Undertale
Witness The Influence
Chara Dies
Chara stands in the last room before The Barrier. It's dark, and foreboding. Asgore put a large gate here, never to be opened. In the original timeline, the gate is gone, because with the war against humanity, the Barrier being destroyed was the planned reality, but here? Monsters live underground in peace, and have hope.
Frisk set the world's parameters to decay the Barrier naturally over the next ten years, but The Unseen Influence has exterminated half the underground in a single day. Chara has a feeling that Asriel, Toriel, and Asgore are next. As painful as it is to admit, Chara has no direct method of stopping Frisk right now. Chara has a plan, and it will only work in this exact area... and unfortunately... that means that whatever Frisk wants to do... they're going to do.
Chara sighs and looks down. At first it appears they're looking at nothing, but it's obvious that she's looking at something.
"I'm going to die, huh? And then everyone else? Not if I have anything to say about it..."
/CHARADIES
/THENEVERYONEELSEDIESTOO
Frisk lands back at the elevator. Gaster is gone. There is no real way to know where he went. He saves his game again and walks north, along the single path to New Home.
There, he's cut off by Toriel and Asgore. Asriel, however, is nowhere in sight. They seem quite distressed.
"H-Human... we just got a message... a message from Waterfall... I... I don't want to believe it." Asgore lets out. It took a bit of time to realize, but Frisk notices that Asgore is carrying his trident.
"Human... tells me this is just... a bad joke. I mean, I'm a dad... I can appreciate bad jokes..." He says with a nervous smile. Frisk merely frowns.
*It's not.
Toriel covers her mouth and Asgore sighs.
"Why? WHY?!" Asgore growls.
*You tell Asgore he wouldn't understand.
"How... how could you? You come into our home... we were ready to make you a part of our family, and in one day... everything... everyone... I... I cannot believe what I am hearing, what I am seeing... it's like a bad dream..." Asgore says with his eyes closed.
"My child... I don't know why you've done this but... but we're here for you..." Toriel says, catching gazes from both Frisk and Asgore.
"Toriel?"
*Toriel...
*...
*After a brief pause, you tell them both to stand aside.
Asgore furrows his brow and growls, moving Toriel out of the way.
"Why? Why do you want past?"
*"To kill Chara." You explain.
"Chara...? The other human? But... why?! Why have you done these things, why are you going to do more?!" Asgore exclaims, desperately trying to get an answer.
*Because you can.
*Asgore
*ATK 80 *DEF 80
*Willing to do anything for his people, the King of Monsters stands before you!
The battle begins, but Frisk only sighs. He swings his knife.
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Asgore collapses to his knees and grabs his chest, Toriel rushes to his side with a gasp!
"Asgore!"
"Ngh... h-human... why?!" Asgore lets out, surprisingly still alive. It's always confused the Unseen Influence, Asgore never dies, no matter how hard you hit him- in one hit. He can never be sent beyond his limit with only one strike. He is hearty, Frisk admits. Even being hit for billions, he simply reels in pain instead of dying.
"Human... I... Asgore... will never-"
"Human, please go! Do whatever you want, just leave us, and Asriel alone!" Toriel cuts Asgore off!
"What?! Toriel, what are you-"
"We cannot stop him, Asgore! Please, stay down!" She begs him. Asgore, still alive despite being hit with a world shattering attack simply faces downwards.
Frisk, knife in hand shrugs. He walks past them, Toriel flinches as he does so.
"Toriel..."
"Asgore..."
*Chara...
"Frisk...?" A familiar voice lets out. Frisk turns, halfway through New Home, to see Asriel standing in the doorway ahead.
*"Move."
"No."
*"What?!"
"Frisk... what happened to you?"
*"I don't have time for this."
"Frisk, STOP!" Asriel begs, lunging forward and hugging Frisk!
*...
"Frisk... I... I don't want you to go... I'll hold on as long as it takes... I don't know what's happening to you, but I'll forgive you..."
*...?!
"No matter what you do, or why you do it, I will be with you, until the end of time, okay? You forgave Flowey... and I will forgive you too... but please... stop..."
*...
Asriel, eyes wincing, as if anticipating getting hit- or worse- stays latched onto Frisk with a big hug. Frisk simply stands still. Toriel looks in from the outside door, unnoticed by either of them.
