Chapter 25: Fin
"Thank you, Chara."
Chara glared in response the compliment.
"You want to know his motive? So silly. He was envious. Envious of other games getting more attention than him. He was absolutely convinced that his idea was better than all of ours." He spread his hands to the landscape. "Why should he languish in obscurity while lesser games took the stage, he thought?"
Frisk didn't say anything.
"You know, I didn't do it because you convinced me. I did it out of the goodness of my heart."
Frisk made her face collapse into its usual neutral expression and tried not to start guffawing.
Somehow, Chara wasn't quite convinced. "I'm sick of it! Of all the Authors painting me as the bad guy! Of making me someone in need of saving, of redemption! You!" He points at me. "I hate you!"
"Chara? Are you all right?" Frisk asked.
The boy took a deep breath. "Yes, I'm fine, I'm fine."
"Wait. If we reset, won't Tim… come back again?"
"This time, I killed him. For good. He'll learn not to try this again."
Chara looked around awkwardly.
"Um, without Tim's determination to kill you all, I'm fading away. Do you think that, uh, maybe…"
Frisk nodded.
Chara walked over and shook her hand. "I'm not going anywhere, partner. You can count on that." He smiled.
His grip slackened as he began to fade away from existence, until suddenly, he couldn't be seen anymore.
Frisk felt her soul strengthen with Chara's return.
She waved her hand. The menu popped up, its two options "Continue" and "Reset" still there, as though they had never left.
She pressed the reset button, and the world dissolved.
The Constructs gone, Tim subdued, the multiverse restored to peace. And no one else would ever have to know. Although they suspected that they would still have an inkling. Resets were funny that way.
"And we called this timeline: Timeline A. Let it be so."
And so, everybody lived happily ever after.
For now.
THE END
Heyo, all you awesome readers. Well done on making it through this story. I'm glad that you all decided to take this journey with me and stick things out all the way to the end.
If I want to be completely honest, I feel like this wasn't up to part with the original Indieverse. The spark that began this massive crossover is entirely gone now. I believe that it's come time to put my future planned projects for this on the back burner for now.
Will you be able to see more, new stuff from me? Will anything come consistently? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. This is the realm of fanfiction. Consistent updating is as difficult to find here in a million haystacks.
I hope you all are staying safe and doing all right during this rather difficult and tumultuous time that the world is going through right now. Always remember, as one story ends...
