A/N: Sorry for being away so long, work and whatnot. I released a new cartoon a couple of months ago, you can watch it on YouTube, search "Undertale The Twin Souls", you'll find it, it's literally the first result. It's about Undertale. You probably like that. I dunno. Enjoy.


"So. Here we are."

Undyne and her two companions were standing in a small room just below Asgore's garden, having snuck past the king himself to get here. In front of them were seven coffins, each with a different colored soul painted on it. The closest one, the red soul, was labeled "CHARA".

"I can't believe this is actually a thing," Chara said in disbelief. "Sure. Keep corpses in your basement. Whatever, Asgore. That's not creepy or serial killer-y at all."

Look who's talking.

I didn't ask you, Frisk.

You can't say he didn't try, Frisk reasoned. Look, they have pretty decorations!

Alphys shook her head. "Admittedly, this is better than what I was picturing, but…" she trailed off.

Undyne started walking towards the back of the room. "I'm not going to pretend Asgore doesn't mean well. At least he TRIED to honor the humans' memories."

"A-are these ALL children?" Alphys asked. "These coffins are very small…"

"One of them could be a midget," Chara said nonchalantly. Alphys just stared. "It's just… I mean, you know, I'm just saying. ...what, is that- is that not PC anymore?"

"Let's see here… Where are they…" Undyne said to herself as she looked at each coffin. "Ah. Here we are. Integrity and Justice." She looked at Alphys and Chara. "Frisk, Alphys, I'm gonna get these two. Pick another one and carry it together."

"O-okay. So, Frisk, which one do you—"

"Determination," Chara said immediately. "We're taking Determination." He ran over to his own coffin and grabbed one end of it. Alphys grabbed the other end, and together they lifted it, but… Something wasn't right.

"Hey, these are kind of light," Alphys commented. "Are humans usually this light, or…?"

Chara raised an eyebrow. "What the hell? ...hang on. Alphys, put this one down. Go grab Bravery."

Alphys obliged, and together they lifted Bravery, which was MUCH heavier. "Huh. That's… Odd…"

"That's impossible is what it is," Chara said. "Put this one down." Alphys, though confused, agreed, and Chara ran back over to his coffin.

"What are you—?" Alphys began to ask before Chara slid the top off of the coffin. "AGH!" Alphys averted her eyes. "Frisk, what the hell's gotten into—"

"It's empty!" Chara said, shocked. "It's fucking empty!" Alphys looked back over at the coffin, and gasped when she saw that it was indeed empty.

"W-where—?!"

"What's going on over here?" Undyne asked, approaching the other two with a coffin under each arm.

"My- Chara's grave is empty," Chara said. "How can it be empty? If the body's not here, then where is it?!"

Do you remember becoming a ghost? Frisk asked.

I remember BEING a ghost. My earliest memory as a ghost is meeting you. Your determination woke me up from- Chara gasped. "The flower bed."

"What?" Alphys asked.

Frisk, I awakened because of the amount of determination coming from your soul. Why would I have awakened in the RUINS if my grave is HERE? You should never have met me, unless my body was never HERE to begin with.

So…?

I'm buried beneath the flowers in Old Home! Where you fell! Chara sounded excited.

...alright. I'll bite. Why do you sound so excited? Frisk asked. So your corpse is on the other side of the Underground. What is the significance of that?

"Frisk? Are you okay?" Undyne asked, staring at the child in front of her who seemed to have totally stroked out.

"Undyne, I'm fine, I'm just realizing something super important," Chara responded.

WHY is it important? Frisk asked again.

Chara nodded to Alphys and they picked up Bravery's coffin. Do you remember when I mentioned that, without a corporeal body, it would be useless to try and fix my busted up soul?

Chara, I hate to break it to you, but you've been dead since the Vietnam War. Your body is all bones now… maybe not even that.

Aha, but that's where you're wrong, Frisk. Chara and Alphys left the room holding the coffin, with Undyne following close behind. See, my body WOULD HAVE been all bones, if I had been buried normally or stuck in one of those coffins back there.

Okay?

But I was buried underneath flowers that Asgore planted CENTURIES ago, when the monsters first arrived in the Underground! Chara grinned. Alphys thought he was grinning at her, so she returned a nervous smile. And HOW have those flowers been there for centuries without decay, you ask? Monster magic, that's how!

