Hide and Seek

"Chara always had four followers by their side. Just like the four horsemen from the bible. Or the bible got it from them." ~ Gaster, 545 AD—2006 AD—2016 AD

Gaster struck Sans with a slight tap of a kick and dealt eleven thousand points of damage. That one dab just obliterated the hell out of Sans, whirling tornadoes of blue energy out of the skeleton. His over nine thousand HoPe just plummeted back down to zero like nothing.

Sans fell forward, all power he was bestowed upon from the ancient god vanished.

"Alright, Sans, you dead," Gaster sighed. "Now get up."

Sans huffed at his immortal zero HoPe, looking up at Gaster with hate.

"im not gonna side with you anymore... from now on, youre not my pal." Sans squinted his eyes. "youre my enemy. your death will be at my hands..."

"What are you gonna do?" Gaster asked, tempting Sans to run. "You gonna go to Chara and demand a spot in her team?"

Sans shook his head. "no..."

The shorter skeleton stood up, puffing his chest out.

"im on my own. again."

And with that, Sans vanished into a cloud of blue. Gaster stared at where once was his friend, his mind blank. Realization hit him and he felt regret. Sans was the monster who first revived him and went through the hell of all timelines. Sure, it was said it was because Sans was sick of it, but he was also tired, depressed, angry... he wanted to spite Chara so he made a hide and seek game that Gaster himself influenced him to make.

Undyne gasped. She didn't mean for it to go that far.

The two powerhouses just stayed in place, shocked at what happened.

Flowey could feel the whole air turn depressed.

"Now is the time to strike!" he exclaimed. "The air is perfect! Full of darkness and depression! My type of air!"

"How do you know?" Chara asked.

"I'm the god of hyperdeath!"

"Jesus christ, Asriel," Chara facepalmed, "you're like a six year-old trying to be cool."

"Well, screw you."

"Edgy."

Muffet swung over to the metal building, carrying Team Seekers in the net of webs she knitted. Her pet, the Muffin-spider (actually, Muffin-ant, but who cares if it has six legs or eight legs?), was named "Affin", and it slobbered over Chara, Asriel and MAD DUMMY. Burgerpants sat on Affin.

"What kinda name is Affin?" Chara demanded quietly.

"I don't know. Seems like no creativity was put into it." Flowey remarked, eyes half-closed and looking at us.

"Are we still debating if it's a legit spider?" MAD DUMMY asked.

"No," Flowey answered.

The team swung over to the building, crashing through the cardboard walls that were painted to look metal.

Flowey's pot fell forward, crashing against the ground and sliding across Gaster's feet.

"Woah! Two souls in one body!" Gaster remarked, already forgetting that Sans had vanished. He picked Flowey up. "I could easily fix you with some dark magic!"

"Wait, what? No, no, no, you don't understand!" Flowey desperately cried. "If you separate the two of us, you'll be forced to deal with two outer-dimensional idiots!"

"Oh, it's okay." Gaster reassured.

Undyne stepped forth, conjuring several light spears at the other four villains. Muffet stepped in front of everyone and made a barrier of webs that shielded them from Undyne's attacks. The fish lady rained down hell, as Chara slid away from her focus and ran for her behind.

MAD DUMMY threw his only knife. Undyne caught it and flung it back, stabbing MAD DUMMY in the chest.

"Well, crud," MAD DUMMY laid on the floor and acted dead.

Muffet swung over to Undyne and webbed her feet, before swinging around and charging her momentum to create a powerful kick. Undyne used her spears to cut the web and free herself. She was able to run for it, but Chara caught her back and lifted her into the air with surprising strength. Undyne flailed her limbs, trying to get out of the demon's hold, when they threw her into the air, causing the fish lady to fly in the direction of Muffet's kick.

WHOOMPH! Muffet double-kicked her in the stomach and sent her flying onto the second floor, denting rails and the escalator pad. Muffet swung over to Undyne, sticking to the ceiling.

"Ugh..." Undyne groaned, sitting up. "You got moves. Wanna join the Royal Guard?"

