Frisk walked out of the elevator, swiftly destroying the door as they left so the other kids were truly trapped in the lab. They kept their head down, darkness welling inside them. If anything stood in their way, it would die. Frisk was not holding back for anyone anymore. It was the end.

Frisk made it back to the throne room. They walked through the golden flowers. Black goop dribbled out of their left eye again. They continued walking, until they approached the Barrier. They entered, seeing ASGORE stand before them, his back facing them.

"This is the Barrier," he said. "This is what keeps us all trapped underground." He paused. "If... if by chance you have any unfinished business... please... do what you must."

Frisk held their head up. It was too late to go back.

"... I see..." Asgore sighed. "This is it, then." He turned around, the empty glass containers appearing beside him. He raised his brow. "... where did all the other humans go?"

Frisk held up their sword, a dark look on their face.

"... you seem very eager to fight," Asgore commented, sounding concerned. "Aren't you worried about your friends?"

Frisk took a step towards Asgore, still holding out their sword.

"... child..." Asgore almost sounded... afraid. "That look on your face... the way you are holding that sword... you... you've done something horrible, haven't you...?"

Frisk was about to shove their sword through Asgore's chest, but suddenly the King was blasted away by a fistful of fiery magic. Toriel appeared, her hand still faintly glowing. She gave a disdainful glance at the fallen king.

"What a miserable creature," she sighed. "Torturing such poor, innocent... youth... s...?" She realised only Frisk was there. "Oh! Greetings, my child. It is, I, TORIEL, your friend and guardian. I am glad to see you alive and well, but... where are the other humans?"

Frisk didn't respond.

"..." Toriel looked worried. "You... know where they are, right?"

Frisk's face was darkened.

"Tori..." Asgore gasped, standing up. "You came back!"

"Do not 'Tori' me, Dreemurr!" Toriel snapped, focusing her attention on the king. "You pathetic whelp. If you really wanted to free our kind... you could've waited for one more human to fall down, used their SOUL to pass the barrier, collect six SOULs from the humans and freed everyone in peace."

Asgore looked down. "Tori... you're right... I am a miserable creature... but, do you think we can at least be friends again?"

Toriel sighed. "NO, Asgore."

Asgore began to sob.

"Nggaaaaahhhhh!" Undyne yelled, suddenly appearing. "ASGORE! Humans! Nobody fight each other! Everyone's gonna make friends, or else I'll... I'll...!" She made a face. "Hey, wait, why's only one kid here?!"

"Hello," Toriel smiled at Undyne. "I am TORIEL. Are you a friend of the humans? It is nice to meet you."

Undyne grinned nervously. "Uhh, yeah...? Nice to meet you!" She waddled over to Asgore, a sympathetic look in her eyes. "Hey, Asgore, is that your ex? Jeez, that's rough, buddy."

"H-hey!" Alphys shrieked, also appearing. "Nobody hurt each other!" She glanced at Frisk. She looked confused. "Why are o-only you there? I thought you guys all got ou-"

"Oh!" Toriel gasped. "Are you another friend?" She smiled. "I am TORIEL. Hello!"

"Uh, h-h-hi!" Alphys squeaked. She gave Frisk a look. "(THERE'S TWO OF THEM?)"

"HEY!" Papyrus yelled. "NOBODY FIGHT ANYONE! IF ANYONE FIGHTS ANYONE...! THEN I'LL! BE FORCED! TO ASK UNDYNE FOR HELP!"

"Hello!" Toriel greeted Papyrus.

"OH!" Papyrus gasped. "HELLO, YOUR MAJESTY!" He gazed at Frisk. "PSST, HEY, HUMAN... DID ASGORE SHAVE...? AND... CLONE HIMSELF?!"

"hey guys," Sans came over. "what's up?"

Toriel blushed. "That voice...!" She walked over to Sans. "Hello! I think we may... know each other?"

"oh hey..." Sans raised his bone-brow. "i recognise your voice, too."

"I am TORIEL," Toriel replied, smiling warmly. "So nice to meet you."

"the name's sans," Sans replied. "and, uh, same."

"Oh! Wait, then..." Toriel looked at Papyrus. "This must be your brother, Papyrus! Greetings, Papyrus! It is so nice to finally meet you! Your brother has told me so much about you."

"WOWIE..." Papyrus looked down, somehow blushing. "I CAN'T BELIEVE ASGORE'S CLONE KNOWS WHO I AM! THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!"

"Hey, Papyrus..." Toriel asked. "What does a skeleton tile his roof with?"

"HMM..." Papyrus looked thoughtful. "SNOW-PROOF ROOF TILES?"

"No, silly!" Toriel giggled. "A skeleton tiles his roof with... SHIN-gles!"

