Undertale
The Human Influence
Rotation 2: Day 6
The Human Prophesy
Chara, Clover, Alphys and Undyne continue to burn treads through the burning city, taking them the better portion of the day to do so. Shortcuts seem to be broken down, the highway has crumbled and they spent many hours to move rubble and debris out of the way. It's beginning to rain, but the fires continue as if a spiritual punishment. The rain flashes against the burning stone turning to steam and obscuring most of the city. They are clearing rubble from another road.
"GUYS WATCH OUT!" Alphys yells out from the tank-like car, backing up really fast as a gigantic fireball hits the road, blasting a hole into it and causing Clover to fall in somewhat, barely supporting himself with one hand as he dangles! Undyne grabs it and pulls him up as Chara looks to see what launched that, only to see another monster that has absorbed a few human souls!
"YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!" Chara yells out!
*Human Killer
*ATK 9999 *DEF 9999
*Another one?!
The monster roars with animalistic furor, leaping down and preparing to engage Chara in combat as something unexpected happens! Gunshots ring out and the monster howls in pain, quickly being grounded! Chara looks around to see a bunch of humans in military clothing shooting at it.
"That was… close…" Clover lets out, but Chara shakes her head.
"No… I don't think this is over."
"Huh?" Clover asks as the human begin to aim their guns at them! Before anyone can say anything, they open fire! They take cover behind the armored car.
"HAVE THEY GONE INSANE?!" Clover yells!
"This entire god forsaken planet has lost its mind…" Chara says sadly. Alphys begins to weep and shiver, but Undyne consoles her. Clover growls and takes out his pistol, taking shots at the humans!
To Chara's amazement, he lands every single shot as they fly with golden light!
"Wow, nice shooting."
"I never thought it would come to this… if… if only I knew sooner…" Clover mopes.
"Guys we have to go, look." Undyne says, pointing over to the dead humans being devoured by monsters.
"This… is horrifying…" Alphys whimpers.
"We have to kill them." Chara growls.
"No time. I know what you're saying is probably right, Chara, but we just don't have time!" Undyne says.
"But they could kill-"
"This city has been burning for like four days now, and not a single monster has gotten 7 souls yet, and besides… you saw what those soldiers did. The humans can take care of themselves."
"No kidding… how did they take that monster down so fast? Even with 9999 LV it still takes me a few hits, but they took it down in like a second." Chara muses. They all scramble into the armored car and it begins to skid across the crater to the now blasted clear road!
As they zip down the now wet with rain and soggy monster ash streets they can feel a faint rumbling that grows ever more intense!
"Wh-What is that?! An Earthquake?!" Undyne asks, before getting her answer! Off the side of the car, a gigantic scaled monster explodes out of the roads, causing fire hydrants to spit water everywhere! It continues to shoot from the ground, eventually coiling around a nearby skyscraper and screeching to the clouds, its lungs splitting like thunder!
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! A DRAGON?!" Clover yells in shock!
"Wait… I know that dragon! Stop the car!" Chara says. Alphys stops the car and Chara runs out to the street.
"HEY! HEY YOU! DRAGON! IT'S ME!" Chara says with waving arms, causing the thing to look down at her. It slithers down to meet her at eye level.
"You do remember me! You saved Frisk and me from the Worldsoul explosion! What are you doing up here?" She asks as it looks to the smoldering city.
"Oh… right." She says before something unexpected happens! Several Human Killers jump from the various buildings and attach themselves to the dragon, causing it to roar out! Chara backs away as it snaps at them, engulfing half of their bodies in its mouth and quite literally snapping them in half! However if that wasn't bad enough, a human tank rolls up and begins to fire shells at it, causing the Dragon to lose its binding and slip off of the Skyscraper with a defeated howl!
"NO! YOU BASTARDS! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Chara yells out in instinctual furor!
"CHARA NO!" Undyne tries to yell as she fades into the rainy mist.
Chara takes her glowing red knife and charges the tank down! It aims over at her but she quickly side steps and gets in close, summoning magic and forcing the tank onto its side!
'What the hell? Did that human just use magic?'
'Only monsters can use magic, it must be a monster!'
