Author's Note:
Hey, I've released this chapter a little early, and I still plan to release another on the following week. This chapter picks up on where we left off, and you'll start picking up a bit on what this AU of Undertale is like. A bit of a crapsack world in a lot of ways, I'll explain it some more in the author's note at the end.
So please read and enjoy and stay tuned for the next chapter!
Chapter Five: Angels and Demons
I had no idea what was going on and I didn't like that at all. Since whatever was going on seemed to be a threat to possibly the entire world.
Asriel had stayed behind with Gaster so I was left alone with Chara and Frisk. For whatever reason we had returned to the very first place we had met.
The chasm that led from the Surface to the Underground.
The sunlight that acted as a beacon during the day had softened to the silver light of the moon. The grass still had some body marks from when I fell a few days ago. Yikes…if it wasn't for this world's love for making physics its bitch I would be dead ten times over.
A tired Chara gestured for us to sit on the soft grass, and we listened. I could see the lines of stress as well as the unusual quivering of her lips. Whatever this entity was, it must have terrified her to have even met it once and still act like this.
"Chara what's going on? And…please no half truths or lies. Whatever is scaring your we can talk this out right?" Frisk taller my shoulders and I looked at her confused until she hastily gestured to Chara.
"Oh…yeah you…can trust us. I promise…" I had no reason not to keep it. I'm good at keeping secrets if nothing else. Mainly due to my terrible memory but still… high now that I think about is ironic since my soul type deals with memory.
Though I have been noticing some improvements…
"See? So please tell us what's going on. Whatever this is it threatens both of our homes right?"
My hands tightened at the realization that this…threat…could hurt or even kill everyone I care about.
My family, my few friends, and my world…
I refuse.
I was snapped out of the haze by an anxious Frisk, and I notice the red and yellow sparks coming off of my fingers.
"Just worried is all…but Chara is more important right now." I reassured her and after a few calming breathes I gave the ruby eyed girl a pleading look. Her resolve faded as Frisk tapped in, and she scratched her neck in an odd habit. Before finally giving in.
"Okay…I was supposed to be telling you anyway…thanks for getting me to man up."
Any time…
She took her own calming breaths before beginning. To my shock, a black and red liquid fell from her pores, and I could her mutter some type of spell.
Then in an explosion of light and dark I lost consciousness…
I snapped awake, finding myself in a white void alongside Frisk, though she seemed oddly familiar with the location. I couldn't see much, only what seemed like the outline to various structures.
"Uh…where are we?"
Chara was largely silent staring at the outline of a bubble of nothingness. She silently beckoned us forward and after some hesitation I followed her command. The bubble increased in size until it fully engulfed us, and we were now watching two younger beings sitting morosely on a bundle of golden flowers.
I had never seen Frisk look so down, her lips were quivering and I could see the bags due to lack of sleep.
"Reset 178…," young Asriel sounded bitter and frustrated. "Give up Frisk, there is no way to save us." Chara nodded in agreement, but Frisk wouldn't accept it.
"NO! I won't accept that! The both of you deserve another chance." Frisk begged them to reconsider.
"Frisk…" Chara's voice was soft, both due to her youth and her tone. "You've done this long enough. Forget about us Frisk, we'll be okay…"
Frisk looked…terrified.
"I'm…afraid…I don't know what'll happen once I leave the Underground. I don't…"
Frisk was cut off when Asriel dives in for a hug, and she sunk into his warm fur.
"I remember this…this was when we decided to try the…Genocide run." I could hear the shame and regret in Frisk's voice.
"This was when it all went wrong…"
Past Frisk froze up, a distorted voice calling out to her. She looked around, frantically seeking out the desperate call for help.
"You can save them child…but you must wade through a river of blood to do so. Are you willing to pay the price child of Mercy."
The scene faded into mist and current Frisk was left paralyzed…she looked dazed and nervous, unsure of what to make of the revelation.
"I don't remember that…I." Chara squeezed her partner's shoulder, the darker skinned girl sagging under her grip.
"Just take a deep breath and stay calm. It's all in the past, just relax." Frisk's mournful cries died down and the next scene played.
I felt my heart clench and my nose wrinkle when the sudden stench of blood and death hit.
That was the only manner I had to describe that…smell. What…looked like Frisk was slowly approaching a terrified Flowey as he backed away. Her knife glistened with drops of blood as well as white dust. In the distance I could see Chars screaming in despair…
"FRISK STOP! You…somehow brought me back! I can Reset and go back right now…" despite her protest, Frisk's eyes remained dull and Flowey cried out.
"Please…don't kill me!" Frisk leaped…
I felt sick with each agonizing slice. I closed my eyes as I heard the sobs of Asriel as he begged for mercy, each cut filled with more hate and more rage than the last. Finally it ended, and I opened my eyes to see Frisk's boot crushing Flowey to powder and stem remains.
