Disclaimer: I do not own Undertale.
Chapter Four:
Watching what had happened last time had not been easy for anyone. They had all taken a break, intent on trying to swallow down the things that they had seen. Everyone had at least an hour of sleep, but no one had been able to get through it uninterrupted.
Nightmares.
Perhaps, the first step on their road t Sans was these horrible, heartbreaking nightmares. No one but Papyrus and Frisk knew about the nightmares, but now that they had at least some of th that they all wanted, even unknowingly, wasn't sure where to go from there.
He planned on showing the full genocide run, and he would. Nothing would change his mind on that, but seeing his sons twisted in grief and comforting one another, it was hard.
Sans wouldn't figure him the type, and he wasn't wrong. both loved, and was completely and utterly emotionless toward his sons. Most of the time he felt nothing, but looking at them now, sleeping on the 'couch' together, wrapped around each other and clutching at one another like they were each other's most important person, felt his heart clench.
He would go through with it though.
In the end it would wind up better than before.
Some people were starting to come down, unable to take the nightmares or attempts to sleep any longer. There was of course, nothing to eat. In th such things were useless anyway. No matter what it looked like, or felt like, they were still in th D. It would not kill them, although it might feel uncomfortable when they finally got home. \
Undyne and Alphys came down first, swiftly followed by Frisk and Toriel, Mettaton and Asgore falling behind them at a much slower speed.
They were greeted by the site of the skelebro's cuddled up together. That, if nothing else, was a better break from the current situation than the naps they had all just taken.
"That's actually really fucking adorable. Too much though, it's actually hurting my teeth, I can feel them rotting in my mouth…" Undyne muttered, before whistling sharply to walk the two up.
Sans shot up, flinging a hand back toward the sound, causing Undyne to actually be pushed against the wall behind her, breath leaving her lungs, eyes flying wide.
Sans frantically looked around, clenching at Papyrus protectively, reflexively, as he searched the room for the threat to his brother. Realizing there wasn't one, and that his eye was starting to flare, Sans lowered his hand. Forcing himself to relax, he turned toward the stunned quiet room and rubbed the back of his skull, "Oops…"
"SANS! WHY IS UNDYNE AGAINST THE WALL LIKE THAT?" Papyrus asked, not having seen what happened, but quickly bouncing out of his sleep and into his normal energy in no time.
Sans just shrugged and played the whole thing off, "who knows, maybe she just likes leaning against walls like that."
"OH. THAT MAKES SENSE." Papyrus said, settling into his seat again, both him and Sans shifting to allow the others to find a place to sit among them.
They knew what they would have to do.
"What the absolute fuck…" Undyne muttered, but didn't mention it. She probably deserved that, the wall slam. After all, Sans had just saw his brother die… The fact that Sans had the power to slam her into the wall like that wasn't something she'd known before. However, Papyrus himself was actually a very strong monster – So it wasn't that surprising that his brother would have even a fraction of that power.
No one mentioned what had happened a moment ago.
Mostly because they could remember yesterday very well. They remembered everyone's reactions.
Especially Papyrus'
They didn't need any sort of conflict between the two brothers at the moment. Especially when they were depending on each other so much at the moment. Most of them felt a little bit guilty when they thought back on it. Papyrus had never been in worse shape, to the group's knowledge, yet they forced the emotionally shocked and horrified Sans to deal with it all by himself. They were horrible friends – At least they thought so.
A mistake that would NOT have a repeat this time.
The second everyone was seated and comfortable, restarted the 'screen' breaking their hope again, that it could be over.
The little dweeb was there, Monster Kid. Standing right next to the place where Sans had made his little job stand. No one else was there, no one but him. A frown came over their face, but Chara knew better than to let it affect her too heavily. They would get more things to kill soon enough.
Should they kill the little dunce now, or later…?
"Yo! Are you sneaking out to see Undyne, too?" The little yellow monster asked innocently.
Chara just smiled, "Oh yeah, I'm definitely here to… See her. Should be interesting!"
"Awesome! I wanna be just like her when I grow up. Hey, don't tell my parents that I am here, okay?" Kid begged, before scampering off, tripping over himself.
Ehhh… They would just kill him later – Maybe after they made friends with Kid, which would make everything just that much better. It's not like they didn't have all the time in the world, considering their ability. So, they walked on, not bothering to go after Kid, he'd be following their path anyway. Then they could make, 'Friends' with him.
"Why are they holding off on killing him? I'm grateful of course, I don't want to see the Kid die, but it doesn't make much sense. This monster hasn't paused in killing anyone before…" Undyne mused aloud.
"I doubt it is out of any good intentions." Toriel responded, almost bitterly. She could not help but blame herself for how this seemed to be going. It was made worse by the fact that she still loved Chara, despite what they were doing. It wasn't far, to have to deal with such horrible duality in this situation. How could she choose, should she choose? It was wrong all across the board.
"Tori…" Asgore muttered, reaching out a hand to place it on top of hers, as though to comfort her.
They walk up to the grassy area that Undyne is patrolling, wondering what sort of differences they would be facing here. It made them excited, although they doubted Undyne would provide any sort of challenge, seeing how things changed because of their actions was interesting. Almost like a science project! Wouldn't Alphys be proud?
Stopping in the tall grass, they watched Undyne turn around and look toward where they were. Apparently they had made too much noise, because Undyne heard them and summoned a spear, stalking forward.
Chara froze, actually afraid for some reason.
The aura coming off of Undyne was different from the one that they had faced last time. Deadlier, sharper, honestly Chara didn't know how to explain it.
They needed more LOVE.
"That little demon BETTER BE SCARED!" Undyne exclaimed in joy, pumping her first in the air, "I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH MYSELF WHIP THIS BITCHES ASS!"
"Undyne please refrain from using too much fowl language, as despite the circumstances there is still my child in the room." Toriel mentioned, before looking downward. She didn't want to see someone actually fighting her child. Sure, some of the small monsters had tried, but the idea of watching one of her friends actually trying to kill her daughter… She wanted to put it off and pretend it would never happen.
But Undyne would have to.
The whole Underground was at stake, and she was Royal Guard.
Of course, they had every intention of getting more, but now they knew that they needed It. Instinct was warring inside of them to the point it screamed.
"Hehehehe… At least it won't be boring," Chara muttered to themselves, a smirk running across their face.
"Yo! Did you see the way she was staring at you?!" An excited voice spoke from next to them, causing their head to swing over. They had forgotten about this annoyances existence for a moment. "That was awesome! I am so jealous She was just standing there waiting forever and then you just… Come on; let's go watch her beat up some bad guys!"
