The endless white void hums and shivers as waves of magic rippled throughout the timeless space. The source of these powerful waves was the byproduct of reality warping spells. The one who casted them was Gaster, a being which should not exist in time nor space. He let up another blast of reality warping magic with the intent on wiping his targets out of existence.
He let out a lagging sigh, impressed and frustrated that a few mortals could dodge his attacks for so long. "I'm impressed you three are still holding onto such futile hope. If I were still connected to the material plane, I would have run out of magic by now."
A few small and exhausted breathes escaped from his enemies' mouths. "Save your complements you glitchy trash bag!" Yelled a golden buttercup from the top of a child's head, Flowey the flower. Flowey's true name is Asriel, the dead prince of monsters brought back to life as a flower. "We are just getting started!"
Then Gaster's prime target, or is it technically targets? After all a being that can posses or link souls are rare in this world and no one thought of what to call them, not even the reality destroyer himself. There was the corporeal one or the one who gets possessed, a closed-eyed small child wearing a blue jumpsuit with two purple stripes. His ghostly eyes narrowed, not on them but the ethereal after image standing beside them.
"He's right about that, we will never give up!" The after image agreed, anger and conviction in it's voice.
Gaster smiled with a cruel glee as if he missed a life long friend he murdered. "Ah, Chara, I thought you died inside of the child?" He did a bow as Flowey fired a few dozen magical pellets at him. "Well then, in that case." The deadly pellets were vaporized out of existence as Gaster unleashed his unnatural magical presence. "It's time to go on the offensive. let's see you do more then dodge and resist the inevitable!" With a snap of a distorted finger he summoned a circle composed of fifty Gaster Blasters.
"Frisk, you have to let me posses you now! We can't reset if we die here, there is literally no time here!" Gaster smiled at their fleeting hope. Even if Chara posses the human child his power would still surpass theirs like a casting shadow in the dying sunset.
"No!" Frisk refused as they roll, duck, and jump over the magical beams of death. "What If genocide happens again, then countless monsters will die!" As Frisk dodged the last blaster, a pointed bone pierces through their right shoulder. Frisk doubled over from the pain of a shattered shoulder as their blood drips out and lingers midair in this limbo.
"Idiot!" Flowey yelled as he whips the back of Frisk's Head with a vine. "If we die here, Gaster will do more then genocide! Imagine it, countless timelines at the tip of his fingers to play with or to destroy!" Frisk bowed their head as the dead prince fantasies the grim reality of their situation. "Literally all life in our multiverse will be wiped out! He won't commit genocide, but rather omnicide!"
Gaster hummed, it was past the line of no return and they will die no matter what happens. "My, my, it seems you can predict the future, but wait there soon won't be!" He conjured a long bone to his side as he slowly approached the mortally wounded child with a sinister smile.
Frisk was silent as the entity that should not exist would kill everything and everyone they care about. "Alright...you take the lead, Chara" They muttered as an aura of dark determination filled the small gap between the child and Gaster. The aura then vanished and was replaced by the child's distorted visage. They look exactly the same except that their eyes were now opened revealing crimson red irises.
Gaster paid the increase of power no mind, it was far too insignificant after all. "So, now the mad sibling of the prince joins us. It does not matter even with your new affinity to monster slaying. Tell me Chara, how well can you control a soul that is not-" A small drop of black liquid fall from the possessed Frisk's right eye. "-compatible with your own before going berserk?"
Chara opened a very small portal to their inventory, a tiny pocket dimension that houses a limited number of items. They reached into the portal and pulled out a knife, just an seemingly ordinary kitchen knife. "To be honest, not much for a conversation. But I'll gladly give you the silent treatment, ass-ter" Chara then grabbed Flowey by the stem, much to his shock. "Azzy, I love you my brother, please forgive me."
"Wait, Chara what are you doing!? Stop wai-!" They tossed Flowey through the portal as they felt the feeling they haven't felt for a long time, the need for carnage.
They started coughing up black liquid, it was a sign they knew all to well. "Well since that's settled." The crimson of the knife dimmed to a point where even gaster had troubled determining if it was black or just a really dark red. "I will rip you to shreds!" They roared as the corruption swallowed the white of their eyes, leaving only dim red irises for others to see.
Gaster shrugged at the display of a war cry. "I would 'love' to see you try!" He waved his hand and in front of him now stood three tall walls of bones. Then with another wave he spawned two Gaster Blaster near the corners of the bonewall. The bonewall is misleading if he wanted to attack with it, but the small hidden blasters would be near impossible to dodge as Gaster had planned, a simple yet effective trick.
To his surprise they charged right through the bones like it was nothing. The reason why was because the child used the bone lodged in their shoulder from the last attack to cancel out his bone wall. Due to the shock of such a bold unexpected move his blasters could not react in time and were soon destroyed by one propelling bone to the face and a swift powerful kick to the other. He then understood why the sudden change in tactics from just looking at their soul. Chara was consumed by corruption and can't leave the host's body. They now only had one simple train of thought, kill or be killed. They didn't care how they murder, just that they do it fast and in the most brutal fashion possible.