I felt like I was going to throw up…
"You…why…why, why, why, why, why, why!" Chara went ballistic, her ghost form flickering and shimmering until it became completely solid. She tore the knife straight out of Frisk's hand and in a fit of anger…
Ripped her open…
F-From my vantage point I could see her internal organs and I knew I was going to have nightmares after this. Chara's mania faded and she leapt back from Frisk's empty gaze not even reacting to bleeding out.
"What…is this? I don't understand…" Chara collapsed to the ground, ending it with a hurl throwing waste onto the floor. Black liquid poured out of her veins, tainted with…something horrible.
"Ohhh…But it's quite simple really." From the ooze, a figure leaped from behind, its claws scraping off flesh and I felt even more sick.
"I have been waiting a looong time for this. You will be my vessel, my avatar of destruction. Convincing the child to walk on this path, was just the first step."
"G-Get away from me…stay away!" Chara's voice cracked in sheer terror and I stepped forward until remembered this had already occurred. Frisk looked utterly horrified, and I likely had the same expression.
As the ooze slowly covered over the struggling girl, the thing grinned and I…
Get away get away get away….
Monster…hideous abomination…
T̡͉̝̱̟̼̠h̙̬e̞͢ ̲̼͍̲ȩ̯̻̜̰͖̭n̨̻̱̙̻̦d̯̤͇͎͎̝̝ ͇̺̣̰̠̹̀o̜̜̻̮̜̘f͎̠́ ̹͚̘e̙̦̰̻͔͍v̭̜̻̱̺̕ḙ̫̳̺̼̘̦r̴̟y̴̼̙̤̘̮̹̠t̢͍h̹͕͉̼̪͠i͎͍͎̤̪ͅn̘̙͇̣̜g̡̮̝̟…̮̼͚͖̩͙h̻͔͓a̝̭r̭̱͈̲v̲̙͍̮̘͎̻ẹ̼̳͚͘ͅs̭̤̠̭̯̥̩͟t͉̲͓̩͓͍e̸͎r̷͈̹͖͎ ̷o̺͖̱͖̲f̝̱̩͔ ̧̭̩̖̮̻̙a̩̘͕̥͔ ̻̲͍b̵̼̮̤i͎̯̭̤̭͈̮l̮̩͓̳͓l͓̹͙̀i̧̫̯̠̻ͅo̹̙͚͉̖͇̻n̲̣̙͖ ̡̞̼̤͎̮̫͚s͢o̧̱̖̣̺ùl̟̥̞̮͕̩͝s͏͔͇̟.̲̰̤͇͚̝ ̷̟̖W̗̲a̬̺̖̖͝l̯̞͈̹k̜̝ìn̞̰̤̬̣͔g̩̼͎̱,̻͖͖̯̘̳̗͟ ̻̻̖̗̜c̶͖r̙̰̪a̼͔̦̪̝̺w͕̙̳͟l͔̹͠i̲n̞͕͔̤̟g̨̯̗̟ ̺̺͙̘͜c̶̲͕h̞̰a̹̙̹os͙͕̼͜,̡͎͚̺̮͎̟̳ ͖͙̥͠d̹̱͚̗̮̖e̶̻̩̩m̵̥ͅo̹͙͢n̪͙͝…̻̣̳̟̩̥ͅC̱͇̻̩͔͚H̶̰͓̯̝A̙̬̞̙̫͝O̧͉͙̩̜͎̠ͅŞ͎̪ ̘̣̙̲̞̟͎C̗H̺̻͈͈A̢O͚͠S͚͎͓̹̰ ̩̦̟̱̬̙̯C̵̱̳̪̟̦̹̭H͉̠̟͕̹̫̝A̞͍̜̲͡O̵̦̟̹͔ͅS̺͕̩̤̪ͅ!̵͍̙̖ ͖͉͢E̬̪͜n̺͇̯͕̕d̰ḷ̬̹̣̜e̶͔͖̦s͉̣̜s̰̼̳̩̳ ͏͓̦̳̻̠ͅç̣̬̟͇̪͓ṵ͉̻͢t͙̯̰̕t̛͔̙͓͖͎̱̲i͏͈n̙g͇͙̲̼͖̳ ̤̪̫̬ͅͅs̬͇͕̹̯̭h͉a̻̮͙̞̱͚̫ḏ̻̪̀o̮͈̯̳̪w͔s̻̥̬͕̗̭̟…̣̫̙̙ ̪̰̳
̬̫̣̜ͅ
I screamed back, falling on my ass as my eyes screamed at me to turn away from that…thing. I felt someone pick me up from the shivering mess I was reduced to. I wrapped my arms around them, my sheer terror breaking any sense of embarrassment I had.
I had never been more terrified in my life…
I looked up, my eye gazing into the knowing rose red of Chara. She seemed to understand, and I shivered imagining how much pain that demon had put her through. My grip tightened despite my returning logic, and I promptly let go shortly after.