Wait, are you saying…

The ground that those flowers sit on is enchanted. Organic matter doesn't decay. My body is in… MOSTLY perfect condition. He shrugged. I mean, there's a chance that my body had already started decomposing by the time I was buried, but if they bothered to move me from New Home to Home, that means my body is mostly intact.

So what you're saying is…

Nothing that can't be healed with lots of magic, monster food, maybe some of Alphys' lab equipment…

Chara, if this means what I think it means… The realization dawned on Frisk. We can give you another chance.

Yeah! Suddenly, Chara grew sad. Yeah…

What's wrong?

I just… wish we could give Asriel another chance.

Who? Oh, right, your brother.

When they got back into the Judgement Hall, they saw Sans again.

"Heya. Back so soon?" He chuckled. "Sorry. I'm off duty. Come back later," he said, winking. He then noticed that they were carrying coffins. "Doing a bit of grave robbing, are we?"

Undyne rolled her eye. "Grave digging, more like. Don't tell the king about this."

"Nah. That would mean I'd have to walk down that long hallway." He yawned. "Hey, where are you planning to bury that?"

"Snowdin. It's less likely to be disturbed," Undyne answered, walking past Sans.

"I know a shortcut."

Undyne scoffed. "Yeah, okay. I know the Underground like the back of my hand, Sans, and there're no shortcuts from New Home to-" she stopped as soon as she noticed it was snowing. "...Snowdin." Undyne looked around and noticed that she and her companions were indeed in the woods near Snowdin. "What the hell?"

"Don't mention it," Sans said, before turning around and walking in the other direction.

Alphys didn't seem surprised. "Yup. He pulled that kind of thing all the time when we were teenagers."

Undyne chuckled. "Jeez, you sure did spend a lot of time with him when you were teenagers. What were you, dating?" She laughed heartily for a bit, then glanced over at Alphys when she noticed she wasn't laughing. The lizard's face was completely red. "Alphys? What's- oh. OH! BWAHAHAHA!" Undyne started laughing harder than ever. "Are you serious?! That's a real thing?! Oh man, that's great!"

Alphys and Chara set down the coffin. "L-let's just find a place to bury these…"

"COME ON, you gotta tell me what that was like," Undyne pleaded.

"Is there a storage box nearby? I put a shovel in my storage box," Alphys said, seemingly ignoring the issue.

"Did you bone?" Undyne asked. "Pun absolutely intended," she added a moment later, throwing her own values out of the window.

"OH MY GOD!" Alphys shouted. "I'M IGNORING YOU NOW." Having found a storage box, she pulled two shovels out and handed one to Frisk. "Come on, Frisk, let's go find a place to dig."

"How did that work? Was there magic involved? Did you do anything weird with the lab equipment? Did you wash it afterwards? What did you even talk about? Did he make any provocative puns at you? He's so lazy, did he even move during? Or did you do all of the work?"

"UNDYNE!" Alphys said, exasperated with the line of questioning. "There's a child with us!"

Chara started asking questions too. "What did the aftermath look like? Did you have to do it in secret? How wild did things get? How often did you do it?"

Alphys groaned. "It lasted, like six months, tops!" She started digging, but she stopped a moment later and narrowed her eyes. "And we didn't have sex! I don't think he can. I think it's biologically impossible for him." She buried the head of the shovel in the ground once more and blinked. "I think."

Silence.

"So what you're saying is he can't get a boner?" Chara asked. Undyne snorted at the pun.

"Remember all those little talks about how we should look forward to the future instead of looking back at the past?" Alphys asked, frustrated. "This is one of those things! I've moved on, I've set my sights on different things and different people!"

Undyne smirked. "Like who?" she asked, slightly suggestively.

Alphys didn't pick up on Undyne's tone, it seemed. "Like—" she stopped herself, sputtering and stammering like a fool. "Like, ah, um, nobody!"

"No, come on, like who?"

"Undyne, we REALLY should focus on burying these dead kids." She looked over at Bravery's coffin to check their name. "Kenny here from… 1997 looks like he really wants to be buried!"

Undyne shook her head, chuckling as she summoned a spear. She glanced at its head, and it turned into a spade. "Never change, you dweeb." Undyne began digging her own ditch. Chara did the same.

An hour passed, and the trio had dug three holes and buried a coffin in each. Undyne tore the bark off of a nearby tree and made a headstone for each of the deceased humans as well. They were labeled, from left to right:

Kenny. BRAVERY. 198X - 1997.

Kristen. PATIENCE. 200X - 2013.

Seth. JUSTICE. 200X - 2013.

