Tyrantale

Chapter 9.

Now, back to the revolt.


Sans followed Alphys to the lab, where she quickly took out the Soul Extractor.

"Okay," the lizard scientist prompted, "since nobody in here is going anywhere any time soon, we may as well work on this as quickly as possible."

"I'm ready," Sans said, putting on a pair of gloves, "let's get to work."

"I hope Undyne can get that thing away from Chara." Alphys said.

"Don't worry about her," Sans replied, "she's dealt with harder tasks."


Meanwhile, after sneaking her way from the castle, through Hotland, all the way back to Waterfall, Undyne finally caught up with Chara, who was already coming up on Snowdin's border with his reluctant guards. One of the guards did end up noticing Undyne, but, under the current circumstances, he did not say anything and pretended that he had not seen her.

"Um...Sire," one of the guards offered, "perhaps it would be a good time to check the barrier detector?"

Chara thought about it and shrugged, then took out the aforementioned device; as soon as she saw the device, Undyne quickly conjured an energy spear and, without hesitation, threw it in Chara's direction. As soon as the device was free from Chara's hand, Undyne threw herself from her hiding place, snatching the detector in a frantic role before darting back toward the trees.

"What the h-" Chara uttered, "Asgore loyalist!"

Undyne dropped to the ground as Chara fired a violent power beam in her direction, obliterating several trees, just barely missing her. She then turned herself invisible and stood up, quickly darting off as Chara continued to unleash powerful attacks in random directions.

"Don't just stand there you imbeciles!" the demonic child screamed, "Find her! Get my device back! Nobody opposes me and lives!"

The guards the took off in Undyne's direction, though, of course, they were not about to actually capture the fish woman.

"This is my land," Chara muttered angrily, "I am king, and I will slaughter anyone who dares cross me!"


Sans and Alphys were busy in the lab, working frantically on the Soul Extractor, when Sans' cellphone went off. With on hand on the machine, Sans answered his phone with his free hand.

"Talk to me." he said.

"Sans," it was Undyne, "I got Chara's barrier detector."

"Sweet!" the short skeleton responded, "Where are you now?"

"On my way back to the ruins," Undyne affirmed, "I turned invisible and took off through the forest so Chara couldn't see which way I was going."

"Good job," Sans said, "Alphys and I are making progress on the Soul Extractor."

"78 percent complete!" Alphys announced.

"Nice," Undyne replied, "okay, I should go, I'm back at the ruins."

"And we'll start getting the remaining prisoners out of the castle," Sans said, "the lot of you better stay safe."

After that they ended their call.

"If we're doing this," the short skeleton told the lizard woman, "we gotta do it now!"

Alphys nodded, setting the Soul Extractor down.

"I'll go shut down the barrier," Alphys said, "you round everyone up."


Back in the ruins, Frisk was at the end of the hallway, passed Toriel and Asriel's rooms, taking practice swings with the bone Papyrus had lent to him. Even though the others thought he was already good enough to fight Chara, Frisk wanted to make extra sure. Though, he was careful not to hit anything.

"Hmm, maybe I shouldn't do this here." the human boy mumbled.

As he walked back through the hall, he stopped in front of Asriel's room, since he had been there, he never had gotten to get a good look inside. Since Asriel was not in there at the moment, Frisk decided to go inside and look around.

The human child was quite surprised when he opened the door, for Asriel's room looked much like a room that a typical human child on the surface would have. There was a toy box, a crate of art supplies, a dresser, a bureau, and a child-sized bed. Cutesy drawings were hung up on the wall and on the dresser was a picture frame; his interest sparked, Frisk curiously grabbed the picture frame off of Asriel's dresser to get a closer look at it. The frame contained a family photo, with Toriel standing alongside who Frisk could only assume was her husband Asgore, in front of them stood Asriel, looking much happier and healthier than he did currently, who was standing next to another child, a human boy.

Staring at the picture, Frisk was over come with so many emotions, he had no idea how to feel.

"Nice memories." he heard, turning around he found Asriel standing behind him.

"Oh, hey," Frisk voiced, "I was just...looking."

"It's okay, you're allowed to explore." Asriel said.

He looked at the picture with Frisk.

"Yeah, that's us before," the goat child explained, "back before...the bad stuff happened."

"So, this is your dad?" the human boy inquired.

Asriel nodded.

"And this is..." Frisk trailed off as he continued.

"Chara." Asriel stated.

They looked at the picture quietly for a moment.

"You all look so...happy," Frisk said, "honestly, I'm kinda jealous."

"We were happy," Asriel expressed, "for a good while, things were great, I was so happy Chara had showed up, it was nice to finally have a friend, a sibling. But, then...then Chara..." He looked down sadly, coughing once.

Frisk continued staring intently at the picture in the frame.

"He was so...convincing," Asriel expressed, "every time he spoke, Chara sound so sincere, we truly loved him and we believed that he truly loved us, he called my parents Mom and Dad, he called me his brother, so...when that day came, when Chara turned on us...nobody could believe that it was actually happening. Chara took everything from us and if he gets to the surface...he'll take everything from the humans."

Frisk finally put the picture back on the dresser.

"All I've ever wanted was a real family," the human boy voiced, "people who truly loved me and people I truly loved back, I've never had that and to actually hear with my own ears that somebody had it and purposely threw it away disgusts me! I may not have anything worth saving up on the surface, but, there's lots of people up there who haven't done anything to hurt anyone and they don't deserve to have it taken away. On my Soul, Asriel, I promise, Chara will never make it to the surface!"

Asriel smiled contently.

"And when it's all over," the goat boy said, "you can live with us!"

Just then, Papyrus appeared in Asriel's doorway.

"Kids, guess what," the tall skeleton announced, "they did it, Undyne took Chara's barrier monitor away and Sans and Alphys have almost gotten all the prisoners out of the castle, we're so close now!"

Asriel looked on joyfully.

"So close." Frisk whispered eagerly.


Finally, another chapter done, sorry I cut it so short, I just really wanted to get this up and make it clear that I have NOT forgotten about this fic.

I have a lot of stuff planned, now, I just need to decided what will come first.