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And I agree Yukimoo-san, I think Halsey - Colors (Audien Remix) does fit Cter pretty well. I was actually listening to the original song and matching it to him a few days before I got your review.
In other news, I'm on Summer Break now, behatch! Which means more chapters coming out faster! Hope you guys are ready, because it's gonna go down!
And, another fair warning, this chapter's gonna get kinda feelsy.
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Character's jacket was blown back in the wind, Beat Blaster and Gaster Blaster exploding into one another.
They jumped over the two blasters, spinning in air and swinging down at Sans, who disappeared, reappearing behind them and catching them in blue, whipping them to the side and through a pillar.
"I'll give you an A for effort, kiddies." Sans grinned, winking one eye shut.
They snarled, shooting at him and pulling back their knife, eyes burning red.
Their eyes widened, blood flying through the air.
Sans' grin widened, left eye burning blue as they were impaled on bones right in front of him, soul cracking as their knife was inches from his face.
Shatter.
Flash.
Chapter 26: Timelines
(Part 1)
"Do you think even the worst person can change? That everyone can be a good person if they just try?"
"..."
"Heheheh... I don't."
"Seriously, knock it off." I jumped back, knife slicing through the air where I once was.
"What?! Afraid I'll kill you again?!" They swung again as they jumped at me, and I ducked, lifting up one hand as I walked under them, pens shooting up from under them and impaling them.
I continued to walk away, a box of keys appearing around them.
The keys spelt out the words 'Gay baby jail' on the front.
"Now lets see..." I stroked my imaginary beard, eyes focusing in to see the codes of the world.
I heard a strange sound, and looked over my shoulder, eyes widening.
I moved to the side, knife tearing through my shoulder and sending blood flying through the air.
I grabbed my shoulder, falling down onto the ground as they shot by me.
Gritting my teeth in pain, I stood slowly, holding my new wound and shooting at glare at Chara, who was grinning.
"Gay babies belong in gay baby jail." I said with the straightest face I could manage.
Get it?
Straight?
Because-
Ah, it doesn't matter.
"... Pfft..."
My eyes widened.
They... They were laughing?
At... At one of my stupid jokes?
I don't think I've ever felt this strange sense of accomplishment before.
I stood there baffled as they hunched over in laughter.
"Gay baby jail!" They said with air quotes, eyes shut in laughter.
"Uh... Are you okay?" I asked, arching a brow at them in confusion.
"It's just so... Stupid!" They said, shaking their head as they remained hunched over in laughter.
"I kill you, all your friends, and so many other people, and you still can just stand there and say stupid stuff like that?!" They said through tears of laughter.
"You're just so... Wonderfully entertaining." They said as their laughter stopped, slowly standing back to their full height and wiping the tears of laughter away.
"Uh... Thanks?" I said, standing ready.
"Too bad you have to die again..." They grinned, and I sighed.
"Ooor you could get the hell off my back before I have to end you?" I suggested before jumping back, red slash remaining in the air for a moment before they continued after me.
"Alright Cter, if you could just-" Chara jumped back, Beat Blaster destroying the ground in front of them.
"Listen to me for thirty seconds!" They said as they flew back through the air, Cter jumping forward and grabbing them by the collar, pulling back one fist.
They caught his fist, kicking him in the side and kicking off of him, spinning and landing on their feet.
"How many people have you killed already?" Cter demanded to know, holding out one hand and sending pens shooting at them.
"No one!" They said, running to the side as pens pelted the brick wall behind them.
"So you came after me first? Big mistake." Cter glared.
"No, you idiot! I'm not here to kill anyone, I'm here to-"
A pen shot through their leg, making their eyes widen in pain as they hit the ground, rolling and stopping, gritting their teeth as they held their leg in pain.
"Oh, really?" Cter said, as if not believing them.
"Then tell me..." He grit his teeth, placing one foot on their chest.
"What the hell do you think you're doing here?"
"I'm here by accident!" Chara said, holding Cter's foot back.
"Heh, join the club." Cter said, glancing to the side. "But just because we're both broken condom babies doesn't mean I'm not gonna kill you."
"Not what I meant, idiot." They shot him a glare.
"Oh. Darn. Here I thought that'd be a nice thing for us to have in common." Cter pressed down harder. "Oh well, guess the eye thing will have to do." He said, grinning as a red flame came to his left eye.
"Look-" They grit their teeth, pushing his foot up and giving themselves a little more room. "I don't even have my knife. Would I really have come to fight you with no knife?"
