Undertale
Witness The Influence
Because Destiny is set in Stone

Having had an odd experience with Sans, the Unseen Influence nonetheless continues their march of death towards New Home. There, Asriel awaits.

To be honest, the Unseen Influence does not hate Asriel, and in fact learning of their plight so long ago once softened their heart, but those times have passed. They have been challenged, and knowing this is all just a fake world, the life of a single character is insignificant compared to the very real feeling of being made a fool of they are feeling.

Frisk looks to their left and right. Chara was in that realm before, but is now gone. This soul was sold to the demon again, the demon called Chara, but at this point, The Unseen Influence is unsure of who Chara actually is. What exactly was the significance of that Gesture? They shrug.

If it's overly negative, they can just alter the game's files again, like they have so many times before. After all, they are above consequences. The Unseen Influence looks downards and smiles. It appears it doesn't even matter, after all.


/BECAUSEDESTINYISSETINSTONE
/CHARADIES


The True Core's computer in a safe place, Gaster has retreated to Hotland to check on Alphys.

"Alphys? Where are you?" He yells out, the air in the core growing musty.
"Alphys...?" He walks around, stepping on syringes, having them shatter to pieces. It's dark down here.

"G-Gaster..." A weak voice lets out from the corner. Gaster looks over in horror to see Alphys lying in a pool of strange red liquid.
"ALPHYS! What happened to you?!"
"The experimental... human soul that I... that I made for Roman... I made one for myself... b-but..." She tries to say, coughing more of it up.

"H-Humans aren't as strong as we make them out to be... hah... being made mostly of... water..." She says, coughing even more of it up, Gaster can't stand to look at her like this.
"I'm... sorry... Gaster... I let you... all... down..." She says, closing her eyes. Gaster stays silent.

Alphys' body was too weak to survive the addition of the human soul like Roman, and she is now dead. He stands up and takes his lab coat off, showing only a buttonup shirt and pants. He takes a piece of paper out of his pocket. It's the message from the other Gaster, the one written in Wingdings.

"That's the final straw... Unseen Influence... it's apparent that you do not care that this universe stay safe... you want to kill us all, destroy everything... so that you may revive it in some twisted sentimentality. I know what I have to do." He says to himself, going deeper in the lab.

Frisk has arrived at New Home. Judging by Asriel's carefree face, it's apparent that news of the slaughter in Waterfall hasn't made it here yet. Frisk looks around and notices that Chara is also not here.

"Ah, Frisk. You're back. You were gone for a while. Did you find Chara?"
*...
Frisk merely stands there, the strangest emotion crossing their face. Dumbfounded, but friendly, Asriel cocks his head with a small smile.

"Haha, what's wrong? Why are you making that face?" He asks.
*You ask Asriel if he thinks of you as a friend.
"Huh? What a strange question! You saved me from myself, Frisk. Even after everything I did, all the people I killed, you convinced me that even Flowey deserved a second chance."
*...
Asriel looks back over after saying that to see a single tear escape from Frisk's eye.

"H-Huh? Frisk, come on, you're scaring me! What's wrong?!" Asriel bleets out! He steps closer to Frisk, but the Unseen Influence instinctively runs Frisk in the opposite direction, running out of New Home as fast as they can.

"Huh?"

Frisk runs as fast as he can, before he ends up at the elevator leading to the Core. He steps towards the save point.

*You're filled with... something.
*-Game Saved-

Frisk merely stands still for a while, the Unseen Influence exerting no control over the game for a few minutes, until someone shows up from the left. From the elevator, Frisk can make out a tall Skeleton Man.

But it's not Sans...

And it's not Roman...

And it's not even... Gaster...

It's... Papyrus...?

He walks around, looking confused and afraid. He catches eye of Frisk.

"H-Hello? Help, I'm... lost." He says. Frisk walks towards Frisk and looks him up and down. He's not wearing the "Battle Body" that he was so keen on in the main timeline, and is instead wearing other clothing, they are rags, in tatters, perhaps found along the way?