The three friends stood and stared at the graves in silence for several minutes. They mutually agreed to go back to New Home over the next week to get the rest of the children and bury them here, where nobody would disturb them. For now, though, they stayed respectfully silent.

Finally, Chara spoke up. "It's customary for those who knew the deceased to say a few words about them." He glanced at Undyne. "I don't know if… If you want to…"

"I don't know if I deserve to," Undyne said.

"You don't have to."

They stood in silence for a little while longer. After another couple of minutes, Undyne cleared her throat. Alphys and Chara were surprised, and looked at her as she began to speak. "When I joined the royal guard seven or eight years ago, I took an oath to protect the innocent against evil forces at all costs. The fact that I'm standing here saying these words in these circumstances means I really screwed the pooch on that. You two…" Chara and Alphys knew Undyne wasn't speaking to the two of them. "You were resourceful. You were smart. You knew how to avoid the guard at all costs. I respect that. You would have been an asset to your side in the war, if either of us had been around back then. In the end, though…

"I don't know why I'm saying any of this. You can't hear me. Your souls can't even hear me. Your souls are trapped. And as much as I would like to say these things to you directly… Even if I knew where Asgore was keeping you two… I can't. If any of the souls were released, monster kind would be set back. And I can't do that. One day, when I'm a pile of dust, Frisk here will pass on from old age. ...right? Humans do that, right?" Chara nodded. "When that day comes, we'll have the seventh soul. And the sacrifices you two made will not be in vain. But… I'm sure you don't want to hear that.

"I suppose what I really want to say is that I'm sorry." Undyne sighed. "I'm sorry that you didn't get to live out your life. Neither of you asked to end up in this rotten cave. Neither of you asked for a fight. I just… No. I'm not going to give you an excuse." She kneeled down. "I hope that, in the next life, we can be friends. ...if there is a next life. If you two ended up in the next life." Undyne glanced away, looking sadder than before. "If I end up in the next life." She looked at Chara. "Frisk, only good people end up in the afterlife, right?"

Chara shrugged. "That's what people say."

Undyne stood up and chuckled. "Yeah, I'm definitely not ending up there." She looked back down at the graves and put her hands in her pockets. "So I guess that's all. Sorry I couldn't do anything grand for you guys. Sorry your souls are still trapped. ...and I'm sorry I killed you in the first place." She took a deep breath. "The other humans'll join you guys soon. I guess since Determination's coffin was empty, there's only three more left to bury." She paused for a moment before adding "Please don't be mad at Asgore for all of this. He's just doing what he thinks he has to do." More silence. Alphys stepped forward.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

Undyne chuckled. "You know, this wasn't what I was picturing when I planned this whole thing out," she admitted. "I thought we'd be throwing this grand celebration of life, but all I really did was give this really crappy speech to a crappy tombstone. The humans can't even hear me, their souls are trapped in a jar somewhere—"

"They can hear you," Chara interrupted.

"...what?"

"They can hear you," he repeated.

"Explain."

"Okay, well, maybe they can't hear you exactly, but…" Chara sighed. "When you reach out to a soul with your soul, they can sort of… Sense what you're feeling. I have no doubt that these kids understand what you were trying to say, even as far away as they are. Soul connections have no boundaries. …just trust me, I know these things."

Undyne looked back at the headstones and stares for a few seconds. A tear rolled down her cheek and she smiled. "That's awesome." After a few more moments of silence, Undyne turned around and started walking. "Our work here is done. We'll get the rest of them tomorrow." Chara and Alphys followed.

Hey, how did you know that? Frisk asked.

Because, Chara responded. I can still feel Asriel. Somewhere. His soul is shattered. Fear and hatred cloud his mind. But… The pieces are out there, somewhere. I can feel those pieces. I want to tell him that everything's going to be okay. That he doesn't have to be defined by what he's become. But he's so far gone, that although I can sense him, I can't hear him. And he can't hear me.

What… HAS he become?

I don't know for sure, yet, but… Chara sighed, forgetting that he was the one controlling the body. Alphys looked at him, and he waved it off. I think Asriel might be the flower.

Flowey? And Asriel? But… How—

I don't have all of the puzzle pieces yet. This is still just an educated guess. But he knew who I was. And that story he told us in the last timeline… It has to be him.

Suddenly, Alphys stopped and stared into the woods. Chara bumped into her, and she made an alarmed noise, startling both Chara and Undyne, who turned around to observe the scene. Chara backed up and looked at Alphys. "Are you alright?" he asked.