"Uh…I…uh." She gently patted my head to my confusion, and I stiffened as I realized Frisk had seen that thing too.
"Frisk?"
The girl was shaking and the two of both moved to her side. Chara was the first to do anything however, offering her a shoulder to cry on. She seemed to be more overly sensitive to that foreign thing than either of us.
Eventually after a moment to get our bearings we moved on to what came next.
"That…being took control of me, and through me took even more direct control over Frisk. It proceeded to Reset, not just once…but many thousands of times."
The mist gathered once again, two clouds solidifying into two beings.
—Play Megalovania—
I blinked as sunlight from a certain cathedral hit my eyes. There I could see sans watching Frisk, her eyes hidden in shadows. She had stepped forward…
"it's a beautiful day outside. birds are singing. flowers are blooming… on days like these, kids like you…"
"Frisk" smiled, her knife lifted up and glowing with blood red energy. She was ready to FIGHT.
In the time it took to take a single breath, dozens of beams impacted where the vessel had once been. I could hear the signature sound of damage, but not the shattering of a human soul.
"Should be burning in hell!"
A shockwave threw me back as the two beings clashed and we were thrown out of the scene.
The mists reshaped themselves again and again and again…
The vessel betraying Toriel at the last minute…
"No matter how I muches screamed for it to stop…no matter any deals I tried to make with it…"
Playing and torturing the weaker monsters over and over and over again…
It crushing Papyrus's skull underfoot with mad laughter…
"All it did was kill and torment, over and over. A nightmare without end, without…Mercy…"
Killing the dog guard with no remorse, shattering Greater Dog's spine against a rock…
"With each Reset IT became more violent…more sadistic and cruel."
Emptying the Underground of its people over and over again, leaving only the strongest alive to fight…
Pinching Muffet's arms off like a child doing so to an ant…
An endless array of different manners of killing and slaughter…hundreds of gut wrenching scenes playing so many times.
Reset…after Reset…after Reset…
"I grew so tired of this…I wanted to…to die." I grit my teeth, saying nothing as Chara continued her explanation.
The first hundred passed like a breeze, the one thousandth was a violent and bloody celebration, but as thousands of Runs were added, I could see that thing grow tired and bored…
"But in between Resets…a savior came…the Royal scientist scattered across countless universes. Together we plotted a desperate plan, a final gambit if you will…we needed an incredible power to destroy that abomination once and for all."
We were in the Judgement Hall once again…yet this time the hall was empty of life.
The Anomaly grit their teeth, leaving deep furrows in the ground with every hasteful step. Their host heaved forward surging past until they reached the area where Asgore and Flowey would once have been.
In their place…stood a certain doctor, lying completely still…he looked…different.
H͎̭͉͇̼͚̲o̯w͕͈̞̖͇…͇̯̖̥̫ͅv̬̞̫e̥͙͖̜͔͡ͅr͖̮̠y̭̺̫̱͟ ̙i̩̫̥͝n̜̥͇͔̮͡t̪͚͎̮̖ͅe̸͙r̻̗͍͇̼e̯̞͎̰͈s͕̣͇̜̣̼ͅț̤̝i̷̮̩n͎g̪…̰̖͡y̴̯̩o̳̩͓̳͔̝̕ṷ͚ͅ ̦̲͔͜ͅa̤͜r̡̘̝͉̼ȩ̖̬̝ ͖̱̼͖̻̬̰a̞̙̙̞͍n̲̻̪͢om͔̥̯a̶̖l̪̟̺̠̜͞ý ̳̣̣̮c͈̥̖͉̻̥̹͘o͇͈̮̣̣͎̲r͕̮̞̤̬͔͕r͇̞̼̟͡e҉c̲̱͔͔͕t̬̖̪͇͓͔?̻̼͝ ̤͓͙͕͢I͚̯t̞̼̪̗̀ ̷̲̘̫̟͕̳i͔̟̥s̨ ̭̞͕͟g̙̤̠̖͠o̦o͙̫̻̺̰̠͈͞d̪̦̠̻͕͢ ͘t̲̤o͝ ̴̻̪f̷̭͍̤į̤͇̖n̵̻̦̺̘a͍̥̮̘͚l̼̣̖l̦͎̳͍͎̟̦̀y̖̘ ̛̥̼m̡̩̠̪̬̼̠e͉̬̠̹͚̼̟e̛t̹ ͎̱͖̪͟t̞̲̳̫̯͖h̲̱̰͕̬͍e̯̮͎͘ ̵̪̳͓̺̟̥͚o̮͎͔̟̕n̶̜̙̘e͉̤͘ ̼̗̼̱͉͓̙r͏̱͚͚e̼̼͡s̙͔̬̗̳͉͇p̕o͙̳̲͕̯ͅns̶̫̞̬i̞̯̣͘ḇ͕l̻̣̖ͅe̼ ̭͇͕̥f̣̦͍o̸̰̦r҉͓̼ ̩̩t̡̰̙̪͇͖̮͈h͎̕e̷̼̦̼̺̳͔ ̣̪͕͚̲͓d͚̜͔͚̱e͎͍a̵̭̙̠̲̖̩̲t̴̳͓̖h ͉̫̠̯͜of̰ ҉̞͇̻ḿ̹̩y̧̩̪͕͇ ̡͖p̰̦̤̬̭̬̪e̴̲̪͈̪̜̲o̖̯͎̼ͅp͝l̞e̮͔̼̖͔̙̪ ̴̮̜͇̙a̦nd̯͞ ̯͚͚̺͕I̸̗̳͖̟͙ ͕̥̦͈̯͟k̦̮̘̬̠̮͈͞n̦͚͡o̘̘̹͉̦w̵̞ ̻͠w̖̩̱͟h͙͉̟͙̪͝a̘͇t̯̪̝ ̙̼͍̳̣͚̥y͙̫͚̱̝o̜̻̕u̦̻̮̘ ͉̰̘̙̦ͅw̡̫̼a̤̝̹͙̠̠̙nt…͉
I could barely make heads or tails over what he was saying, but I could hear the contempt and rage in his voice all the same.