"Sorry, but," Muffet webbed Undyne's arm to the wall. "I already have a job. It's ripping you apart."

Muffet leaped for Undyne, only to be smacked away by a silver thing.

Gaster made up some magic that started ripping Flowey apart mentally. The flower screamed, "OH, GOD. WHAT AM I FEELING? IT FEELS LIKE CUTTING APART MOM'S PIES! IT'S SO DELICIOUS! WHYYYY!?"

"Hold steady, young lad." Gaster held Flowey in the air with magic and brought his hands farther apart from each other, symbolizing Flowey's mental state. "Just a little more and the operation will be complete. You'll be free from diseases! You'll be cured! Think about that."

"I'D RATHER NO-HO-HOT!" Flowey cried, "I CAN SMELL A PERFUME DEPARTMENT!"

"That's the smell of hell. I'd know." Gaster said, "Just a few more seconds. This last part is tricky."

"THEN I WANNA DIE!"

Chara was engulfed by rage once they saw Gaster tearing apart their brother. The demon dashed at the ex-Royal Scientist with renewed vigor, tackling him by the waist and tumbling across the ground with him.

Gaster rolled himself upright, while Chara took on a demon stance.

"That looks like the style of a hellspawn I saw in my time of death." Gaster remarked, wary of his opponent. "Oh, right, uh... remember me?"

"It's because I am a demon!" Chara charged at Gaster with adrenaline coursing through her veins, already attacking with close-quarter combat. It was unusual, but Chara seemed to be highly experienced with that. They were like a demon, using the heaviest of attacks and using every dangerous move there was. Gaster tried to counter the demon fighting style, but he was really surprised that Chara didn't use this against him last time.

"You almost killed me last time!" Gaster yelled, "I'll make sure that doesn't happen a second—" WHAM! Chara punched him in the stomach, his new soul jumping around his skeleton and making him pass out momentarily. He dropped to the floor and whimpered, "Ow... Why... again..."

Chara turned and went over to Flowey, watching his lifeless body on the floor.

"No. No, no, no! Flowey! Asriel! You sunova bitch, can you hear me?!" Chara exclaimed.

Flowey rolled over, eyes clenched. "Ugh. That was weird... Need... Need pie... Frisk, I can't believe I'm asking this, but you did this for Sans... lend me your power..."

Again, the skies above replied.

The box popped up in front of Chara and they dodged it.

"Hah, take that, you—"

The box smacked her.

"Ow." Chara clutched their nose. "That didn't hurt," they whimpered. They looked at the box.

*Frisk lends Frisk's power to Flowey

Flowey sat up. "Ugh... That felt..."

"Weird!" Another voice said.

Chara recognized that one. "Oh god, no."

Asriel stood up away from them, looking at his paws in shock. "I-I... I'm myself again!" he shouted gleefully. "The god of hyperdeath has returned!"

Flowey stared at Asriel in disgust. "Oh my god, is that me? I look incredibly... cool."

"Oh my god, Flowey," Chara groaned, "I'm so sick of your shit right now."

"Wassup, man! Your hair spiked up looks way awesome!" Flowey complimented.

"Thanks, me, 'ppreciate it!" Asriel replied. "You look dope too!"

"Really?" Flowey asked. "All I am is a flower..."

"Sure you do! Your red eyes are wicked! I wish I could do that!"

"You're... You're literally talking to yourself here!" Chara pointed out. "This is the equivalent to sucking your own dick!"

"Chara, watch your language!" Flowey warned.

Muffet crashed against the ground outside of the building, skidding across the red hotland dirt. The silver thing that crashed into her stood up and spread its metallic wings.

Mettaton NEO aimed his arm cannon at the spider-thing. "Give up, spider-thing! You can't beat me—" Muffet webbed his mouth. "HMMPPH! HMMMMPHHH!"

"That shouldn't happen. You're a robot." Muffet said.

Mettaton NEO ripped out the web and glared at Muffet. "How dare you! This is a new body—"

Muffet got on her legs, posing like a casual teen against a wall. "I'm sorry. Who are you again?"

"I'm Mettaton!"