"Hm... probably not." Cter glanced to the side. "But that's because I have it, remember?" Cter opened one palm, the knife encased in ink appearing in the palm of his hand.
"No, it's because the Cter of my timeline has it." Chara said, eyes narrowing. "And there's billions of knives laying around, you think I would just attack you without one in hopes of getting my own back?"
"I dunno, you're kind of a nutcase."
"Yeah, I'm clearly the nutcase in this situation." Chara said sarcastically.
"..." Cter sighed, glancing to the side. "Don't make me regret this."
He stepped back off of them, and they sat up.
Pens collided with bones, and Character shot through them, slashing at Sans, who ducked under it, a Gaster Blaster appearing behind them and firing.
Sans disappeared, Character being obliterated in the blast.
Shatter.
Flash.
"How many's that? Twenty? Twenty one?" Sans asked as they walked back down the Judgement Hall.
"Still having fun, traitor?"
"No, actually I think you've gotten boring..." Character grinned. "No more games."
Beat Blasters appeared behind them as both eyes flared up in red.
Sans grinned, Gaster Blasters appearing behind him as his left eye flared up in blue.
"Then come and end it."
Sans disappeared, reappearing in the air as Beat Blasters destroyed the ground he once stood on.
He threw one hand down, Gaster Blasters firing down at Character, who jumped back, the ground in front of them being blown to dust.
Character's soul shifted to blue before they were sent exploding down into the ground, dust exploding up into the air.
Sans landed in front of the dust, extending one hand and sending Character flying back through the dust plum and smashing through a pillar.
They stood slowly, eyes widening as they were surrounded by Gaster Blasters.
Beat Blasters appeared in a circle around them, aiming out and firing back at the Gaster Blasters.
The Beams connected, a flash blurring everything in the Judgement Hall for a moment.
Chara slashed past pen after pen, getting closer and closer.
Ink wrapped around their ankle, sending them falling forward onto a patch of pens.
An eraser came down, smashing them before going back up and coming back down, smashing them again and again and again.
I once again tried to look into the world's code, ducking suddenly as a knife shot over my head.
I elbowed them in the gut, making them hunch over before I reached up, grabbing them by the face and slamming them back down into the concrete, shattering it.
"Listen! I'm not your Cter. Your Cter is gone." I said, eyes narrowing as I held them there.
"N-no! Cter wouldn't just-"
"He's just as mortal as everyone else you've killed, Chara." I said, eyes narrowing as their eyes widened.
"You made the mistake of breaking your favorite toy, and you have to live with that. If I were you, I'd RESET and not kill everyone. Sure, it won't bring him back, but it's the closest thing to what he wanted." I said, letting go of their face and standing back up.
"Really doesn't matter to me... I've got other messes to clean up." I said, beginning to walk away. "And a mess like you..." I glanced over my shoulder at them, frowning as my eyes narrowed.
"Well, you're beyond my help."
"Heheheh..." I began walking away as they sat up, hair covering their eyes.
"So what? Did you kill me in your timeline?"
I stopped.
"No."
"Then who did?"
"No one." I said, hands in my pockets as my back faced them. "You're alive and well. We're all part of a big happy family in my timeline."
"Guess you really screwed yourself over, huh, buddy friend guy pal?"
Their hand clenched into the dust on the ground, teeth gritting.
I looked into the code once more, though my thoughts were elsewhere.
Is this really what happens if they killed me? They just go completely insane? I mean they were screwy before but this is just... Kinda depressing.
Oop, there's the code.
I opened up the portal.
"Wait."
I stopped, one foot reaching to the portal.
"Why... Why would you spare me in your timeline?"
"..." My hair covered my eyes.
"A great skeleton once told me there aren't any bad people, just misunderstandings. Against my better judgement, I believed him and rolled those dice." I looked up at the sky, sun blocked by clouds.
"Still tryin' to figure out if that was a good idea, but nobody's been stabbed to death yet, sooo..." I looked back at them, shrugging.
"Granted, we still don't let them use real knives, but still."
"Anyway, it's been real." I stepped through the portal.
They looked down, as if thinking.
They pulled something from their pocket, looking at it and frowning.
A pen.
"Here." Cter handed Chara a cinnamon bunny to heal their wounds.
They took it, eating it and healing.
"So... What are you doing here?" Cter asked, arching a brow at them.
"Well, there's a timeline in which Character stays a thing." Chara glanced to the side, and Cter looked disturbed by the very idea.