Before Chara could even get a word in, the little monster was running away, tripping over himself once again.
Chara shrugged and just went about their way, finally finding something to kill!
"Damn, that little brat is just asking to get killed…" Undyne motioned toward the screen uselessly.
"I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A SIGN THAT THE HUMAN IS GETTING BETTER. PERHAPS THEY WILL NOT KILL ANYONE AGAIN." Papyrus said, almost triumphantly. He was sure that the other him that had just died would be happy with such a thing. Maybe he'd actually been able to make some moral impact on them after all.
"pap… i don't think that's what happening here. please don't get ahead of yourself…" Sans warned, patting his brother on the skull lightly.
Papyrus really was a ray of sunshine… But Sans knew what happened, and knew that Chara wasn't settling there.
Papyrus was stubborn though, "I WILL KEEP YOUR WORDS IN MIND, BUT I STILL BELIEVE THAT THE HUMAN WILL DO THE RIGHT THING."
Sans just looked up at his brothers trusting face and practically melted, 'Man… My brother is so cool.'
Their eyes gleamed in excitement as Aaron flexed his way next to them, looking for friendly competition, he didn't get it.
Chara moved quickly, dashing in before Aaron could make a move, and decided to take what mattered most to the monster. Pushing him down, Chara took their knife and dug it into the shoulder of Aaron, cutting tendons and bones, muscles and magic, separating all the hard work from the hard worker.
Chara had cut Aaron's arms off.
"I … D-don't understand… K-killing mons-s-sters is one thing… B-but why do t-they do it in t-the w-worst possible w-way…?" Alphys gasped out, a hand over her mouth in horrour.
Undyne pulled her girlfriend close, gently forcing Alphys head onto her shoulder, wanting to comfort Alphys, but also secretly needed the closeness herself, "It's because they are sick Alphie… There is no other explanation… Their just sick and twisted."
"So, you liked to flex huh? I thought I'd take it away from you; after all it's not a useful way to spend your time. You agree right?! You're glad I did it, RIGHT?!" Chara said, bouncing around in front of Aaron, as his arms turned to dust.
Aaron just stared at the dust that used to be his arms. He was speechless, unknowing of how to react, but tears gathered in his eyes.
"Awwwwh, this reaction is boring… I guess I could just reunite you with your arms if they matter that much." Chara said a pout on their wicked lips.
Aaron turned to face his attacker, almost desperate, no words, just a pleading whine escaped his mouth.
"Okay then, if you want them back just stand still!" Chara said, walking over toward Aaron again, still pouting in disappointment as they swung their knife, finishing Aaron off, the betrayal in his eyes feeding Chara's LOVE of violence, "Hehe… He looked so betrayed, but I only did what I said I would! His arms dust and his bodies dust are together now. Geez, the things I do for these ungrateful monsters…"
"How does it get worse? The things she says… How did our child even learn these things…" Asgore said, watching the screen with a silent sort of sadness, steady and deep depression.
For once Sans felt the need to comfort the man using the best force in the world, logic!
"The chances are that the 'child' got messed up when they died. It's not normal to come back to life and take over another's body, right? It probably screwed up something in their head, legitimately. It isn't Tori's or your own fault." Sans was almost dismissive in tone, which would have been angering, if they didn't know that was just how he was.
"… Thanks Sans." Asgore said simply, mildly comforted. Especially for the fact that Sans bothered to attempt comforting them. Knowing Sans as well as he did, Asgore knew that the skeleton monster wasn't that big on things like that.
Still pouting, Chara moved on to find their next opponent.
A few Washua and Moldsmal showed up, but they were boring enemies, not fun to kill at all. Chara wanted something interesting, the only thing really starving off their boredom as they killed off enemies was the fact that they were gaining LOVE to face Undyne.
So many Moldsmal, Chara absentmindedly noted as they dusted another one.
"Ohhh~ Waterfall monsters have a different dust as well! It's actually slightly blue!" Chara exclaimed, as if they actually cared about the discovery.
"Why is the dust a different colour?" Undyne asked, although in the most sensitive tone possible.
"B-because o-of the difference in atmosphere a-and the m-most type o-of magic u-used in the a-area…" Alphys gave a simplified version of the explanation, "The m-magic saturates t-the area, c-changing the atm-m-mosphere s-so when a m-monster passes … It t-takes on the a-area's c-charact-teristics."
Undyne just nodded, but everyone suddenly felt much more informed. It wasn't common knowledge. It wasn't something monsters typically looked at and went, huh, would you look at that! It was too scared for that. Still, Alphys was a scientist.
Sans already knew.
He'd seen too much dust to have not noticed.
It didn't take too long before there were no more monsters in the area.
A smirk graced their face when a spear suddenly embedded itself in the ground in front of them.
It seems as though their enemy had appeared! They ran along, dodging the spears with speed unnatural for a human to posses.
Of course, the game ended far too quickly, when that little bothersome shit got in the way. It made Undyne walk away, the presence of Monster Kid, but it made Chara squeeze the knife in their hand, ready to take a strike at Monster Kid.
They wanted their entertainment back!
"LOOK! THE HUMAN IS HEISITATING TO ATTACK…" Papyrus ended, almost hopefully. Gazing toward his brother, hoping that there would be agreement from him.
Sans wouldn't let his brother feel the disappointment of that encouragement though, even if it would help him feel better momentarily, "look pap… i don't really think that kid is hesitating for anything good. it might just be using mk as a way to get to undyne when they fight her, or something like that… please don't get your hopes up pap…"
Sans practically begged his brother.
The shorter skeleton didn't want to see his brother broken like he had been the last day, when he watched himself die.
Papyrus seemed to notice that his brother needed something from him at this moment, and couldn't deny it, even if he didn't really know what it was. So, slowly, hesitantly, he nodded along to Sans' opinion.
Everything about killing monsters other than warriors was getting boring.
Too easy
Chara literally had too much LOVE for it to be all that fun anymore. Right about now their LOVE was about nine, brining their HoPe to new levels that Chara hadn't experienced before. Frisk hadn't known what they were missing!
Reminded of their growing strength, Chara calmed down their want to completely annihilate Monster Kid.
It would be far more entertaining to do that in front of Undyne, instead!
"OH MY GOSH DID YOU SEE THAT? UNDYNE JUST TOUCHED ME! I am never washing my face again! Man, you are so unlucky. If you were standing just a little bit to the left, but do not worry! I'm sure we will see her again, and you can have your chance!" Monster Kid scurried along, Chara smirking after him.
"M-maybe w-when all of this is o-over y-you could g-go see Monster K-kid… It s-seems like something th-h-hey would r-really like…" Alphys shyly suggested to her girlfriend, poking her fingers together.
