Chara and Asriel had been sent out by their mother to get some groceries for tonight's party. It had been discovered on very short notice that it was, in fact, Gaster's birthday today so their mother had declared that they needed to organise an emergency surprise party.

Chara though had felt odd since they left the house, and she could tell Asriel was suffering from the same issue. They felt threatened.

That was disturbing, but for a different reason than what was to be expected. They both had retained their LOVE from their time in the underground; the only threat to them now was Falmercia, and for Chara humans, but even most humans didn't stand a chance against her, not with her level of experience.

But threatened they felt, and they knew for a fact that Falmercia wouldn't waste any effort following them.

They tried to brush off their discomfort with light chatter, their conversation switched over to Frisk.

"Isn't it obvious, Frisk is obviously closer to me! She shared her lunch with me when I accidentally left it at home yesterday," Asriel argued.

"Nope, they like me more because I help them with their homework, you see, unlike you, I help her, rather than the other way around."

It was an ongoing competition between the two of them, whoever became Frisk's friend had obviously been forgiven the most. Chara had started with a disadvantage because Frisk had been utterly terrified of them, but they had worked hard and now the two were neck-and-neck in the competition.

Chara would win.

They were walking back home when Chara felt a sudden chill go up their spine, they grabbed Asriel's hand and stopped in their tracks.

"Chara?" Asriel said in confusion.

A man with grey skin stepped out from the shadows to their left and glared at them with black eyes. Chara felt themselves grow angry without reason.

"Perceptive, but still, it's hard to believe that she'd replace us with you." The man said.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Chara replied, but the man continued as if she hadn't said anything.

"Though I guess you aren't her favourites, maybe the others are more impressive." The man took a few steps closer and Chara reached for their knife that was hidden in their shirt.

The man grabbed her arm in an instant, "As much as I admire your wrath, I really wouldn't." Chara felt themselves freeze in fear. "The name's Vindic, remember it, I want you to tell Falmercia that we met, but keep quiet about it 'till tonight, alright. If you don't, the goat will die."

Vindic let go of Chara's arm. As soon as Chara blinked, he was gone.

They shared a glance with Asriel. It wouldn't hurt to wait until tonight, right?


"No, I'm not going to some stupid party, they're exhausting." Falmercia refused.

"Come on," Frisk insisted, bouncing enthusiastically, "It'll be fun!"

Falmercia shook her head. Sans had been watching the scene in front of him so far with endearment. Frisk was truly adorable when she got this excited.

"it would mean a lot to everyone if you showed up." Sans decided to help her out, "you could use a chance to show them that you aren't as bad as undyne thinks."

Falmercia rolled her eyes, "So, do you really think I care about what they think?"

Frisk playfully punched Falmercia's shoulder, "Yeah! I mean, if you didn't you wouldn't have agreed to go walking with Papy!"

Falmercia didn't respond, she was instead staring in horror at her health bar, which had lost a whole quarter of health.

"Falmercia… I gosh, I'm so sorry!" Frisk apologised when she saw what happened, and Sans watched in concern for Falmercia's reaction, thinking just one thing; did frisk just ruin their treaty?

Falmercia nervously chuckled, "Heh, don't worry about it kid, if you meant it, you wouldn't have been able to deal the damage. So that party; fine, I'll go, but I'm only staying as long as Papyrus is."

Sans chuckled nervously.


Chara shifted their weight guiltily from one foot to the other as they watched through the window as Falmercia walked to the front door and they heard the sound of the doorbell.

The party was at the skeleton family's house, and they had gotten there earlier as their mother was preparing the food. Chara pondered absentmindedly why Falmercia had not short-cut here and why she insisted on walking everywhere.

"I thought that Papyrus would be here," Falmercia said, Chara could hear a slight nervousness in Falmercia's voice. Guilt pounding in their chest, Chara looked out the window and to the sky. The sun was setting slowly, so she figured it could do no harm to wait another hour before they told her about before.

"paps is out distracting gaster while we set up for the party, he'll be here in an hour, so you'll have to just tolerate us until then," Sans explained to Falmercia.

Chara walked around to see that Falmercia was frowning. Chara inwardly chuckled, Falmercia really did look uncomfortable when Papyrus wasn't around, the demon really must suck at communicating with people normally.

Frisk had that sympathetic look in her eyes again, and grabbed Falmercia's hand, "Don't worry! It won't be so bad, you and I can prank some people until he gets here!?

Asriel burst out from the neighbouring room, "Yeah! That sounds like fun! I wanna get back at Undyne for bench-pressing me in front of everyone!"

Chara stepped out for everyone to see, "If it's mischief you're up to, you can't leave me out of it."

It was best they stay close to Falmercia.