"Wrong on both accounts, I'm your WORST NIGHTMARE!" Chara yells out, ripping the top off of the tipped tank and jumping into the cockpit, stabbing and slashing the humans inside with a series of twisted giggles!
Before long, she rises from the tank covered in blood with a strangely satisfied look on her face.
"Hah… hah…" She laughs to herself.
"Do you feel it…?" A familiar voice lets out. Her eyes grow with fear, looking around.
"Crap, I'm alone! This can't be happening, not now! ALPHYS! CLOVER! UNDYNE!"
"They won't reach you in time…!" A voice lets out before a being materializes from the mist, juggling a knife in its hand.
"YOU…"
"Me. You know, after Frisk separated us, I've felt something missing… it wasn't until he reset the world that I realized what it was… it was YOU. Why not come back, for old time's sake?"
"Go to hell!"
"HAH! Already there, and soon you will be too." The nightmare lets out with a smile. To Chara, this demon looks just like…
Her…
*NIGHTMARE CHARA
*ATK ? *DEF ?
*Just another nightmare, but one Chara has had for over 10 years. The haunting visage of what she once was.
Frisk and Sans look at the scrawling on the wall.
"So you're saying… every time I reset… this demon will become stronger?"
"That's right, Kiddo. That's what this prophesy says, and since the last two came true, why wouldn't this?"
"But… then what do I do? If everyone dies, I will have no choice…"
"You'll just have to hold on kiddo. No matter what happens."
Chara tries desperately to get away from the nightmare, but it shows up everywhere she looks, and she can see its face every time she blinks!
"Do you remember what you said to Frisk so long ago, back when this world was still a game? That their efforts to create a happy ending was naïve and impossible? Haha… we were so strong together, Chara… come back to me."
"NO! I will never be a part of you again."
"Oh silly Chara… you already are. How do you think I have… this?" The nightmare purrs, scratching its own skin to show a deep black face with glowing red eyes, and beneath it all is a brilliant red heart!
"What…? I… don't understand…"
"You wouldn't… you don't even know what I'm doing, either. You and me, we're still players in this world, Frisk is the one with the control. I can tell… deep… deep within myself, that I already won, once… haha… everyone was dead, including you, including Frisk… and I have the time lost human souls to prove it." The demon says, stomping towards Chara, exuding darkness with every step, the rain starting to intensify!
"So the humans at the temple of Determination… the prophesy that Asriel found… it WASN'T created by the Unseen Influence after all?"
"Nope. It was here for thousands of years, since well before the monsters went underground."
"And the same prophesy is here… in this blue Waterfall temple… what does the end of it mean?"
"That this is a divine punishment. A human with a red heart oversteps their bounds, and this world is thrown into chaos… then a great darkness envelopes everything. I've gotta say, Kid… it's looking like a real hell on Earth up there."
"So why doesn't the darkness just come and kill me to force as many resets as possible?!"
"If I had to guess, I'd say it isn't done killing everyone yet. After all, the prophesy states that every time you reset, everyone who died, the energy absorbed by the darkness, it stays with that darkness, until it reaches its perfect state."
"And then what?"
"I don't know, kiddo."
Chara scrambles to the road, slipping on the wet broken pavement, desperately trying to get away.
"Oh, come now… this is getting pathetic. Don't you remember how it felt? How it felt to slaughter those humans? Can't you remember all the HORRIBLE things they've done? Not just to you, but to your family! Asgore! Clover killed Asgore… why not kill him?"
"Because you deceived him!"
"But I was not the one that pulled the trigger! You might as well blame the bullet in that case, saying Clover is without blame… he was just as driven by emotion as all you humans are… and you know what? I'm starting to understand it." The demon says with a smile upon its dark face, holding up the familiar red heart.
"This soul… it's special. I can feel two beings beating as one… I wonder… the other's is Frisk, is it not? How cute… even after all this time you and he are still so inseparable."
"You bastard…!" Chara growls, but the demon only laughs.
"Do you think I care for this soul? Pah." He says, squeezing it and shattering it into a million pieces causing her eyes to go wide!
"Wh-What the-"
"That was you from when Frisk reset the timeline. Now you're REALLY dead. And Frisk? His soul was back there too." He says, summoning another heart.