"I CHANGED MY MIND!" Papyrus screamed. "THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!" He glanced at Frisk. "SOMETHING SEEMS OFF ABOUT YOU, HUMAN..." He gasped. "THAT'S RIGHT! YOU'RE NOT HOLDING A STICK ANYMORE!"

Frisk almost smiled.

"i think it's more than that," Sans commented. "where are the other kids?"

"MAYBE THEY'RE INVISIBLE?" Papyrus asked, curious.

Frisk looked down.

"OH MY GOD!" a voice suddenly yelled. A sexy leg appeared, pointed at Alphys and Undyne. "WILL YOU TWO JUST SMOOCH ALREADY?! THE AUDIENCE IS DYING FOR SOME ROMANTIC ACTION!"

"HEY, SHUT UP!" Undyne yelled. "Man, the nerve of that guy! Right, Alphys?"

Alphys looked flushed.

"Uh, Alphys?" Undyne asked.

"No," Alphys said. "He's right. Let's do it!"

Undyne looked awkward. "Well? Uh? I guess? If you want to? Then?" She blushed. "Don't hold anything back!"

The two leaned in for a kiss. As soon as they were about to smooch, Toriel stepped in between them.

"W-wait!" she exclaimed. "Not in front of the human!"

"Uhh, right!" Alphys blushed. "S-sorry, I got a little carried away there."

"Hee hee hee," Toriel laughed, the monsters standing around her. "Well, my child, it has been lovely meeting your monster friends but I really must know... where are the other humans?"

"Yeah," Undyne crossed her arms. "I wanted to give Brayden a noogie!"

"and i had plenty of faye-bulous puns to share," Sans said.

"SANS!" Papyrus screamed. He looked thoughtful. "I MYSELF WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO DISCUSSING SPAGHETTI WITH THE GREEN HUMAN MELODY!"

"you sure you're talking about the right human?" Sans asked.

"YES, ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY SURE!" Papyrus responded cheerfully.

"alright then, buddo." Sans shrugged.

"I kinda wanted to talk to Percy about anime..." Alphys chuckled. "He understands it on a spiritual level."

"All the children are lovely," Toriel said. She looked worried. "But... we don't know where any of them are, aside from the young one here."

"They came out of the lab with you, didn't they...?" Alphys asked Frisk. "I mean, someone had fixed the power generator, so I assumed you guys had all left..."

Frisk didn't respond.

"... they're..." Alphys' face went pale. "Someone... broke the lab's elevator again... shortly after we all got here..." She glanced at Frisk. "... they're... they're... they're still in the lab... aren't they?"

Frisk lowered their head.

"Wait WHAT?!" Undyne asked.

"You... you trapped them!" Alphys gasped with horror. "You trapped the other humans in the lab!"

The corner of Frisk's lip twitched.

"My child!" Toriel looked horrified. "How could you have done such a thing to your friends?!"

Sans' face was darkened. "... i knew it."

"WHAAAAATTTT?!" Papyrus asked. "THERE'S A LAB?!"

Frisk knew now it was time to strike. They ran forward, shoving past all their monster friends. They faced the barrier, their left eye was dribbling black goop. Their right eye was flickering red and black.

Darkness was... everywhere. Frisk felt it in their body, in their soul, in their mind. It consumed their every thought and every feeling. Yet, they could see. They could see very well. They could see the beginning, the middle and the end. Now it was time to say goodbye to everything. Whether they cared about it or not, it was going to die.

This is for EVERYONE.

Frisk felt power rushing through them. They glowed a mix of black and red, holding out their sword. They held out their free hand, reaching out for something. A button.

The Erase Button.

No one will have to worry ever again.

"What are they doing?!" Undyne asked, her jaw dropping.

"... erase..." Sans' eye sockets widened.

"My child, please, stop this!" Toriel demanded, holding out a hand.

Frisk wasn't going to stop now. Not when they were so close.

"HUMAN!" Papyrus yelled. "ERM, MAYBE CALM DOWN? IF YOU COME OVER HERE, I WILL GIVE YOU A HUG OF FRIENDSHIP AND RELAXATION!"

"... you megalomaniac." Sans growled at Frisk, clenching his bony fist.

Frisk held their hand above the ERASE button. They brought it down, closing one of their eyes...

A vine wrapped around their arm, holding it up. It belonged to Flowey.

"Not so fast, kid," Flowey growled, grinning widely. "You really think I'd let you get away with this?"

Frisk sliced the vine away with their sword. It landed on the ground, next to them.

"I'll kill you," Flowey smirked. "Don't you worry about that."

Friendliness pellets appeared around Frisk. The child held up their shield, preventing themself from getting hit. They attempted to grab Flowey, but he moved out of the way.