Alphys glanced back at where she was staring. What was she staring at? She could have sworn she saw a figure in the woods, staring back at her, but as her eyes scanned the area, she came to the conclusion that there was nothing there and her eyes were just playing tricks on her. She was almost certain she'd just seen, out of the corner of her eye, a tree or a rock that looked like something else.

She shrugged. "Sorry, Frisk. Just thought I saw something," she said, and they kept walking. Soon, they reached Papyrus' house, where the tall skeleton was standing and waiting.

"Undyne! Human! Third person! I did not see you come through here." He looked rather annoyed. "Are you three pranking me through space and time?"

Chara shrugged. "We took a shortcut—" he had forgotten the skeleton's name "—Papyyyyruuuussss?" he tested, not knowing if he was right.

"Wowie! You've come up with a cool elongated way to say my name!" Papyrus was practically glowing. "How are you today Uuunnnnnndyyyy—"

"Don't do that."

"Okay."

Undyne turned to her friends. "Well, this is my stop. Thanks for coming out with me tonight, guys."

"Don't mention it, Undyne," Alphys responded. "I'm glad we were able to help." She smiled at Undyne, who returned the smile. Then, sighing, Undyne bent down and kissed the lizard monster on her nose, leaving the receiving party both shocked and flustered. She kissed Chara on the cheek as well; he was less grateful, and wiped it off immediately afterwards, making a grossed out noise as he did so.

"Heh. Goodnight, guys." Undyne turned around and entered the house.

Papyrus began to follow. "Ah, how I envy those with lips. If I had lips, I'd be even more good looking!" He entered the house and shut the door, leaving Alphys and Chara alone. Alphys' face was red, as was Chara's, though for different reasons.

"Sheesh. PDA is not okay, Undyne," Chara said as he crossed his arms.

"S-she… I… We…" Alphys looked like she could faint. Chara looked over at her with a bored look on his face.

"You aren't gonna turn to dust, are you?" he asked.

"I-I might…" she responded.

"Alright, come on, Juliet, let's get back to the lab."

"W-wait!" Alphys yelled after the child when they started walking towards Waterfall. Suddenly, they stumbled and gasped. Frisk turned, her eyes returning to their naturally green color, to face Alphys, who looked concerned.

"I'm fine. I'm just tired," she responded. She turned back towards Waterfall and began walking. Alphys followed, debating whether or not to ask…

"Ah, um, Frisk?" she began. Frisk stopped and turned around again. Alphys continued. "So, uh, there's something I've noticed for a while, and it's, uh, bugging me. A lot."

Frisk walked closer to Alphys with genuine concern on her face. "What's wrong, Alphys?"

Alphys scratched the back of her neck. "So, um, sometimes you do this thing?" Alphys pointed to her face and made expressions to get her point across. "Sometimes you're all kind and happy-go-lucky and your eyes are green?" She then made an exaggerated frown, crossed her arms, and scrunched her body up to mimick a grumpy old man. "But then other times you're all grumpy and serious and your eyes are red like a horror movie demon." She returned to her normal posture and twiddled her fingers. "I tried not to pay too much attention to it but it happened for basically the whole day today and I'm a little bit worried? So I guess what I'm trying to say is…" She glanced around and gathered her words. "Why is… those things?" she asked as eloquently as possible.

Frisk sighed. "Alphys, how much can you tell me about determination?"

Alphys glanced away. "A little bit too much, if you ask me." She coughed. "What does that have to do with—"

"How much do you know about souls?"

"Not as much, but again, what—"

"So let's just say, hypothetically," Frisk began while walking again as Alphys followed, "that we have, in our possession, an intact piece of a shattered soul."

Alphus narrowed her eyes. "That's impossible, but go on."

"NOW let's imagine that we have access to this soul's original body in near perfect condition." Frisk stopped walking and turned back around to face Alphys. She had an extremely determined look on her face, a look which was just as scary on her face as it was on Undyne's. "Would we be able to fix that soul and then put it back in its original body?"

Alphys just stared. "You're asking me if I can do necromancy," she said flatly. "What a ridiculous question. Of COURSE I can, are you kidding me? If we had a body in perfect condition, or even just a vessel, and if we SOMEHOW had even just a little piece of the soul, I have a few theories that we would be able to test out. Where is this conversation going?"

"Alphys, I… Think I need some time to think," Frisk said, grinning. "Come on. Let's get back to Hotland," she said as she ran into Waterfall. Alphys raised an eyebrow and followed.