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Forgot to mention last chapter, CORE Frisk was made by DokuDoki.
Fun Fact: Cter only calls someone his buddy friend guy pal amigo hombre chum etc when he really hates them. This is why (I think) he's only called Chara this.
Disclaimer: I do not own Undertale
"Uh... Cter?"
I groaned, waving a hand dismissively as I slept against a rock, much like how I'd slept against that dresser in the Ruins so long ago.
"Did I show up too early..? It's noon..."
My snoring could be heard once more.
"Cter, wake up."
My eyes twitched slightly, but I waved them away once again.
After a moment of silence, I opened my eyes slowly.
I yelled out in surprise, falling back.
"Nope no eyes No Eyes NO EYES!" I said, my half asleep brain still not comprehending anything that was happening.
"..." Core Frisk's face said 'Really?' as they stared at me, and I began making sense of things once again.
"Geez, don't get so close to my face while I'm sleeping... You never know what kinda dreams I might be waking up from..." I said, standing slowly.
"Yes, I do know, actually." They said as I groaned loudly, stretching sleepily.
"Thaaaaaaat's-" I yawned while I groaned. "Creepy." My shoulders sunk, as if I was exhausted from stretching.
"So, where is everybody?" I asked.
"Still asleep, I think. I saw Frisk up, setting up a giant table for everyone. Monster Kid and Suzy are helping them." Core Frisk explained.
"Welp, lets go talk to them then." I said, placing my hands in my pockets as the sun now shun down from the center of the sky.
I was somewhat amused by the fact that so few people had rolled out of... Wherever they passed out at yet.
I pulled out my phone, taking a picture of Alphys and Undyne curled up next to one another in their sleep as I went.
"I'm beginning to wonder where we're getting all of these supplies." I said, hands in my pockets as I stared up at the large tent.
I pushed open the flap, seeing Gaster sitting at the table with a bottle of water, still holding his head.
He was wearing ear muffs to block out any sounds, and Frisk frowned with worry as they placed an ice pack on his head, kissing him on the forehead like a mother would her sick child. Gaster clearly got a kick out of that.
Toriel appeared to be baking pies with fire magic at the back of the tent.
"Humans!" Papyrus greeted C Frisk and I.
"I am preparing spaghetti, and-" He stopped, eyes narrowing as he looked to C Frisk.
"Frisk, something is different... Did you get a hair cut?" he leaned down to get a better look, holding his chin.
"Guess again." C Frisk smiled.
"Hm..." He looked deep into CORE Frisk's... Whatever was there instead of eyes.
"Hmm... Deception will get you no where, Frisk! I knew it was a hair cut! Nyeh heh heh!" Papyrus stood back up, grinning triumphantly before running back to his cooking.
C Frisk laughed lightly at Papyrus' antics before we continued, spotting Frisk.
"Hey Frisk." I waved, and they looked over, eyes widening.
"Uh..." They looked from me to C Frisk.
"Care to explain?" Frisk said, looking to me with confusion.
I went on to explain just about all I remembered from the CORE Frisk comics.
"... Un huh..." They said, looking overwhelmed by all of that information.
"Well, I guess we should round up the AU's then." Frisk said, and I nodded.
"What about rounding up AU's?" US Papyrus suddenly asked from behind us, making us jump.
"Stop doing that!" I scolded, and he laughed lightly.
"I heard everything." He said. "Lets hurry. I'm sure you know that I've got people I wanna see."
"Well don't worry, there are people who wanna see you too." C Frisk smiled, and US Papyrus smiled lightly in return.
We began our hunt to find all of our extras, leaving the tent.
"So uh... If you don't mind me asking, why are you so... um... Hell bent on destruction in this universe?" SS Chara glanced over at Chara.
"None of your business." They crossed their arms.
"Kay." SS Chara shrugged. "If you're anything like me, I won't be getting an answer out of you. So I'll drop it."
"What about you? Why on earth are you like that... Tubby bag of bones?" Chara asked, eyes narrowing in question.
"Dunno." SS Chara shrugged. "Guess I was just lucky enough to not be edgy?"
"I'm not edgy." They glared, and SS Chara laughed lightly.
"But you are a yandere."
Their response was to throw a rock at me.
I let the rock hit me in the forehead, a small -1 appearing over my head.
"Shut up." They said, glaring darkly.
"Uh... Does anyone wanna talk about there being two Frisk's for a second?" SS Chara said, pointing to C Frisk. "One that happens to be... Missing their eyes?"