Undyne gave a large grin, "Yeah! I think I'll do just that. The brat is pretty cute; he looks a bit nerdy too, like my amazing girlfriend."
It was said like she was stating the sky was blue. Undyne simply thought her girlfriend was amazing, and it was fact, something that everyone should agree with, something that should be obvious to everyone that they passed on the road.
'Yeah, it will be my lucky day when we see Undyne again you little brat, it just won't be yours.' Chara thought, skipping along the path again.
Shyren's appeared, and Chara was happy.
Shyren had actually tried to hide from them!
"Hehehehe, you can't hide from me. You monsters, you're all so stupid! That is why it's so easy to kill all of you! You never put up a fight." Chara said, advancing on the shivering enemy, banishing their knife, separating head from body.
"Even the monsters that are hiding… Such a fabulous singer as well…" Mettaton commented, watching the screen in rabid attention. It was like watching a horror story right in front of you. Something that actually could have happened, but didn't… It was sickening, but it provided him a small sort of thrill…
He was learning something from this.
As horrible as it was to say, the lessons he learned in this would certainly help him make more riveting and entertaining TV. Maybe it was horrible of him to think that way, but if they had to watch this horrour show, wasn't getting as much out of it was possible something that they should be aiming for? Why waste the lessons that are put down in front of them.
Honestly, Mettaton was very interested in seeing where this would all go, not only for the whole Underground, but also just for himself in this Alternate Universe.
Would he die as well?
Would be protect the few things he actually held dear?
Afterwards something happened that had Chara nearly going bat shit insane…
Oh
My
God
That annoying Kid was still around. Chara fought the urge to kill him right there and then, instead waiting for the sweet moment that they could kill him in front of Undyne.
"Hey! I guess you can't hold an umbrella either. If you're walking anyway, I guess I'll go with you, haha…" Monster kid followed after them as they walked, Chara careful not to start a conversation. They knew that this little monster would just go and on, that would make them unable to hold in the urge anymore.
Oh yeah! That ledge.
"Hey… You wanna see Undyne right? You can use my shoulders to get up."
Chara just nodded with a smile, climbing up on his shoulders.
Stamping on his head.
"CAN'T THIS DEMON DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HURTING SOMEONE!?" Undyne roared, feeling protective of the kid that looked up to them so much.
That remained innocent, despite the current circumstance.
"Ouch! You didn't have to be so rough…" Kid said, tears gathering in his eyes, but he forced them away. "Anyway, I'll find another way around. I'm good at that! See yah, hope you meet Undyne!"
Kid faded into the distance.
Chara burst into laughter, "HAHAHAHA! OH MY GOD HIS TEARS, HAHAHA! I AM SO GLAD I DID THAT, SO WORTH THE WAIT!"
"Kid… is worth…. Ten thousand of…. Thought whisperer…." Frisk spoke out brokenly, tears flowing from their eyes as they watched their body do such horrible things to one of their best friends.
Sans grabbed the kid from off Toriel's lap, despite the silent rebuke from Toriel that he got for it, hugged Frisk close, but he didn't say anything, he just hugged them. There wasn't much to say, he just wanted to comfort Frisk. Words weren't really capable of that in this moment.
Toriel seemed to have a few though, special mom powers.
"My child, Kid is safe at home right now with his parents. He knows that you would never do anything like that, and he knows that he doesn't deserve treatment even close to this. Nothing like this will EVER happen to him." The words were strong and comforting, and Frisk allowed both them, and the warmth of their Duckles embrace, to lull them into a better emotionally stable place.
Making their way into a dark set of rooms, Undyne showed up and attacked again. Chara had no problem dodging all the attacks, not bothering to give any attempt at violence back, their plan was too perfect to ruin for some momentary fun at Undyne's expense.
"URGH! I WANT TO SEE MYSELF HIT THIS DAMN BRAT!" Undyne grit out between her unusually sharp teeth.
The look on Undyne's face when they killed Kid in front of her…
It would simply be too perfect.
Eventually, Chara met a dead end and just jumped off. She knew that the bed of flowers below would cushion their fall, just as it had all those years ago.
Trash, ever where.
Well, at least they lost Undyne, which left an apathetic feeling. It was entertaining to fight against her, but Chara still wanted to go through with the plan…
Knowing Alphys made this situation all the more pathetic. The shy scientist came here to get human trash as if it was some sort of treasure. Those idiotic monsters didn't know anything… But Chara knew that this time it was different. Alphys was probably watching them from her cameras, maybe even crying! The dust that they left in their wake certainly would have upset Alphys.
God Chara hoped that the Monster had cried.
They were met with another enemy as they reached the end of the trash bucket. Mad dummy, which appeared so angry at them, they thought they might finally get a good enemy, someone challenging! Seeing as how the dummy couldn't be injured by physical attacks.
Instead they merged with their body because they were so overcome with anger; they tried to let Chara go.
They spared Chara.
They all knew that this wouldn't end well.
Finally seeing a monster that fought their whole life to be happy, was always angry, but wanted one thing in life, and they finally got it…
But knowing it was going to be destroyed…
Mettaton in particular looked like he was about to cry. His cousin had finally gained what he wanted in life… Before he'd been thinking about using this experience as something to learn from, but now it just felt bitter. Something that Mettaton didn't want to swallow, didn't want to watch.
Everyone else had watched though, not a single person had turned away from the screen, no matter what was happening. At least for the most part. Sans had even watched his brother die! How weak would that make Mettaton, if he couldn't bring himself to watch his Cousin in his potential final moments?
Stealing himself, Mettaton watched, in horrified attention.
"Hehe…heheheehe… HAHAHAHA! YOU THINK YOU CAN SPARE ME?! YOU THINK YOU'RE IN CONTROL?! You were never in control; you will never be in control… HEHEHE…" Chara said, moving forward toward the dummy, who was still drunk on happiness.
Chara ripped one of their button eyes out.
"This….Bitch…" Mettaton warbled out, his voice falling him in his rage. No words other than that escaped either; there was nothing else that he could think of to properly verbalize his rage.
No one had seen Mettaton that angry before.
Mettaton was unsurprisingly pretty damn amazing at hiding his emotions. It was his job to do so, and he was actually pretty damn great at his job, no matter what other people thought. Anger wasn't something that they had seen outside of the robot/ghost playing a character.
It was creepy in a way.
"H-hey… What are you doing? I'm finally corporal… This hurts me…" The Dummy said, powerless to actually do anything as Chara pulled their other button eye out.