"Sorry, don't know you." Muffet immediately webbed Mettaton's face again, jumped over him, and swung him towards the building. Mettaton NEO was inches away from hitting the building, before activating his flight thrusters and flying off with Muffet on his tail. The two flew over Hotland, with Mettaton decreasing in altitude so Muffet could get closer to the lava. But Muffet climbed her string of web and caught up with Mettaton, sitting on his back.

"Tch! Get off!" Mettaton flew into a cave, flying higher in altitude to get Muffet off him. Probably by scraping her across the cave's ceiling. "You've already ruined my day by coming here! Don't make it harder for me to defeat you!"

"Nope." Muffet jumped off and started swinging around with her webs at the same speed as Mettaton was flying... somehow. Muffet's speed and rising momentum caused her to go faster than Mettaton. She looked back and sprayed some webs at the robot, who dodged them all. Muffet spun a giant web in the front, and slid through the holes of the giant spiderweb trap. Mettaton could get caught with his giant wings, but he folded them and flew into one of the holes.

"You've got tricks!" Mettaton extended his wings again. He and Muffet got out of the cave, which meant a higher ceiling that Muffet couldn't reach, so she shot a web string for Mettaton's foot and followed him that way. "Would you care to join me in my popular show, Mettaton and the—"

Muffet webbed a nearby boulder and swung it at Mettaton, which he destroyed with a blast from his arm cannon. Muffet climbed her web string onto Mettaton's leg again.

"Not interested," she said. "Seriously, what is up with all the job prompts? I'm already busy with trying to kill you."

Mettaton's battery was going low, so he flew back to the building.

"We're back here." Muffet harrumphed as she struck the back of Mettaton's wings. "You don't need this, do you?"

Mettaton NEO erased himself from the body and uploaded himself into a new one that was perfectly safe and not in any danger. The NEO body went sailing through the air, starting to lose altitude, and was ultimately gonna drop into the lava. Muffet realized this and leaped off NEO's body at its highest potential, and shot a web string at the building.

NEO's body crashed into the bottom of the building, letting the whole place rumble and lose its stability. Muffet swung low, nearing the lava, before crashing through the walls of the building, sliding into place.

Burgerpants jogged over to her, tossing her a burger.

"Eat this," Burgerpants told her, before glancing at Gaster. "NOW!"

Muffet dove to the side before a giant gaster blaster skull was thrown at her. Gaster was using his magic specialty at its best to fight the rest of Team Seekers by himself. MAD DUMMY got back up and threw his knife, that was stuck to his chest, at Gaster. The skeleton didn't notice and was about to get hit, when and energy spear came in and sliced the knife in half, grazing only the tips of Gaster's black cloak.

"Damn," MAD DUMMY said. "That was my only one."

He shrugged.

"Oh well. Out with the missiles."

A full missile pack erupted from his back, all ready to be deployed to destroy the place. Undyne jumped in, going to deal with MAD DUMMY, as Gaster dealt with Burgerpants and Muffet. Chara, Flowey and Asriel got back up and were going to join the fight.

"Alright. Gaster and Undyne are the only ones we have to worry about. Mettaton is down and Papyrus and Sans are nowhere to be seen. Be careful." Chara advised.

"We're the bad guys, right?" Asriel asked worriedly.

"Yeah. Do we have to spell it out for you?" Flowey asked, being held in Asriel's palms.

"I'm sorry, but..." Asriel could fell Chara turn to him menacingly and Flowey's glare upon him. "...You're a disgrace, Flowey! You can't even hide correctly!"

Chara softened up. "Heh. He's right."

"What?" Flowey exclaimed in disbelief.

Then Asriel dropped Flowey to the ground, rendering him useless.

"We'll handle this," Asriel told Chara. "Just like back then. Both of us, together forever. Not some demon thing or some flower. The two of us. For real."

Chara smiled at the sentimentality and the nostalgia. "You've really gone a long way, Asriel."

"Yeah, I'm the god of hyperdeath."

"Alright, shut up." Chara prepared themself to go at Gaster, leaving Asriel to watch their back. That was the mistake. Leaving Asriel to watch their back.