"Oh, yeah, that's CORE Frisk. They run the Omega Timeline." I said, looking over at CORE Frisk.
"And that is..?"
"Basically where all the AU's who survive the Genocide Run or Error or one of the other hunters go." I said.
"They're kicking us out." US Papyrus shrugged.
"Hey- It's not like that!" Frisk said, looking over at US Papyrus.
"Heheh... Supposedly there'll be versions of the people we lost there." US Papyrus said, and SS Chara's eyes widened.
"Well then what are we waiting for?" They jumped up.
"We gotta find Underfell first." I said, and they looked to be thinking.
"Pretty sure I saw him face down in a pool of vomit earlier." SS Chara said.
"I cleaned him up after that." Frisk said, holding their chin in thought.
"I gave him sound cancelling headphones as well, and I'm pretty sure he's hiding somewhere in the darkness to avoid the bright light." Frisk said.
"Welp, lets go find him." I said, hands in my pockets as I led our ever expanding party to wherever UF Sans might be.
The light groans led us right to him.
We found him in a small cave, curled up in a blanket and groaning, an ice pack on his head as he drank from a glass of water.
"Uh... Hey, UF." I said, waving to get his attention.
"Ugh... What do you want?" He said, slipping a sound cancelling headphone off of one ear.
I explained the thing for the third time.
"Oh, good." UF stood. "I was getting sick of this place anyway." He said, putting on sunglasses as we prepared to go into the sunlight.
"Take down the wall, edgy. We don't like those here." I said, hands in my pockets as we walked back to the others outside the cave.
"You stabbed me with like fourteen spears yesterday." UF Sans said, groaning as we got closer to sunlight. "I'll do what I want."
"That was just because you were being controlled. And because your design irritates me." I muttered the last part.
I'll say it again: I do not care for Underfell.
Then again, last I saw the actual comic hadn't even made it past Toriel yet. Which meant that this Sans was just a speculation that everyone followed.
Honestly... There was just something about Underfell that rubbed me the wrong way. Or maybe it was just about the common head canons.
When we got outside, Gaster was waiting, holding some concoction and looking perfectly fine.
"Oh, here, Sans." He handed UF Sans the cup full of medicine.
"And this is?" UF Sans questioned.
"A cure for a... Cter, what did you call it?" Gaster looked over to me.
"Hang over, W.D." I said, and he nodded.
"Yes, that." Gaster nodded.
"You know, usually I'd turn this down because it might be poisoned, but I think I'd rather die than keep dealing with this splitting head ache." UF Sans said, drinking from the cup.
The horrid taste made his eyes widen, but he drank it regardless.
"..." He looked around, taking off his sunglasses and noise canceling headphones.
"Huh... It worked." He said.
"Something tells me humans will like us a lot more now that we have the cure for a hang over." I said.
Everyone said their goodbye's to the AU's.
C Frisk walked us to a door.
"Wait, how are we supposed to get there through this door? Doesn't this just lead into Mettaton's backstage area on the stage he set up?" SS Chara asked.
"Well, that's simple." C Frisk said. "You can use any door to get to the Omega Timeline. You just have walk through any door while thinking about going there." C Frisk pointed to the door.
"Care to try?" They asked.
"Any place is better than this place." UF Sans rolled his eyes, stepping forward and opening the door.
His eyes widened in surprise.
"... Uh..." He looked out in surprise at the sea of AU's standing in the timeline, all looking to be happy.
"... Sans..?" A version of Underfell Papyrus slowly walked from the crowd, eyes wide.
"P-... Papyrus..?" UF Sans' eyes widened.
Huh. Even in Underfell they care about each other more than anyone else.
They ran to one another, and I was a little surprised to see them hug.
I think they may have been crying.
"Sans, the people here are so nice! We... We don't have to pretend to be so mean anymore!" UF Papyrus said.
"That's... That's great bro." UF Sans replied, smiling.
"Ooooh. I get it." Frisk said. "The people are so mean where they're from, they have to pretend to be mean to so they don't get killed."
"Yes Frisk, how very expositional." I nodded, crossing my arms.
"Hey, UF Papyrus, what's going o-" US Sans stopped mid sentence, seeing US Papyrus standing there.
More tear inducing hugs.
At this point we all stood in the Omega Timeline, looking around.
"Wow, there are even a few of me in here." I said, looking around.