*"Asriel..."
"Frisk?"
*"This... this is what I wanted..." You explain.
"Y-You mean... this? All of this death?"
*"No... to be here... with you... ever since I saved you in as a pacifist; as a hero, making everyone happy- only to lose you, you were the one loose end... all I ever wanted was for you to be happy..."
"So why? Why would you attack the people, attack mom and dad?"
*"Because... as long as Chara exists... I cannot exist in this world too..."
"Ch-Chara? This is because of Chara? But why?!"
*...
Frisk jostles free of Asriel's hug and steps back.
"Frisk?"
*You explain... slowly... and painfully... that you are not Frisk.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
*You explain to him that you are the one who controlled Frisk a long time ago, and forced them to do what they did.
"You... you mean... you-"
*You explain that, if it wasn't for them regaining their sentience you are, for lack of a better name; CHARA.
For a minute, the room goes silent. Asriel looks down at his small, white furry hands, knowing they don't hold any power anymore. He's not the god of hyperdeath... hell, he's not even Flowey.
"So... what are you going to do?"
*You explain that you are going to kill Chara, and reset this world again, alone, without Chara.
"... I... I can't... You... Frisk... Chara... I..." Asriel tries to find the words with tears growing in his eyes. He makes shaky fists and places them at his sides as they tremble, tears falling onto the floor.
"I don't want you to kill my sister! I want us to all live in peace! I want to live with Chara, I want to live with Frisk!" He cries out, causing Frisk's head to turn.
*"You won't remember..." You faintly say.
"That's not the point!"
*You tell Asriel to stay here, and to not stop you.
"NO!" Asriel says as Frisk tries to walk forward! Asriel grabs onto Frisk and tries to push him back! However, Frisk shoves him aside!
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Asriel trips and collapses over a now broken chair and looks up with tears in his eyes.
"Frisk..." Asriel says, his clothes torn and some of his bones broken. His HP is at 1...
*"Stay down. Please.*
Frisk walks onward. Asriel sobs quietly, but Toriel walks into the room and picks him up without saying even a single word.
"Mom?"
"Shh... don't say anything... we're leaving..."
"Mom... I... I think I can help..."
"Don't worry about what's going to happen... we'll take care of it..."
"..." Asriel knows that he's the only one that can stop this.
This has to end.
Even weak from the attack, Asriel jostles out of Toriel's grasp and runs down towards The Barrier!
"ASRIEL! ASRIEL STOP!"
Frisk walks forward past the Throne Room and into The End. There, he sees Chara.
Chara looks over at Frisk with a strange emotion on her face.
"You... didn't kill Asgore, Toriel, or Asriel? Why?"
*You ask her why it matters.
"Hah... right." She scoffs, diverting her eyes. Chara looks at the area they're in.
"This kind of looks like where it all started, huh? Where Flowey would pop up, and tell us that we're idiots... but before then, where everything would finally start making sense... Asgore would break our Mercy Button, and for the first time, this game felt real, if only for a moment." Chara says, once again diverting her eyes, almost unable to look at Frisk.
*"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because it was you, not Frisk... it was you. You were the person controlling Frisk, not me, and not him. The person you sold your soul to, it wasn't Frisk's Soul, it wasn't My Soul, it was yours. Maybe however, it was just... a metaphor. It obviously had no solid power over you, not for lack of trying. As it turned out, you WERE above consequences."
*"You were the demon?"
"No. I thought you would have figured that out by now... the demon, the bearer of the true name... the demon that comes when its name is called... it was an extension of you, not of me. I was simply the first human to ever fall down. I had a happy life down here with Asriel, Asgore, and Toriel... but you took that away from me..."
*"I... did?"
"You may not remember it now... hell, it may even be a different person... but you... or someone like you... they made me do the things I did. The war against humanity, it was not my choice. Killing myself, having Asriel take my soul, killing Gaster... I didn't want it. I watched as a helpless child, bearing witness to my own body being controlled by someone else... someone like you..."
*"It wasn't me."
"I believe you." Chara says with an incredibly strange smile.
*"You... do?"
"After seeing what you said to Asriel I... I don't know what to think anymore. So... you want me gone, huh? You want to kill me, so that you can have my life underground?"