"CHARA! NO!" Flowey cried.

"Wha—"

Asriel tackled them to the ground, pinning them there.

"NO!" Chara's face metled with rage. Her red eyes turning black and her mouth widening with anger. "YOU TRAITOR! YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN!" Her voice was serpent-like but kept that resonate sound.

"Ew. Bold text still looks ugly," Flowey remarked.

Asriel struggled against Chara. "I'm sorry. But I can't let you do this."

"TRAITOR! YOU'VE BETRAYED ME LAST TIME AND YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN! HOW... How could you?" A tear slipped from Chara's eye, their face reverting back to normal. Their red eyes dimmed.

Asriel's stare was cold as steel. "Because, I..."

"HAH! PSYCHE!" Chara took the opportunity to flip over and get on top. "YOU LET YOUR GUARD DOWN. BIG MISTAKE."

"Crap. I didn't think my first time with someone going on top of me would be like this." Asriel joked.

"HA, HA. GOOD ONE, ASRIEL." Chara raised their hand for the killing blow. "GOOD ONE."

Chara struck down at Asriel, who flinched back.

Only for their hand to get caught by an invisible force. "WHAT?"

Gaster held them there, before flinging his hand to the side, which Chara followed and slammed their head against the entrance to the True Lab, which broke like wood snapping in half and they fell down the elevator chute.

Gaster huffed as he went over to the goat and helped him up. "See? What did I tell you. Cured."

"Thanks, doctor Gaster." Asriel said.

"Now, we got a missile problem." Gaster turned his head toward MAD DUMMY, who was constantly shooting missiles. Undyne dodged them and tried to throw energy spears at him, but missiles kept colliding with her spears. MAD DUMMY's ammunition didn't seem to stop. MAD DUMMY kept shooting like a madman. Meanwhile, Muffet and Burgerpants went over to the fallen flower and Burgerpants put some food into him.

Flowey, with food and the power of Frisk, suddenly had a blue glow to him. He stood up, now with an astral projection, thanks to Frisk. His astral projection was his new body. It had a blue glow, and looked like a hologram.

"HOLY SHIT," Flowey yelled in surprise. "I have a body? I... I guess I'll never doubt you, Frisk."

Your welcome. Frisk replied.

"It's you're welcome," Flowey corrected. "You are."

Don't care.

Now... Muffet, Burgerpants and Flowey faced Gaster and Asriel.

"Hey, uh... you're the king's son, right?" Gaster asked. Asriel nodded. "You got any abilities?"

"Well," Asriel did a little spark of fire with his fingers. "Not really helping."

Gaster narrowed his eyes. "Asriel, you and that flower had shared the same body. I may have separated you two, but there's still a connection between you two."

"Hmm? What do you mean?" Asriel asked.

"You can do what he does." Gaster stated. "You're equals."

Asriel looked at Flowey. He closed his eyes, feeling a sort of connection to the flower. He didn't know it was there before, but now he could feel it. The energy swirling around him like armor. He opened his eyes, and he felt taller.

"Whuh..." He looked down and he was in his own astral projection. Only yellow, and had more defining features. It looked more like when Asriel had actually become the god of hyperdeath with all seven human souls. "That's more like it!"

"Pfft! There's only two of you and three of us!" Flowey snorted.

Burgerpants inched backwards.

"It'll do," Gaster smirked.

Chara smacked their face into some metal railings, built for the integral structure of the elevator that was missing. They fell forty feet into the ground with a deafening SMACK, and rolled over. The demon's body felt like jelly. It also felt numb.

"I fell farther before... like that fall into the underground the first time. I survived that, no problem..." Chara grunted as they pulled themself up. "But this time, no convenient flowers..."

Chara huffed as they leaned against the wall, looking up at the top floor, which seemed so far away. Just like when they fell into the underground the first time.

"Ugh..." Chara stumbled. "...oh... god..." Their voice cracked.

They could feel the spirits coming closer.

The amalgamates had come.

Papyrus entered the facility again, to check on the civil war.

"OH HEY GUYS—WOAH!"

