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Toriel felt something was off with the young child she found in the ruins. She was just off to spend a little bit of time over the grave of her child when she encountered the child approaching the stairway to the ruins. At first it filled her heart with joy to see them… but after going through the first few puzzles with them she found a few… quirks that didn't sit right with her.
The first, as the boss monster noticed, was that the child had a blank stare and what looked to be a forced smile on their face. The other children she had encountered never had such a blank look, fear and confusion were common, one had a look of curiosity while another she knew had a look of wonder… but none of the six children before this one, not even her own looked so… hollow to say the least.
The next came from the training dummy. Toriel watched on with as much held back shock as she could when the human picked up a stick and began beating the dummy down. What worried Toriel the most out of this was she could have sworn she saw the child's smile growing from the experience.
The last one that concerned her… was the fact that when she held the child's hand as she lead them through the spike puzzle she saw small traces of fresh dust on their hands. She didn't know where the dust came from or which kind of dust it was, but it was enough to get the boss monster worried.
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Frisk struggled to regain control. Even though they had very little influence over their own body… their own soul anymore, they were trying now more than ever. Even though Chara had killed the first Froggit and the training dummy, Frisk was determined to try and stop them from causing any further harm.
I've gotta stop them! Frisk thought biting at their lower lip and was trying to use their own willpower currently to try and stop Chara from killing yet another innocent Froggit. Tears started to build up in the corners of their own eyes as they tried their absolute best to save the monster… only for it to fail as Chara used the large stick they start out with to beat the poor monster into dust.
Being forced to watch the brutality once again Frisk screamed a little out of fear as well as pain. Looking back at their damaged form they saw that a small portion of their elbow began to fade into nothingness once again. Tears began to roll down their face as they screamed a little more out of guilt. They had failed again… they had failed to save another life again.
I should have stayed in my happy ending! Even if it was almost torn apart on the surface! Frisk cried, as they curled in on themselves once again. Warm tears continuing to crawl down their cheeks as they continued to sob and scream a little more. A small part of them hoping that it would stop the demon controlling them long enough for a monster to escape.
It didn't work as Chara killed a Whimsun with a satisfied look on their face. The second kill done made the small fading part of Frisk fade away some more, causing the child to cry once again. After all with each death caused by their hands, their own life was that much closer to an end itself.
M-Mom, please! Help me! Frisk thought desperately, holding onto as much of themselves as they could as Chara forced their body to continue down it's dark path.
P-Papyrus! Undyne! Alphys! Sans! A-Anyone please! HELP ME! They cried out in their own thoughts...
But No One Came. The dark, twisted words echoed out in the soul paralyzing Frisk where they lay, curled up into themselves as much as they could. After all, when Chara responded to them… it made their already living hell that much worse. Frisk didn't have to open their eyes to know that Chara… the real Chara was in front of them right now with their sickly sweet smile on their pale face.
Not that anyone can help you anyways, Chara laughed as they stalked around Frisk in the dark recesses of the soul. Frisk whimpered a little, by this point they feared the fallen human more than anything else… they feared Chara even more than they feared Omega Flowey and their own father combined.
S-stop p-please… Frisk sniffled attempting to make themselves shrink away from Chara, who continued to smile at these actions.
Why should I? After all we had a deal partner. I reset everything so you can spend more time with your friends and family before that old man of yours and the authorities take you away from it all, for the price of being able to use your body whenever I feel like it.
Frisk shivered as Chara spoke. They were right, they did promise the fallen child that… However that didn't excuse them from doing so many things that hurt Frisk and cause them to slowly die… forgotten and alone.
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After Sans calmed down a little the biggest question he had in his mind since seeing his father again after so long came springing forward.
"where…. where were you all this time?"
"Well… I was a little here, some over there," Gaster responded, hands waving and pointing to seemingly random areas of the room as he continued. Sans chuckled a little.
"that's nice but seriously."
"I was being serious, though not in those exact areas."
A silence followed soon after Gaster explained. It only lasted for a short while before the older skeleton broke it.
"However in this slightly altered timeline, soon after retiring as the Royal Scientist due to personal reasons I moved to the capital where I've been until today."
"how altered is the timeline?" Sans questioned, a surprisingly serious look took to his features as he stared his own father in the eyes.
"Not to much. I made sure of that. It's only altered enough that I can hold a more stable presence here easily." Sans let his eyes trail to the unnaturally shifting dark coat the older skeleton wore and the fact that the lower parts dissolved into seemingly nothing but shadow… and the fact he couldn't even make out if Gaster had feet or legs due to the same issue.
"well seems a little shady to me," Sans pointed out, earning a light hearted chuckle from the ex-Royal Scientist.