"Let me guess... It started killing things and now plays to hop from timeline to timeline killing everyone?"
"Yep." Chara said as they began walking, placing their hands in their pockets.
"So me and the Cter from my timeline are going to stop them before they can start and prevent any future problems." They said, looking up at the sky as they went.
"Then where's your Cter?" Cter arched a brow at them.
"Hell if I know." They rolled their eyes. "He jumped into a portal without me, and now I'm trying to find him."
"Well Gaster'd probably be able to help you with that." Cter said.
He sighed, glancing to the side. As if he didn't want to talk to Gaster.
"... Uh, something wrong?" Chara arched a brow at him.
"Well, I guess no one really thought I was capable of killing someone." Cter said, frowning. "Ever since I pressed that fight button... Well, everyone gives me this... Look when I enter the room. They talk to me like I'm a dog that could go rabid any second." His eyes narrowed.
"I feel like we aren't even friends anymore. Like if they could, they'd just toss me out. But they won't. Because they're... Afraid of me." Cter looked at his hand.
"Really makes me feel like some kind of freak."
"... I see." Was all they could think to say. Shoulder to cry on wasn't exactly their thing.
"Well I totally don't know what that feels like." They said with heavy sarcasm, rolling their eyes.
"Heh." Cter closed his eyes, smirking lightly as they walked.
Eventually they came to the Skeleton House, knocking on the door to the basement.
"Huh... In my timeline Cter usually just walks in."
"Did that once. Scared the crap out of Gaster. Don't do it anymore." Cter said, frowning.
Gaster opened the door, eyes widening in surprise.
"Their from another timeline." Cter explained blankly, and Gaster nodded slowly.
"O... Kay? Non violent I hope?" He arched a brow at Chara.
"Don't even have my knife with me." They answered.
"Then I'm guessing you want me to help get them back to their timeline?"
"No, I need you to find where the Cter from my timeline is and put me there. We've kind of got something important to do." They said.
"Hm... Alright then. Shouldn't be too difficult..." Gaster seemed to focus on Chara for a moment, as if looking into their code.
"Okay..." he then looked into nothing, searching for a specific code.
"Aaaand... Here." He opened a portal. "This timeline is certainly a little further ahead than ours..." He muttered to himself.
"Anyway, your Cter just warped himself into this timeline. I hope someone there will be able to get you both wherever you need to go." Gaster said, looking back to Chara.
"Thanks for the help." Chara said, walking by Gaster and Cter.
They glanced back at them one more time before stepping into the portal.
Is this... Really what happens if Cter kills me?
That permanent frown on his face. The loss of his usual sense of humor. His eyes had become more dead than usual.
"Good luck." Cter said without much care, still frowning.
I stepped through the portal, which closed behind me.
I looked around the Judgement Hall I seemed to stand in.
"Huh..? Are they still fighting Sans?" I said as I walked out from behind a pillar.
Another portal suddenly opened to my side, and I glanced over at it in confusion.
"You know what your problem is?" I asked Chara as they stepped through, the portal behind them closing.
"Same as yours. We don't listen." They answered.
"Look, I don't need your help." I told them, eyes narrowing.
"DETERMINATION really does make your skull thick, huh?" They rolled their eyes.
"So where are we anyway?" They looked around. "This looks like the right place..."
"It's not."
We both looked over in surprise at the voice.
They looked like... Me? But... Taller and generally older looking. They wore a white shirt with a tie now instead of my sweatshirt.
Granted, the shirt wasn't tucked into the dress pants, he wore no shoes, and the tie was generally loose, but he still looked better than I usually do.
Well, I suppose the bags under his eyes were a little deeper.
"Heya." He winked one eye shut, red fire spiraling from his left as he forced a smile.
Character shot from the smoke at Sans, stabbing nothing as he moved his head to the side, placing one hand on their stomach.
A bone shot from his sleeve, impaling them and making them cough blood.
He disappeared as pens shot out from under him, appearing further away and catching them in a blue soul, whipping them back into a pillar and smashing it.
Sans brought up the top of a Gaster Blaster head, blocking the stabs from three ink points, jumping back as they shot at him, slashing nothing but air.
They jumped up, landing perfectly balanced on one of the bones that shot out from under them.
Sans jumped back, an eraser smashing into the ground where he once was.
He disappeared, paper airplanes slashing through the air where he once was.
He landed on a Gaster Blaster higher in the air, Character flying up at him on a paper airplane, pulling back their knife.