Sans knew he had a bad feeling when the three kids offered to go pranking with Falmercia. While he, himself enjoyed pulling a good prank or two or three or four… He knew the four of them working together could create one monster of a prank.

He really wished he had been wrong though. Because as the sun was going down, he had to be the one that stood between Undyne and Falmercia.

Falmercia was just smirking at Undyne's rage-filled, egg-covered feathery, sparkled face. They had gone along with Asriel's idea of pranking Undyne, and with Falmercia's help, it had been one hell of a prank.

Falmercia had enchanted one of Frisk's smaller bone shields to dissipate when it got close to Undyne's soul and then repurposed it to carry a bucket that Chara and Asriel had filled with eggs, feathers and glitter. When Undyne went outside to help with the backyard to help with the final decorations, the bucket had landed right on her head.

Asriel and Frisk, being good kids, had taken responsibility, but Falmercia's involvement complicated things. Anyone else would have gotten off with a head noogie, but since Undyne had a reasonable grudge against Falmercia, she was out for the demon's blood.

"if you hit her, i'm not going to help you when she retaliates," Sans warned.

"Get out of the way Sans! I need to teach that THING a lesson!" Undyne growled, and Falmercia chuckled in response.

"U-u-undyne, y-you know th-that you w-won't be able to do any d-damage when you're angry like this." Alphys tried to reason with Undyne, and Falmercia's chuckle turned to full blown laughter.

"SHUT UP!" Undyne shouted.

"Undyne, really, the prank was my idea," Asriel tried to redirect Undyne's anger again, "Falmercia just played along with us."

Undyne was about to respond when Falmercia's laugh suddenly cut off and she turned around to face the growing line of shadows in the backyard.

"Everyone get behind me and don't do anything stupid." Falmercia's voice was dead serious, and it seemed that even Undyne could hear the nervousness in her voice because she calmed down enough to grab Asriel and Frisk and put them behind her.

Falmercia's eyes did not leave the shadows, "I know you're there Vindic!" She called into the shadows, "Come on out! All of you!"

A man walked out from the shadows, and Sans could instantly tell that he was a demon from his grey skin and black eyes. He was dressed a lot differently than Falmercia's business attire. He had a fluoro pink Mohawk and wore a black shirt with a silver skull and short blue jeans, though the most absurd part of his attire was his fluoro pink boots. Again, following the theme of fluoro pink he had two tattoos, one on his right shoulder, which Sans recognised as the devil's symbol and on his left forearm an anarchy symbol.

"Well done sister, observant as always, even with the red-eyed brat keeping their promise." Vindic directed his gaze at Chara, "And for that, I'll keep my promise and I won't kill the goat.

"The others too," Falmercia glared back to the shadows. A female demon walked out of the shadows, she had long, green hair, heavy make-up and wore a ball gown.

"Well, you lot obviously by now know that my brother here is Vindic, the ever-famous Wrath demon of vengeance, while I'm only, Indigo, the Envy demon of the family." The demon took a glance over everyone with a frown, "So she left us for you lot, I was expecting… better." She taunted.

Yet another demon revealed themselves, stepping forward, this one had white hair, hipster-glasses and wore a black trench coat with a purple scarf, "Well, her favourite isn't here yet, so it is possible that he is better," He reasoned, raising his hand to adjust his glasses.

"Don't act like that wasn't on purpose Wisac, we all know you wouldn't dare come here if he was," Falmercia retorted, "not that I blame you, instincts and all."

Falmercia tilted her head from side-to-side looking into the shadows, "Where's Aropoph, Megalo and Frudole? Couldn't they make it?"

"Frudole's dead!" Vindic snapped, and Falmercia flinched, summoning her staff.

"And Aropoph and Megalo are keeping watch, as you said, we don't want to be here when your favourite arrives," Wisac said in a studious tone.

Falmercia looked down for a moment, a shadow hiding her face, before she looked up with a mad grin on her face, "So, what you are saying, is that you are without your strategist AND your manipulator, no wonder you are low on souls."

And that is when Sans realised how weak these demon's auras were. While he felt a vague manipulation, they paled in comparison to even Falmercia's weakest aura from when she just escaped the void.

Vindic grew a sadistic smile, "Yes, your betrayal hit us pretty badly, we've been in poor business, even with our star players." The chill in his voice made Sans hear the obvious threat. "Did you really think that you could hide from us forever? Well too bad, because now that we've found you, we are going to make you suffer… and then we are going to kill you."

Undyne growled, seemingly having enough of listening to the showdown and made a charge at Vindic.

"Idiot!" Falmercia cried as Vindic summoned a black bow and shot Undyne in the chest, causing her to fall in her path. Vindic waved his hand to summon another arrow and pulled the string to aim again when he and the other two suddenly turned their heads.

Vindic chuckled, "You're lucky, fish." Before they retreated into the shadows.