Chapter 11
Faker
Felix's POV
"So what have you been hiding from me, faker?"
My words rang out cold. They turned snow into ice, and Frisk had to tread carefully as her ice was especially thin. "I'm waiting, faker. I want you to tell me what you've been hiding, starting with the RESETS."
Frisk's POV
I had to phrase my words carefully, or else this thin ice I felt that I stood on would crack, and I would fall into the icy waters. "*Alright, Shakespeare. Don't get too deep in your own head. You gotta explain this to him." "Shut it, Chara."
Felix's POV
"Chara's right you know." Somehow, I heard Chara, even though she was a ghost. "*U-Uh… I really don't know how you're doing that…" "Neither do I. Neither do I…" Frisk sighed.
"Alright… I have the power to SAVE, LOAD, and RESET… It's weird… Most of the time, they're like bookmarks. I can go back to where I SAVED last. However, if I SAVE again, it's like moving the bookmark. Lastly, there's the RESET… If I RESET, I can go back to the Ruins, and back in time to when I fell… But my powers of SAVE, LOAD, and RESET haven't been working like normal… When I LOAD, I don't go back in time at all. I tried while we were in the Ruins. When I SAVE, I don't heal my wounds anymore. I haven't tried RESET'ing yet, but I doubt it would work properly… Chara here, my partner, is the first fallen human… the one we learned about in the Ruins…" Frisk really didn't want to continue, and I sighed.
"Sans knew about the RESETS…" Frisk continued. "But I don't think he or I remember you in any RESET other than this one."
She paused. "I don't know if you've been counting…" I started. "But what numbered RESET are you on?"
"Somewhere in the ten thousands?" Frisk seemed unsure. "*This is RESET number 21,215. It's the 21,000th Pacifist Run. The other 215 were neutral runs." Chara knew what she was talking about.
"ten thousands, eh?" Sans had appeared behind me, and I turned on a dime to look at him. "kid, lemme ask you a question. when are you gonna stop RESET'ing and live on the surface with monsters?
Frisk looked away. This was obviously a touchy subject. "When I can finally save Chara and Asriel…" Chara looked at Frisk as if she'd just been slapped across the face. "*You mean to tell me that you've been RESET'ing, and taking away perfect lives from them, just so you can bring two dead children back to life?"
Chara seemed like she was about to get violent, so I reached out to grab her. Both Frisk and Chara looked surprised when I actually grabbed her shoulder. Sans just raised an eyebrow… er… at least it looked like he was. "what's so surprising frisk? felix's just grabbing some air."
"*Get. Off." Chara seemed steamed. "Make me." I retorted. "*You won't like me when I fight." "Neither will you. I'm far from being a pacifist." She disappeared, and by instinct, I grabbed my lance in my left hand, and my bronze sword in my right. "Where are you, Chara? You want a fight with me, come get one."
"Felix, she retreated." Frisk's tone was filled with relief. "She's not wanting to fight this time…"
"that answers a few of my questions…" Sans's smile was smaller than usual. "this proves my theory that chara was the one that dusted a few monsters in those few neutral runs… and it also proves the fact that you've been RESET'ing for almost no benefit." I put my weapons away. "welp, i'm going to grillby's. you two should probably start heading out for waterfall."
"Alright. Thanks, Sans." I smiled at him. He teleported away, and I started walking away.
"Felix…" Frisk called to me. I turned back to her. "I… I'm sorry for keeping that from you… I just… Didn't want you to think of me any differently."
I thought for a moment. Two. "It'll take some time for me to recover from something like that, but nothing's really changed. I'm just… kinda surprised that you would hide something like that from me. I guess I should've caught on with your slip-ups. Like you saying the Great Papyrus was coming when I hadn't met him yet." I started walking away, motioning for her to follow with my hand. "We're never gonna get to Waterfall and beyond if you stand there like an icicle. C'mon." Frisk dashed to meet up with me. With that, we headed into Waterfall.
