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Frisk understood the question that was asked, however they dodged it for the moment with their response, "I'll tell you why once we get to somewhere we can sit and have a long conversation."

Charas response was cut off by the arrival of a familiar, furry face. "Well, hello there children, I am Toriel, I am the caretaker of the...Ruins..." Toriel trailed as she saw Charas face, causing them to remember that they were supposed to be dead in this timeline.

Toriel cut off their thoughts as she spoke in a near desperate voice, "Chara?"

They stuck their hands in their pockets and hunched their shoulders along with having a sheepish smile as they responded, "Hey mom."

Both Chara and Frisk realised that many explanations were going be required, including timeline explanations that they would probably need help from Sans for.

Frisk was not looking forward to any part of this.

Unlike previous timelines, Toriel did not head off on her own partway through the ruins. Not surprising, considering that she had just been reunited with one of her children. Toriel led them strait to Home,with Frisk stopping to buy a spider donut and pick up the Faded Ribbon, and Toy Knife.

When they arrived at Home, Toriel had them sit at the table. She disappeared into the kitchen for a few moments before returning with several cups. Judging by the smell, and the look on Charas face, it was hot chocolate.

There was a tense silence for a while, before Toriel finally asked the question that had been bothering her. "Chara, as amazing as this is, how are you alive, child?"

"I'm alive, because I'm not this timelines Chara." they said as they looked at their mother. Chara read the confused look on Toriels face and answered her pre-emptively, "I'm not really sure how I got here but I think Frisk here does."

As mother and child both looked at Frisk they sighed, and took a drink to gain time to center themselves before responding. Though not answering the question just yet, as they would need help from someone else for that explanation.

"Before I get to explaining that, I owe Chara an explanation about Flowey, that you should probably hear, Toriel."

"That's right, you do. Especially considering you explicitly stated that my brother was dead, Frisk." Chara said, "Yet that flower reacted just like he would." At this point Toriel was looking at Frisk with a faint look of hope.

"Technically, Asriel is long dead. However Flowey was created from a flower that was in the garden he died in, one that was covered in his dust." Frisk looks at the two Dreemurrs, "Flowey is a creature that holds Asriels memories, but lacks any form of a soul, and continues to exist purely through Determination."

The room was silent after the explanation. The two Dreemurrs sat in shock as Frisk waited for them to break out of it.

Chara shook themselves and turned to Frisk, their words breaking Toriel out of her own shock. "While that has been cleared up, you never answered how I got here."

Frisk sighs before they respond, "That is because I will need someone else's help to explain that."

"Who?" Toriel asked.

Frisk turns to her and responds, "Your knock, knock joke friend."

The aforementioned friend was currently heading towards the door to the Ruins. While the skeleton seemed normal at a glance, anyone who knew him well enough would notice the unease in his soul. Something was different, he couldn't tell what was different, just that something had been fundamentally changed during this RESET.

Although, at this point, he would take literally anything as long as this RESET was finally the end of that weird genocide streak.

Sans walked up to the door and knocked, "knock, knock." He had to wait a moment, since he highly doubted that his punny friend stayed by the door all day, and he was not disappointed.

"Who's there?" asked the female voice of his friend. He knew who she was of course, kind of hard not to when you remember timelines, but appearances must be kept. After all, its not like she would believe him if he told her.

"Etch."

"Etch who?"

"Bless you."

Sans smile widened at the sound of her laughing. Though what she said after her laughter stopped sent him through a loop, this was turning into a very interesting timeline indeed.

"I encountered someone today, someone who told me a strange tale," she said, "They said that you would be able to help explain how they accomplished something, that they barely understand."

"well then," he responded, "if that's the case, can i come in?"

Her response comes in the form of laughter and an opening door.

While Toriel was getting Sans, Chara and Frisk were lost in their respective thoughts. Frisk was worried about how Sans would react to them, while Chara was simply lost in thought.

This new timeline that they had found themselves thrown into was so far from what they knew that it was throwing them through a loop. Everything they knew had been twisted on, basically, a 90 degree angle. The Guard Captain and the Royal Scientist were king and queen, the showy cyborg and the sheet wearing recluse took the aforementioned positions, and said cyborg and recluse, were replaced with the two ghosts who attempted to get to the surface!

A strange rumbling sound pulled Chara out of their ruminations to see a sight that had them wondering if the cocoa they drank had been laced with something. Though, they could be forgiven for that at the sight of Frisk petting one of their blasters, which was somehow purring. Charas thoughts of possibly being drugged were blown away by their mothers friend.

"i'm surprised, it's not easy to get a blaster to act like that."

The unexpected voice startled Frisk, causing him to fall off of his chair. The blaster turned towards the voice with a growl which stopped when Frisk gave it an "I'm okay," and dismissed it.

Chara looked over and blinked at this timelines version of their king. It was one thing to hear about the hoodie wearing skeleton, another to actually see it.

Said skeleton gave them a once over before turning their attention to Frisk, "so kiddo, why did you need my help?"

"I need to know how I was able to bring Chara outside of their own timeline, because I can't figure it out."

Sans looked over at Chara and did a CHECK on the annoyed looking human, who had thought that Frisk did know how they did it and just needed help to explain, before he responded. "if i were to make a guess, it would be because their Determination is almost equal to yours, so they were able to be dragged along by the RESET."

Frisk thought that over for a moment before nodding, it made sense after all. Chara relaxed some of their stress since they finally had an answer. Toriel however was giving Sans and Frisk a look, before she demanded, in a voice that is not challenged, "While this is all nice, I would like an explanation as to what you are talking about."

Frisk paled at the tone of voice, and Sans tensed up in a way that said if he was capable of getting paler, he would have. The hour long conversation about the RESETs was not fun for either of them.

Hours later, Chara was laying in bed, trying to sort through the crazy day and revelations that they had. Being thrown into a new timeline would do that to someone. The differences in people only scratched the surface, they had also heard of the RESETs and the fact that they had enough Determination to hitchhike on someone else's power! The fact compounded by how strong said someone actually was.

Sans had taken Frisk out front to see how strong they were and, based on how their practice fight went, to vent some anger. Chara had actually learned something interesting during that time, they had always wondered why they rarely got physically hurt, and they finally got an answer! Apparently monster magic directly targeted the SOUL, now, since a monster's soul and body were deeply connected it made little difference to them. However, to a human, it means that as long as their soul isn't shattered, they can continue to fight if their body can take the strain.

Though they were shocked by how powerful both of those combatants were, especially Frisk. Their power actually disturbed them a bit, they could control the amount of damage inflicted by the beams the blasters shoot. From disintegration level, like they used against the other Chara, to literally no damage at all, which was demonstrated on Chara, just to be safe. Thinking back on it, Chara wondered why Fisk used their soul to power the blaster instead of magic?

Eh, they'll ask tomorrow.

Their thoughts finally at rest, Chara allowed themselves to finally sleep. Tomorrow would be an interesting day.

EXPOSITION HO!

Yeah, sorry about that but it was needed. The magic comment will be explained next chapter...whenever that is.

This chapter was actually meant to have the magic explanation but I couldn't really fit it in.

Last thing, since it will likely not be directly stated, I will list the monsters that can actually physically hurt humans:

Sans

Undyne

Mettaton

Asgore(Only his trident attack.)

Omega Flowey

Asriel

... Yeah, basically only the ones who use some form of powerful weapon, or have an overwhelming amount of power, or some combination of both.

Anyways, Read and review! Also, please let me know if I slip and refer to either human with a gendered pronoun, I had to catch myself multiple times.