Between Chara and Frisk's battle, Toriel's attempts to keep everyone out of harm's way, Asriel's cries for some sort of answer as to what was going on, and a storm of fire and destruction coming from the monster that had been killed in another timeline, it would seem as if all hell had broken loose. This was nothing like Frisk had imagined when they decided to free the monsters. They knew that things wouldn't go perfectly, but having to fight a human that was filled with determination that had also been brought back from the dead due to a killing-spree while a nearly unstoppable beast raged in the distance was certainly not something they planned on dealing with in the future.
Any and all of Toriel's attempts to break off the fight between the two humans were futile since Asriel wouldn't let her interfere on claims of there being a chance for her to be accidentally killed by Chara. After all, if Chara struck with the intent of taking a life, and if Toriel got in the way of said strike hit, she would surely die. Asriel knew this fact and would rather not be without a mother, even though he knew Frisk would just go back to their SAVE point. What Asriel didn't know, however, was that Frisk no longer had that type of power.
Chara swayed side-to-side decisively with their arms swinging lazily below them and their head and eyes locked in place to keep a good visual on their target. They had a fixed, wicked grin on their face that resembled a certain skeleton's immobile smile, but was drenched with ill-intent. Their eyes were wide and unmoving on Frisk's position. At any moment, they would have attacked, but they were waiting for Frisk to make the first move.
Frisk went to open their mouth to say something, but was quickly cut off by the child blocking their way.
"You must think that you are a special creature, do you not? Why else would you try to stop someone as powerful as me, even though I have no intent on damaging this timeline? I think that I am beginning to understand why you do all this. You think that even if everything will go the same way if you were still in control, you should still be the one doing all this yourself. You do this because you were the first person with determination, do you not? Well, Frisk, you are wrong. Before your fall, Flowey had the power to reset everything. Flowey was the one controlling it all. And even before then, do you remember the very first creature in the Underground with determination? It was me, Frisk. But, it was not strong enough to allow me to reset it all. No, but it was just enough to keep me going until another determined soul fell down and decided to gain plenty of LOVE. But, perhaps that is not the reason. Maybe, you're just used to being in control. Whatever your reasoning is, it doesn't change the fact that I'm the one in control now. And, now that I have this power, I'm still going to do the 'right' thing. However... I've decided to have a bit of fun with it."
Chara lunged at Frisk and began attacking in a erratic and seemingly-random pattern. Even though their adrenaline made them far too cocky to develop a proper strategy, a few hits still landed on Frisk's chest and shoulder, costing them 5 HP. Chara was surprisingly strong for someone at LV 1, but this was likely because the person they were fighting wasn't a monster and could be harmed no matter how they 'felt' about their attacks.
"You're trash at dodging!" Chara shouted as they landed a hit directly on Frisk's stomach, effectively winding the child and causing them to hunch over on their hands and knees to try and catch their breath. "God, how did you even get past Sans? Did you cheat? I bet you cheated, you... you miserable excuse for a human! You make me so angry. You make me hate humanity more than anything else in this disgusting world."
This was going to end horribly, and Frisk knew it. If Chara wound up killing Frisk, they wouldn't be able to come back if Chara decided that they wanted Frisk to stay dead. If Chara really wanted to, they could save over Frisk's death and leave them dead and unable to return. However, Frisk also knew that Chara still wanted to do the right thing, so if Frisk died, Chara would just load up their file from the last time they saved. Frisk wondered if they let Chara kill them once, maybe they'd then load and continue with their plan to fuse with Asriel. This was most likely what they meant by, "I'm going to have some fun."
As hard as they could, Chara drove their foot repeatedly into Frisk's ribs, possibly breaking a few of them in the process, and causing the child to lose 11 HP. "Oh. Have you given up?" With a firm kick, Chara flipped Frisk over onto their back and pinned them to the ground. "Then that makes this so much easier."
For the first time in their life, Frisk was genuinely afraid of dying. What if Chara left them dead for good? What if when they loaded their file, they just decided to kill them again and again? What if things went back to normal, and then one day, Chara snapped and killed Frisk to just release some stress? Would that become Frisk's life, just waiting to be killed and brought back for fun? It couldn't be, could it?
No, it couldn't be.
And that was what Frisk was going to protect everyone from when they got their powers back. Sure, it may be selfish when things initially don't change for everyone else, but Chara was unstable. If given the chance, Chara would kill Toriel for fun and then load as if nothing ever happened, and that was what Frisk wanted to prevent. Despite nothing really changing, what Chara would do is sick and wrong. Frisk may not be perfect, but they were surely better suited for that kind of responsibility.
With a perverse grin on their face, Chara wrapped their hands around Frisk's neck and began to squeeze the life out of them. Frisk could feel their blood being cut-off from their brain and could no longer take oxygen into their lungs. It wouldn't be long before life would slip between their fingers, but they had to stay strong. They had to hope that everything would be all right, so they pretended to try and pull Chara's hands off of their throat to give them some sort of satisfaction.
Enough was enough, and Toriel pushed Asriel back to go and pull Chara off of Frisk. Asriel tried to stop her, but she could no longer stay back in fear of being hurt. She had to protect all of her children, no matter what.
As soon as Toriel came close to Chara, they lashed out at the mother, instantly depleting her HP and bringing her within seconds of death. She collapsed, sobbing, as she watched Chara attempt to take the life of her own child. As Toriel turned to dust, Chara laughed in her face while tightening their grip on Frisk's neck.
Asriel couldn't believe what he just saw. His own mother had died at the hands of his best friend, even after he did his best to protect her. Asriel took a few steps forward and tried to hold back his overwhelming tears, but to no avail. This was too much for the child to handle, and he fell to his knees near Toriel's dust, begging for her to come back. "Mommy!" he cried while digging his hands into the dusty ground. "Mommy, please! I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, Mom..." Asriel then looked over at Frisk and begged them to load. He couldn't live without Toriel, and he knew that Frisk could bring things back to normal, so he wondered why they didn't do anything. After all, they could do that sort of thing in the middle of battle if they truly wanted to, so why didn't they? Asriel wondered if it was some sort of punishment, but in reality, Frisk couldn't change a thing even if they wanted to.
Frisk knew that Chara would have to load after that. They couldn't just leave their beloved brother without a mother, after all. Especially since they were the one that took her life.
"Look," Chara started coldly. "Look what you made me do. I'm at LV 5 because of this... and I can't wait to see how much EXP you're worth."
At that point, Frisk refused to struggle against Chara's hands. They just looked them in their blank, cold eyes until they could feel their HP drop to 1... and then 0 before everything quickly went black.