The blaster fired, the airplane swerving around it before they jumped off, slashing at Sans, who caught them a blue soul, whipping them down into a patch of bones.
Blood flew through the air.
Shatter.
Flash.
"You guys are dealing with that whole... Character thing, right?" I watched myself arch a brow at us.
"Uh... Yeah." I managed to answer.
"Heh, weird seeing you as an old bastard, amiright?" Cter said, despite being thirty at best. "Yeah, it weirded me out too."
"Uh... What are you doing in the Judgement Hall?" Chara asked, looking around.
"Oh, it's a replica. Built it into the Monster Equivalent of the White House." Cter said. "I think it's a nice touch." He looked around, sighing.
"Okay, but why are you just standing in it?" I asked, confused.
"... Because that Lazy Bones left me with his job." Cter said, smiling sadly as his hair covered his eyes for a moment.
"Anywho," He walked over to the other side of the Judgement Hall.
"I'll get you to that timeline." He said, looking into the code of the world.
"..." he paused.
"Well, actually, I think you should both stay and watch something. I think it will help you learn something." Cter looked back at us, shrugging.
We both groaned, shoulders sinking.
"Just go on and hide behind the pillars ya munchkins." He gave us both a a light push towards the pillars.
"But we don't have time for-"
"Trust me, you've got plenty of time."
We both stood there, peeking out from behind the pillar to watch.
Footsteps echoed down the Judgement Hall.
Cter slowly pulled out a crown, dusting it off and placing it on his head. It was slightly crooked, leaning too far to the left.
He hunched slightly, hands in his pockets. Despite his formal attire, he still looked just as unmanaged as I always do.
"Hey. Long time no see, huh?" Cter glanced to the side, grinning.
Chara grinned in return, holding a knife out to the side.
They too looked older. Granted they still wore the same shirt, and though it did seem their gender was leaning towards one side, I still couldn't place it.
What side was it leaning to?
None of your business.
Chara and I glanced at one another, eyes somewhat wide.
"You sure do look proud of yourself." Cter glanced to the side, still smirking.
"Rightfully so. I mean, you just succeeded in tricking someone as smart as me. Pat yourself on the back, you've earned it." Cter said, smiling.
"I'm not really sure where you get off, doing the horrible things you do." Cter said, suddenly frowning. "How many times did I stick my neck out for you? And you stab me in the back like this? If my skin wasn't so thick, I'd be a little hurt." He grinned.
"What are you doing with that crown?" They finally spoke, glancing up at his head.
"Oh, this?" Cter pushed the crown back into place. He then immediately pushed it back to its slant.
"Well, I figured since everyone else in the Royal Family is dead, I inherit the crown. Sure, you also could have gotten it, buut..." Cter looked to the knife they held, seeing his reflection in it.
Seeing the red glow in his eye.
"Something tells me they wouldn't want you to have it."
"Guess it was stupid of me to expect anything outta you. You'll always be a huge piece of sh!t, no matter what I do." Cter's eyes narrowed.
"So I won't be offering you MERCY. Someone like you doesn't deserve it." Cter's left eye burned red. "Not after what you did..."
Deceit by coffE K (Posted on Youtube by Venom Claus The Shitposter) began playing.
"Games' gotten old, my buddy friend guy pal amigo hombre homey." Cter said, snapping as pens appeared behind him.
Images of all of his lost friends appeared before his eyes, and he frowned.
Frisk... Monster Kid... Everyone...
Cter's teeth grit, left eye snapping open wide and making red fire spiral into the air.
I'm going to finish this like I should have a long time ago.
Chara shot forward, being grabbed and thrown back by ink before they could reach Cter as he shook his head and crossed his arms, pens shooting out from under them and making them jump back.
An eraser shot down, slamming into their back and sending them exploding into the ground.
An ink whip rose, grabbing them by the ankle and whipping them back across the room.
"When will you learn?" Cter shook his head, grinning as they were stuck in the wall.
"I always get the first move."
They grinned as they climbed to their feet, wiping blood from their lip.
"..." Cter closed his eyes for a moment, Beat Blasters appearing throughout the sky behind him.
"Here we go."
Character ran to the side, bones shooting up just behind them before they jumped to the side, spinning and slashing at Sans, who disappeared, appearing above them and firing down with the three Gaster Blasters that appeared behind him.
Character brought up one arm, a wall of keys appearing and blocking the beams.