"Do... do you know where I am? Who... Who I am? I'm... s-so confused." Papyrus lets out.
*You explain to Papyrus that he is in the Underground, and that his name is Papyrus.
"Papyrus...? The... the underground? I... I do not know what that means..."
*You ask him if he knows where Sans is.
"Sans...? Who... is Sans?"
*You tell him that Sans is his brother.
"I... have a brother?" Papyrus says in confusion. Upon saying that, someone else appears offscreen. Frisk looks upwards to see Sans walking down the hall. He looks over at Papyrus and Frisk with a Neutral Expression.

"Hey kid."
*You ask if that's all Sans wants to say.
"Look... Kid... why are you here, huh? Is the sole reason you took control of this human just to kill everyone? Nah, I think there was something else."
*You tell Sans that he wouldn't understand.
"Heh... maybe not. But you don't want to hurt him, do you? Paps I mean." Sans says.

"P-Paps? You mean Papyrus? My name? You know me too? You... are you Sans?"
"Yup. And you're my cool brother Papyrus."
"M-Me? I'm cool?"
"The coolest. Come on, I'll show you." Sans says, walking past Frisk. For an instant, Sans looks over at Frisk. Sans' guard is completely down.

If The Unseen Influence wants to, they can kill Sans right now.

...

But they don't.

Sans passes by Frisk and pats Papyrus on the back.
"Come on buddy, let's go home."
"I... have a home?" Papyrus lets out, disappearing offscreen.

Frisk saves their game again and begins to walk northwards, back to New Home.


Exiting New Home and walking through the Core, Sans and Papyrus run into the other Skeleton Man, Gaster. Gaster is initially shocked by what he sees. Sans walks forward and looks up at him.

"Heh... I guess I really screwed things up, eh G?" Sans lets out.
"Roman... hah... you... always were a bonehead." Gaster says with a tear in his eye.

It's at this moment that Sans notices that Gaster is carrying a few weapons, and is not wearing his labcoat.

"You can't beat him, you know." Sans says plainly.
"I know. But I'm not alone." He says cryptically, looking at Sans with stark intensity. Sans closes his eyes and laughs.

"I see... Gaster... I'll never forget you."
"Are you implying that I will die?"
"We all will."

Frisk pauses just a single room from entering New Home, where Asriel is again. Chara is still nowhere in sight.

Frisk feels a chill up his spine and turns around.

*You...

"Enough talk."


*Gaster
*ATK 25 *Def 25
*A scientist working for Asgore to find out a way to penetrate the barrier, his life is thrown into shambles as his coworkers die around him.


Taking out a small sleek sword, Gaster lunges forward and cuts Frisk's face, dealing trifling damage. Even if the Unseen Influence WASN'T cheating, that barely did 15 damage. Frisk half-heartedly slashes at Gaster, the power of which sends him to well below half health. Gaster recoils, holding his chest as the sword vibrates meekly in his hands.

*You ask Gaster what this is all about.
"You... took everything from me... everything from us..." He says through chattering teeth.
*You ask him if he thinks that dying here will solve anything.
"It will release me from this pain." He says, lunging at Frisk, who doesn't even dodge. Landing a keen hit, it deals 40 damage, which in a normal sense, would be a savage amount of damage, but Frisk's current health is over 300, and even if he were to somehow drop below that amount, the cheats he's currently utilizing will allow him to drop well below 0.

*You sigh and turn away, showing MERCY to Gaster.
"You would deny me my request?! To turn away after you killed all my friends?!"
*You tell Gaster that he wouldn't understand.
"No, FRISK... if that is your real name... YOU don't understand!" Gaster yells out, a giant laser from behind him blasting Frisk and forcing him to the ground, sending him to 1 health and causing him to slide across the room!

Frisk looks over to see Gaster standing on what appears to be a gigantic Gaster Blaster! But that's not possible! In this universe, they never designed the DT Extraction device! The Gaster Blaster was never completed yet!