*...
When she says it that way, it really hammers home how much of a dick you are. Chara looks like she's on the verge of tears.
"But Frisk... this was supposed to be Frisk's world... not yours... not mine or Asriel's... but his..."
*"But... I was the one who gave him that chance..."
"Hah... I understand that now." She says with several tears in her eyes, wiping them off with her sleeves.
"You... you are wracked with a perverted sentimentality you know... coming this far... killing people who aren't real, so that you can have a fake life with other people who aren't real... none of this is real, is it? At least not to you... well... it's real to me, Chara..." Chara says. She looks over at Frisk, finally making eye contact. She knows it's not really Frisk looking through those eyes, but he's not who she's looking at any more. With tears coming gently down her face, she speaks again.
"Please... I don't want to die..."
*"You fear death? After all this time?"
"No... it's not that... I don't want Asriel... or Frisk... to see me die... I don't them to see anyone die, not anymore... not after all we've been through. Please... just stop... please stop and let Frisk be himself again... what you want... and what I want... they don't matter... I only want what Frisk wants..." Chara says with closed, wet eyes, her hands trembling.
*"But... I have to see this to its end."
"NO YOU DON'T! Sometimes, just because you CAN do something in a game, doesn't mean you have to!" Chara yells, the tears flying off her face from the sheer intensity of her words!
"LOOK AROUND YOU! You're killing people again, innocent people, no one ever tried to harm you, and for what?! Because I tried to stop you from possessing my friend?! You... if you have even a single shed of decency within you... you will let go of Frisk... and let him live his life!" She yells out with a weird twist of sadness and anger.
*Your head sinks and you tell Chara that you can't.
"You... I... I can't believe I ever trusted that you would do the right thing! People like you, you're the reason I ever hated humanity! After making me do what I did, after making Frisk do what you're doing! I... I will destroy you all, I swear to God I will find a way to destroy all humans, all humans who would kill us and make us their toys, like this is all a game!" She yells out drawing not one red knife, but hundreds as they float around her!
Clapping a hand to her chest, she yells!
"FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE, I'LL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL!"
*Chara
*ATK ? *DEF ?
*...
The battlefield looks amazing! Most of the time a battle engages, it's just a black and white space with four options on how to act, but here there is only one option, FIGHT. Red knives fly everywhere and Chara is planted solely in the center of the screen, looking you dead in the eye with the most vindictive anger upon her own. Gone is the trademark smile, replaced with pure indignation.
Frisk attacks, only to have his attack completely stopped by a myriad of slashing knives!
Chara's attack turn consists of little more than summoning hundreds of more knives!
Frisk tries to attack again, but more knives get in his way and break his attack! Even if he could hit for billions or trillions, Frisk can only damage one target at a time.
"Frustrated? Good. I know how strong you are, and I won't make the same mistake Roman did. You will NEVER attack! If you have even a shred of decency, you will quit!" Chara yells out, drawing more and more knives! But Frisk's turn comes up and he slashes down again, completely missing as Knives get in the way, acting like shields!
Chara never hits back, to be honest it makes it a bit boring. Even while immortal, the Unseen Influence had fun dodging attacks from people like Undyne and Sans, but here there's nothing. Just one button, a button that doesn't even work, and Chara.
Frisk keeps trying to attack, only to be broken by knife after knife!
"Give up! Let Frisk go!" Chara yells out! The Unseen Influence gets a bit annoyed, they can't even act, which means they can't respond. They cant spare, they can't run, they cant even use items. They can only attack.
Frisk attacks again, hitting for billions of damage, but it only succeeds in making knives explode.
"Stop!" Chara yells out. Frisk slashes more and more, eating up dozens of turns trying to attack, just getting cut off every time!
"Just quit! Let go of Frisk!" Frisk keeps attacking, more and more turns wasted trying to get rid of knives. Before long, Chara simply stops responding, only spawning more knives to stop the Unseen Influence. Before long, they go still.
"Give up?" Unable to respond, they say nothing. Chara looks really close at Frisk's face.
He blinks.
"...?" Chara thinks to herself. Was what just happened good? They think some more.
"WAIT, YOU JUST BLUNK! FRISK!"
"Chara...? Where..."
"OH MY GOD DID HE FINALLY LET GO?!"