They jumped up over the wall of keys and the blast, pulling back one arm and throwing it forward, ink shooting from their sleeve at Sans and spinning, forming a spike and stabbing at Sans, who moved his head to the side, the ink going right by his head and hooking into the ground behind him.
Character pulled themselves forward on the ink, pulling back one knee to smash Sans' skull with.
Sans disappeared, reappearing on the ground behind them and reaching out, their soul shifting to blue just before he whipped them into the ground, shattering the tile and sending it exploding through the air.
Character pushed themselves up to their knees, wiping blood from their chin and glaring up at Sans, who continued to grin, bouncing lightly side to side with his hands behind his back.
... He is literally beating us with his hands behind his back.
This is bull.
Character shot off at Sans, who stomped, bones shooting out from under them and forcing them to jump into the air, spinning and slashing down at Sans, who jumped back, Gaster Blasters appearing behind him and firing as he flew back.
Character's own Beat Blasters appeared in front of them, firing as well and countering the blasts before Character jumped through the blasts at Sans.
Their soul switched to blue, and their expression immediately switched to one that read 'Really?' as they stopped in mid air.
"Ah sh!t..." Character said, just before Sans moved them right into the Gaster Blaster and Beat Blaster beams.
Shatter.
Flash.
Cter moved his head back and forth, knife whistling by his head again and again.
He suddenly shot forward, kneeing them in the abdomen and making them hunch over.
Future Chara grinned, spinning their knife around and burying it into Cter's back, making his eyes widen.
His HP dropped to 14/28, and he grit his teeth, grabbing them by the throat and pulling them up into the air, roaring as he slammed them down into the ground, left eye burning red as the tile shattered.
Cter glared hatefully into their eyes. They grinned in return.
Pens shot out from under them as Cter's hate was replaced with disgust.
Shatter.
The music stopped.
Cter pulled the knife from his back, gritting his teeth in pain before dropping it on their dead body, stumbling slightly.
I quickly pushed myself under his arm, helping him stand.
"Are you alright?" I asked, moderately worried.
"Aw, c'mon now." I watched myself wink one eye shut at me. "They've done worse." Sure, he wore a smirk, but his eyes were sunk in and tired.
Wait... Isn't that how I always look?
Well, that says something.
"... You have 28 HP." Chara said, eyes narrowing slightly.
"Yeah and you've got 99." Cter gestured to the corpse on the ground. "Find your point, short stack."
"I know how they got LV 20." Chara's eyes narrowed as they looked at their own dead body.
"How did you get to LV 3?" They looked back to Cter, who shrugged, blood dripping from his mouth as he seemed paler than usual.
"You'll find out eventually." He said with a smirk, still shrugging.
"Alright, come on you crazy kids." Cter walked towards the other side of the room, and we followed after him.
"Gotta get you kids to the timeline you're supposed to be intruding on." He said, still faking a grin as he looked into the code.
Flash. The music resumed.
"Ah shiitake mushrooms." Cter said as he looked around, once again standing in the middle of the Judgement Hall.
"What? Did you think I wouldn't come back?" Future Chara asked, grinning as they held their knife out to the side.
"No, I just remembered that I left the oven on." Cter lied easily, smirking lightly. Their grin became an irritated frown.
He jumped to the side, their knife leaving a red slash through the air where he once was.
Everything moved in slow motion as they looked up at him, catching the split second of anguish on his face.
He was truly miserable.
As quickly as it had came, it was gone, and F Chara was jumping back through the air as a Beat Blaster obliterated the ground where they once were.
Ink swirled up behind Cter as his grin reappeared, fire burning in a vortex from his left eye as the ink shot at F Chara in the same shape, making them jump back.
The vortex caught up with them, seeming to grow teeth of ink as it swallowed them whole. The last thing they saw was the hate in Cter's eyes at the opposite end of the vortex.
Shatter. Music stopped.
Cter ever so casually pulled out a flask, twisted the cap open and drinking from it as he stared at what was left of his former friend.
I could smell the alcohol from where I was.
Cter groaned, placing one hand over the left side of his face and shaking his head as we skeptically approached.
"You uh... You doing alright?" I arched a brow at him.
"I'm fine." He said about as honestly as I say it, screwing the cap back onto his flask and putting it away once more.
"Well I hope this has been a valuable learning experience, but it's time for you two to-"
Flash. Music resumed.
"You're really impatient, you know that?" Cter told them as he once again stared them down from across the Judgement Hall.
"What's the matter? Don't tell me you've got someone to see." They grinned, red fire spiraling from their right eye.
"Just a therapist." Cter joked, shrugging.