The insane giggling from Chara never ended, the buttons turned to dust in their hand, proof of the fact that Dummy had indeed mixed with the corporal body he'd inhabited.
"S-STOP PULLING MY STUFFING OUT!" Dummy yelled, as Chara pulled all the white filling out from the holes in the dummies eyes, just letting it hit the floor. Before long, Dummy was nothing more than a sack, unable to talk, but still able to feel. Chara pulled their knife out.
They shredded the remains, their giggling finally ending as it turned completely to dust before them.
"… I hope I get to see her die, painfully, preferably torturously…. Maybe even by my hand…" Mettaton said, staring at the screen with a familiar anger in his eye.
Something that Sans recognized as something he often felt toward that little demon himself.
Mettaton must have really cared about his family more than Sans thought. The care he showed, the disgust, the reactions he had… It actually helped Sans improve his opinion on that overgrown calculatour. It's hard not to like someone who cared so much about their family. It showed a kind of integrity that you couldn't help but like.
"i'm sure you'll be your wish at some point." Sans stated vaguely, thinking back internally to his time in Judgment Hall with the little demon, never mind the fact that Undyne was going to be facing her soon enough.
The old turtle was still there.
"Ha! That bad ass old man, Gerson! Everyone else is evacuating and he just sticks it out! That's my mentor!" Undyne cheers, pumping a fist into the air.
Actually, it didn't surprise Sans that the old man had stayed, he probably had his facts straight. The old man was safer there, and he knew it. There was a few times that Sans had talked to him during a geno-route, and the old man made it clear that he understood the 'rules' and so he knew that he couldn't be touched.
As long as he stayed where he was.
Moving with the rest of the evacuation meant that he was in danger. If he stayed in his 'shop area' he couldn't be touched. Logically, it made more sense for him not to move.
Sans didn't explain it though. He was sure he'd be forced too soon enough, and it's better to just put things like that off. Maybe the King could explain instead? After all, there is no way that Asgore didn't know at least in part, about the rules.
Chara felt insulted, were they not enough of a threat to this pathetic old man?!
They talked to him, asking about the same things they had last time, "Do you believe in fate?"
"A long time ago, Asgore and I agreed that escaping would be pointless… I almost felt betrayed when he changed his mind. I always thought that going to the surface would have the humans killing us, now I know that it doesn't matter. Seeing as how there is a human down here that is killing us all. Ain't that right?" The old turtle said, almost sassy.
Asgore looked a little bit guilty, "I wish I hadn't broken off my friendship with him… But I was very driven. I didn't want to be talked down. Perhaps now is the time to mend that fence… Before it's too late."
"He talks about you all the time. Says that he sees a lot of you in me… Whatever that means!" Undyne informed, "He's still in the same shop place, and he never actually left the Underground. He says that he is pretty sure that all of it will eventually turn south. Still! He talks about you all the time. Says that you are a huge NERD! Well, actually it was more like; he was calling you a huge softy…"
Toriel could kind of relate to wanting to stop Asgore, but their reasoning behind it was so different. Actually, Toriel hadn't ever actually thought about it like that, the idea that the humans would just restart the war and try to kill them all. Of course, it didn't happen that way, but the fact that it could have, and it wouldn't have even occurred to the majority of monsters, it wasn't right.
Chara ground their teeth together, the audacity of this old man.
"Just who do you think you are old man? I'm going to kill you, I'm going to rip that lazy eye of yours right out of your skull before I dust you." Chara whispered menacingly.
The old man just chuckled, "I've lived too long to be afraid of something like you. Try it kiddo, I know you can't here. Knowledge like this is the only reason that I've survived this long."
"What is he talking about?" Toriel asked, generally to everyone in the room.
Undyne didn't have an answer, but she did have a weird observation, "Why isn't the human attacking… They attacked pretty much everyone else. It doesn't make any sense."
"The rules that Gerson is speaking of here; they are the rules that were set down by the ancients. They were for back when Monsters had so much more power than humans, the humans needed some help. So they made this… Rule book for battles with Monsters against Humans." Asgore reluctantly explained.
"D-does Frisk e-experience this?" Alphys asked, but perhaps the wrong person.
Frisk jumped down from their place on Sans lap, and moved over to tap on Alphys shoulder, 'Yes, but me and the Thought Whisperer use two very different versions of the rules… I use the Mercy; but they use the Fight… It's hard to explain.' Their hands quickly jumping through the signs.
"There are a lot of different rules that were put forward. Some that the humans CAN'T break, and some that the monsters are compelled to follow – Despite the fact that they don't know of the existence of such things. Such as, I'm every single one of you allowed Frisk to always make the first move in battle? This is a rule, and with it comes the irresistible compulsion to obey…" Asgore continued, ignoring the interruption to his explanation previously, "We don't usually tell monsters for a few reasons. One, because we don't actually know all of the rules… Another reason is that monsters wouldn't like this fact, the fact that other people have so much control over how they act, that they are almost helpless in the face of the humans."
It was heavy stuff.
It permeated the atmosphere with a weird sense of dread, even talking about the rules.
No one could even think about any questions to ask, they were just too overwhelmed by the gravity of the situation that was just shown to them. The silence that followed caused the screen to start up again.
He was talking about the way the world worked, Chara realized. The old man knew about turns, the rules, and things like that. It wasn't something most people paid mind too, especially if they weren't human. Only humans could actually SEE the way, the 'controls' but some monsters figured it out, the way things worked.
This monster was using it to his advantage, masterfully.
Chara wanted to attack him, but was stuck in the sea of shop dialogue and talking options.
Instead she just left, but not without a glare that could cook that old turtle right in his shell.
"W-what kind of r-rule is b-b-being used here…" Alphys asked, having absorbed the information given and was now holding large scientific curiosity to know everything there was to know on the subject.
"Only humans can actually 'see' the rules. But our best guess is that there are several different options when it comes to interactions. Regular talking, combat, and shops, are the main examples. Shops are areas that don't allow the combat interaction to occur. Best guess is that Gerson is using that, and the human can't really do anything about it." Asgore theorized, stroking his face in thought.
They raced forward, not paying any attention to their surroundings. If it moved, they stuck a knife into it.
"Hoi, I'm Tem – ee…"
Dust
"I was so happy that someone got a good one over them… But now they are just so angry… Poor Temmie." Undyne looked genuinely regretful as she said that. Of course, she didn't know the reaction such anger would cause in the 'Thought Whisperer' but that wasn't any excuse now that she saw the affects.
They eventually got into a dead end, forgetting completely about this particular meeting with Undyne. It got dark, and they looked behind them, only to be met with the site of a warrior complete with a full set of armour.