"What are you... talking... about..." Frisk tries to say as the world begins to quake and rumble!
"W-Wait... this shaking...!" Chara lets out as Frisk falls forward, landing face first into rubble and passing out. Chara picks him up.
"Damn it... the Unseen Influence is accessing the Worldsoul! Who knows what damage they're going to cause if they go through with this! But this is exactly the opening I've been looking for." Chara says. She carries Frisk with one arm and uses her other arm to cause her own soul to come out of her chest, however there are two of them. One solid red, and one blank with a white outline.
"With the Unseen Influence's... "soul"... I should be able to access the Worldsoul too!" Chara says to herself, extending the hollow soul forward as the shaking world in front of her splits in two, showing only a gigantic red heart at the bottom of a pit!
"YES! THE WORLDSOUL!" She yells out, jumping in! She doesn't care about anything else, even about landing from Five Thousand feet of solid falling! It's going to work, it has to! She nears the ground, but instead of hitting it hard, she gets enveloped in a strange dark energy and lands softly. She puts Frisk down and runs to the center of the Worldsoul. There she meets a familiar being.
"Chara..." The half-broken skeleton says.
"Gaster? What are you doing here?"
"There... is no time. Everything you have worked for, everything we have all worked for... is beyond this point." Gaster says. As he says that, two other people walk out from behind him.
It's the tall unbroken Gaster, and the familiar portly skeleton Sans.
"Gaster? Sans?"
"Roman actually, but there will be time for chitchat later!" Sans lets out the Two Gasters and Sans stand around in a triangle, with Sans' time machine at the center of it, sucking in a large amount of void energy.
"What are you guys doing-" Chara tries to say as the Worldsoul complies and shoots something up from the machine! Chara looks, enthralled at what she sees.
"Is... that...?" She tries to say.
"You know this? Then here, take it." Sans says, throwing it at Chara. She catches it.
It's a Sword, a Rainbow Sword with a hilt shaped like a Red Heart!
"It... It can't be!"
*WORLDSOUL
*ATK X
*The key to saving the world, this sword embodies every hope and dream of humans and monsters, and is the last hope to save what is left of this universe!
To the surprise of the tall Gaster and Sans, the sword begins to shine brightly, but the broken and hunched Gaster simply grins, knowing this would happen.
"What... what do I do with it?" Chara lets out, nervous.
"We don't know, kid. That part is up to you to figure out." Chara looks behind her to see Frisk's limp body. The Worldsoul beneath her quivers and quakes, being changed by the Unseen Influence. Lines of code, numbers and bars run across the Worldsoul, changing the nature of the world every second!
Chara sees where the text is being changed, and she stabs down on it with WORLDSOUL!
The Unseen Influence tries to alter a certain line of code, but for some reason the program crashed, and needs to be reset. They boot it back up and try again.
"Did it work?" Sans lets out, before the world starts to rumble again!
"Damn it, the Unseen Influence is trying to change it again!" The tall Gaster lets out!
"Ah, but look... it was reverted back to normal, they have to start over..." The hunched Gaster points out. All four of them notice that the Unseen Influence has gone back to square one.
"So it did work!" Chara exclaims!
The Unseen Influence tries again, this time the program locks up much earlier.
"Stupid program."
They reboot it a second time, only this time to see one bar of text was edited ahead of time, however it's a bit different. They read it out loud.
"Chara... doesn't... die? ... What the hell?"
"I-It's working! It's working!" Tall Gaster lets out!
"I can rewrite the nature of this world with WORLDSOUL! I finally have a way to combat the Unseen Influence on their own turf! I wont stop until it's all over!"
They keep trying to rewrite the rules of the game, but it's not working. It keeps crashing, only to be rebooted with new messages like "Chara lives" and "Chara will never die" and "I have the power." It's quite frustrating. Sighing, the Unseen Influence flips back on Undertale to see how it's going, only to see their character face down on top of a giant red heart for some reason, the battle has ended?
Frisk wakes up and looks over at Chara.
"Frisk? ! YOU! YOU'RE NOT FRISK!" Chara yells in surprise, backing up and trying to draw a bunch of red knives, but Frisk slashes down too fast!
"NO!"
"KID!"
"Chara...!"
"AHHHHH!"
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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.