"Already lost to the desire I see? It will soon be your downfall!" He decided to end this, after all There was nothing to gain in a fight like this after all. A single blaster now with five percent of his total power. That would have far more power then Asriel's Hyper Goner, but then again the prince wasn't trying that time. It fired and just the power of the beam's waves made cracks the white void around them. The beam connected and if it was on earth it would destroy said earth along with most of the solar systems in the universe. Annoyance soon crossed his face as he heard the sound of a shattered soul coming back together from absolute nothingness. "But it refused..." He quoted in disgust as the soul was soon fully restored
In the epic center of the blast and the near destruction of the void was Chara at peak physical condition. The aura of dark determination quickly came back with its kill or be killed intent stronger then before. They stared At Gaster with the gaze that could make the abyss itself cower in fear.
"Even in that sanity deprived form you could still use that? I wonder who had forgotten you, or maybe who did you forget?" Chara let out a demonic roar at his words, the liquid corruption now covered the extent of their body. "This is...interesting." While the researcher in him was yelling at him to study Chara's new corrupted form, he knew that enough was enough. The Gaster Blaster fired again, but this time at seventy percent of his total power. The magical waves alone were enough to eliminate reality in it's entirety, the final impact will surly end it all.
Chara looked at the attack that will end all of existence. It was enough of a shock to bring them back into the folds of sanity. Frisk was now also watching as an after image. They couldn't possibly survive this, but maybe they could if... "Chara? What are you thinking?" Chara could not hear Frisk of course due to the corruption blocking the connection and thoughts of souls, yet that's what Frisk would probably say.
"Azzy, Frisk..." They pointed at the laser as a star-shaped save point was summoned above the palm of their hand. Gaster was shocked at the appearance of the star-like object. You can't reset in a void, but there wasn't really a void anymore. "I couldn't save them...forgive me."
A bright flash of light and they were gone just before the attack landed it's eternal and final blow. Gaster blinked in confusion at the impossible spell and looked around in his new indefinite and Timeless area of non-space.
"Interesting, the concept of time and space shouldn't even exist now or then, yet you pulled a reset." Gaster could only see darkness of everything that is time and space, which does not exist like himself. "Could it be possible that, no that can't possibly be right. To generate enough power for a temporal spell of that magnitute is almost..." His sockets grew wide with inspiration, scientific glee, and wonder. "Almost...Then I suppose their next world should be very interesting."
Darkness and the ever creeping feeling of dread quickly filled Frisk's heart. Their mind drifted along the idea of being like Gaster, to not exist even as a concept. To bled out of existence when mentioned, but would still be aware of the world around them. That terrified them since Chara would pull that on them and Asriel if it kept them alive.
But that wasn't the case as they felt a chill wind and heard the sound of their own breathing. Frisk opened their eyes only slightly and found the night sky, intact and destruction-free. It was beautiful, so much so that it blessed them with ignorance of what happen for a few seconds. It reminded them of Blooky and his 'trash' meditation, then it made them thought of Mettaton, then Alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, Sans, Toriel, Asgore, Asriel, and Chara.
The thought of the latter two made Frisk jump up to search for said Chara. The search was over in a second as they saw the ghostly visage of Chara sitting on a hilltop a few feet away. The feeling of ignorance returned to them as they fondly recalled the time that Asriel mistook them for Chara, they are similar except in personality.
Chara had a green sweater with a yellow stripe and brown shorts. Both of their hair styles were also nearly the same color and look. Brown, though Chara's was a lighter milk chocolate-esque shade than Frisk's hair and their style was more tame then Frisk's. It was no wonder Asriel thought Frisk was Chara During the journey.
Frisk started to approach Chara when they took note the quiet sounds of sniffling coming from the ghost. As a friend, Frisk would do everything in their power to help Chara like the first time. So without warning from Frisk, Chara got friendship tackled by them. Frisk rolled down the hill and that's when they realized that they couldn't actually tackle Chara. Chara was a ghost after all and so corporeal beings like humans would phase right through.
After tumbling to the bottom of the hill and quickly dusting themselves off, Frisk looked back at the top. Chara was still in the same position unfazed by the friendship tackle Frisk had learned from Undyne. From the bottom of the hill, Frisk got a better look on Chara's face then before. What Frisk saw was worse than they had thought, the dead-eye stare.
Glassy eyes that could pierce the strongest of hearts and a frown that would cause anyone to lose hope and wallow in misery.
Frisk broke that look previously when they emotionally 'fixed' Chara by giving Chara the friends that they had made and reunited Chara with Asriel who thought Chara was dead. Then just like that they understood why Chara was such a train wreak and why they weren't floating in a void at the moment. To Chara this is the most painful experience the dead child had ever suffered as a ghost.
Frisk walked back up the hill and sat next to Chara. "Chara?" Dead silence, even the wind died to give peace to the both of them. "What happened?"