"Seven. Seven human souls, with that power, King Asgore will become a god. This power will make sure that Asgore can finally shatter the barrier. He will take the surface back from humanity! This is your only chance of redemption human, give up your soul, or I'll tear it from your body!" Undyne readied a spear, stepping toward. Chara's lips spread into a sickening grin, they flip their knife into a backward grip.
"FINALLY! I GET TO STOP THEM FROM HURTING ANYONE ELSE!" Undyne cheered, but didn't move all that much, her girlfriend still resting her head comfortably on her shoulder. They needed that comfort for the situation.
Sans was watching the screen in rapt attention.
He didn't really know what happened in this first genocide route when it came to Undyne. Apparently she'd given the human a big run for their money. The fact was he never really knew that happened that day… It would be interesting to see. Of course, he didn't actually want to see his friend die… but he did hope that the little devil inside the human died a few times.
Sans could vaguely recall some loads during that time. If he got to see the human die, that would be more than alright with him.
Alphys could feel herself clenching internally with stress. She couldn't move… What if Undyne died?
Of course, the yellow monster knew that Undyne was strong, the amount of faith that she had in Undyne was extremely strong. Yet, she'd seen what the human had done thus far. It wasn't an excuse, but the human was very strong… Alphys didn't want to doubt Undyne, she was just worried.
Very worried.
Monster Kid appeared in front of them before the clash could get underway.
"UNDYNE! I WILL HELP YOU FIGHT!"
Undyne immediately grabbed Kid by the face and dragged him away, just as Chara lunged toward Kid with intent to go forward with their plan.
"Damn it!" Undyne raged, but was glad that she had gotten the kid out of that situation. It was far more important to protect life, than to take it – At least in this case.
Immediately Chara started pouting, but they would get another chance, they knew that.
It didn't take long.
Kid was actually pretty skilled, to get away from Undyne so quickly. It was impressive, considering he fell over his own feet whenever he was simply running.
"Oh no…" Toriel uttered, covering her mouth with her hand as she watched the Kid come back to Chara. Toriel could feel it crawling on her back; she knew that this time wasn't going to be like the last times.
All of them could feel it.
Just the general body language that the 'Thought Whisperer was using, it spoke of want for violence.
Toriel gently grasped her child and brought them close. They didn't need to see their friend die… and Toriel hoped with all her heart that it wasn't about to happen. She fought the urge to close her child's eyes, knowing that her determined child wouldn't allow it. Such knowledge didn't take away her protective instincts for her child though.
"Yo. Undyne told me to stay away from you. She said that you hurt a lot of people, but, that's not true, right?! Why won't you answer me?" Chara was sick of the talking, sick of the waiting, and grinned, wide, "What's with that weird expression?"
Kid seemed to realize that something was wrong at this point.
"Y-you'd b-better st-stop r-right where you are. Cause if you w-wanna hurt anyone else… You're gonna have to get through me, first."
"I DO NOT WISH TO SEE MORE VIOLENCE BROTHER… YOU WERE RIGHT WHEREN'T YOU… THE HUMAN HASN'T CHANGED AT ALL! I COULDN'T HELP THEM CHANGE…" Papyrus cried, finally getting over his denial of the facts.
Sans didn't say anything, just rubbed the back of his brother's skull gently, letting him cry himself out. What was there to say…?
What a brave little annoyance, "So cute, to think that you could stand before me, to stop me. I've killed everyone, even those parents that you keep talking about. You. Are. Nothing. You are a speck of dust that I've kept alive simply out of amusement… But now, now you're just in my way. I had a plan, but really it doesn't matter anymore."
Chara just idly slashed at them, not even bothering to try. The little annoyance was probably weak anyway, so there was no true reason to put effort into it.
Undyne had taken the hit.
Alphys screamed.
A full bodied, horrible scream.
It was one of the worst things that they had ever heard, but considering the circumstances such a reaction fit right in.
It wasn't just the fact that Alphys saw her girlfriend get stabbed like that which caused the reaction though. It was some of the thoughts that went through Alphys mind the second that she saw it. Horrible thoughts, things that she shouldn't have even allowed to cross her mind in the first place, 'Should have just let the kid die… why would you jump in like that?'
Alphys felt guilty, dirty for thinking such a thing. It made the whole situation just that much worse.
Undyne was still alive, but she was barely holding it together, literally.
Anyone with eyes could see that such an injury was fatal.
Alphys was numb, which explained why she didn't feel herself being comforted by Undyne herself, as she just stared at the screen. No one else could even think of something to say, Undyne just comforted Alphys, no words in the face of her own death.
Frisk had tears in their eyes.
Asgore wore a stoic mask.
"HAHAAA! LOOK AT THAT!" Chara said, laughing hysterically. It had been their plan in the first place, and just when they had given up on it, the plan actually worked!
"Undyne… You're hurt…" Monster Kid's voice came from behind Undyne's slashed body.
Undyne just smiled at the Kid though, "Hurt? It's nothing, but next time, listen when I tell you to leave, okay? I'll take care of this, get out of here Kid. Go to Hotland, and don't look back."
Monster Kid ran off, not even tripping once in his haste to make way.
When Kid was gone though, Undyne's form started to fade.
"At least I saved the Kid…" Undyne muttered, her hand still petting her girlfriends head.
Maybe she hadn't saved everyone, but saving just one person… Wasn't that just as meaningful? Wasn't that kids wishes and dreams just as important as anyone else's? The answer was yes… and Undyne felt a weird sort of pride for herself, to know that in those circumstances, she would have done the same thing.
"I said it was nothing, but look at this… How pathetic… Somehow with just one pathetically weak hit I'm already… Damn it… Papyrus… Alphys… Asgore…"
Her torso started to fall apart from the rest of her body.
"Just like that… I've failed you all…"
Alphys sobbed.
"No, it wasn't a failure." Undyne practically snarled at herself, "We saved the kid… That was just as important as saving anyone else. As doing anything else!"
Undyne used the word 'We' and it was important. Using the word They was distance, it wasn't as if it was anything that I went through, using the word 'we' meant companionship, meant that it was recognized that the person on the screen was very similar. No one was getting out of this though, not until all of them used the word I to describe what was happening on screen.
That would be when they truly understood Sans.
Her body seemed to be falling apart at the seams, but something was holding it back, "No…My body… It feels like it's splitting apart, like in an instant I'll scatter into a million pieces. Yet, deep, deep in my soul there is a burning feeling I can't describe. A burning feeling that won't let me die! This isn't just about monsters anymore, is it…? If you get past me, you'll destroy them all won't you? Monsters, humans, everyone… Everyone's hopes, everyone's dreams, I won't let you do that! Right now everyone in the world, I can feel their hearts beating at once. We all have one goal, to defeat YOU! Human… No… Whatever you are. For the sake of the whole world… I, Undyne, will strike you down!"