"Is that... Me, dressed as you..?" Chara asked me, looking with a mix of shock and disgust.
"Oh, yeah. They're from DoubleSwap." C Frisk smiled.
Chara shivered with disgust.
"Wait a minute... Are you..?" US Sans looked to SS Chara, looking to be thinking.
"Hey, Asriel! Get over here!" He called back into the timeline, surprising SS Chara.
SS Asriel stepped from the party.
"What is it San-..." He stopped mid sentence.
A third instance of tear filled hugs.
"Well, there you have it." I said. "Happy ending's completed."
"Lets go home." I said, turning around to face the door.
"Feel free to visit whenever you want!" C Frisk waved, and I waved with a light smile in return, exiting with everyone from our Universe back into our own timeline.
Chara closed the door after we left.
"I can't believe there's a universe where you and Cter are switched." Asriel said.
"I wonder what sicko came up with that one..." Chara responded out loud, despite them being in the same body.
"I'm just glad I didn't see the me from that timeline there..." I said, frowning while crossing my arms, disgusted by the very thought.
"I don't know, it sounds like a cool idea to me." Frisk said, smiling.
"U-uh..." We both stared at them, my left eye glowing red as their right eye did the same.
"I... I take it back..?" They said, sweating nervously.
It had been a few weeks.
We integrated pretty well into Human Society, as Frisk had said.
Papyrus had been the first one to introduce Monsters to Humans, so it went over pretty well from the start.
Sure, you'd find some idiot red neck or something every now and again, but usually Frisk would just talk to them or Papyrus would or even Asriel.
It turned out Toriel was pretty well qualified for being a teacher, so that was something. They just gave her a few tests to see just how qualified she was for teaching what, and she aced the vast majority of them.
I worked out my whole 'F#ck school' problem. After explaining to Toriel what I wanted to do with my life, she agreed to let me just study that if I proved that I had a grasp of everything else I'd need to know.
I did, so I now spent my time at home, working incredibly hard at something that I actually cared about.
So it was a nice change from my old life.
And, y'know, it made a lot more sense then the way school worked in my old life.
Granted, Toriel looked over all of my work at the end of every day to make sure I was doing what I was supposed to.
Undyne got a job as the schools gym teacher, and Alphys made a pretty good science teacher.
Granted her and Gaster were spending a lot of time on making Asriel a new soul, but she still subbed every now and again.
Papyrus got a drivers license and his own car, and Sans... Was still Sans.
When Frisk wasn't at school, they were working on trying to figure out my past.
Deciding to humor them, I'd given them a few pictures that I didn't really care about from that box that just... Appeared in my inventory.
I didn't think it'd lead them to much, but their room had a board with those photos connected by lines of yarn and random notes and theory's written and tacked to it.
They uh... Really wanted to figure me out, huh?
Heh, good luck, squinty.
Monster Kid and his family moved into the house right across the street.
... Suzy still hit on me every now and again...
Alphys wrote a fanfiction for it...
Chara wasn't allowed real knives, just plastic ones.
And Sans sure as hell kept a close eye on them, as did I.
Grillby reopened Grillby's in the surface, right across from Muffet's newly set up bakery.
We lived in one house, Toriel, Asgore, Frisk, Asriel, Chara, and I.
Sans, Gaster, and Papyrus lived right next door, as did Undyne and Alphys.
Mettaton, Napstablook, and Shyren were on tour most of the time, but they lived in one larger house further into the city.
Shyren's sister, along with who she was fused with, also lived there.
The dogs got their own field.
Apart from Annoying Dog, who was still just... Kinda everywhere.
Toriel and Asgore did eventually work things out, though they still weren't exactly dating or anything like that. But they were friends again, which was a start.
Thank god. Really not too big of a fan of Soriel.
Stop throwing bricks! I'm sorry, god!
Y'all take some things too seriously.
I stood, stretching as I got out of the chair in front of the computer.
"Well, that's enough work for one day." I said, placing my hands in my pockets as I opened up my room door.
No one else was home, Toriel at work at the school, where all the other children were.
I stopped by Frisk's room, deciding to look at their little evidence board.
My eyebrows rose in slight surprise.
It started with a picture of me as an infant, laughing and clapping happily.
It went to a picture of me as a toddler, still laughing happily.
It went to a picture of me at about eight, still smiling happily.
Ten. Smiling a little less.
Eleven. The bags were starting to appear under my eyes as my smile seemed to shrink.