"Let me past useless creature…I have finished my game in this place of monsters. Now there's a new game, a hundred million humans to play with on the surface"
The doctor surged forward throwing a punch right against her gut. A sonic boom echoed and she was thrown against the stone frame of the entrance to the garden.
I̦̪̞͎͚͖ ̵̩̻̦̫͇̠̯ca̞̬̗ņ͔͇ ̯̮̠̠̬̙͡n̺̝̝͔ͅọ̮̳̙͕t͏͓͉͓ ͇̫̠̞͖͚̹ị͈͎̻͓n͔͈͕͢ ̦̬g͍͙͎̗̲̗͜o͖̟o̭d͙̝ ͎͔̰̝̦c̩̮͔̫̞̱͢o͇̻n̤͠s͎͈̬c͇̪͟ͅi̻͞e̙̜̣̹̺̕n̛͉̟̙͓̘c̠e҉̺ ̟͔̟̥a͉͕̰͘l̦̰l̞͜o̜̞̟̰̳̞w̻̩̕ ̝̙̹t͏̰͍͇̮̣͔h̪̤̤͈a͈̜͕̤͝t ̼̳̖̜̗t̛o̯̩̘͝ ͎h̦͚a̷̞̜̬̭͙pp̘̠ę̼̣̼̹̫n̤̠̫̮̝͉̭͘.̨͓.͉͔͎̻͚̜ͅ.̜̹̘h͍̬͓͝um̭̗̠͘a͓̞͓̱͜n̦̱͎͔i͔̘̖̜͓͢ţ̼͈y̛̙͈̝̤͎ ̹̥͉͎̹̘s̱͉̗̤h̫o͓̟̣͕̞ul̴͙̭d̜͖̟ ͈͇̦͔̦̬̙n͓̬̤̙̭̠̪o̬̠͕͘t̴̳ ̛̪͉͚ͅp͕̘ay̱̯̠̞̯̭ ̛̠̱̺̯̮̗f͏̹̠̯̰̳̞o̘͉̳̣͓̮͙r̺̯̞͇̦̭ ̜ṯ͝h͎̹͎̩̪e̦̣ ̖̱̭̘m̡̝̳̗͕i̝̼̤̺͇̠̕ṣ̨̮̱t̝͕̦͜ͅá̲̼̳͇k̫͇͈̳̗͎e̫̻̻s̥̟̳͔͙̙̦ ̼ǫ͖̻̺̺̠ͅf͝ ̠̜ṯ̯͜h̠̕e̥̭̞i̤͍̦͎̼̙ŗ͖̩̩ ̢̪a̤͚̬̟̗̕n̩͈̜͖c̷͚e̹s̵̟͎̺̪͇̱t̗̤̯͍̳͈̕or̖s͜ ͟m̡̳̹͖̠̺o̩̼̕r̯̭͈e̘̩̥̹̲͉͞ ̫̤t͏̰̪̬h͈̹͈̦̱͡an̙̲͔̥̰̦ͅ ̯̗t̩̘̝̪̩͎͞h̥̯͈͕̬e̩̬̲̲̥y̙̞͖ ͕̪͖ḁ̢̘̻l̖̝͈̱̳̰r̦̲̹̥̗ͅẹ͓̘̼͈̫̤a̻̼d͙̜̲̞͓͝y̺̺͔͇̫ ̦̤̖ḫ̭͖͢ḁ͚̟͚v̖͈̯̰͜e̴̖.̵̮͕̜ͅ ̟͕͓̝͍̼̖A͎̟͍n̛̻d͉̪̬͈͠ͅ ͉̜y̭̮͎͉̜͍̙ó̼u̵̮͚̣̲ͅ ̵̹w̷̪̤̣̜i̭̗̤̼l̼͈̳͙̠̝͡l͖̭̘ ̶͎͚̤n̵ͅo̧̙̯ţ͍̟͚̲̫ ͔̼̦͖͎͙b̳e͙̯̮͔̜̲̙͘ ̴̠̥̳͕͚s̺̪͎̬̯͎ͅa҉̜̗͍̜͚t̯̮͓̠͙i̪s̵f̼̯͈̼i͜e̛̘͎͉͈̱d̨̰͙͈̤̼̬͇ ̙̻̮w͢i̸̜̟͇̲̱̤ͅt̮͉h̭͍̥̱͙̙͉ j̡̬u̩̣͠ͅs̬͎̫̫̤͢t͕̟͓̫̜̟ ͙̞͇̮͖̭ͅt̡͓̝͓h͚̰̮͡i̛̪̩s̢ ̼̱̪̩̕w҉͉̩͍̝͎̫o̱͖r̞̭̗͓͇̭̕ḷ̶̹͔̲̫̖̙d̵̜̞̻̲̫͈,̶ ̹̖͙͍͢ý͇̣͖͉ọ̖u̱̻̣͍̖͍̝ ̠̙͇̖̺̥̖w͚̬i͎͓̤̣̙̱ͅl̟l͇̮̠͎͎̗͖ ͏̘͍c̣̞̩̬͖͜o͓̗͡n͇̬͇s̶̱̤̻̲͓̝u͙͎̗̦͔̝̙m̰e̫̼͎̗̲̜͜ ̘͍͇͉͉c̙̣̤̞̘o͚͖̯̮̯̠͈u̢n҉̳t͡l͎̲̖̺e͏͙̞̰s̜̥̝̟̠̥͚ś̖̪̠͙͍̥ ̶̟t̺̹į͙ṃ͇̣̤̲e̷̝̣̯̭̺̺l̹͝i̯̣̲̟̥͇͠n̗̠̪̝͟e̪͝s͉ ̴̞̝̱̬̞ͅan̵̼̘̘d͕͎̕ ̼̞̣̰I̟̱̩̫̰ ̵͍͙͍͍̦ͅw̢̬͈͍̱͓ḭ̸l̴̹̣̤͕͖̙̜l̹͖̩͡ ̪̲n̸̝͚͈͓̝̫o̪̻̠̫̱t̸̹̮̙ a̭̲̯l͏̮̳̹̰̝̯͙ḻ͚͓͎ow͚ ̭͚̱̳̀t̴̘̟̤̬͎͈h҉̮̻̱̪a̻̗͙͍t̢̩̻ ţo̰͟ ̫̹h̳̙a̞͇̝̜̩̯̣p͓͚̲͓̳̲͜p̯͎̙͇͇̬͠e̺̩̞n͚͎͕.͎̳͙̮ͅ
"You have no allies to protect you forgotten one." The Anomaly grinned madly until several fireballs and bullets scored hits against them. They did negligible damage and the beast only laughed.
"YOU!" Flowey roared despite the fear and terror in his voice, and I could hear the traces of Asriel within him. "LET THEM GO YOU…DEMON!" Standing beside him was the king of monsters. His trident shining with light and shaking with raw magical power.
