beats from behind. Chara menacingly exhaled. Turning back I and Mettaton saw a red* shield and a few broken knives. I looked at Papyrus and Alphys. They smiled and gave each other five.

We turned again to continue the battle, but Chara wasn't there. Unexpectedly a loud hit came from above and the walls illuminated by a bright white light. I raised my head and saw that shield again. For my surprise, it has easily stopped Chara. Suddenly the light disappeared and I could see «a girl» in the cage, telling something to Al and Papyrus. She raised them above the ground, holding their necks. I wanted to do something, but then remembered about a barrier. I heard only the last phrase, that Chara has said to them:

"And if you help them yet once, I'll kill you without any warnings!"

She let Alphys, and she fell down, leaning to the wall. Papyrus wasn't lucky «a bit» more, 'cause Chara threw his to the floor almost as strong as she only could. Blood ran out from his mouth. Alphys slowly hugged him. In a second «a girl» was again standing in front of me and Mettaton. We synchronously rushed to the cage, but as it was expected, hit into the wall. With hope I looked at Al, who was still hugging Papyrus with closed eyes. Even from this distance I could see, that his boned has already started to crumble.

"Calm down, you two. I've just a little intimidated them," suddenly said Chara, making us turn around.

"If for you «a little intimidate» means to kill, then…"

Mettaton couldn't finish the phrase, as at that moment Chara's attack threw him for a couple of dozen meters away. His arm-gun and one leg fell away from him, and moreover, it seemed that he lost his condition.

"What have you-?!"

"He was talking too much. Moreover, he wanted to fight, and you can expect everything from me. And yeah," she lightly looked at the timer, "you have only fifteen minutes left."

I felt these minutes like a few hours. We were nearly on the same positions — sometimes Chara was hitting me very strong, sometimes I was. Moreover, we both took more hits, that could block. I only rarely was looking at the timer and understanding, that with every second my chances are becoming less.

Unfortunately, I didn't hit Chara with my few last attacks, but instead I got lots of damage. Having looked with a corner of my eyes at the clocks, I realized, that it's only five minutes left. Unlike Chara, I couldn't even stand, and was only kneeling, leaning on my hands. On my belly there was a deep cut, which was bleeding a lot. For a second I coughed, but taking my hand away from the mouth, I saw even more blood on it and felt its taste on my tongue. But I had to hold on. Although, I couldn't even move, not like attack or put shields. I habitually looked at Alphy. She also looked at me with hope, but despair at the same time, still hugging Papyrus, or rather, clutching his scarf in her hands.

I had only two minutes to win. I still didn't hit Chara, but for my surprise, I didn't get any damage too. For a moment I closed my eyes and then heard the sound of approaching knives. But I didn't feel anything. Having opened my eyes, I saw the yellow shield in front of me. I immediately realized everything and my heart sank.

"You didn't have to…" I mumbled, though didn't expect Alphys to hear this.

"Sorry for saving you, Undyne…" for my surprise, she answered, and in the next moment I heard a sound of laser, but there were no screams.

Next second I saw Chara, standing very close to me. She bent and, having raised my chin, looked at my eyes. "Come to your senses! What are you doing, why do you let her to behave like this with yourself?! Remember about all those dear to you, who were got killed by her and kick this bastards normally! You can do it!", I suddenly heard a familiar male voice somewhere deep inside. Now I really remembered all my battles with this girl, Papyrus, Alphy, Sans, Metta… Despite the whole lack of strength, I pushed Chara away as strong as I only could. She fell down in a few meters away but wasn't hurry to get up. For the great surprise, I rose quite effortlessly. Suddenly the wound on the belly became much less. I wore an armor with large shoulder pads and a greed heart on the chest. My hair disheveled, the bandage came off the left eye and out of my socket erratically began to project many of spears. I smashed myself in the forehead, as I remembered about my ability only now. God, how could I even forget about it?! Why didn't I do it earlier?!

Having looked at Chara, I saw much blood where I pushed her. She unexpectedly transformed to her ordinary form. The girl started to rise and wewe met with each other's gazes. They were showing the same expression: "Oh, yeah, I've just remembered about it…". However, she was looking a bit scared, though she was trying to hide this feeling.

Suddenly I saw a kind of a four-pointed voluminous star and a small orange button with words «Save the Progress» near Chara. She tried to reach it, but I, haven't even completely comprehended everything, smashed it with a spear, and a button broke in halves and fell on the floor. Girl heavily sighed and lowered her head. Unexpectedly she barely noticeable stretched to the left and I could see an another microscopic «Totally Reset» button. I've already swung, but Chara, apparently anticipating my actions, quietly said to me:

"I don't know how could it happen…" she was coughing literally after every word. "But now you're interested in not to destroy this button."

"Me?" it was a mockery, but with some kind of curiosity and confidence.

"Yeah… If you do it, you will never be able to bring back your friends. But if you… let me to do a reset, you'll… start all over again."

Everything started to beat inside. I turned back, looking at Papyrus', Alphys' and Mettaton' bodies, which have already turned into the ashes; thought about Sans. How I wished to bring them all back and start anew again, with just killing the human in Snowdin at the first day. And everything would be alright… But now I have a chance to kill Chara once and forever. It seemed, that my decision is obvious, but it was much harder. But after all, I finally closed my eyes and broke the button. I turned around and, having lifted my eyes up, mentally apologized to everyone. I completely didn't want to do this, but some kind of inner voice was telling me, that it's right.

"So, killing me is more important to you, than seeing your friends alive? I wasn't expecting this from you… Well, okay, you can… do, what you want."

From her words it became empty and indifferently inside. I didn't understand why did I do it. But still, if it happened, I mustn't give up, so I hit Chara as strong as I could few times. After that I approached to her, without seeing any danger in it. She was completely lying in her own blood and was already barely breathing.

"You know, I… I don't wanna die. But now… it's not in vain… 'Cause your time… it has gone long time ago…"

She smiled and, snapping her fingers, disappeared. The next second I heard a gun's sound, and then, I felt a strong hit in my back. Everything was quickly getting darker before my eyes. I was happy only due the one thing — it all wan't in a vain. I could save the rest of monsters, and humanity, after all. After laser's hit I fell ahead and then felt nothing. I've got a deja vu felling again.

Papyrus has orange magic, and Alphys — yellow. Together it's red.