Twelve. Small smile, medium sized bags under my eyes.
Thirteen. Smiling wide with Granny, an unnamed child being held up on my back. They looked to be a lot younger than me, maybe only four.
Fourteen. Alone. Frowning. Large bags under eyes.
The present. Standing outside the house with everyone. A light smile on my face with my hands in my pockets, those bags still under my eyes.
"... They might be figuring out more than I'd hoped they would." I glanced to the side, hands in my pockets.
I shrugged, leaving the room and walking down the stairs.
I grabbed a bag of chips from the counter, walking outside and closing the door behind me as I walked over to Sans', Papyrus', and Gaster's house.
I walked down the steps to the secret room of the house, which now opened unlocked.
It appeared to be the same lab like room, just expanded to be part lab, part room.
There were a few curtains protecting Gaster's sleeping area.
"Hey Gaster." I waved to him as I closed the door behind me.
"Oh, hello, Cter." He said, looking over a few things, a ball of light floating in one of the containers used for the human souls in front of him.
"How goes makin' a soul?" I asked, stepping up behind him as he worked.
"Well enough. It should be finished in another week or so." Gaster explained, taking a few notes as he stared at the almost-soul.
"We've already repaired their body, which now sits in stasis." Gaster said, and I nodded.
"Neat." I said, nodding once.
"Did you finish your work?" Gaster arched a brow at me.
I groaned. "Yeeesss Dadster." I said, rolling my eyes.
Gaster laughed lightly. "Good."
I waved goodbye to Gaster, walking back out the door and outside once again.
It was a warm spring day. Sun was shining, birds were chirping.
I decided to walk to the school. The day was just about over, and I had nothing better to do.
I walked down the sidewalk, hands in my pockets as I hunched slightly.
I took note of the hedge-Papyrus outside the building, smiling lightly.
Asgore had slaved night and day over that thing out of the kindness of his heart.
And Papyrus's insistent begging... But still.
I pushed the front door to the school open, looking up at the clock hanging over the office door.
I did a 'three two one' count down with my fingers, the bell ringing the moment I hit zero.
I stepped to the side as children flooded out, holding the door open for them.
"Yo, Cter!" Monster Kid said, running up next to me.
"Hey." I gave a two fingered wave.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, and I shrugged.
"Got bored at home. Figured I'd worked ahead far enough." I said, the wave of children dying down.
I walked outside, Monster Kid following after me as we walked back around the school to the playground in the back.
"So, what's it like just getting to stay at home all day?" Monster Kid asked, the wood chips shifting under our feet.
"Well, it's nice to not have to deal with a bunch of trash I don't care about, but the lack of other people does get kinda lonely." I shrugged, hands in my pockets as I approached the swings, taking a seat on one.
"But I guess sitting alone in a room on a computer isn't anything I'm not accustomed to." I said, beginning to swing back and forth.
Monster Kid sat on the swing next to me, spinning it so that the side was facing forward and so that he could swing back and forth with only his tail wrapped around the back chain of the swing.
"Huh... Well, it still can't be that bad. I mean, you're at home all day." Monster Kid smiled.
"Oh no, it's waaaaaay better than being at this place. And since I only have one class to progress in, I get through it a lot faster than normal people get through school. I'll probably be into college English in a year or so if I keep up my current pace." I said, smirking with some pride as I swung back and forth.
"Hm... You know, I don't get it." Monster Kid said, a confused expression on his face.
"What?" I looked over at him, arching a brow.
"Cter, why are you even bothering with this? I mean, you could be like, a superhero if you wanted! Why waste time with all this boring stuff?" Monster Kid asked.
"A superhero, eh?" I said, looking mildly amused. "Heh, yeah, right. What super villains would I fight?" I laughed lightly.
"Well, haven't you already fought two world destroying people?" Monster Kid asked.
"... Oh yeah." I said, holding my chin and looking up.
"How could you possibly forget about that?!" Monster Kid asked, and I laughed.
"Well, I don't really think of Stabby as a world destroying monster. More like a messed up kid who's shockingly good with a knife." I shrugged. "And as for Error..."
My smile faded as I looked down, eyes narrowing.
"Who are we to deny a death wish?"
"Uh... You okay?" Monster Kid asked, and I looked up in surprise.
"Oh, uh... Yeah, I'm fine!" I said energetically, forcing a smile.
"..." Monster Kid gave a look that said he wasn't too sure.