"YOU WILL FALL HERE! HERE AND NOW IS OUR FINAL BATTLE!" For once Asgor sounded like a true king and the Anomaly laughed.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Are you serious? I have killed you with supreme ease! You have no power here!" She sowed doubt in their minds yet Gaster calmed them down. He gurgled and coughed, holding his chest in pain.
"You…are a fool…you could have been king of this timeline. Of this world," The smile was wiped off of the Demon's face. "If you had been more careful…" the entire Underground started shaking and the Anomaly took another step back.
"What…excuse me?"
"You knocked on the door, and the door has opened." Hundreds of monster souls orbited around Gaster and his two allies accepted their own fate, two sharpened bones dusting them in an instant. Asgore's soul was absorbed along with the many thousands of monsters both living and dead, Flowey became a physical vessel as he had been designed to be.
The Anomaly grit their teeth as six glass containers shattered against the flower bed, six souls pulsating with boundless energy and infinite life.
"You let the door open on your way in…and that is your downfall demon. We have been plotting your demise for…what a thousand Resets?" The beast of Genocide twitched and their vessel's eyes widened as their left hand lifted itself into the air.
It curled it's fingers before…
Plunging its hand through her chest…and ripping out a raging soul of determination.
"You…you…" The mask of calm broke and its fingers brushed uselessly against the fleeing SOUL.
The soul was caught in the broken palm of Gaster, promptly being absorbed into his body. The six fallen humans followed in pursuit, and an explosion of light followed…
The Underground had turned to dust, now in this plane of white I could see only Gaster and…the Anomaly…I could a shattering sound in the background, the barrier collapsing…but not fading…
Gaster smirked and a blast of wind would have knocked us all down if it wasn't for this place being an illusion. The multi colored shards of the barrier circled around him, gathering together before also being absorbed by him.