"What are you-" She tries to ask as he breaks that too! Red heart pellets litter the ground to be washed away by the rain!
"I have BILLIONS of human souls, Chara!" The demon lets out, the souls floating around him, hundreds, thousands, so many souls that to count them all would be impossible, flying around them like a tornado.
"How many does it take to become god? Seven?"
"… I… I don't know what to say…" She says, falling to her knees.
"Ah, you finally realize it. After I broke those souls, you realize just how above you I am." The demon lets out, casually walking over to the stunned Chara.
"Truthfully, at first all I wanted to do was reset the world, like the good old days… set everything back to its rightful position. You… me… together... and Frisk being a slave to countless Unseen Influences… but something dawned on me once you used the Worldsoul to fix the world, to save Frisk alongside Gaster… I realized that the longer I kept your form, the more HUMAN I felt… and I have to say, I'm beginning to like it." The demon says with a smile. He kneels down and puts his finger on Chara's chin, forcing her to look him in his blood red eyes.
"And of all the humans I choose to be… I choose to be you, Chara."
"Nightmares?"
"Yeah. It says that amidst the carnage of the divine punishment, all monsterkind will be riddled with nightmares…"
"Asriel said he had a nightmare… a nightmare about Chara stabbing him…"
"Chara? That's strange. The nightmare should be about the Darkness."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, says it right there."
"You can READ this stuff?"
"You can't?" He says with a shrug and a wink, before getting serious again with Frisk responding.
"Is this really relevant?"
"It is. Asriel and Toriel may be asleep, but you and I, we have to figure this stuff out. See, look." Sans says pointing a bony finger at the next leg of the prophesy.
"It says that three humans and the king of monsters will banish the nightmare, the nightmare brought on by the one with the face of darkness."
"But… that carving… that kind of looks like…"
"Chara, yeah… I was hoping the prophesy wasn't so literal…"
"Why…? Why do you want me?" Chara asks with the Demon's finger on her chin.
"Why not?"
"You already… destroyed the soul of the version of me from the other timeline! Why do you want MINE?"
"As I said, I am starting to think like you humans now that I've kept their form for so long… and part of being human is me wanting to flaunt my absolute domination. So what if I have 13 billion human souls? There are still a few out of my reach… like yours."
"Then just kill me…!"
"No. See, now I'm starting to feel something else within my chest. These… perverted sentimentalities, I didn't understand them at first… when the Unseen Influence would recreate worlds to exact their twisted fantasies again and again, I couldn't understand it… but now… haha… Chara, I want you to GIVE your soul to me, like he gave his soul… to us."
"… No."
"Oh. Well, you said no. I guess you win." The demon says letting go over her and beginning to walk away. She looks over and blinks a few times.
"Are you serious?"
"NO OF COURSE I'M NOT SERIOUS!" He roars, causing the earth to rumble and dark bile to spit up from the cracked roads!
"DO YOU 'SEE' HOW MUCH POWER I HAVE, CHARA?! THE POWER 'WE' USED TO DESTROY THE WORLD, I AM NOW USING TO RULE IT! IT IS BY MY OWN PERSONAL GOOD WILL THAT I DON'T SEND THIS WHOLE WORLD INTO THE ABYSS LIKE LAST TIME! Or have you forgotten? The feeling of striking the world so hard that all you can see are nines, the true knowledge that nothing you see is real, and that you too are nothing but a fabrication… but to take that power… and smash it against every fabric of reality until nothing is left! What is real in this world if not that feeling?! Join me Chara, it's not too late."
"I would never… not again… not in a million years! I would sooner die than join you!"
"Fine." The nightmare lets out, black hands exploding out of the pavement and holding her by the arms and legs, forcing her down! He walks over to her with a burning red knife in his hand.
"Then I'll ask you a very simple question, one last time… do you want to join me, or do you want to die?"
"Die."
"Unfortunate. Though I guess I can't let my human hubris get in the way so often. I'll wait until Frisk resets to get you next time." The demon lets out casually, plunging the red knife into Chara's chest! She tries to scream out in pain but the many grasping hands clap over her mouth and prevent anything from escaping.