Undyne was doing acrbatic flips to dodge MAD DUMMY's missiles, and tried to strike him down with her crazy aim. The missiles kept coming, and nothing could ever touch MAD DUMMY, who was screaming until his throat was sore. Muffet was swinging around, as lumps of metal and cardboard were flung at her by Gaster, where a brilliant light display was going on around him. Flowey and Asriel were whacking the crap out of each other, never tiring for a second. Their punches could be felt in the air and they actually felt like gods. Burgerpants was doing nothing, so Papyrus went over to him.

"HEY."

"Hey."

"SHOULD WE BE FIGHTING? I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING."

CRASH! Mettaton with a new robot form tunneled his way through the ground and made a grand entrance. He looked around and found his target, his ex-employee.

"Ahh, look what the cat dragged in." Mettaton poetically said. "How's it going, Mel?"

"My name's not Mel."

"Hah, funny story." Mettaton aimed his new arm cannons at him and blasted an energy wave. Flowey noticed and threw Asriel into the shot. The pink laser struck Asriel into the ground, making him tunnel several hundred feet into the ground. Mettaton's eyes widened and cupped his mouth. "Oh, dear."

Flowey now leaped at Mettaton, kicking him into a wall.

"HEY, I'LL BE FORCED TO USE MY SPECIAL ATTACK!" Papyrus warned.

"Go ahead!" Flowey replied, walking over to him. "Take your shot! I know all your mo—"

Flowey was struck by blue energy as he forgot that he wasn't supposed to move. "AH! I forgot!"

"NOW, FOR MY REAL SPECIAL ATTACK!" Papyrus snapped his fingers and Flowey's soul turned blue. "YOU'RE BLUE NOW."

"Oh, dingus..." Flowey felt himself get lifted and smashed against the ground repeatedly.

Burgerpants went away, when Mettaton flew in front of him with a cracked sternum. "Where do you think you're going?" the robot asked.

"Oh, I don't know," Burgerpants sighed. "I'm a bother."

"Well, you're very much so, darling." Mettaton was about to blast Burgerpants, when missiles started hammering against him.

Burgerpants looked back to see MAD DUMMY firing everywhere, while Undyne blocked his missiles and deflected them by spinning her spear. Gaster and Muffet were also getting swarmed by this and started to dive away. Papyrus used Flowey as a shield.

"NOW, DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY CALL ME MAD DUMMY?" MAD DUMMY shouted.

"This would've been a lot easier if Sans weren't such a pussy and is still here!" Undyne murmured.

Undyne gritted her teeth and put all her energy into one spear.

"TAKE THIS!" she shouted, tossing the spear so hard it broke the wind around it. MAD DUMMY's missiles exploded against it, but it was so powerful it went through it all with no harm. It was about to hit MAD DUMMY, when a white monster erupted from the ground and caught the spear.

Undyne gasped.

The amalgamates roared as they swung the spear like it was their own. Chara jumped up from the hole the Amalgamate made, with a grin on their face.

"Yes! This is all going my way!" Chara laughed. "THIS IS MY TIME!"

Asriel got back into the fight, noticing that the building they once fought in was now in tatters.

Muffet, Burgerpants and Flowey all went to side with Chara. Gaster, Undyne, Asriel, Papyrus and Mettaton gathered themselves together. They all faced each other, everyone at their peak.

Team Hiders versus Team Seekers.

"What do we do?" Asriel asked.

"We fight," Gaster answered with a determined nod. Team Hiders started walking at the opposing team, which followed their lead. Team Hiders started picking up speed, and Team Seekers started running at them. The two teams came closer and closer. And then they collided.

Gaster rammed into Chara. Flowey tackled Asriel. Undyne and MAD DUMMY engaged in a fierce battle. Mettaton and Muffet spiraled upward into the air. Papyrus and the giant Amalgamate struck head on. Their fight went out of control real quick. With MAD DUMMY's missiles, Undyne's Undying form, and Gaster starting to unhinge his true power.

It was war.

A/N: You didn't see that coming.

Yep. This whole story was actually an action, disguised as a comedy. I'll see you all later.