Undyne fazed back into complete existence changed.
Her armour looked stronger, her countenance darker, and she looked…
DETERMINAED
Everyone was in awe, complete and utter awe.
Alphys lifted her head off her girlfriends shoulder as she gazed upon the screen, at the Undyne who looked so DETERMINED, so full of HoPe! Then Alphys realized something, it didn't lessen her awe, but surely raised her anxiety. Looking over at Sans, she knew that he felt the same.
DETERMINATION.
It was powerful, but too powerful for a monster. They weren't even built to have that emotion. Some monsters could bring it out, when the situation called for it. It was a dire last resort though, and not everyone was capable of such a thing. To see Undyne do it was amazing, but no less dangerous.
Chances are that if Undyne didn't finish the fight fast, she would end up burning herself out. Like so many experiments with DETERMIANTION had suffered.
"FUCK YES!" Undyne shouted, eyes gleaming with fascination.
"You're gonna have to try a little harder than THAT." Undyne said, smirking at the 'human' in front of her.
Was this what their instincts had been warning them about earlier? The fact that Undyne would become so strong, so DETERMINED?
"Haha… Interesting… Undyne, hopefully you won't bore me like that pathetic skeleton that tried to fight me earlier." Chara taunted the transformed warrior, intending to test her control.
Awe faded, and anger prevailed. This girl was so… enraging. Especially considering that they didn't have any clue why she was doing what she was doing. The way that she taunted her opponents was disgusting. There was no other word for it.
Especially when they were already going to fight.
What happened next was impressive though. Undyne in the room was practically shaking in rage, but…
Undyne didn't even flinch. More important things were at stake here than the loss of one friend, and she was far too DETERMINED for the mention of Papyrus to send her into an uncontrolled rage, not when losing it now meant the loss of a whole race, no, the whole world.
"How DETERMINED you must be, so interesting to see it on someone else for once…" Chara knew that a monster couldn't keep up such a thing though…
Chara saved, feeling themselves become DETERMINED.
"Will we finally be getting to understand the 'save points' that were mentioned before now?" Asgore mused, watching Chara save right before the battle started.
They were all curious, but the only one that knew was Sans and Frisk and neither of them were talking. That only made everyone more curious. What did they know that they didn't want to tell everyone? Sans of course, had a lot of things he kept close to the vest, Asgore knew this. Frisk on the other hand, was just a child… It was weird that they wouldn't talk about what was going on.
The battle truly started, and Undyne attacked.
Chara was held in place with green magic and given a shield, but the spears were too fast. So fast that Chara couldn't even block the majority of them.
Chara had 56 HoPe, but now they only have 20.
It was to be expected, Undyne was strong now, far stronger than she'd ever been before. Still, Chara found it in their hurt body to pull their knife up and throw it at Undyne, still held in place with the green magic. Of course, the attack hit, Chara was too skilled for it not to.
23,000 HoPe…. That was ridiculous.
Chara strapped themselves in for a long and hard battle.
It wasn't easy, but Chara held off until they got at least half of Undyne's HoPe off… then Undyne started going faster, throwing in attacks that spun around in the opposite direction.
Chara died and reset.
The battle started again, Undyne not even knowing that it had once been fought before.
"What the hell…"
Undyne was the one that said it, but pretty much everyone was thinking it.
Alphys mild whirled with possibilities, trying to understand what was going on before her. There wasn't anything that she could think of though, something that rarely happened to her, ever.
"Does this have to do with the save point?" Asgore muttered, still staring at the screen in shock. Eventually everyone ended up turning toward Sans, staring at him, waiting for an explanation. Sans on the other hand just closed his eyes and but his arms folded behind his head. He didn't want to explain, because if they knew this, it wouldn't be long before they knew everything else as well.
"BROTHER…Please…" Papyrus said, ending on a soft and confused tone. He didn't understand why everyone was making such a big deal of it, but he wanted everyone to be happy.
Sans signed.
"DETERMINATION is a powerful emotion, especially for humans. it can, in rare cases, give them ability above all others. the ability to reset time. if the human dies, it can start over from last save point, or from the start of their time in the underground." Sans explained, almost flippantly.
The fact that such a power existed… Was shocking, horrifying even.
"A-and we d-don't remember w-when it happens…. D-do we?" Alphys questioned her eyes wide and worried. The idea that someone could come in and do anything to anyone and no one would remember… It was a lot to take in.
"only people with nearly as much DETERMINATION as the person who resets can remember. although there are sometimes other factours at play, very rarely." Sans thought, thinking about his own situation.
"My child, do you have this power?" Toriel asked, looking toward Frisk, who had tears misting in their eyes.
'Yes' they signed toward the others in the room, but their whole body screamed of ashamed emotions. They weren't even DETERMINED enough to remember, at least if they could, Sans wouldn't be so alone… Instead they were weak. Frisk was ashamed of themselves.
'I lost the ability after we left the Underground… At some point in the Underground I was no longer the most DETERMINED person anymore…' Frisk reluctantly explained, but afterwards just stopped talking and hugged their mother, needing the comfort.
All they really wanted to do was dig their nails into themselves to release some of the horrible tearing guilt that they felt…
Mettaton on the other had been watching with greed in his eyes. He wanted to see the human get floored again and again for what they had done to his cousin. He wanted to see them get ripped apart, speared painfully, he wanted to see them HURT. It wasn't something that most monsters had ever felt before, but when it came to his family… Maybe wishing violence on the little demon WAS the answer.
Chara did though, and she was better this time. In fact, she nearly had Undyne. HoPe down to 5,000 before Chara found themselves impaled by several magical spears at once. Yet, Chara had DETERMINATION.
Two resets weren't that bad, Undyne was certainly strong. Just was worthy of their attention as they had hoped she would be.
Really, Undyne was strong, if she had been facing a lesser enemy… But she wasn't, instead she was facing Chara. The she-demon who was feeding off the fact that their enemy was actually powerful enough to force them to load.
It only took three more loads, the whole time Chara's grin stretched farther across her face.
Watching Undyne getting slowly picked apart by Chara's DETERMINATION to win was a startling moment. Even if anyone could face Chara, beat them, they would just come back and get better each time. There was nothing that anyone could do really, was there?
Eventually, Chara would get everyone.
It was a heartbreaking realization.
They weren't here to see evil get stopped, but to see evil win.
