Everyone but Chara was surprised when Bane survived the barrage of attacks. He smiled at them evilly as Undyne grew very fearful. Bane pointed his gun at Undyne and fired as many times as he could before the next assault of the spears. The bullets dug into Undyne the Undying's armor as she summoned more spears. When she shot them, Bane dodged them. Chara sobbed.
Sans heard Chara's sobbing. He checked to see if she was hurt. He froze when he noticed what Chara was doing. Chara was self-harming. In the middle of battle. And she didn't even seem like she realized it. Sans grabbed her shoulder and shook Chara. Chara looked at him. Sans pointed at Chara's arm. Chara looked down and saw her bloody knife drawn across her arm. She looked up at Sans again.
"kiddo, you alright?" Sans asked as Toriel and Asgore started to help Undyne fight Bane.
"I'm scared, Sans... I don't know why I keep trying to hurt myself. I didn't even know I was hurting myself! I'm s- so scared..." Chara sobbed. She hugged Sans. Sans hugged her back for a moment. He noticed how depressed Chara was. Sans remembered that long hugs do help someone emotionally, so he embraced Chara for twenty seconds before ending the hug.
"i'm scared for ya too, chara. we'll sort this out once bane is gone, 'kay? but tell me, chara, why are you so sad?" Sans asked.
Chara started sobbing even more, "B- Bane has it... He's w- wearing it... MY Heart Locket. . ."
A loud noise rung out through the corridor. Asgore was on fire and Bane looked singed. Sans shortcut away. Chara got even more scared, but...
A magical green knife appeared in front of Chara because of her fear. Chara smiled as she shot the dagger forward. Bane dodged it, but Chara did magic. Chara did magic. Chara did magic? Chara did magic! She had actually done magic again! Chara smiled and wiped her tears as Sans shortcut back with a large bucket of water. Sans dumped the water on Asgore and then cast the bucket aside.
Toriel pulled Asgore back and started to heal him. Chara and Sans moved forward to help Undyne fight Bane. Chara sent an occasional dagger, but none ever hit. Chara realized how useless she was when she was scared of someone. She should be in front, or at least in front of Sans, but Chara was behind Sans. Hiding behind the person who could die in one hit.
Chara moved in front of Sans, growing a bit more confident. Unfortunately, it was at this moment when Undyne the Undying became just normal Undyne. She crumpled to the ground. Sans ran forward at the same moment as Chara, so Chara tripped and fell down. Sans grabbed Undyne's hand and shortcut her to Toriel, who was beginning to look weary. As Toriel healed Undyne, she became unconscious. That was two of Chara's allies knocked out. Asgore stood and ran over to help Sans and Chara fight the menace. At least, that's what Asgore thought.
When he stood up and looked at Bane, he saw him standing with a gun to Chara's head. His finger was starting to pull on the trigger.
"Now, let's bargain, shall we? How about you let me pass and I won't kill Chara? I'll even let you keep her," Bane said.
Sans grinned, not only because it was his only expression that he could do with his mouth, but because he summoned a Gaster Blaster behind Bane. Unfortunately, it would indeed hit Chara, but Sans knew she could take a hit.
He hoped she could take a hit.
The Gaster Blaster charged up. It opened its mouth. The beam shot out and hit Chara and Bane.
"Urk!" Bane yelped.
"AAaagh!" Chara screamed. She dropped to the ground. Bane kneeled down. He pointed his gun to Chara's head, weakly.
Chara looked up at Asgore and Sans, scared.
"Well, Chara dies then. You still want to go to hell, right?" Bane laughed weakly. His finger touched the trigger.
Chara braced herself. She had so many more things to do with her life. Well, no. But Chara had one thing she hadn't done. Something Chara couldn't comprehend not doing before she died. Something that would make her depressed in hell. Chara hadn't said goodbye to Frisk.
Chara smiled at Sans sand Asgore. Tears streamed down Chara's face. Sans was fearful. Was Bane actually going to kill Chara? No, Sans couldn't let that happen. Asgore didn't want to watch his daughter die a second time. Everyone was sad and afraid.
Bane pulled the Trigger.
Chara began to say something
The gunshot rang out.
Chara closed her eyes.
"I love you, Frisk..." Chara muttered as she expected to die.
Anxiety. Nervousness. Depression. Sadness. Anger.
Chara was feeling all those emotions as she felt the gust of air. It was the bullet that would hit Chara next.
But no bullet came.
Confusion ran across everyone's faces.
Then, they realized what happened. Bane was out of ammo.
Not wanting him to kill or hurt Chara, Asgore ran up to Bane and shoved him off of her. Asgore summoned his trident and he and Bane dueled. It was an interesting battle, for sure.Bane was trying to kill Asgore with an empty gun. Even though he was at a disadvantage, somehow, Bane was able to knock Asgore out. Sans shortcut next to Asgore, dodged multiple attacks from Bane while trying to grab Asgore's hand, grabbed Asgore's hand, and shortcut away. Sans was feeling so tired.
So, so tired. . .
Sans closed his eyes (somehow, even though he doesn't have eyelids)…
And took a deep breath in. . .
As he. . .
Drifted. . .
Off. . .
Into sleep. . .
Chara was left alone to face Bane. Chara would have to protect her friends from the person she couldn't protect herself from. Her worst fear. Her worst enemy.
Chara's worst nightmare.
Chara would have to defend herself and her friends from him and then kill Bane.
Something Chara knew she couldn't do.