Tyrantale
Chapter 10.
Moving on.
Rescue time, let's see how this plays out.
Shortly after word reached the ruins that Undyne had managed to steal Chara's barrier detector, said fish woman returned to the ruins with the stolen device. The other Resisters, along with some of the escaped prisoners, cheered as she made it up the stairs from the hall below.
"She made it!" Frisk said happily.
"Undyne," Papyrus spoke, "where's the-"
Before he could finish, Undyne took out the device taken from Chara, threw it on the ground, and then started stomping on it, seeing her do it, Papyrus wasted no time joining in, as did Dogga and Dogaressa, even Frisk decided to join them. Eventually everyone stepped back and let Maddy slam his post down on the metallic remains.
"There," Papyrus sighed, "one less thing to worry about."
"Now let's just hope that Alphys and Sans can get the rest of those monsters out of that castle before Chara gets back there." Doggaressa voiced.
"Of course they can." Muffet said.
Toriel was watching Undyne and Papyrus dispose of the remains of the barrier detector, when she felt something press against her side, she looked down and found Asriel nuzzling against her.
"Asriel?" the goat mother asked softly, "What's wrong?"
She picked him up and held him close.
Back at the castle, Alphys, Sans, and Mettaton had just finished getting the last of the monster civilians out of the castle.
"Now what?" Mettaton wondered.
"We got all of the citizens out," Alphys voiced, "the only ones we have to free now are Dr. Gaster and King Asgore."
"We better hurry," Sans said, "since Undyne snatched Chara's device right out of his hands, he could show up back here at any moment."
"Provided he doesn't go to the ruins." Mettaton interjected.
"There's no telling what could happen," Alphys affirmed, "so let's get on this already."
The three quickly headed down into Chara's dungeon basement, deciding that they best get Asgore out first, and found their rightful king slumped against the wall. Rushing to the goat king's side, Alphys quickly shook him to get his attention.
"Asgore, Asgore," the lizard woman called, "wake up, you gotta wake up!"
Asgore opened his eyes and looked at who was calling out to him, when he noticed who was with him, he became far more alert.
"Wha-huh?" the goat king voiced groggily, "What are you doing? How did you get down here? Where's Chara?"
"Distracted at the moment," Sans affirmed, busting off Asgore's shackles with one of his attack bones, "no time to explain, let's just get out of here."
Once free of his restraints the rightful king made an attempt to stand, only to fall over onto all fours.
"Ngh," the goat man grunted, "it has...been a while since...I have been able to move freely."
"Sans," Alphys said, "take Asgore back to the Ruins while we go free Gaster."
"On it." Sans stated.
As soon as he and the king disappeared from the castle, Alphys and Mettaton hurried back to the lab and made their way down into the room holding the mangled former royal scientist.
"Wuh?" the deformed skeleton man responded, upon seeing the two monsters enter the room.
"Hey, Boss," Alphys voiced, "ready to get out of here?"
Meanwhile, after hunting for Undyne, after she had stolen the device he used to monitor the state of his palace blockade, for the last hour, Chara was finally ready to give up, at least for the time being.
"Guards!" he yelled.
Immediately, the guards he had taken with him ran to his side.
"Did you find anything?" he asked curtly.
"Uh, no," one of the guards replied meekly, "sorry, sir."
"We looked everywhere we could," the other added, "but, she just...slipped through our fingers."
The wrongful king growled in frustration, before slamming his mutated fists into the ground, causing the earth to tremble briefly.
"So, be it," he huffed, "let's get back to the castle."
"R-Really?" one of the guards responded tensely, "So soon?"
"Without that device, I have no way of know if the barrier around the castle is still up or not," Chara expressed firmly, "there's no telling what's going on there in my absence!"
As soon as he said that, both guards looked at each other awkwardly.
Back at the ruins, Toriel and Frisk were in Asriel's bedroom, standing at the goat child's bedside as he lay covered in bed, half-conscious, trembling sporadically from chills, brought on by a sudden temperature spike. Toriel did her best to assuage her ailing son as he mumbled incoherently about pain, the Resisters, and Chara.