If Undyne couldn't somehow win, eventually Chara would find themselves at the top, and it was clear that at this point, Undyne was finished. There was nothing else that the Knight could bring that hadn't already been brought. No more tricks that hadn't been used, been learned by Chara.
"Damn it… So even that power, it wasn't enough? Ha…Haha… If you… I f you think I'm gonna give up hope, you're wrong. 'Cause I've… got my friends behind me. Alphys told me that she would watch me fight you, and if anything went wrong she would evacuate everyone. By now she's called Asgore and told him to absorb the six human SOULs. With that power, this world will live on."
"So… Maybe it isn't hopeless. Asgore will have enough strength to defeat the 'Thought Whisperer' with the human souls… Even if they come back, that should be an overwhelming power that they can't really face." Undyne worked out, a smile lighting on her face.
It no longer mattered that they were dying on screen, not when they had saved so many people by doing what they had done.
Truly a noble moment, something fitting of a True Heroine.
But Undyne was melting, as strong as she was, her DETERMINATION was too strong. A monster couldn't possibly hold on to DETERMINATION for any longer than she had.
Undyne dusted.
Undyne herself was perfectly fine with it, even on the screen she'd died with a smile on her face.
Alphys was sobbing, and so was Papyrus.
"I REALLY WISH THAT THE HUMAN WOULD JUST STOP NOW…" Papyrus said, sobbing loudly as he did so.
Asgore had silent tears running down his eyes. Not only had the person he'd almost considered a daughter just die before him on this screen, but also he knew, he KNEW, that their last request wouldn't come to pass. Asgore was arrogant at times, and he knew that there was no way he would take and use the souls. Not when the last human was on their way for him to take.
He wouldn't use the souls against the humans, because he wanted to open the barrier. It was a setback he knew that the person who was Asgore in the other universe wouldn't take.
It made him feel strangely guilty; almost as thought he didn't have the right to shed tears in the first place. Not when his alternate wouldn't follow through with Undyne's last wish.
What a fool he is.
Chara wanted to grin as they felt the EXP and LOVE flow into their body, but they could not.
LOVE twelve, but with Asgore taking in the SOULs, and people being evacuated before Chara could kill them, it wouldn't be easy.
But that's what made it so damn fun.
"So I guess you're watching Doctour Alphys. I've killed your girlfriend; look at that dust right there! Would you might me to bring some to you, so that you can sprinkle it on yourself? I assumed that you were her favourite thing after all, it's only fair. No? Well I guess I could just…" Chara kicked the dust everywhere, spreading if across the room, leaving no hope of anyone being able to pick it up to spread it on her favourite things, as was customary.
Alphys gagged, and if she was human, would have been sick to her stomach. The idea of someone spreading her girlfriend's ashes on top of her was sickening, horrifying, no words could express how horrible it was.
"I'm here… Shhh…" Undyne muttered into Alphys ear, trying to block out the sounds that Chara was making as she said that little speech.
It pained Undyne that there wasn't something else that she could do to help her girlfriend in the first place. It also was mildly irritating, the way that Chara was treating her remains, but it was nothing compared to what Chara was making Alphys feel, so she restrained herself from saying anything.
"SANS, I KNOW THAT YOU SAID THE THOUGHT WHISPERER WAS SICK IN THE HEAD, BUT EVEN SICK PEOPLE HAVE REASONS RIGHT? I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHY THEY DID THAT TO UNDYNE." Papyrus questioned, attempting to pull together some confidence, even as tears continued to fall from his eyes.
"sorry pappy, i just don't have an answer for you…" Sans muttered, looking truly regretful to not have the answers in that moment.
He truly didn't know either. Chara had never actually got what they wanted, so it wasn't a huge surprise that he didn't actually know what came after that. Chara had never actually said what it was that they were after either, not that Sans wanted to talk to the little murderer anyway.
"YOU WHIMP! What is that coming from your eyes!" Undyne shouted, leaving her girlfriends side for just a moment as she stomped close to Papyrus, all the way up in his face, "I thought I trained you better than this!"
It seemed to actually snap something in Papyrus, for once, that was a good thing. Papyrus stood at the ready, almost as an army man from the human world stood to attention.
"I APOLOGIZE CAPTAIN UNDYNE; IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN NYEH HEHEHEHEH" Papyrus spoke, good spirits seeming to return to him, despite the current situation, even if only for a moment.
"You might evacuate everyone Allie, but I'm still going to get stronger, so strong that I kill everyone that's left… You won't be able to stop me. You can't stop me, no one can. Isn't it better to just sit back and watch it happen from behind your screen you little coward? I thought so! You couldn't change even if you wanted too."
Toriel just stared. No one had actually noticed that blank stare yet, but it was all she'd been doing. Witnessing her child get killed nearly ten times, but watching her child act like this… Toriel didn't know what was worse, didn't know what reaction she should give.
Should she be angry at Undyne, for touching her child?
Understanding of the situation means that she should actually side with Undyne, but it was her CHILD they were talking about.
It almost made Toriel feel guilty, because no matter what she choose was there really a right answer? The situation had her frozen in suspended disability to choose. Internally though, Toriel knew that each time she saw her child kill someone, those feelings were starting to slip away, Toriel started to wish for someone to stop her child. Maybe that was the real reason behind her guilt in this situation.
It was all so confusing.
Chara walked on, making her way to the next destination, leaving behind what remained of everyone's hopes and dreams.
The perspective switched.
Alphys was sobbing, eyes broken with shattered emotion. She had already called it in, made it clear that everyone needed to evacuate, so now she could let her emotions out, having fulfilled her promise. The things the human had said, they hit her so hard.
The scientist knew now, that she was useless.
The only thing that she COULD do was watch from behind a computer screen. She didn't have any strength of her own, and she couldn't even help Undyne.
Undyne.
A true hero…
She fought tooth and nail for what she'd believed in, and she was truly a beautiful person.
Alphys never got to tell her the true feelings that she'd held for Undyne.
Alphys was sobbing as well, watching the version of herself on the screen that was actually going through all of the problems. The kinship that Alphys felt, knowing that if it was actually her in that situation… No changes would have been made; everything would have been done the same way.
It was horrifying to her, knowing that this was something that actually could have happened.
Undyne was starting to feel bad as well. Truthfully, she didn't think her death mattered all that much, not when she had saved everyone else around her that she'd protected. However, seeing Alphys so hurt, that made everything change if only just a little. Nothing mattered to Undyne more than protecting the people around her that she cared about, but Alphys feelings in generally seemed to be something Undyne hadn't thought about in that moment.
They should be, after all the situation only turned out so well because Undyne was willing to give up her life to stall the human.
