In another part of the Multiverse, a dull ship, with a room containing a dark throne, traveled across the multiverse in search for the location of the mysterious, hidden Soul Stone. On one of the throne's staircase steps, Chara sitted down, with hatred taking over her mind, her heart, and her SOUL.

"I thought you could be hungry.", Zalgo calmly stated, after emerging from the shadows with a slice of pie on his fingertip, offering it to his former friend. Chara simply, and fastly, gulped the slice of pie in one bite, too angry to actually enjoy the taste.

"I hate this throne.", Chara furiously spoke, as her face began to grow meltier with the black goo that was born out of her intense feelings. "I hate this room, this ship, my LIFE!"

"You said this in all the versions of your past.", Zalgo calmly stated, as he decided to sit down on the staircase, instead of his throne.

"You destroyed my world!", Chara said, failing at containing her rage.

"I saved it.", Zalgo calmly defended himself.

"No...everything was going well on those timelines.", Chara said, in disbelief.

"Your world was overloading with timelines. Your universe, was at the blink of collapse.", Zalgo said, coldly, interrupting any chances of Chara for her to continue talking. "I'm the one who saved it...because I halved the number of timelines. All of that for a small price."

"You're CRAZY!", Chara yelled.

"My dear, it's a simple calculation.", Zalgo began his explanation. "Everything is scattered about. And some of them don't deserve to interact with other beings. And I must take control from those."

"You are a monster...", Chara replied, recieving a scowl from Zalgo's mouths.

"Perhaps. But I'm the only one with the will to act as one.", Zalgo said, darkly. "For a while...you had the same will back in your world...and as you worked with me. And I trusted that you could find the Soul Stone."

"Sorry, but I failed you.", Chara said, words dipping with sarcasm but hidding a actual regret.

"I am disappointed.", Zalgo agreed, at first starting calmly, but getting slightly fiercer. "But not because you couldn't find it. But because you did...and you lied."

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Zalgo pratically forced Chara to follow him into a circle-shaped room, with chains everywhere, and a guard uninterested in the current victim of those chains: Frisk Dreemurr, the one responsible for giving back to Chara proper feelings by giving a part of her red SOUL. Her remaining half of her SOUL was now in shards, flying close to each other, and she was heavily breathing.

"Frisk!", Chara pitfully cried, as she ran to the human she interacted so many times in her universe. "Please, don't hurt her..."

"A while ago, your protégé tried to enter this ship and stop me from fulfilling my goal.", Zalgo began to monologue.

"Don't you dare hurt her...", Chara said, even lower due to choking her incoming tears.

"But she failed...and I put her here. To talk.", Zalgo said, with a scowl in his mouths that visibly told he didn't really want to do this, as he activated the Power and Space Stone's in his Gauntlet, forcing Frisk's SOUL shards to get farther from each other, and giving to the tween girl a unbearable pain that made her scream, the loudest she could.

"I swear, for all that's sacred, I never found the Soul Stone.", Chara said, trying to keep Frisk alive and safe the fastest she could. Unfortunately, without her knowing, Zalgo read Chara's memories, finding out a dialogue between a younger version of her and Frisk talking about the Stone.

"You're undeniably a strong influence, and honest, like me. And that's why you can't lie.", Zalgo stated, with a betrayed and disgusted tone. "Where is the Soul Stone?"

Zalgo lifts the gauntlet higher, as Chara remains silent and Frisk tries to encourage her to not give up the information of the Stone by shaking her head. However, the effort is fruitless once Zalgo uses the combination of Stones again, forcing Frisk into more and more pain.

"UNIVERSE #7200!", Chara finally screamed, with tears endlessy falling on her face. Once Zalgo hears it, his fist lets loose as the shards of Frisk's SOUL clench together again, and Chara hugs her protégé in a deeply apologetic way. "The Stone is on the Universe number 7200..."

"Show to me.", Zalgo said, with a smile creeping in the face on his mouth.