"UNDYNE!" Papyrus shrieked. "DO SOMETHING!"

"ALRIGHT, YOU TWO!" Undyne yelled. "STOP THIS NOW!"

She ran over to Frisk and Flowey. Frisk sliced their sword across the ground, making it shiver like there was an earthquake. The monsters all fell over.

"Don't like interruptions?" Flowey asked. "Hee hee, I understand that, kid."

He held up more vines. They approached Frisk. The child jumped out of the way, still wielding their sword. The vines approached Frisk again. The child sliced one of them, destroying it. They summoned red spears, throwing them at Flowey. Flowey went into the ground, avoiding them.

Flowey suddenly appeared behind Frisk, grabbing their arms and legs with his vines. He pulled them back into the ground. Frisk struggled to move. Their bones threatened to snap. But they had HATE on their side.

Frisk broke free from the vines, more black goop dribbling out of their left eye. They summoned a Gaster Blaster and used its power against the flower. Flowey quickly dodged, but unluckily for him, Frisk wasn't finished. They ran towards him, holding up their sword. He attempted to stop them with vines but they continued to move forward. When they reached him they stabbed their sword into his stem. He yelped, his petals falling off. He fell over, dead and crumpled.

Frisk breathed heavily, staring at the flower's remains. Their LV continued to increase. So did their power.

By now, the monsters had gotten up. Toriel stood up and crossed her arms.

"Child," she demanded. "You will put down that sword immediately."

Frisk stormed over to her and held their sword at her throat.

"Tori!" Asgore squeaked. He held out his trident. "Human, step away from her."

"yeah, kid," Sans growled. "or you'll have another bad time."

"That's right!" Undyne agreed, holding up a spear.

"I... I'll go get the other kids!" Alphys said, running off with her phone in hand.

"I'LL GO WITH YOU!" Papyrus said. "THE HUMANS WILL BE JOYOUS TO SEE MY SMILING FACE!" He followed Alphys.

Frisk glanced at the monsters all around them. They clenched their fists.

"i'll give you a tip, kid," Sans growled, holding up a bone. "put everything down. now."

Frisk's head was lowered. Their grip on their sword tightened.

Frisk! You have to wake up!

I... I can't... the nightmare never ends...

Suddenly they jumped back up, slicing their sword at Asgore. He crashed into the side of the barrier.

"Don't hurt him!" Undyne bellowed, throwing a barrage of spears at the child. Frisk defended themself using a shield. They summoned spears of their own and launched them at Undyne.

"What the Hell?!" Undyne yelled. "Since when do you have spears?!"

"they have blasters too, somehow," Sans grumbled.

Speaking of blasters, Frisk summoned a few blasters and unleashed their energy at Sans. Sans narrowly dodged the dangerous energy. Toriel's palms lit up with fire.

"Child, please," she begged. "You must stop this. I do not want to hurt you."

Frisk had no intentions of stopping. They summoned spears and fired them at the goat mother. She yelped, defending herself with a wall of fire. Sans grabbed Frisk's SOUL with his blue magic, but they broke free almost immediately. HATE was rushing through them. They felt it coursing throughout their body. Their left eye began to drool even more of the black goop. The spear in their right eye continued to grow in size. The HATE infected their sword too, turning it black.

The red in their SOUL cracked.

"Human..." Asgore got up and stared at Frisk. They were shaking and glitching to a degree. "That... look on your face..." He looked at his palms. "It... it gives me the feeling... that... something horrible is about to happen."

Frisk stabbed the ground with their sword, cracking it and turning it black. Black goop was dripping down their face.

"step back," Sans said. "that stuff's gotta be dangerous."

The monsters stepped back, away from the infected ground. Frisk was still standing there with their sword.

"What happened to them...?" Toriel asked, almost crying. "They... they've become..." Her eyes widened. "... a miserable creature."

I'll save the world.

"Oh my God, oh my God..." Percy immediately began to panic. "W-we're stuck..." He breathed heavily, sweating.

"THAT KID!" Brayden yelled, banging his fists against the elevator door. "THAT FREAKING KID!"

Clover had a dark look on her face. She glared at her hands.

"They'll pay," she growled. "They'll pay, alright."

"I... I just can't believe it..." Cody fell to his knees, sobbing. "They were... the bad one all along?"

"It... appears so," Melody sighed. "And we were stupid enough to trust them."

"Not you guys," Faye mumbled, huddled in a corner. "They were really nice. Because of that... I didn't think there was any way they could possibly be bad, even though I had a lot of bad dreams about them." She wiped her eyes. "I'm stupid... this is all my fault... I knew the truth and I didn't say anything..."

"Feelin' sorry for yourself won't fix anything," Clover said, kneeling down next to Faye. "You gotta take action and do something."