At the sound of a yell, we both looked forward.
We looked back to one another, eyes wide before we jumped out of our swings, running towards the noise.
"Don't you know that it's dangerous to go out in the streets alone, kid?"
"S-... Stay away from me..!"
"Heheheh... Or what?"
"HEY!"
"HEY!"
They dropped the little girl, glancing over at Monster Kid and I as we ran towards them.
"H-help!" She said, crying as she scooted away from the taller human.
She appeared to be some kind of rabbit monster, looking only to be four or five.
"Go home kids, you don't wanna get hurt." He grinned, the little girl running and hiding behind us.
"Monster Kid, get her away from us." I said, keeping my eyes on the man.
"Uh... Cter, do you really think this is a good idea?" Monster Kid said with worry. "I mean, couldn't they send you to jail for killing a guy?"
The man was clearly confused.
"Relax. I'm not gonna kill him. Just... Smack some sense into him. Maybe remove whatever part he planned on using on that little girl." I said, closing my left eye as I stared at him.
"Are you two serious?" The man laughed.
Monster Kid looked between everyone, before nodding, looking to the little girl.
"Come on, we've gotta get out of here." He knelt down, letting her climb onto his back.
He looked back at me once more before running off.
"Wow kid, you must really be an idiot." He laughed, cracking his knuckles.
I placed my hands in my pockets, closing my eyes as I laughed, shaking my head.
"Not quiet, my buddy friend guy pal amigo chummy chum hombre brother sister compodre brometheus." I said, my smirk remaining as he loomed over me.
"Tell ya what, because I'm such a nice guy, I'll let you have the first move."
"You probably shouldn't watch this." Monster Kid told the little girl as they ducked down behind the wall, Monster Kid glancing out at the two humans facing off.
"But... Shouldn't we call help?" She asked.
"Oh, right!" Monster Kid said, looking to be remembering something. "Do you have a phone?" He glanced over at her.
"Oh, yeah! Want me to call the poli-"
"We should probably call an ambulance for that guy in advance."
"... What..?"
"You got guts kid." The man pulled back his fist. "Too bad I gotta rip 'em outta ya."
I stomped down, an eraser shooting from the ground and slamming into his chest, throwing him into the air.
I brought one hand into the air, ink spiraling up from my sleeve and forming a fist, spiraling above him before slamming down into his face, sending him exploding into the concrete.
"Heheheh..." I walked closer to the cracked concrete he slowly crawled away from me from, eyes wide in horror as he stared up at me.
"C'mon, what's with that look?" I asked, red fire spiraling up off of my left eye as I grinned down at him.
"Oh, I get it." I said, nodding in understanding.
"Wow, you actually thought I'd give you the first move." I looked to the side, grin remaining. "Guess I make that act really believable, huh?"
"You must really not know me well."
I snapped, Beat Blasters appearing above us, the light from them charging lighting up the alley way.
"W-wait a minute... You... You're one of those kids who helped free the monsters!" He said, scooting away in fear.
"What? Me? Nah, that's impossibl- Yeah no, you're right. Name's Cter." I said, bringing one hand into the air.
"Nice to meet ya, and goodbye."
Monster Kid and I sat on the curb as that man was placed in an ambulance, the police walking away after questioning us.
Monster Kid looked to the watch on his tail, and his eyes widened. "Aw man, I gotta get home! See you later Cter! We can talk about this whole thing tomorrow!" Monster Kid said, jumping up and running off into the night.
I looked to the little girl leaning against me, eyes closed in her sleep.
I smiled lightly, picking her up and holding her on my back as I stood, beginning to walk back home.
I walked down the sidewalk towards the Snowdin Shopkeeper's house.
I knocked on the door, standing there with a slight hunch.
I heard someone walking up to the door, watching it open.
"Yes-" The Shopkeeper's eyes widened in surprise as she spotted her child, who I'd taken from my shoulders and held out to her.
"Uh... Did you lose this, by any chance?" I asked, and she quickly grabbed the girl, crying tears of joy.
"I was so worried!" She said, her child hugging her back.
I smiled lightly, watching the hug go on before she eventually looked to me.
"Thank you so much, Cter! I was a little late to pick them up from school, and they must've wandered off." She explained.
"It was no problem, really. Just don't let it happen again. People up here aren't quite as nice as the monsters in the underground." I said, and she nodded.