Frisk was not sure what to do himself, he was not sure of what all he could do for the situation, except wait for Toriel to ask him to do something.
"Calm down, Asriel," the goat woman murmured, "Mommy is right here."
The goat boy squirmed weakly as she rubbed his head soothingly.
"D-Daddy..." Asriel whimpered fraily, "I...want...Daddy."
"I know, dear," Toriel lamented, on the verge of tears, "so do I."
Seeing the goat woman so distraught, Frisk turned to her, put his arms around her as far as they could go, and hugged her tightly. When he did, the former queen looked down at him for a moment, before getting down and hugging him in return.
"Toriel," Frisk asked, "are you scared?"
"Yes, my child," she answered solemnly, "I am, I have been from the very beginning."
"Are you scared of what will happen if we fail?" Frisk wondered.
"No, Frisk," Toriel replied, "I am scared of the idea that...even if we do succeed, we may be too far gone to bounce back."
Her words made the human boy thing, since he had been down there, it had been one grim scene after another. While he did not doubt that they could defeat Chara, he did recognize that the goat mother's fear was valid.
Suddenly, Undyne barged into the room.
"Guys, they did it!" she announced, "They almost got everyone out, the only person they have left to spring is Gaster!"
"And...Asgore?" Toriel asked cautiously.
"Sans just showed up with him-" the fish woman informed, but, did not get a chance to finish.
As soon as she said that, Asriel bolted upright in bed.
"Daddy!?" he gasped.
Before anyone could react, the goat child threw himself off of the bed, onto the floor, then scrambled to his feet and ran out the door, like he was not just suffering a moment ago.
"Asriel!" Toriel called after him, "Wait!"
She, along with Frisk, quickly followed after Asriel and, in the living room, they found everyone standing around Sans, who was, as Undyne said, with the rightful monster king, Asgore Dreemurr. The goat man was sitting on the floor, his squalid appearance shocking everyone in the room, he seemed to be to debilitated to move, but, he did become alert to the sight of his son coming towards him.
"Daddy!" the goat boy cried, jumping into his father's arms, "Daddy, I'm so glad you're finally here, I missed you so much!"
The king chuckled softly, like Asriel, suddenly looking as if he were not in poor health, as he held his son tightly.
"Oh, how I have missed you." the king sighed delicately, rubbing the goat child's head.
"Daddy," Asriel voiced tranquilly, "Daddy...D-Daddy..."
He repeated the word continuously, getting quieter and quieter as his infirmity started to catch up with him. Asgore looked down at his son curiously, finally noticing his son's condition, but, was distracted when his wife ran to him and embraced the both of them tightly.
"Wow," Frisk said to Sans, "you guys really did it!"
"Yeah," Sans replied, "home stretch, I gotta go back, we almost have the castle cleared out."
At the same time, Alphys and Mettaton had just gotten Gaster free of his shackles.
"Okay," Alphys sighed, "once Sans gets back, we're home fr-"
Suddenly from, the upper level of the castle, they heard it.
"What the HELL!?" it was Chara, "WHERE. ARE. MY. SERVAAAAAANTS!"
"Oh God," Mettaton groaned anxiously, "I knew it was coming, I knew it!"
It was then Sans suddenly appeared in the room with them.
"I got Asgore back to the Ruins." he informed them.
"We got Gaster free," Mettaton said tensely, "but, Chara's back!"
"Well, then," the short skeleton replied, "let's get out of here, now."
"B-But," Alphys reminded him, "the Soul Extractor!"
Sans sighed anxiously, teleported out of the room, then soon reappeared with the aforementioned device.
"Okay," the skeleton urged, "now can we get out of here?"
With no other protest, the remaining monsters huddled together, allowing Sans to teleport the lot of them out of the castle.
Now that everyone was outside the castle walls, they were one step closer to freedom.
Oh man, finally done.
Sorry to leave it off like that, but, I knew people wanted this to get updated and I wanted to get it up as a birthday present for myself (today being my birthday).
So, yes, progress finally made, have not forgotten about it, this will get finished eventually.