It didn't mean that she wasn't heartbroken for her own inability to love Alphys enough to actually live for her.
"What's the scariest type of dinosaur? … No answer? A terror-dactyl." A voice came from behind Alphys, showing Sans leaning against the doorway, he looked tired, grieved in his own way. What really drew attention though was the fact he was wearing Papyrus' scarf around his neck.
Everyone's eyes went wide, was it horrible of them all to think that they hadn't actually thought about the Sans of the alternate universe?
Too much was going on; it didn't occure to them to wonder where he was and what he was doing. He'd just lost his brother, of course he would just evacuate right? But it seemed that they were wrong. Sans was actually in Alphys office, and although they didn't know the reason… They definitely knew they should have been paying more attention to what he could have possibly been doing the whole time.
Especially considering tha Sans was why they were all here in the first place.
After those thoughts passed though, Papyrus screeched at the pun that was made. Honestly? They knew that Sans fell back on humour like that, but to actually make a joke like that just as Undyne died?
Sans just shrugged, ignoring the scolding it was getting from Papyrus on his puns.
"Y-You really t-think right now is t-the time f-for jokes S-sans…?" Alphys sobbed out, her stuttering for once caused by something completely different.
"I think that a joke is a good icebreaker for what I'm about to say. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to bring myself to say it, so here we go. Alphys, you've done pretty much everything you could. Your abilities lay here, and you've used them well. The human is taunting you with meaningless words. What you just did, you might have saved countless monsters, monsters that would have been dead without you. You're amazing Alphys." Sans said, placing a boney hand on Alphys shoulder as he comforted her.
"Thanks Nerd…" Undyne muttered, watching the screen with wide and grateful eyes.
Sans was speaking so seriously on that screen in that moment, so comfortingly to Alphys. Saying the things that he knew she needed to hear, and was doing it well. Despite the joke at the start anyway.
"Truly Sans, you are Sansational." Toriel said, an ever so slight smile coming to her lips. Sans gave a small chuckle, blushing at the genuine response his past self was getting.
It was out of character for him, or maybe not so much.
If it had been his brother, he'd have said words almost exactly like that to cheer him up.
"W-why are you even here…?" Alphys asked, her voice small, almost a whisper.
Sans just shrugged, "i needed to check on something. needed to see for myself…"
"See what?"
Alphys was worried now.
"i needed to watch your snowdin tapes. i needed to see what happened… i just… i needed to know."
"Why would you put yourself through such a thing, Sans?" Toriel said, her face having nothing but worry written on it. Surely it wasn't needed, he already knew Papyrus was dead, and even knew who did it.
"closure." Was the only thing that Sans said, completely ignoring everyone other than his brother after that.
Sans just stroked his brothers head, Papyrus was just watching the screen, because for once he didn't have anything to say. This whole situation period was zapping him of words.
Needed to know how Papyrus died.
"How did you even get in here?" A serious breach of security, something Alphys should have asked about the moment she saw Sans, had she not been so blinded by her own emotions. For once, her voice was strong, not a hint of stutter.
Who would have thought, the thing holding Alphys back was everyone, yet losing them was far too much a price for the strength that Alphys had been hiding to come forward.
"i uh… took a shortcut. don't worry; your building is just as secure as it was before i came in." Sans said, rubbing the back of his skull, "anywho, I have to get going. i've got somewhere i have to be…"
"SANS, I HAVE SEEN YOU DO MANY OF YOUR SHORTCUTS, BUT YOU HAVE ALWAYS REFUSED TO EXPLAIN THEM! HOW DOES IT WORK?" Papyrus said, turning toward his brother with no emotions other than an innocent and dazzling curiosity.
Papyrus was just in general so pure. Hurting one moment, but able to feel nothing but happiness or other light emotions the next. Sans was the one that got all the bad emotions, and this situation was giving Sans a whole new love for that fact.
"its hard to explain my shortcuts… but it's basically opening a door between two places and squishing them close together… i can't really think of a better explanation than that without a whole lot of math that no one would understand." Sans thought, not insultingly, over toward Alphys.
Alphys was an inventour, not a theorist. Even she would have difficulties understanding the idea of his shortcuts.
"WAIT! You're evacuating right?" Alphys said, staring down Sans, "You have to, they've killed everyone, even U-Undyne, so you can't face them or anything… And if you don't e-evacuate they might get you. You aren't planning on doing anything stupid, are you?"
Alphys looked so emotionally stable right now, Sans couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth, so he twisted it.
As he was so good at doing.
"i'm going to the castle alphys, don't worry." Sans was, but really he was going for a different reason. His job… and vengeance. He wouldn't allow that human through, plus… He needed to see if Frisk was still anywhere in there, "i'll be seeing you alphys."
"Sans…. Are you going to the hall?" Asgore said, his head facing toward the ground. He couldn't stand it, if he had to watch his judge fight and die against the human because of the job he'd been given.
Sans looked at the trodden man before giving an example of his shortcutting ability to faze right in front of the man, patting the amazingly tall man on the head, rubbing the soft hair between his fingers, "If I do, and I were to die there, it would have been my own choice, knowing the consequences. It wouldn't have been your fault at all."
Sans spoke low, just enough so that his King could hear, no one else.
The man nodded, but it still looked like he was weighed down by his choices.
With that, Sans shortcut away, leaving the image of Alphys collapsing in tears once again the second she was along, no longer needing to keep up the strong façade.
"Why… What does that stupid human gain from any of this…?"
The recording stopped, assumedly to give them all time to collect themselves.
"I just want to get this over with." Undyne finally said, speaking curtly, "Clearly this isn't going to be fun, but the sooner we get it over with, the sooner we can get home and away from all this. We shouldn't take any breaks."
It was an interesting way to look at it, and hardcore, as Undyne usually was. It represented her. Could they really just go through all this emotional stuff without a single break? It might be better though, like ripping off a Band-Aid.
Eventually everyone seemed to come to an agreement to do just that, and the screen started up once again. They didn't want it to though. They all just wanted it to be over. This was another sign that they were getting closer and closer to understanding Sans. After all, he was the one that all about, 'knew when to quit'
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Authour Note: HEY GUYS~ Sorry that the chapter was pretty late today. I still made it in time (For my time zone...) but I still wanted to say sorry. I was pretty busy today. Anywho~ I have chapter five out on my website, if you want to get a chapter ahead. Go to ouraniemlives dot com, taking out the dot and the spaces. You can find it in the newest content! Fresh off the press~ Leave me a review and let me know what you thought! I thought that this chapter was suitable emotional, but my writing doesn't really seem to convey it all that well.
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