He ducked under a slash, ink suddenly shooting up from the ground behind him at them and forcing them to jump back, slashing it away before Cter shot forward, pulling back one leg and kicking into their side, making their eyes widen in pain.
He spun, ink forming spikes on his calf as he swung down at them with his other leg, aiming for the top of their head.
They blocked the kick with their knife, a shock wave forming and blowing them down towards the ground, where they landed on both feet, the ground under them cracking and dust being blown away by the gust of wind.
And that dust certainly wasn't just dirt tracked in from outside, if you uh... Catch my drift.
Cter had both hands in his pockets as he fell back towards the ground, watching them jump at him.
He suddenly tore one hand from his pocket, whipping it upward and slashing back the knife stabbing at him, deflecting it with his pen.
Hand still in the air, more pens appeared behind him. he threw his hand down, and the pens raced through the air, tearing through them.
Blood flew through the air, splattering across Cter's face.
He frowned as he watched them fall back towards the ground, he himself falling from above them.
Shatter.
Flash.
Cter ever so casually drank from his flask again as footsteps approached, sighing once before putting it away, looking back up from the ground to them.
"You really gotta git gud." Cter said, closing one eye with a smirk before bringing up a wall of keys, blocking a slash before the keys crumpled down at F Chara, who jumped back, evading being crushed.
"And I really gotta get something stronger in here." Cter muttered to himself, looking into the flask with one eye, his other one closed.
His eyes widened, pupils shrinking as they slashed by him. The air behind him with covered with bolded, red nines.
"..." Cter stumbled slightly, soul cracking as he placed a hand over his bleeding chest.
"... Well..." He took another drink from his flask. "Hate to cut this short..."
He stumbled down the Judgement Hall, right eye closed as a red fire still burned in his left.
"But I... I promised Monster Kid a visit..."
Cter's crown fell off as he stumbled, hitting the ground and rolling over to my feet.
Just as he made it into the shadows, that shatter resounded, followed by the sound of a flask hitting the ground just before a body.
Blood and liquor mixed as they leaked from the shadows. The music faded out once more.
"..." They frowned, standing in silence for a moment.
"Well, if there's no one left to take it..." Our eyes widened as we realized F Chara was walking right to our pillar.
They leaned down, grabbing the crown.
They paused, seeing my feet.
"... Uh..?" They stood up slowly, confusion on their face as they looked right at us.
I waved somewhat nervously.
"Oh, so Cter decided to let you kids stay here to watch this time." they concluded quickly.
"Yep." I nodded.
"Figures." They rolled their eyes. "He always did like having an audience for these things..." They looked back at the blood leaking from the shadows.
"When we came through here, the Cter there just let us right through." They seemed to be reminiscing.
"Had no idea this is what he was so busy with though."
"But that's over now." They grinned lightly, placing that crown on their head.
Chara's eyes narrowed as they looked at their older self, teeth gritting.
F Chara's eyes widened in pain, hunching over Chara's fist as that crown slid off of their head.
"That doesn't belong to you." Chara said, eyes narrowed as they caught the crown, jumping back.
"... Is that so?" F Chara grinned, teeth gritting as they held their knife out to the side.
"And what makes you think that?"
"Someone like you doesn't deserve it." they said, eyes narrowing. "This thing isn't just inherited, it goes to the one who's worthy of it. And someone like you shouldn't even be allowed to touch it."
"... Pfft..." F Chara began laughing, shaking their head.
"Someone like me?" They said, leaning down to be eye level with Chara, who took a skeptical step back as F Chara grinned.
"Don't you mean someone like us?"
Ink suddenly wrapped around F Chara's throat, making their eyes widen before they were whipped back through the air, smashing into the wall of the Judgement Hall.
"No." I said, eyes narrowing as Beat Blasters appeared behind us.
"They mean someone like you."
They were laughing again as they stood up, hair covering their eyes. They wiped blood from their chin, grinning at us.
They certainly looked more threatening as an adult.
"Uh... Hot potato." Chara ever so casually tossed me the crown, and I looked at it with confusion for a moment before ducking, knife swinging over my head.
I jumped past F Chara, extending one palm out to them as I turned to face them.
Beat Blasters fired down at them, Chara jumping away as their counterpart was engulfed.
"Honestly, I find it a little sad." F Chara said as they walked from the dust, a healing sound being heard as they threw the wrapper to some item aside.
"I've only seen Cter snap once. And that was truly entertaining." They grinned. "Too bad the depressed fool couldn't do it again..."
