The universe where the Soul Stone was located was...strange. It looked like a planet eternally in winter, but the soil was actually white, and not snow. It was in a eternal eclipse, so the light that got on it was extremely small. That is, until a portal opened, revealing Zalgo and Chara.

"It's better that the Stone is up there...for the sake of your protégé.", Zalgo said, as he walked ahead, with a unwitting Chara behind.

The path of the two over the mountains was long, but with no difficulties. But as Chara could notice in the walk, there was tons and tons of footmarks, from other visitors of before, perhaps. As the two reached the summit, Zalgo suddenly shielded Chara from someone wearing a strange cloak.

"Welcome, Zalgo, He Who Waits Behind the Wall. Chara, the Demon that comes when people call her name.", the figure said, a voice that visibly once held endless pride, but now was completely humble. The old nickname Chara herself used to go with made her get extreme discomfort, and regret.

"How you know us?", Zalgo asked.

"I'm cursed to know about everyone that dares step foot here.", the figure answered.

"Where's the Soul Stone?"

"You should understand...it has a horrible price."

"I'm ready.", Zalgo firmly said.

"We all do think of this...at first.", the figure said, as it stepped out of the shadows, revealing it was actually Eggman, leader of the Egg Empire, twarted years ago by Sonic. "We all are wrong."

Dr. Eggman led the two hivemind-ic beings over something that looked like a temple, lacking it's walls and roof, which lead to a pit that was certain death for anyone that was pitful enough to fall on it.

"How you understand how this place works that well?", Zalgo questioned, calmly.

"I tried to get the Stone as well.", Eggman said. "I even got one...but the one I got banished me here. So, I guide others...to a treasure I can never have. What you seek is right in front of you...as is one of your greatest fears."

"And what's that?", Zalgo asked. "Tell me what I need to do."

"To ensue whoever has the Soul Stone can understand it...it demands a sacrifice.", Eggman replied.

"Of what?", Zalgo demanded, without rising his voice.

"In order to have this Stone you must lose someone you love. A soul in the place of a soul.", Eggman simply said, but deep inside, he felt apprehensive for the Hivemind of Chaos.

Chara couldn't help herself but laugh with her "melty face"...finally, she thought, something will stop the Hivemind of Chaos once and for all.

"Ever since I met you...I dreamed that one day...you'd get your karma.", Chara said, letting loose alot of her joy. "And I was always left disappointed. But now...you kill and torture, and it's mercy in your head. I used to be a monster too, but even then, I remembered about and missed my adoptive family. But...you...the multiverse judged you. You asked it for a prize, and it refused. You failed. And you wanna know why? Because you love nothing. No one."

Zalgo turned to face Chara, but instead of the furious face she was expecting, she met with teary eyes.

"Really? Tears?", Chara bitterly said, honestly feeling pitful over the apparent breakdown of the villain.

"Those ain't for him."

Once Dr. Eggman said that, Chara's sarcastic and bitter smile disappeared...as she realized she was the one in danger.

"No...", Chara said in a near whisper, as she began to try and back up. "...this isn't love."

"I can't stop myself from getting at the end of my destiny. Even for you.", Zalgo pitfully said. Chara looked defeated for a while, before deciding a last trick to try and save the multiverse: summon a copy of her Real Knife and stab her SOUL with it. However...as soon as the blade entered in contact with the half heart, it transformed into petals of a golden flower. "I'm sorry, little one..."

Zalgo held by the arm a desperate Chara that screamed "NO!", trying to break free from his grasp. But the demonic being's power was much stronger than hers. With sorrow contorting his face, Zalgo threw down Chara to her death, as she screamed. A ring of red blood surrounds the head of her dead body, as the SOUL splits in half and then in many pieces, signaling a new Game Over for her, like many other times she died...except, this time, she was stuck on the Menu of her world.

The sacrifice was complete.

For a moment, Zalgo got unconscious, only to wake up at a genuine pile of snow and...open a closed fist, revealing he now had the orange Soul Stone.