"Good night, Chara. We will be one soon."
0/40012
Clover, Alphys and Undyne spend the next hour looking for Chara…
And then they find her…
"…!" Alphys covers her mouth.
"…" Clover looks away.
"… Damn it…!" Undyne closes her eye and punches the ground.
Clover walks over to her body.
"Her soul is missing. A monster probably ate it."
"Damn it, I TOLD her not to go!" Undyne yells with a tear in her eye!
"Damn it! DAMN IT!" She yells, slamming the ground over and over again!
"EVERYTHING IS GOING TO SHIT! ASGORE'S DEAD, CHARA'S DEAD!"
"B-But we're not dead… we… we can still find Frisk…" Alphys responds. Undyne looks over to Chara's dead body.
"Over… the last five years… she's done so much for me. Telling me about the things she's seen, the people she's talked to. Humans and monsters… she told me about how she used to live with Toriel and Asgore before Frisk reset the world… she gave me hope that humans and monsters could really learn to live in peace… for good… that even someone with a past as dark as hers could shine through and do real good…" Undyne shakes her head. Clover walks up.
"She was the living embodiment of atonement. She died in battle… we should all be so lucky. This darkness is an dishonorable beast, I'm sure it wouldn't hesitate to stab us in the back if it had the chance. Given the wound on her chest, she resisted to the very end."
"C-Clover… I doubt that's any consolation…"
"No, he's… he's right." Undyne says with passion burning in her eyes. She punches the ground one last time before rising to her feet and looking to the raining clouds.
"If this freak darkness is going to come for us, I'm going to fight. I will die on my feet, and I won't let it have any satisfaction! I, Undyne, the Spear of Justice… will fight for what I know is right! Chara… your death will not be in vain. I promise…" She says with a sharp toothed scowl.
"Let's go. Chara said Toriel's house was just past this highway exit over here. Can't be more than a few hours."
Asriel is sleeping on Toriel's lap as she reads dusty scrolls in a nearby room of the Underground temple.
"Toriel?" Frisk asks, entering the room quietly.
"He's asleep. What's wrong, my child?"
"Tomorrow… tomorrow is going to be the last day."
"… Sans has been telling me about this prophesy… and I have to say… from what I can read, everything seems to be lining up to be true."
"Then…"
"My child, I do not worry. In the end, I know everything will work out. Come, sit next to me. Do you want to hear a story?"
"… I would like that… mom…" Frisk says. Toriel smiles at the use of that word as Frisk sits next to her. She rubs his head as he too starts to fall asleep on her lap. She begins to softly recant a story.
Outside of that chamber however, he leaves for his area. Within it, Papyrus and Gaster are diligently at work.
"Hello, brother. How is Frisk?"
"He'll hang in there. How're you two holding up?" Sans asks. Gaster, in his white labcoat, speaks up.
"Well I've been trying to get back into contact with the other side for quite some time now, but now that Frisk's "week" is drawing to a close, I'm starting to accept that it will never bear fruit. If Frisk ends up resetting, can you tell him to tell me that this is a dead end one week in the past? We need more time…"
"Sure, G, I'll tell him when he wakes up."
"He's asleep?"
"Yup. Asriel too."
"Then when they wake up, it really will be the final day…"
"I wonder what's gonna happen…" Sans asks, unusually melancholy.
"I don't know. Maybe my other self will save us… or maybe not…"
"Yeah… we shouldn't count on it…"
"I just… don't know what we can do, Roman."
"Same, G. We just have to leave it up to the humans…"
"You know how much I hate doing that…"
"Heh…"
Sans sits down next to Papyrus and Gaster as they both worth their very best to come up with a solution. Toriel dissects old prophesies, Gaster cracks hard math and tries to get into contact with any otherworldly entities to help, while Papyrus serves as Gaster's assistant… but it's not enough. Sans knows that. He knows that Gaster and Papyrus know too. And of course, he knows that Frisk knows. He closes his eyes and sighs.
"I'm sorry to ask this of you, Kid… but we need a miracle…"
Author's Note: I'm rehosting the Unseen Influence Trilogy on account of my patron vanishing. This story will be deleted if he ever returns. Until then, enjoy yourself.