"But I can't do anything..." Faye sniffled in response.

"Well," Clover folded her arms. "Do you know if we get outta here alive?"

"... I-I don't, actually..." Faye replied. "There's... something to do with the Barrier, and Chara... and that's all I know..."

"Hmm." Percy took notes.

"HEY!" Brayden turned around and glared at Faye. "You're NOT useless!"

"Oh," Faye blushed. "Really?"

"DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELF!" Brayden retorted. He grabbed her hand. "HELP ME FIX THIS FREAKING ELEVATOR AND THEN BEAT THE CRAP OUTTA FRISK!"

Faye walked over to the elevator with Brayden, slightly nervous. But she was glad to be with him. Meanwhile Cody gave his sister a sad look.

"Hey, sis..." he said. "Do... do you think we can... help Frisk? Make them... not bad?"

"Don't try, bro," Clover growled. "I won't let them hurt you."

"I... I just don't think I can hurt them," Cody said. "They're - they were my friend."

"They were never anyone's friend," Clover told her brother. "I get that you feel bad for 'em, you do with everybody. But they've been tricking us this whole darn time. We can't just simply forgive that at the drop of a hat."

Cody didn't respond. He glanced at his pan.

"Your sister is right, you know," Melody told Cody, her arms folded. "That child deserves a severe punishment."

"I just..." Cody frowned. "... can't imagine hurting them..."

"Then don't imagine it," Clover retorted. "Do it for real."

Cody continued to frown. He examined his apron. He remembered his mom's face when she gave it to him. She seemed so... hopeful. Cody didn't even say thank you. He remembered her sweet voice...

Everyone deserves kindness.

Suddenly, Alphys burst in, followed by Papyrus.

"Guys!" Alphys exclaimed, panting heavily. She gazed at the kids. "Thank GOD you're all okay!"

"NYEH HEH HEH!" Papyrus grinned. "GREETINGS, HUMANS! IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS! I BET YOU HAVE MISSED ME!"

"Thank GOD you're here," Melody replied with relief. "We were stuck down here!"

"Because of that kid." Clover growled.

"We know," Alphys said. "Don't worry, we'll get you out of here. The whole situation is a mess, though. That kid is up there, fighting the other monsters. They look..." Her eyes widened. "T-terrifying..."

"WELL I'M READY TO PUNCH 'EM!" Brayden put his fist in his palm. "TAKE ME TO 'EM!"

Melody hugged herself, Percy hiding behind her. Clover stood up, while Faye smiled nervously. Cody was clenching his pan tightly.

"S-sure thing," Alphys replied. She walked away quickly, Papyrus following. "This way!"

Frisk was by themself, shrouded in their own HATE. There was too much power. They fell to their knees, black goop everywhere. They forced it back into themself, glaring at the monsters while doing so. The monsters looked horrified. Frisk couldn't blame them. The small part of them that could still feel felt horrified too.

I'll save everyone...

Frisk turned around. It was time to ERASE.

"H-hey!" Alphys squeaked, running with the group towards Frisk. The other humans and Papyrus overtook her. They were all staring at Frisk.

"THERE YOU ARE!" Brayden growled at Frisk, cracking his knuckles. "GET OVER HERE YOU COWARD!"

Frisk didn't respond.

"Kid," Clover held up her gun. She fired it nearby them to get their attention.

Frisk turned around, black goop coming out of their left eye. They stared at the other kids.

"Oh my God..." Melody covered her mouth. "You... you really do look horrible..."

"You have done too much to your body," Percy mumbled. "Far too much."

Faye glanced down. "And to think I loved you..."

Cody glanced at his hands. He felt... pain tugging at his heart strings.

"But... really, you should always be kind," his mother told him. "Not just for me."

Cody slowly walked over to Frisk. He wasn't giving them an angry or horrified glare like everyone else. He was smiling at them.

"Cody, get over here." Clover growled.

"I know... what you've done and are about to do..." Cody said, sighing. "But... I... I don't think you're all bad! I think... I think you can still be good. If you just try." He held out his arms. "I've seen you be nice. I know there's still something there, somewhere. I'll give you another chance. I'll help you try again."

Frisk flinched.

"Cody." Clover clenched her fists. Yet she felt... rooted to her spot.

"It's okay," Cody said. He gently hugged Frisk, making them stiffen up. "I forgive you."

"CODY!" Clover cried out.

Frisk didn't move for a moment. Their breathing almost stopped. Then slowly, they hugged Cody back. A small smile was on their face. They closed their eyes.

Cody's smile grew. "See? You can cha-"

Cody stopped talking, falling to his knees. Frisk had put their sword through his abdomen.

Clover glanced at her gun, and she knew it was time.

There was no going back.

Frisk, the eighth human, was going to die.