"Hey, fun sized, you wouldn't possibly be able to keep me entertained, would you?" They grinned. I glared.
"Come on, just humor me for a little while, ##-"
Pens exploded from below them, forcing them to jump back.
"Don't call me that." I said, eyes narrowing as red fire spiraled from my left eye.
"Don't call you what? What were they calling you?" Chara asked in confusion.
"Something they definitely shouldn't know." I said as Beat Blasters and paper airplanes appeared behind us. They were grinning like a madman. Or madwoman. Who knows?
Flash.
The loading startled me slightly, and I looked around in confusion for a moment.
"Sorry that took so long." Cter told F Chara as they walked from the shadows.
"Monster Kid really just keeps talking sometimes, you know?" He grinned, shrugging.
"Here I thought you'd given up." They smirked.
"Me? Nah, I know you can't survive without my company." Cter grinned, winking one eye shut.
Cter snapped, pens appearing floating behind him as F Chara held their knife out to the side, grin darkening.
"Let's go."
Sans' breathing seemed to be getting heavier as he whipped Character from side to side.
"Alright... It's time for my special attack." Sans said, Character pushing themselves up to their feet.
Sans disappeared, appearing on the head of a Gaster Blaster above them.
"Survive THIS, and I'll have no idea what the hell you are."
Gaster Blasters filled the sky behind Sans, Sans' left eye burning blue as the blasters charged.
Character's eyes widened as they realized there was no where to run.
"BURN IN HELL!"
The Gaster Blasters fired, and Character brought up a wall of keys and ink in a futile attempt to block.
The wall exploded apart, and they were engulfed.
The flash obliterated the Judgement Hall, leaving nothing but smoldering ashes.
Sans slowly floated back down from the Gaster Blaster he was on, hopping off as his Gaster Blasters disappeared.
A red flash burst through the smoke, and Sans looked up with wide eyes.
Character walked slowly from the smoke, one message reading in front of them.
*_B_u_t_I_t_R_e_f_u_s_e_d
"..." Sans looked down, eyes narrowing as he almost frowned.
"At least Papyrus is safe..." He muttered to himself, Character looming over him.
SLASH.
Sans fell to his knees, holding his chest wound as Character said nothing, walking by.
"Hey, kid..."
They stopped.
"Do you really think no one will stop you..? That you can get away with all of this?" Sans asked, still grinning as blood seeped from his teeth and down his chin.
"Well if someone kills me, I won't have to deal with being bored anymore." Character responded with ease, neither of them turning to face one another.
"Heheheh... You're pretty selfish, you know that?"
"I'm aware, yes."
"Welp..." Sans closed his eyes. "I'll see you in hell..."
A gust of wind carrying nothing but dust blew by Character.
As they continued to walk down the remaining side of the Judgement Hall, they heard footsteps running closer.
"Sans? I saw your note and-"
Character's eyes widened as they recognized the voice, turning around slowly to see Papyrus had stopped, eyes wide in shock at the sweatshirt laying on a pile of dust.
"_S_-_._._._S_a_n_s_._._?_"
Cter dodged around slash after slash, jumping to the side as a knife left a slash through the air where he once was.
He kicked up into their chin, hands still in his pockets as his kick sent them flying back through the air.
He brought up one hand, snapping as pens appeared around them, impaling them.
The shatter seemed even louder than before, and Cter stood under their body as it fell, catching it in his arms as the pens disappeared from it.
He frowned as his hair covered his eyes, staring down at the corpse in his arms.
Cter fell to his knees, still holding them in his arms as his teeth grit, frown deepening.
For a moment, I saw a flash of Chara hold my lifeless body in their arms in that exact position.
I walked towards myself, skeptically reaching out towards him.
He smacked my hand away, and I took a step back.
I held my hand in pain for a moment, looking back to them.
"Heh... Sorry kids..." Cter said, forcing a smile as he stared at the remains he held, red fire burning from his left eye.
He reached up, palm aiming into the air in front of him. A portal opened, Cter not having even looked to make it.
"That should take you to the universe you need to be in." He said, still not looking up from what he held.
"..." We both looked at him somewhat sympathetically, and his teeth grit as I took another step towards him.
"Just get the hell out of here!" He snapped, making me flinch.
"Before they Load back again." He said, taking a deep breath.
"I'd rather not have to curb stomp Character after this because you two couldn't finish your job." He said, and we looked to one another before nodding.