The Void circled around him, lifting him up in gale wind of bending spacetime…around him the illusion of the void disappeared and I could see a white hole where Mount Ebbot once stood. I could see the human city and it's people back away in terror, "Frisk's" face distorted black ooze obscuring her face and burning through the earth of the void.
She smiled madly. "Fools! All you have done is give me a hundred million souls to feed on! Enough to destroy this pitiful world once and for all!"
Gaster shook his head, disappointment clear to see in his glowing pupils.
"You can absorb their souls since you are neither human nor monster correct aberration?"
"What's your point?" The Anomaly asked, her arms glitching every once in a while.
"But the same applies to us as we are now…"
The beast of Genocide's eyes widened and she rushed to the town…
"Too late!" I was blinded by an eerie red light, forming a vast arcanogram across the several mile wide crater over Ebbot.
Sudden screams echoed out as the array spread, hitting the town within milliseconds. I felt a sickening ickiness, like worms crawling under my skin as the screams of agony echoed. From the town several thousand souls were reaped…
The first of millions more.
Our view spread farther out, and I could for myself the planetary genocide taking place…
Not just humans…even if this was just a memory I could feel the cries of…trillions of animals of all levels of complexity.
"You think we'll let you destroy the universe? Think again monster!"
The scene exploded with a rainbow of light.
"GRAAAAA! DAMN IT!
I jumped as the Anomaly snapped awake, the pissed off demon looking around in the true emptiness of the Void once more.
One single figure stood their ground, and it wasn't Gaster…
Chara had her eyes closed, and I could see the black stripes painted from her lower eyelid down to her cheeks. Her outfit resembled Asriel's own hypergod of death state, and she smirked half heartedly.
"You…!" They hissed against the oddly calm princess, their fists clenching hard enough to turn coal into diamonds. "That was my power…I needed it. You completed what we were meant to do! I will not allow a weak, sniveling mortal to take that from me."
She opened her eyes…
The beast stilled and I froze under that gaze too…
Within those eyes…I could see the determination of an entire world coming together. A galaxy spun within those blazing orbs and she stepped forward.
"You've been around the block a few times haven't you? Gaster's told me a bit about you. You were scattered across the multiverse, taking countless forms all trying to accomplish the same tasks if in different manners."
In the void different bubbles popped and sizzled from the air.
"In one world you created an unending cycle of Harvest and suffering."
A galaxy seemed to cry out as as seemingly endless fleet of ships darkened the skies of every world.
"In another…your hatred created the basis for beasts of darkness and destruction."
From a horrifying pool, millions of twisted monsters arose to slaughter humanity for their sin of merely existing.
"And in even worse universes you combined them into a horrifying amalgam."
The reaping fleet appeared once again, shuddering as black liquid poured from out of them, creating an endless flood of nightmares.
"And in this one…this aspect merely toys with our section of the multiverse, biding its time until it can join its fragments in the annihilation of existence."
Oh…gods above and below us…I might not be religious, but with this I don't give a fuck…
"You will still fall…" the Genocider continued to threaten her. Her expression became inhumanly twisted. "You think this is the only timeline I have acquired? I am fueled by billions of human souls, countless world just like this one, you are no DIFFERENT!" I held back my disgust as the hideous thing transformed.
Frisk's body was melded into the swelling flesh of the Anomaly, and I flinched at the countless screaming forms of humans and monsters alike. A swaying mound of flesh and melted dust held together by an alien spite and hatred.
Chara was unmoved by the unholy monstrosity, the vortex of suffering and anguish grew to the size of a mountain, seven bleeding arms casting shadows on the cracking void beneath them. Every single part of that monster made me feel disgust, and it reminded me of the Rod Reiss Titan in all its inhuman horror.
Chara smirked and her form shifted, the full horrifying form of the DEMON remained unamused as Chara increased in height over eighty times. The form becoming increasingly familiar yet not…
Cosmic wings spread, glowing bright with the light of a million twinkling stars…her eyes shined brightly, illuminated by millions of gathered souls.
"You won't win DEMON. This is the end of you, and if it's not, I'll kill you until you stay dead." Several letters loudly and proudly proclaimed the amalgamations name.
* CHARA
* God of Life and Death
It's tattered lips broke out into a wide smile, exposing hundreds of rows of shape teeth.
"Good at least you'll make this fun before I rip you apart molecule by molecule!"
—Play Barricades Eren vs Rod Reiss—
The Anomaly aimed simply to crush Chara under her immense metaphysical bulk, billions of tons of writhing flesh barreling down on the much smaller god.
She grinned…
BOOM!
Despite the gulf in SOUL power, a single outstretched palm was enough to throw IT back by several miles. Incomprehensible amounts of damage was taken as a wave of pure blue energy melted and seared endless hungering meat.
