Hide and Seek

BLAM! Chara kicked down the giant door to the real underground, exiting the Ruins.

"You could've just opened it." Flowey remarked.

Chara ignored his incessant remarks and continued forward.

"Why're you in a hurry? It's not like you to head into a bad time." the flower added.

Chara trekked through snow, not even bothering to check if Flowey was following.

"Ya know, I noticed a trend." he continued, "First, it was a soulless monster, then a human, then a demon. And now that someone or something took the lead in the determination department, it has to be worse than a demon."

"Worse than a demon?" This piqued their interest. Chara finally turned to look at their brother, wanting to look him in the eye for this. "What could be worse than a demon?"

Flowey tilted his head. "You really wanna know?" he asked.

Chara narrowed their eyes at him. "Are you saying you know what has more determination than me, the soul-stealer Chara?"

"In this backwards world, monsters are worse than humans. So, in stark contrastand comparison, the demons should be worse than the... angels, should they not?" he questioned philosophically. "According to the determination chart, a monster like me had determination, which was swept away by a human. There, a horrid name like "monster" has his power taken by a normal name "human". Then the demon took the determination crown, and demons are horrid names, which means that whatever took your place has a state that is normal. An angel."

After considering the thought, Chara noticed something.

"Backwards world?" they noted.

"What's your sexual orientation? You never told me." Flowey teased. "I know you call yourself princess, but that's because I'm the prince and you wanted to be of royalty too—"

"Hey, shut up." Chara interrupted, turned, and left him in the dust.

"Does that mean you're a guy?"

"hey undyne. ive always wanted to ask you this..." Sans pointed at her eyepatch. "what happened there?"

"Oh this?" She pointed at it herself. "Well, I had a toothbrush incident."

"yikes." Sans remarked, concerned. "did the toothbrush gouge your eye out?"

"No..." Undyne lifted her eyepatch to reveal a working eye. Sans got scared for a moment in case he saw something nasty in there. But nope, both her eyes were fine. No scarring, no hole, just a perfectly good eye hidden under the eyepatch. "I accidentally bought an eyepatch instead of a toothbrush." she explained.

"oh... i thought by incident it would mean you mean you did something stupid with the toothbrush and had an accident that led you to missing that eye. gosh, that would've been stupid if a warrior like you got their eye poked out by a toothbrush." Sans replied.

"Eh, I kinda get that a lot." Undyne shrugged, putting the eyepatch back on.

"GUYS, I THINK I GOT IT TO WORK." Papyrus announced, holding out the orange ball. "YOU JUST HAVE TO SAY IT IN REVERSE! EASY AS THAT." He raised the ball. "LUOS S'RETSAG EKAT."

"how did you know that would work?" Sans asked.

"THE LETTERS TOLD ME." Papyrus answered.

"letters?" Sans looked over at the pile of paper that was scattered around to have an outline that wrote SAY IT IN REVERSE. "oh. letters."

"How would that work?" Undyne asked.

"I DUNNO." Papyrus replied.

"dont question it." Sans said.

The ball glowed and pulsed with life.

"I THINK IT WORKED."

Sans pushed Gaster's body forward, letting it fall flat. "put it there. in his ribcage probably."

Papyrus did as Sans said, and let the orange ball fit over Gaster's dress. It glowed and Gaster's eyes flung open. Sans and Papyrus flinched. Undyne snorted. Gaster pulled himself up and stood, patting his chest and looking around.

"Woah..." was his first word after revival. "This is weird." Gaster remarked.

"Yeah, you're technically still dead." Undyne bluntly said.

"youre lucky you had that cloning failure i guess. the rest of us have to deal with body failure after death. we turn to dust immediately." Sans mentioned.

"WHAT CLONING FAILURE?" Papyrus asked.

"oh, you know. gasters a scientist. he gets to do things like that."

"DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A BABY, SANS. I KNOW THAT."

Gaster held the orange ball in his stomach, like a fat stomach. "Huh. I gained weight." he stated. "But I didn't even get to eat anything yet! This is so unfair. I have to go on diets and lose this fat." He patted the ball, thinking it was his stomach. "But monsters don't digest stuff like humans do, so what... Oh." Gaster realized he was patting the orange ball that gave him life. "That... uh... You didn't hear me say anything."

Undyne blinked, "This was our royal scientist."

"and hes our best bet to fight the human." Sans added, unamused.

"WHY IS IT THAT YOU KEEP SAYING THAT GASTER WOULD FIGHT THE HUMAN? WHY CAN'T WE FIGHT THE HUMAN?" Papyrus asked Sans.

Undyne and Sans looked away from Papyrus.

"WHAT? UNDYNE? YOU'RE IN THIS TOO?" Papyrus exclaimed bewilderedly. "WHY CAN'T WE FIGHT THE HUMAN?"

"I probably can. Uh, you..." she scratched her nonexistent nose, trying to find a reason. "...you're still inexperienced."

"youre a roll of cinnamon, pap." Sans explained.

Gaster danced beautifully around them, humming a tune.

"I'm going to defeat the human!" Gaster exclaimed, running away and towards the caverns. "WOOHOO! I FEEL ALIVVVE! I'M ALIVE!"

Undyne stared bemusedly. "What the hell..."

"ughh..." Sans facepalmed.

A/N: Gaster is... I don't know. Ecstatic is probably the word. I hope you like this new chapter.