"Sans, get Katie out of here!" Frisk yelled over to Sans. The skeleton grabbed Katie's hand and teleported away with her.
Frisk looked around New New Home and assessed the situation. The wall around the city had been breached. GDC members were pouring into the town and plundering the place.
"We need to find our friends and make sure they're safe, Frisk." Chara said anxiously. "Then we need to find the enemy commander. I'm sure Sargon or Zeregoth is leading this attack. With your sparing skills, I'm sure you can convince the commander to withdraw."
I'm on it, Chara!" Frisk ran through the streets of New New Home. The town was in a state of utter chaos. Buildings were burning, magic spells were flying everywhere, and monsters were running, screaming, and fighting. Frisk looked around to see where any of her friends could be. She was closest to the skeletons' house, so she would make sure that Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster were safe first. She ran over to their house, and saw that the skeletons were surrounded by GDC members. The skeletons had summoned Gaster Blasters and were blasting away at the GDC members.
"Stop firing, guys! I've got this!" She yelled over to the skeletons. They stopped firing, and Frisk faced the GDC members. They were many of the monsters that Frisk faced in the Underground: Froggits (both normal and "final") Whimsalots, knight knights, Madjicks, and many others. Frisk dodged their attacks, and then got to work sparing them. To do so, she used some of the same tactics that she used before in order to spare these types of monsters. She mystified the Froggits and sang to the knight knights. To spare the Madjicks, she stared them down, and then cleared her mind and talked to them. Finally, she prayed in front of the Whimsalots. When she was done with all this, she turned to the skeletons.
"Sans, where did you take Katie?" She asked.
"I told her to hide in the basement. She should be safe down there."
"Good. Have you heard from any more of our friends?"
"Toriel is pinned down at her school, and Asgore has gone to help her. Alphys and Mettaton are also being attacked at Alphys' lab. Undyne and the Royal Guard's main force are at the front lines, but I don't know how long they can hold out."
"Alright. I'll help Toriel and Asgore, you go help Alphys and Mettaton. Once that's done, we'll go help the Royal Guard."
"Already on it, Frisk!" replied Sans. He and the other skeletons teleported away.
"Frisk, try using some of that magic you learned from those wizards." Chara suggested. "You can use it to teleport like Sans. You'll be able to travel a lot faster than by running.
"Good idea, Chara!" Frisk used her magic to teleport over to Toriel's school. Toriel had always wanted to open her own school, and finally opened one upon reaching the surface. Many monster children attended the school, and Toriel loved each and every one of them.
Upon arrival, Frisk saw that the place was being attacked by many GDC members. Toriel and Asgore were fighting to defend the place, apparently willing to put their differences aside to protect the children in the school.
"There are innocent children in this school, you bastards!" Toriel cried out as she launched fireballs at the attackers. She looked over and saw Frisk. "My child? What are you doing here? You need to get somewhere safe!"
"I'm not going to abandon you, Asgore, or any of these children, mom!" Frisk said defiantly. The monsters attacking the school were Aarons and Woshuas. First, Frisk turned her attention to the Aarons. She flexed her muscles, and they all flexed back. She flexed again, and they flexed again. After Frisk flexed a third time, the Aarons all flexed themselves off of the battlefield.
Next, she turned her attention to the Woshuas. "Hey guys, all this fighting is getting me really dirty. Could you please wash me off?" The Woshuas launched magical bullets at Frisk, but there were green bullets mixed in with the regular white ones. Frisk took some hits from the white ones, but the green ones healed her wounds and cleaned the dirt off of her blue and purple shirt. Satisfied from getting to clean something, the Woshuas left.
"Thanks for helping us, my child." Toriel said while hugging Frisk. "You're the best daughter that any mother could ask for. No matter what, you always put others first. You never abandoned your friends, and you're merciful even to your enemies. No matter how hard they try to kill you, you refuse to harm them."
"Hey, I didn't abandon you either." Asgore remarked. "That has to count for something, right?"
Toriel glared at Asgore.
"I'll take that as a no." The King said sadly.
"The rest of our friends are still in danger." Frisk told them anxiously. She took out her cellphone. "Sans, what's the situation with Alphys and Mettaton?"
"They're safe." Sans replied.
"Good. Now we need to go to the front lines to help Undyne and the Royal Guard's main force. I'm on my way there now." Frisk teleported to the front lines to find that Undyne and her forces were on the verge of collapse. The Royal Guard fought valiantly, but they were greatly outnumbered.
"There you are, punk! We need your help!" Undyne shouted over to Frisk. Looking over, Frisk and Undyne saw that Sans, his father, and his brother had arrived. Alphys, Mettaton, Toriel, and Asgore were also present. Everyone fought as hard as they could. Undyne summoned several barrages of magical spears to throw at the enemy, and the skeletons fired Gaster Blasters and launched bones as fast as they could.
Frisk did what was necessary to spare every monster that tried to fight her. She mystified Froggits, sang to Knight Knights, flexed at Aarons, allowed Woshuas to clean her, and did many other things to spare many other monsters. The GDC members were very numerous, and they fought very fiercely. Frisk was exhausted and aching from the bullets that hit her. Nonetheless, she stayed determined and pushed forward. Her efforts, combined with those of her friends, were enough to turn the tide of battle. Just as the GDC forces started to retreat, however, Sargon the Sorcerer appeared.
"TRAITOR!" Undyne yelled at him. She threw a spear at Sargon, but he just used his telekinetic magic to throw the spear back at her. The fish warrior jumped out of the way just in time, and the spear hit the ground.