"Mom? What's going on?" The Nice Cream Vendor walked from the living room of the home.
"Hey Nice." I waved, leaning past his mother.
The two stood at about the same height, which became obvious as Nice stood next to his mother.
"Hey Cter. What are you doing here-" He noticed his little sister in his mothers arms, and I was watching more nice family hugs.
Heh...
More thanks from Nice. He gave me some free Nice Cream, and I was on my way.
"Hey kiddo."
"Hey Sans." I didn't have to look over at the skeleton to know it was him.
"That was pretty reckless earlier, y'know." Sans said as we walked down the street.
"My attack is only two. I could've hit him a few more times." I said, hands in my pockets as I slouched slightly.
"Well you still can't go around kickin' the crap outta humans, kid. You're kinda one of the Monster Royalty, you know." Sans said, glancing over at me.
"I'm not the best at diplomacy." I shrugged.
"I don't need to here an excuse, Toriel does." Sans grinned, opening the door for me.
Goat Mom was piiiiiiiiiissed.
"Where have you been?!" She asked after the initial "I was worried" hug.
"Uh... Playing cops and robbers..?" I said, glancing to the side and shrugging with my hands in my pockets.
"Yeah, right." Chara popped their head in from the living room.
"Well whatever the case, you should have called us!" Asgore scolded.
"... Grounded?" I looked up at them, both of them crossing their arms and both staring down at me with that... Parental look.
"Grounded." They said in unison.
"Fair enough." I sighed, walking past Frisk and Asriel to the stairs, walking up towards my room.
I fumbled through the darkness to my computer, which lit up the room upon being switched on.
I sat down in my computer chair, grabbing hold of my mouse. I promise that's a not a euphemism for anything.
At the sound of the knock at my door, I stopped my clicking, hands hanging above the keys.
If I pretend to be asleep, maybe they'll leave and I won't have to talk to them.
"I just heard the keys clicking. Nice try."
I let out a long sigh.
"So," The door was opened and closed, light shining into the room for but a second.
"Were your parents shot in an alley way when you were little?" Chara asked, and I looked over my shoulder at them in confusion.
"Uh... What?"
"Left to be raised by your butler?"
"The hell are talkin' about?"
"Well you seemed so quick to distribute a Batman esc brand of justice on random people, just figured I'd check for Frisk to see if their were any similarities." They gave a mocking grin.
"And how exactly do you know about that?" I arched a brow at them, spinning around in my chair to face them, the only light being the pale light from the computer screen behind me.
"Well, I heard that scream too. Asriel demanded we go check on it, so we did. But when we got there, we saw you and Monster Kid had already shown up. To be honest, I thought you'd at least try to talk him down." They shrugged.
"But... Then I saw that look on your face." They glanced to the side.
"You know, when you've been through as many RESETS as I have, you know the look someone puts on when they see something they know they've seen before."
"..." The only sound that followed that line was the clicking of my keyboard.
"You know, Cter, if you have some kind of problem you need to talk about, we're here." Asriel told me.
"... Heh." I laughed lightly. "Come on Asriel, I'm fine. I just don't care for people who go around molesting little girls." I said, back to them.
"And adjusting back to a normal life will just... Take a little time."
They left, I sighed.
W-what..? Asriel looked up, taking note of how much shorter they were.
Wait... They looked at their hands, er... Leaves.
No... No no..! He shook his head, eyes wide in fear.
"Heheheh..." Asriel looked up, seeing Asgore's body being dropped from the shadows in front of him and fall to dust.
"Ah, there you are, Flowey." Cter grinned down at him.
Or, at least it looked like Cter. But something about that red glow in both eyes... That knife in his hand...
"Finally got the last member of the Goat Family!" It grabbed Asriel by he throat, keeping him from escaping into the ground.
"P-put me down, you freak!" He spat, being yanked from the ground.
"Heheheh... Lets see here." It grabbed him by one petal, tearing it off.
"Spare..." Tear.
"Don't spare..." Tear.
"Spare..." Tear.
"Don't spare..."
"Spare..."
"..." He grabbed hold of the last petal, Asriel's eyes wide in horror.
"W-w-what the hell happened to you?" Flowey asked. "I thought all you wanted was to give them a happy ending!"
"Yeah... Back then, that's all Cter wanted. Or, that's all he said, anyway." They grinned, grip tightening on the last petal.
"But in reality, all we ever wanted was entertainment." Both eyes burning red, they slowly pulled off the last petal, making Flowey cry out in pain.