"Alright, we're going." Chara stepped through the portal, and as I did the same, I looked back at him one last time.
"Uh... Good luck." I glanced to the side.
"Heh..." He laughed bitterly. "Thanks, Mini Me."
I took one last step through the portal, which immediately closed behind me.
"Well that was depressing." Chara commented, frowning as we walked through the blank void, which seemed to have signs pointing to a certain way we should go.
Future Cter must've set this up in advance.
"You said it." I said, frowning as well.
"... So what were they calling you back there? Future me, I mean." Chara asked, arching a brow at me.
"It's not important." I answered easily.
"... Was it your real-"
"Yes."
"But how would they have figured it out?"
"Well I must've told them at some point. Or, other me, anyway." I said, still frowning as I glanced to the side.
"So you will tell me some day." They smirked.
"Right after you tell me if you're a guy or gal." I responded with a shrug, and they frowned.
"..."
A long period of silence.
"Here." I said, pulling a ball of ink from my inventory.
They arched a brow at it, the ink disappearing from it.
"You'll probably need this." They looked at the knife almost skeptically as I offered it to them, holding the blade carefully.
"..." After a moment of hesitation, they took the knife, weighing it in their hand and tossing it from hand to hand.
"I might be a little rusty..." They muttered more to themselves than to me.
I said nothing in response, placing my hands back in my pockets and slouching slightly.
"..."
Another silence.
"... So are either of us going to acknowledge what was going on back there or?"
"Tells me I've gotta keep a closer eye on you." I half joked.
"..." They looked at the knife in their hand.
"Apparently I've gotta keep a closer eye on me too..."
"O-oh no..." Papyrus quickly ran to what remained of Sans, kneeling down in front of it.
"Sans!" He cried out, tears forming in his eyes.
Character found it surprisingly easy to tune out the cries.
"T-this is... This is okay..!" Papyrus told himself, holding that sweatshirt close.
"H-human, I know... I know you only did this out of hurt. You would... You would never purposely hurt-"
Was he really still on about that crap? Heh... What an idiot.
Might as well give him one last push.
Character leaned over, scooping up a hand full of Sans' dust.
"Human, please put that down." Papyrus instructed passively.
Character pulled back one hand, throwing it into Papyrus' face, making his eyes widen in shock.
Papyrus seemed to twitch slightly as Character burst into hysterical laughter.
"Man, how dumb can you get?" Character asked as they laughed. "I didn't kill him out of hurt, I killed him because I was bored! Piece it together already you dunce!"
Papyrus' hands slowly clenched into fists, teeth beginning to grit as he slowly reached up, touching the dust thrown in his face.
"Ack!" Character's laughter was cut off as they were suddenly grabbed by the throat, being pulled up to eye level.
Papyrus grit his teeth, right eye burning orange.
Uh oh...
"You... How... How dare you?!" Papyrus pulled back one fist, roaring as he rammed it directly through Character's chest, blood flying through the air.
Character's eyes were wide, blood running down their chin as Papyrus' hand stuck out of their back, holding their heart in his hand.
He clenched his hand into a fist, their heart exploding into blood in it.
He threw them into the air, a bone club appearing in hand before he pulled it back, slamming it into Character's face and throwing them back through the air, sending them smashing through a pillar.
With a red flash, they were standing again.
"Now this is what I was hoping for." Character grinned, wiping blood from their chin.
"You..." Papyrus' hands clenched tightly, fists shaking.
"YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!"
Oh sh!t, Precious Cinnamon Roll is f#cking pissed.
C'mon, you didn't really think I'd leave out Papyrus, did'ja? Heh...
And Cter as an alcoholic also as well.
Now, onto other matters.
Spencer The Gamer actually made another Fanfiction called DoubleShift. As I'm sure you can guess from the name, it's like Doubletale but with StoryShift rules.
I.E. Error is Cter, Gaster is possessed Frisk, Frisk is Toriel, and Cter is...
Well, how could I spoil my favorite part?
It's obviously not as super amazing fantastic ultra uber super duper good as this story *I say in an obviously joking overly arrogant voice*, but I really like it.
Anyway, Spencer The Gamer is also planning on making an ask DoubleShift story, but he needs more people to ask questions. Go give it a read, I think you might like it.
And if he does do an Ask DoubleShift story, it might help with that Q&A chapter I've been putting off for awhile now...
I promise I'll do that when this Character ark is over, K?
Also, I've been thinking about calling this ark 'The Human Condition'.
Welp, that's all for now!
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