"That look on your face... you've seen something like this before? I'm not surprised. You're from the future... someone from the Other Side gave this to me... and now I will use it to kill you!" As Gaster says that, the Blaster opens its mouth and pins Frisk to the wall! Even if he's immortal, it locks his heart in place and ensure that he cannot take his turn!

The Unseen Influence grunts through Frisk, trying to get free as the laser blast forces them against the wall and constantly lowers their health farther and farther! It's already several hundred below 0, and Frisk cannot die, but Frisk cannot take their turn either!

Finally the blaster stops firing, and Frisk takes that time to press *Attack, but that button is shattered by Gaster's sword impaling it!

"I can see through your attacks, Frisk. They mean nothing to me anymore! You may be an unstoppable force, but I'm an immovable object! I will not let you have your way any longer!" Gaster yells out, the Gaster Blaster rushing forward and biting onto Frisk's arm and shaking it wildly, breaking bones and drawing blood!

Annoyed, the Unseen Influence resets the game.

However, on the load screen, Frisk merely stands in the middle of a black abyss. Frisk looks northwards to see someone in the darkness. Someone they didn't expect to see so soon.


*Gaster?
*? *?
*A tough act to follow. He fell into the core one day and... well... it's impolite to talk about someone who's listening.


"You..." The crackly voice of the Gaster before him lets out.
*Me?
"Yes... I remember you... do you remember me?"
*You ponder his words. You shake your head.
"Hah... the chronology of the universe... if you do not know me now... you will know me later- CHARA..." The ruined Gaster lets out. With a broken face and cackling laugh, Gasterblasters come from every corner and point at Frisk. They do not fire, yet.

*You ask him if he is the same Gaster.
"I am not... I am the one that you killed... the one that you controlled Chara for... and pushed me into the Core... however, I did not die... in fact, I became trapped between all worlds... all timelines, both benign and evil... genocidal... pacifist... all Frisks... all Charas... I've seen them... but this Gaster, this one is... new... and you broke him... broke him in a different way than you broke me... you... you are not worthy of this world... I will take it away from you!" All of the Gaster Blasters switch targets and begin to fire wildly at the darkness around Frisk!

Before he has a chance to realize what's going on, the darkness shatters and starts erupting in gray static! However, as the world reaches a boiling point and cannot be maintained any longer, several objects fly in from the void! A barrage of red knives slash out and stitch the rips in the world together, if only for a moment. Rising from the darkness is none other than Chara herself. Gaster looks over, as does Frisk.

"Ah... the other Chara... when last we met... Frisk had come fully in tune with the Worldsoul..." He lets out. Chara looks over at him.

"Yes. I remember now... I remember everything." She says, looking over at Frisk.

CURRENT CHARA MEMORY: 100%

*You explain that you don't know what's going on.

"Gaster, I cannot let you end this world."
"But you know better than anyone that this... "Frisk"... will stop at nothing to destroy it..."
"Be that as it may, the Frisk I knew sacrificed everything to make this world a reality."
"Ah, of course... but surely you also remember what the Unseen Influence did... to YOU?"
"..." Chara closes her eyes.
"I do, but that doesn't matter. There is a chance that this time... they will see reason... and let this world live on without them." Chara says, Gaster can only laugh.

"Do you truly believe that? Those of us outside of the cycle can... read between the lines." Gaster hints ominously. Chara sighs.

"You mean the name of the next part in the story?"

*...?

"Ah, so you DO know... and you still choose to combat your fate?"
"I do."
"How admirable. I will allow you your chance... when you fail... I will be here to pick up the pieces..." The broken Gaster lets out, disappearing back into the darkness. Chara looks over at Frisk.

"You. The one controlling Frisk. Don't think we're on the same side. Before all of this is over... I promise you... I'll make your life hell." She says, disappearing.

Before long, the original screen of Undertale boots back up, and the game can be loaded as normal.


Author's Note: I'm rehosting the Unseen Influence Trilogy on account of my patron vanishing. This story will be deleted if he ever returns. Until then, enjoy yourself.