Chapter 5

A sound of dispersal, a release of energy in the form of an attack, a sound familiar to the fallen children. A sound in which death followed suit. It was practically the roar of the grim reaper himself. The four children stood silently as they stared at the being that uttered this roar. Silent, scared, because to the side was a mountain of what looked like ashes and rubble. It was the spitting image of death. A white skeleton body, a hood, dark attire, and a smile, an unnatural smile.

"Heya kid, first kid, new kids" Death spoke.

Frisk had instinctively replied with a simple shake of their hand from side to hide slowly.

"Quiet as ever," then his clothes illuminated black hood turned to a brilliant blue. Pants turned to basketball shorts with a single white stripe running vertically from the front of the legs.

"S-Sans! How are you here!?" Chara shouted.

"S-sans?" Ib asked confused.

"Yep, I'm Sans, Sans the Skeleton." the skeleton said raising his left hand from his pocket.

"N-nice to… meet you?"

"Likewise kid"

"That doesn't matter right now" Chara interjected. "What the heck are you doing here Sans? Are you here to finish our fight?" they said tensed.

"..."

Sans stared intently at the four, despite Chara's strong approach, Sans' presence was different, it was much more intimidating, even frightening the Genocidal Genius, the first fallen.

"Well?!"

"...not really" he finally let out.

"...huh?" Chara blurted, frisk equipping a confused look.

"Not here to kill you guys… again, and again, and again, and-"

"Okay I get it! Now, answer my question. How are you here?" they asked once again.

Sans sighed lightly, then looked to the side.

"It was always a theory of Alphys and mine that the world was made up of a bunch of numbers, a bunch of commands like a computer, like Metatton. Of course, we wouldn't be able to prove it, or at least. I wouldn't be able to reveal it."

"What?"

"You very well know I can teleport, things I call shortcuts are gateways I set up. It takes ages to do though, gotta get the coordinates on point in three dimensions otherwise you gaster yourself,"

"So what? What does this have to do with answering my question?" Chara demanded irritated.

"To get those coordinates right one has to open the codes, the codes that build this world. Basically, manipulating the fabric of our reality. I learned how to read and re-write that very coding, but this time is different." Sans then paused. His left eye turned blue, his right eye disappeared.

"We're not in any normal world right now, this is different compared to the reseted worlds. Isn't that right? Author?"

[what?]

"I know you're there, you've been manipulating the world, forcing this world and ours to connect and meet."

[and? So what? I thought the two series went well together!]

"They do, but now, we're stuck, I don't know the map values of this world, let alone how to get back to this world."

[and you want me to do something?]

"...please?"

[ugggh! Fine, but first I want you to do what I brought you in here for,]

"Alright."

"Who are you talking to?" Ib and Mary asked curious.

"Don't worry about that, now, before we leave, I have something I need to do" Sans declared.

"What's that?"

"Frisk, because of a certain person doing something stupid."

[hey, don't snap at me]

"I too remember what exactly happened before, every timeline, every reset, including the first run, and the first Genocide, the other me's agreed with my observations and confirmed. I've seen who you were and are even during Game over screens, lastly, I remember seeing you push the reset even when you were so close. You never did that. I've also been filled in on your adventures here."

The four kids stood clueless, Chara floating of course, this was leading to something. Something imperative to their escape/return.

"I'm saying that after taking time, looking over everything, I've decided, that I need to look at you again, really look. I'm going to pass judgement once again, as the other me's have."

"What? You are going to judge us!?" Chara protested,

Frisk however, stood firm, waiting.

"Looks like our kiddo there is ready."

Sans' hands were planted within his pockets, body turned black, eye blue once more.

"Wait," Chara said.

"Huh?"

"Before you start, I have something I need to say, I know it won't change affect your decision. I still need to say it nonetheless."

"Alright, name it."

"...I'm sorry for this all. Getting frisk to kill everyone just so I could erase everything, convincing them to sell their SOUL. I apologize. To everyone, Napstablook, the dogs, Mettaton, Alphys, Undyne, You, your Brother, Mom, Dad, Azzy, I mean Azriel." there was zero sense of insincerity in their voice. Chara was serious, dead serious.

Sans began staring even more intently. His eye pierced right into the two's SOUL. they could feel every Praise, every Sin, colliding with them, breaking them down and rebuilding countless times.