"I'm so sorry Frisk, I'm so, so sorry..." Chara was not crying as ghost don't have tears to shed. "I couldn't save them, I don't even know if I saved Azzy!" Chara wailed as her ethereal form shuddered from shame and anguish. "I'm selfish, only saving myself-!"
Chara stopped when Frisk looked at them with a forgiving look and it hurt Chara for that very reason. "It was not your fault, you were not in control of the situation." Chara was silent as Frisk continues. "I doubt you would save me and Azzy to be selfish, if the corruption was still in control we wouldn't be alive right now." Chara was silent at Frisk's reasoning, it didn't change the fact that everyone except them has-
"W-What are you doing?" Chara asked with their depressed sniffling turning into a dead stare.
Frisk had opened the small portal to their inventory. "To see if Asriel is alive." Frisk reached inside and was feeling for a very annoyed plant prince.
Chara covered their eyes, they didn't want their hopes erased even further.
"Hi Flowey," Frisk greeted with a friendly gesture as they planted the buttercup monster.
Chara checked and saw her flower-sealed brother was still alive. In the heat of the emotional moment, Chara tried to hug Azzy, but they forgot that about being a ghost. Chara sighed as their body phased through the flower. "Can't win them all I guess." Most of the sorrow that enters Chara's heart vanished almost instantly.
"Frisk, what the hell happened!? Why was I thrown into the inventory space!? You of all people should know that I hate it in there!" Flowey shouted and he shakes some breadcrumbs off his petals. "Think I swallowed a spider in there..." He faked a cough in an attempt to show his immense disdain for the dimensional space.
Frisk giggled at Flowey's annoyance, it was a good nostalgia moment. "Well, Chara threw you in there so you wouldn't die from Gaster's attacks." Frisk smiled, but soon that smile dropped that as the monster looked extremely confused. "What is it, Flowey?"
"That's well and good, but who in the hell is Chara? It was just you and me fighting glitchy trash bag." As Flowey stated that, Frisk and Chara looked at each other with wide eyes. "Who are you staring at, trash bag didn't mess with your brain did he!?"
Frisk was worried, but maybe if they did the memory restoration thing like when they fought Asriel as a God Of Hyperdeath it might work. "Okay, Flowey, If Chara does not exist then who's soul did you absorb to leave the barrier?" Flowey blinked as Frisk naively thought they won this battle of minds.
"Easy, Alphys' failed surrogate human soul, lizard bastard!" He hissed as Frisk and Chara grew more worried. "I was going to use that new power by collecting human souls from the recently dead, but it malfunctioned and I died on my dad's flower bed!" He gestures to himself, it seems something affected his memory hard. "I wouldn't think that I had to tell you about that horrid experience again, but then again you are an idiot~" He sang as his face morphs into his more scary one. "Now, where in the world are we?"
Chara's dread returned as they would not think it's possible; however there is one way. "He forgot about me, I made Azzy forget me when we refused to die." Dropped on their knees losing all hope. "The only way to restore that is a reset, but our last save was erased by fucking Gaster."
"But didn't you reset?"
"Who are you talking to, I'm right here don't ignore me you moron!" Flowey shouted with an increasing fury.
"No, a reset it turning back the clock for another possibility much like a redo button. However; since Gaster was about to destroy the very concept of time and space I couldn't reset." Frisk stared back with a fish face, completely dumbfounded by this technical talk. "So I mustered all the determination I could in your body and did...something interesting." They gestured at the bottom of the hill and to a feudal town a few miles away. "Imagine time is x and space is y, instead of changing either I added another variable. A parallel multiverse completely separated from our own like a slide in a pictograph, or z I guess."
Frisk blinked not even catching half of what Chara meant. "Uhh...I'm not Alphys."
"Duh, you know what forget scrambled, he creamed your sanity!" Flowey was more sincere then he really should be.
Chara facepalmed and groaned. "It means we are in another universe that has no correlation to our own! However we won't change due to being bound to our universes rules, even if it doesn't exist anymore; I think?" Frisk nodded slowly only getting the first part.
"That's it!" Flowey shouted as he wrapped vines around Frisk's body, being careful as to not accidentally crush them in his grasp. "He did something to you I'm sure of it! Maybe that town can help us, if they don't I'll force them to."
"Flow-!?" Flowey's vines then tightly wrapped around Frisk's mouth, effectively gagging them.
"Sorry, I'll make sure they fix you or they will die a horri-I mean painless death!" Flowey's face melted into his more monstrous and violent one.
Frisk looked over pleadingly at Chara for help, but they only shrugged. "Hey, I'll do anything to help unless it's to hurt Azzy." With a defeated sigh, Frisk let Flowey dragged them to the seemingly small town known as E-Rantel.
Hey guys Mysterious Jester here to share some news!
So I've decided to edit all my chapters before releasing new ones (Probably) To ensure new readers as well as old don't get an eyesore while reading this.
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