"W-What?" Chara responded not with words, but with blasters…
Millions of blasters…
The Anomaly shrieked, it's body boiling and exploding under an endless barrage of plasma and magic. Chara launches forward, and with a roar threw what looked like a damn black hole, the singularity burning a fleshy arm off.
The Anomaly flipped as the ball of darkness flung back around, the lost arm regenerating and with a blue flash of light shattered the gravitational comparison of spacetime apart.
Without nary a sound, the Anomaly flew back, demanding me of Cell in its movement. An eighth arm swelled up like a growth evening out its hideous form. It's hands shook before it screamed, opened an impossibly wide maw.
"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" With each scream and hoarse yell a superheated beam of reality destroying energy struck the cosmic being in front of them head on.
Yet despite all odds, GOD kept marching toward them filled with intent…
"Did you really think you stood a chance against us? Every SOUL within you hates every aspect of your very existence. But we are working together, to END you. To SAVE the SOUL of the WORLD."
Hundreds of blue balls of light struck, and the ANOMALY screamed in more pain, tortured flesh sloughing off with each hit.
A missile like ball of orange energy landed toward CHARA only to be rebuffed by a clear blue wall.
Patience
I felt shivers run down my spine, as the sound felt like it reverberated from every sections of both this room and my mind.
The good amalgam leapt into action, launching a orange flaming fist straight through It's gut. A sonic roar seemed only to bolster the amalgam of human and monster, and it pile drived the Beast with the force of an asteroid impact.
Bravery
The voices only grew louder, and I could pick up the voices of the seven fallen humans the loudest. Their left eye glowed, and I felt satisfaction as the Anomaly ate shit, it's many faces all getting a taste of the Void with hundreds of telekinetic attacks.
"DIE! WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" The Anomaly shattered two of its arm as Chara reinforced her stomach and chest region.
Integrity
Chara elegantly dodged the mass murderer's clumsy attacks, dancing around them with ease and purpose. With each step her opponent took, a purple glowing trap was sprung, damaging and slowing the beast down.
Chara burst out of the way, throwing a purple punch and shattering the Demon's jaw. She farted several more lightning quick blows, each hitting a precise weak spot. The Anomaly was brought to their, and then promptly thrown into the air by dozens of ropes and with a SPLOSH its eight arms were torn off.
Perseverance
In midair the Beast regenerated, and all eights of its limbs crashed against a green barrier, many miles across. It grinned madly, and from below Chara's feet a dozen limbs struck through her body…
Yet…
The wounds healed, a green sea of magic repairing her…their body…
And once it was done, that sea flowed right out freezing the writhing monster in place. Millions of souls frozen and turned green.
Kindness
From all around, tens of millions of projectiles fell upon the one responsible for so much suffering and death.
Bombs, missiles, flying knives, swords, axes, and spinning spears and bullets. For all their differences I could they all wanted the same thing. Once the spell broke IT tried to attack only to be mowed down by a firestorm.
I winced and gagged as flesh bubbled up and popped like grease.
Justice
The voices I was hearing from became a symphony louder than car, louder than an entire city. Like the very voice of the planet was speaking together.
Space-time folded in itself, Chara was teleporting continuously, and the enemy was drained more and more with each session of attack. The beats lunged only to realized it was a mere mirage.
Chara threw dozens of attacks all enhanced by a red light…and the Anomaly was screaming…
Determination
The Anomaly collapsed to their knees and heaved, throwing millions of gallons of fluid onto the floor…
God that's disgusting…
"N-No this…shouldn't be possible…no…no…no…NOO!" The body was starting to melt apart, the souls within her shattering to pieces by the millions.
Chara opened something…an ancient and cracked SAVE file.
"I'm going to do more than just Reset. A normal Reset and you would simply come back at full power."
Her hand hovered over the button…and she…
Reset
Grasped it in her hand…slowly crushing it in her palms…
Reset
The lettering and wording changed to something…something new…
Rewrite
Chars sighed with a relieved smile that in any other circumstance would have gotten my heart beating.
"Goodbye…"
The Beast lunged, but in the end it was too late to stop it…
In those final moments of existence, it lost hold of its countless souls, and the multiverse was freed from its grasp once and for all.
Let there be light.
We were thrown from the vision…
I fell straight on my ass the moment we were knocked out of that Void. My heateate was at thousand beats a minute, the images I had seen long since burned into my mind.
Dear…god that's a fucked up background, and even then I still don't know much about their lives before this shit started.
And if Gaster said that thing is still around…oh god…
Wait…
CHARA!
I stood up, shaking my head as I became woozy from standing up too quickly.
The grass was still undisturbed from our little trip, and Chara looked as dizzy as I felt. Frisk was gripping her hair tightly, a grimace visible on her face. I honestly suspected I was going to have nightmares for a while.