"Yes well there's only so much of a form that I can hold up outside of the void."
"seems like the situation is pretty… unavoidable if you ask me."
"Was that a pun?"
"that? nah it was nothing," Sans was snickering a little at this, while a blank look crossed the father's face.
"Sans…"
"yeah?"
"These puns of yours…. Are starting to get out of hand," Gaster said with a smirk as he held up his own hand, the hole in the center of his palm clearly visible, for a moment.
"oh my god," Sans snorted a little at the bad pun. Soon after however a loud scream of annoyance was heard from downstairs.
"DAD! SANS! STOP MAKING BAD PUNS UP THERE ALREADY! IT'S TOO EARLY FOR THAT AND THE SPAGHETTI IS ALMOST DONE!" Papyrus shouted, not having heard the puns but by this point in time for the younger but taller skele-bro he had a sixth sense for when his family starts making terrible puns.
"We'll be down in a moment Papyrus, just gotta get this… Lazy Bone off the bed," Gaster called out, earning a groan of annoyance from the cool skeleton and another laughing snort from his oldest son.
Gaster smiled, it was times like this that he missed most during his time in the void.
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Undyne stopped doing her daily work out of bench pressing boulders. Something wasn't right today. Something that made her scales feel like the cold air of Snowdin was brushing past them. Tossing the boulder off to the side she stood up and summoned one of her spears, her lone yellow eye scanning the entire area surrounding her. Nothing seemed to be out of place, aside from her abnormally large pile of boulders of varying sizes that helped make up her own personal training area in Waterfall. The same rocks with a slight purple shade to them, same small drops of water making their way down the ceiling to the floor in a never ending cycle, a few echo flowers near the entrance and the lake was the same as ever.
Seeing no one or anything out of place Undyne's spear dissipated and left her scowling. The feeling that something was just wrong was still there. Almost as wrong as seeing a small yellow flower looking up at her from near her makeshift bench press… wait what?
"Howdy!"
Spears instantly surrounded Flowey in a heartbeat. He however seemed to just react calmly to the threat of the spears.
"Wow, great reflexes there! No wonder you're Captain of the Royal Guards," Flowey laughed, pulling off his sickly sweet friendly voice.
"What the HELL are you and how the HELL did you get in here?!" Undyne demanded, her spears still surrounding the small flower with a hidden sense of caution to them. She mostly wanted to know the last part seeing as she usually… closes the entrance with quite honestly the same pile of boulders mentioned earlier.
"I'm Flowey, Flowey the Flower. As for how I got in here, well the same way other plants do."
"You… grew from a seed randomly?" Undyne questioned, causing one of Flowey's eyes to twitch just a little but still held up his smile.
"Close enough. Listen I have a warning to give you," Flowey said, tone turning a little more serious. After all if his plan to stop Chara was to work… he'd need all the help he could get even if he didn't like it, and the best way to start is to get on the good side of the Royal Guards, or rather the Captain herself.
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Frisk was curled up in the corner of their soul once again. Chara killed everyone in the ruins once again, Toriel was the last one left. Frisk bit at their bottom lip once again as the boss monster lead them into her home. They didn't want Chara to kill her, they didn't want to lose their mother again. Standing up with a struggle they pushed themselves forward to the center of the soul. Chara was now in front of the boss monster, the toy knife in hand as they both stood in front of the exit to the ruins. This was the last chance they could get to achieve a "Neutral" run by this point.
Shoot for the Neutral run… Frisk thought, swallowing down a lump in their throat. If they could get a neutral run down then they could fight another day with no more damage to what was left of them. The thought of them being able to stop Chara right here… it filled them with DETERMINATION.
Working quick they reached down and pulled back up, pulling up a few red strings from their stolen soul. They quickly tied them around their broken arms and hands before pulling with all their might. Peeking out they watched through the strings of their soul to see that Chara struggled to move their arms with their pull. That was good, now Frisk attempted to move their arm to where the Mercy button would be, internally cheering as they saw some progress… only for Chara to fight back against them once again.
NO! Frisk screamed as their arm was yanked by the soul strings to where the FIGHT option was… and Chara slammed their hand down onto it, forcing the child to watch at the very monster- no, the very person they saw as their own mother… was cut down to dust once again.
Well... I never said it was going to be a happy note of a chapter did I? but oh well you get to know a little more about Gaster, and Flowey's plan is being put into action.
On a side note I really want to hug and comfort Frisk even though I'm the one writing all the crap their being put through. Oh well.
*Hugs Frisk*
Don't worry, the next chapter will have a few more positive notes to it... Ah who am I kidding there's going to be pain and some happier notes.
Anyways Please Review if you liked this update.
~Ulquihimefan1