"Heheheh..." They dropped the last petal.
"Don't spare."
Asriel shot up, panting for breath and sweating profusely.
You okay? Chara's voice asked from in his head, but all he could do was grab his knees and pull them up to his chest, shaking.
"What... What was that..?" Asriel stammered, eyes wide in fear.
It was just a dream, Asriel. Calm down.
"B-but... It felt so real... And... And Cter..."
Asriel-
"Why would he do that? What was going on with his eyes? Why were both of them-"
Dreams don't always make sense, you know.
"But... He said 'we'... Like he was two people-"
Asriel, drop it.
"..." Asriel looked down.
Let's... Lets get back to sleep.
"... Yeah..." Expression worried, Asriel laid back down to go to sleep.
Another week went by. Gaster and Alphys finished the soul.
Everyone watched that whole... Thing. Asriel put Chara's soul in the newly repaired body before taking the one given to him by Gaster.
We had to make sure they didn't end up with both, after all.
"Well, now that you don't have Asriel to keep you in check, we'll probably have to put some kind of rehab into your schedule to make sure you don't plot anything." I said, and Chara shot me a glare.
"Still don't trust me, eh?"
"Do you remember try 711?"
"Uh..?"
"You stabbed me. IN. THE. FACE." I said holding a hand in front of my face.
"You think I don't still have that memory in the back of my head all day everyday? 'Cause I do." I said, eyes wide.
"You have any idea how much it sucks just having a knife inside of your face? Because there were a few seconds where I wasn't dead, and was perfectly conscious with a knife poking into my brain through the front of my skull. I will never forget that trauma until the day I die."
"Uh... Sorry..?" They said, almost as if it was a question.
"You're so good at being sincere." I said sarcastically.
"Whatever." They rolled their eyes.
"Well, there's something I need to tell you now that Asriel's not able to hear it." They said as we sat on the couch, having a small party in celebration of everything going well.
"Is-"
"Don't make a joke." They stopped me the moment my mouth opened.
I grumbled angrily, crossing my arms and pouting.
"About a week ago, Asriel had a nightmare." They said as we both stared forward at the TV, no one else in the room.
"And I have to know about this why?"
"Well... He was Flowey again."
"Sounds like a normal nightmare for him to have."
"That wasn't the scary part."
I glanced over at them, arching a brow.
"Cter... He saw... Us. Character."
My eyes widened as I looked at them. They were looking down, eyes narrowed.
"We pulled him, as Flowey, from the ground after dropping a dead Asgore." They explained, and I looked down into my lap.
"We tore each petal off, saying 'spare, don't spare'."
"... I'm guessing we landed on 'don't spare'?"
They nodded solemnly.
"He asked us what happened to you. We said that you were just saying you wanted a happy ending. And all we both really wanted was entertainment."
"... Why are you telling me this?" I looked back to them out of the corner of my eye, eyes narrowed.
"It was... Real."
"... What?"
"Cter, I think Asriel might have been seeing an alternate timeline. One in which we stayed as that... Thing, and decided to kill everyone."
"... Yeah, C F said something about that timeline." I leaned back on the couch, looking at the ceiling with a frown. "Could be trouble."
"Should we tell anyone?"
"That if we ever got bored we could just work in tandem and obliterate them all?" I arched a brow at them, before looking back to the ceiling. "I might just be a fan of keeping secrets, but no, I don't think so."
"... I've got a bad feeling about this." They said, also staring at the ceiling.
"That makes two of us."
Well would'ja look at that, I updated this over JAS again. I gotta stop doing that.
But anyway, I've been thinking a lot about this being made into a comic. Problem is, I can't draw. So... If any of you can draw, and have nothing better to do than work with me to make that a thing, PM and maybe give me some sort of link or something to an example of your drawing talents. I don't know if anyone will or if this'll go well at all, but I'm gonna have a lot of trouble letting this all go once it's over. I kind of love this story.
If this does go over well, first thing we'll have to do is come up with a solid design for Cter, as that still hasn't been figured out.
All this time, and we don't even know entirely what the guy looks like or what his name is. Trust me, I'm just as in the dark with that stuff as you guys are.
On another note, that whole Asriel and Chara sharing a body didn't last all that long, did it? Yeah, I didn't plan for it to.
Would make some things in the future a lil' more difficult.
Anyway, please Favorite, Follow, and Review.
XWolf26, out