"Frisk? Hold'n up okay?" Chara asked shaking. Frisk was still silent, sweating.

Then suddenly, the pain and comfort stopped, everything halted at an instant.

"What just happened?" Ib asked to nobody.

"No idea," Mary replied. "Mr. Sans?"

"I was deciding their fates. And I've decided."

"S-so what did you decide?" Ib asked scared.

"I've decided, you've changed my mind,"

"What?"

"I was pretty angry, even if you did push reset to end it all, I was pissed off regardless. But your actions in this place, another underground have given me hope as well. The hope that you can fix things, make them better."

"Sans!... I…" Chara stuttered

"Now, hey! Take us all back."

[okay, alright, here's some tips before hand, I'm gonna remove the permanant bad ending, what ending you guys get is up to you, you'll all have your memories, but this time, four humans will fall and not just one. Good luck humans and skeleton. *snap*]

They were all gone, Ib, Mary, Frisk, Chara, and Sans.

Then there was nothing for a brief time, the best they could make out was yellow, they were all on the ground. Chara was the first to rise, the first to stand up.

"Ug, my freakin' head!" and then silence. A sudden realization. "I-I… I can feel!? I can! I can feel!" Chara shouted triumphantly, "I have my body again! Ahah!" they were ecstatic.

"Frisk! Frisk! Check it out!" they called out to their old partner who barely sat themselves up, along with Ib and Mary.

"Finally. Finally!"

It was the happiest Frisk had ever seen their phantom friend. Their spectral spectator was a ghost no longer. Although their happiness lasted only a brief time as Chara fell onto their but.

"Fwwh, agh, that hurts,"

"Maybe you're not used to walking?" Ib suggested.

"*sigh* maybe, Frisk? A little help?"

Frisk nodded and came to their side, lifting Chara's left arm around their neck and reducing the weight Chara dealt with, Ib on the other.

"Frisk? Chara? Where are we? This isn't the surface is it?" Mary asked confused.

"Well it's complicated, see that up there?" Chara asked pointing at the hole above them, is was a long tunnel with a little light peering down. "That up there's the surface, unfortunately, we have a lot of work to do until we can get up there."

"Then we can see the surface?" she asked excited.

"Yeah, but if you want to, there's some requirements."

"What? What?"

"Rule number 1, no matter what, never, EVER kill anything. Every monster down here is a person just like us, even if they attack you, it's because they're startled. Even when it seems completely hopeless and we are completely screwed, when there's a 0% chance of victory, no killing. Got it?"

"Y-yeah," Mary replied slightly confused.

"soon it'll be explained better."

They walked away from the patch of buttercups and into a black corridor. Soon another light illuminated a circle of green grass, and a lone flower waving in the non-existent wind.

"Hm? Who are you all?"

The four fallen children stared at the flower, it's identity was known to two, but not all of them.

"...you don't recognize me?" Chara asked.

"Ummm no. sorry, have we met?"

"It's me Azzy, Chara!" Chara exclaimed.

The flower stopped swaying and stared blankly

"C-C-C-Chara? MY Chara? Is that really you?" the flower asked,

"Yeah, don't ask questions, I'm alive and that's that, but don't tell anyone."

"Huh? Why?" the flower called "Azzy" asked.

"Because if everyone knows, then things will be out of whack,"

"Okay Chara, if you say so, hey, who are those people?"

"Just some other fallen humans like me. This is Mary, Ib, and Frisk."

"Chara? How about we teach them how things work in the underground?" the flower asked with a semi-innocent smile.

"Absolutely not, they're my friends now."

"...wha-what? You… replaced me?..." the flower asked scared but also upset.

"No! Of course not, you're still my best friend."

"Then you don't need anyone else!"

Suddenly a ring of pellets surrounded the four, who's SOUL's had appeared, all red of different shades. Frisk's SOUL was the purest red. Chara's SOUL was scarlet. Ib's was rose red (there's a difference)

"Azzy no!" Chara cried out, but pleas fell on deaf ears

"Chara! What do we do!?" Mary shouted.

Chara was silent, but had a hidden smirk.

The pellet ring was maybe five centimeters from colliding when they were saved. A fireball from nowhere had slugged the flower, flinging him out of the ground and into the blackness.

END

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