"We meet again, human." Sargon said to Frisk.
"You think you're helping monsters by attacking New New Home?!" Frisk yelled angrily. "If you keep doing this, there will be no monsters left!"
"The monsters of New New Home are traitors to monsterkind and their father Zeregoth. My Lord has sent me to this place to cleanse it of the filthy traitors, who are just as worthy of death as the human scum."
"I can't let you do this." Frisk said to Sargon. "These monsters never wronged you. I am your true enemy. If you're going to hurt anyone, you'll have to start with me."
"I admire your courage and determination, human. You have proven yourself a worthy adversary, but I will not be so easily defeated. Once you're dead, humanity will finally pay for its crimes and monsters will have the justice they have been denied for so long. Have at you!"
Sargon cast a fireball at Frisk, who jumped out of the way. The Sorcerer kept launching fireballs at Frisk, but the human kept dodging them. "Is that all you can do?" Frisk asked him. "Dodging fireballs was my warmup down in the Underground!"
"Good one, kid!" Sans yelled out to Frisk.
"AAARRRGGHHHHH!" Papyrus shouted in the background.
"Do you think fire is the only element at my disposal? I am a master wizard, the greatest in the entire world! He summoned lightning, which fell onto certain areas of the ground. Frisk jumped, ran, and zigzagged her way away from the lightning.
After this, Sargon summoned Gaster Blasters.
"Where did he get those?!" Frisk thought to herself.
"He worked with Gaster in the Underground, remember? He must have helped invent those blasters." Chara replied.
Frisk jumped out of the way of the Gaster Blasters, but it was hard to dodge all of them. Then, she remembered that she had been taught how to create magical barriers. She used her magic to create a shield and block the blasts from the Gaster Blasters.
"I see you've been taught how to use magic." Sargon said. "I'm impressed."
"That's right, humans can use magic too!"
"Sargon started using telekinetic magic to throw his staff around. Frisk managed to jump out of the way, but the staff turned around and flew back at her. She ducked under it, and Sargon caught it.
"Guess he won't fall for that trick twice." Chara said.
Sargon teleported up close to Frisk. Before the human could react, the sorcerer struck her with his staff. She fell to the ground, bleeding. Sargon prepared to strike at Frisk again, but Frisk rolled out of the way and got back up. He swung the staff at her again, but she caught it and wrestled it out of Sargon's grasp. She swung the staff at him, and he took a direct hit and fell to the ground.
"You mean to kill me?" He asked. "Go ahead. But history has already been written. Lord Zeregoth has returned, and the earth will run red with human blood!"
Frisk was very angry. She had not been this tempted to kill a monster since Flowey had become a giant TV plant monster and tried to use his control over space-time to kill her over and over again for eternity. But through her anger, she realized that Sargon was just another monster who had been blinded by his resentment of humanity. If she killed him, she would be no better than he was.
"I'm not going to kill you." Frisk said, throwing the staff to the side. "As terrible as your crimes are, they can be forgiven and atoned for. You can help us defeat the Father of all Monsters, save humanity, and make amends for your crimes. Will you join us?"
Sargon was shocked that Frisk would show him mercy after everything he had done. "You would forgive me after everything I've done? Such forgiveness is unheard of, among both humans and monsters. Perhaps I was wrong about you humans. But even if I did help you, what hope do you have of stopping Zeregoth? He is the most powerful monster ever to exist. You are strong, but he is practically a god. The damage is done. There is only one way for me to atone for my crimes." He pulled out a dagger and raised it to his chest.
"NO!" Frisk cried out.
"WAIT!" Gaster, Alazar, Midori, and Katie all cried out as they teleported next to Frisk and Sargon. "Don't take your life, Sargon." Gaster said. "Look around you. All of Frisk's friends tried to kill her at some point. I did, Alazar did, and practically every monster that she encountered in the Underground did. But they were all forgiven. You can be forgiven too. Don't throw away your chance at redemption."
"Midori and I made the same mistake you did, and Frisk forgave us." Alazar said to Sargon.
Sargon looked around. "You're right. Every monster who has tried to kill Frisk has become her friend, and look at what they have accomplished. The barrier has been broken. Humans and monsters have peacefully coexisted for over a year. I will lend you my aid, and we will save this world together. It's time I told you a secret, a prophecy written long ago. There is one who can defeat Zeregoth."
"Who is it?" Frisk asked anxiously.
"The prophecy said that the first ruler of monsters would be defeated by his most powerful descendant, an angel who had tasted death and rose from the grave. I do not know who this prophecy refers to, but I know you can figure it out."
Chara couldn't believe what she was hearing. "There's only one person that this can refer to."
Frisk was also shocked. "I can't believe this." She thought to herself.
Sargon continued speaking. "I know you can do it, Frisk. We all do. The world is counting on you now." He got up and started to walk away. "Good luck, human."
Frisk walked home, still reeling from what she had heard. "I can't believe it, Chara. That prophecy can only refer to Asriel. But how can we save him? He's definitely turned back into a flower by now."
"We have a time machine now, Frisk." Chara said hopefully. "And now we know that he can be saved. We'll take that time machine to just after the barrier was broken, and we won't come back until he's saved. Let's do it, Frisk!"
Frisk went over to the skeletons' house and got into Sans and Papyrus's car. All she felt at that moment was sheer determination. "Let's do it, Chara!" She said as she put the date and location in. "For humanity. For our world. FOR AZZY!"
With that, the time machine went off to Mount Ebott one year ago.
Continued in Chapter 15.