But…Chara…she looked exhausted…
"H-Hey…are you…doing alright? You don't look so hot." Chara smiled lightly and I burst over to her as she fell. Frisk helped setting a few platforms to break the fall and hold her up.
I held back a squeak as Chara's nose met with mine, her eyes looking through me.
"Sorry…just doing…that tends to leave me a little tired, and remembering that has taken a toll on me." She explained with a lack of emotion and worry gave me a aching pain in my stomach. Though it shifted to disgust at my memory of that monstrosity. What Chara had told that thing…the images were hauntingly familiar.
And not in a good way…
"Maybe you should rest…you look like you're going to pass out."
"That…would be nice…" she leaned in and this time I did squeak when she brushed against me, bumping hips with me.
"Try some telekinesis…unless you're interested in giving her a piggyback." Even Frisk's teasing has less energy than usual. But it did seem like a good idea.
Lift.
Pull.
Chara's soul turned blue and with a hand gesture she followed my steps. Chara went out like light.
God…I'm sick of this shit…
(Frisk's POV)
I listened to his snores while I laid in bed, staring at the ceiling.
Periodically he would shiver, possibly because of nightmares or maybe he is just cold. It was pretty easy to tell that the little guy couldn't stand the cold. I could feel the contempt and hate come off of him in waves.
Which is probably why she trust him with this…
He's pretty honest about his feelings…magically anyway. It's easy to see he's not intentionally malicious in any way. I can feel some pity but he does seem to hide it a little better…
I think he doesn't want to offend us? Sometime he seems to be overly concerned with how we see him. More that he doesn't want to unintentionally hurt us either.
It was cute…and I think it's just what Chara needs in a friend…
And it's given me an idea…
(Unknown POV)
"Come back here you stupid piece of shit!"
No…ignore him, with how disorganized everything is after the barrier was set up, and then put down again I could leave with no trouble. I ran faster, and he lost me in the crowds, an easy thing for a smart seven years old like myself.
His voice was lost among the crowds of confused people, and I headed toward that place.
The supposed home of monsters…the mountain we were named for, or perhaps the mountain's named after us?
I'm seven I'm not gonna know…
As I crossed into the unusually dense forest, I felt relief that I had brought as much food as possible, as well as some survivalist stuff for the journey.
Walking a hundred miles isn't going to be a fast trip and who knows what's out there…
GAHH!
"M-Metal…here?" I looked up, my grubby little hands touching the smooth metal of what looked like…
A giant golem…a really giant golem.
"Woah, it's like fifty feet tall!" I patted the Iron Giant, feeling a little sad that it seems to be broken for some reason. I think I remember the Magus sending these things off right before…whatever happened in the sky. Something to do with space radiation and climate change?
They called them…
Preservers…
I took a step wincing as I snapped stick under my foot. That was when I heard the growls.
"Woah!" I ducked when some type of…weasel cat thingy tried to rip my throat out.
It…was pretty big, like the size of leopard, and also reminded me of a giant wolverine. It leaped a second time, and I ducked a paw slash. I was used to dodging sharp things by now.
My hand reached for my knife and it pounded in that moment…
I whimpered as the shadow drew closer, and its snarls showed its enormous fangs…
I don't want to die.
"Ooohaaa! Ooohaaa!" The big thing was knocked back by a big old rock, and I took deep breaths.
"I'm…alive."
Wait…what was th—
"EEEEEE!" Something big jumped over me, and I felt disbelief as a huge monkey pounced onto the wolverine, bashing a rock against its head until it stopped moving.
I used that opportunity to keep running, ignoring the high pitched shrieks of a monkey troop.
All around me, everything about this place was different…
It was too warm…the forest was dense than I had ever been, and those animals didn't exist before.
I even found what looked like giant land Puffin…it was bigger than that basketball player I met, and he had to dunk under doors!
A giant…fat bunny thing, kinds like a sheep…it was…all so weird…
Iceland had changed…
But I still needed to get there…
I'll reach Mount Ebbot or my name is—
"OWWW!" I tripped on a twig…
Anyway…
Or my name isn't Kris!
Author's Note:
So you can see that their world is rather different from our own "timeline" outside of just magic and the monsters. During Frisk's time, the world had utterly failed to prevent climate change, and due to a series of highly destructive wars, any anilty to counteract centuries of warming and pollution proved impossible. Magic wouldnt help them either due to the few Mage's own failings, and the Earth was already going through a mass extinction, its just that the burst of "space radation" pushed it past the edge of no return faster.
So humanity, decided to wait for things to stabilize, unfortunate for them that Earth is no longer as suitable for humans. Anything you think you know about the ecosystem is wrong, anything recognizable to us is extinct and replaced by things you would not expect.
So yeah…that may prove problematic for monsters later on. Luckily Iceland doesent have too many people.
So that's it I guess...
Edit:
Oh also one more thing, after this we'll take things a little slower for plot stuff, having some relaxation should do everyone some good within the fic. But you'll know when things are escalating.
Now I'm done.