Cover Art: FairyFan94 from Deviant Art
A/N: Merry Christmas everyone.
"0xx00x": these were supposed to be in Wingdings but apparently it does not work on fanfiction...
Chapter 6 – Do not call HER name
Frisk punched the tomato before her knocking it over. Unsure the human child looked up at the monster next to her who grinned widely before returning to her own share of vegetables. "THAT'S THE WAY PUNK!"
Papyrus next to her laughed out a loud "NYEH HEH HEH!" As he smashed his vegetables with a bone he had summoned.
The human giggled as smashed vegetables flew around and smacked into their faces. She turned to look up at the fish woman who looked down at her. Undyne grinned when Frisk giggled. "We will scrap that up later for the sauce now let's get to the noodles!"
"Usually I prefer making them myself but today, I will make an exception and we will use store noodles." Undyne slammed an iron pot down on the stove, causing it to dent slightly inwards. Frisk nodded in determination as she grabbed the noodles and drew back her arm. With all her might she threw the noodles into the pot. From behind the two Papyrus somehow managed to throw water into the pot.
"Stir harder punk!" Undyne yelled and Frisk giggled as she held out the spoon to Papyrus who puffed out his chest.
"I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO STIR HUMAN!"
The human child took a few steps back as she watched Undyne and Papyrus. She smiled yet felt like something was missing. Looking around Frisk failed to spot the lazy short skeleton anywhere in Undynes house. She tilted her head to the side in slight confusion.
Suddenly Frisk froze. Her vision blurred a little and she heard a faint voice in the back of her mind. The human child started shivering as she felt like something dark was warping around her. The voice in the back of her mind was slowly getting louder. Pressing her small hands against her ears and shaking her head violently Frisk tried to block it out. She let out a small whimper.
Both Undyne and Papyrus heard it and looked to the child only to see her strange behaving. The two monsters looked at each other and then back at the human with worry and concern. "What's wrong punk?"
"HUMAN? ARE YOU OKAY?"
Frisk could hear their voices yet she couldn't fully understand his words the voice in her mind was getting louder. The child's knees buckled and she was on the ground Papyrus was in an instant next to the small human.
"H-HUMAN?!" More whimpers escaped Frisk as she tried to make herself as small as she could and shut her eyes thightly. Papyrus scoped the shivering child up in his arms as he stood up turning to Undyne.
"W-WHAT SHOULD WE DO?!" Both monsters looked at the whimpering child in Papyrus arms. Undyne looked unsure for a moment but a look of determination crossed her face as she got an idea.
"I know a friend who knows a lot about humans."
A little earlier in Sans laboratory…
Right eye glowing blue, Sans appeared in the middle of his laboratory. Flowey let out a low hiss at his sight but was instantly silent when he noticed the blue flame. The short skeleton and the golden flower stared at each other for a while, one thinking about how to start the interrogation the other partly wanting to insult and threat but at the same time fearing the blue magic.
"You know what is going on." Sans broke the silence with his statement. He didn't need to make it a question. Asriel had told him that they knew partly what was going on.
"And what if I do?" Flowey answered smirking evilly as he tilted his head slightly and Sans decided he didn't like the cocky attitude. The skeleton closed his eyes. He heard the flower chuckling in what seemed to be a victory for Flowey.
Slowly he lifted his left hand out of the pockets of his jacket and snapped with his bone fingers. The Flowers chuckling stopped instantly as a blue glow engulfed it and lifted it into the air. Eyes wide Flowey stared at the skeleton as he levitated in the air.
"Listen here bud." Sans started, his voice low and a slightly threating undertone. "You will spill everything you know now."
"Or what?!" The flower spat not realizing the danger it was in. Sans only slowly opened his eyes. Instead of a blue glow, a blue flame erupted from Sans right eye illuminating all shadows in his lab, yet casting one over the rest of his face.
"Or you are going to have a bad time."
Flowey only stared wide eyed at him, fear crossing his features for a moment before he seemed to catch himself again. 'Friendliness pallets' started to appear around Flowey as his face twisted into a hollow expression. "You think I am scared of you?! DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH YOU IDIOT!"
Sans raised a skeleton eyebrow at the flower who was still engulf in a blue glow and levitating through his laboratory. Either that flower was insanely stupid or just not aware that Sans clearly had the advantage here.
"I WILL KILL YOU!" The skeleton decided Flowey was insanely stupid. Friendliness pallets were aimed at him but Sans didn't even sweat as he dodged them. He swiped his left hand to the right and the flower was slammed into a wall, though Sans made sure he did not damage the flower pot. Angered hissing was heard but the skeleton ignored it as he swiped his hand to the left turning the pot 180° and slamming the flower into the opposite wall head first.
"Sill not willing to cooperate?" The skeleton asked lazily eyeing the flower as Flowey growled at him. More Friendliness pallets appeared shooting in his direction. "DIE!"
Sans shrugged before slamming the flower a few more times head first into walls, the ground and the ceiling. A threated feeling of familiarity crawled in the back of Sans mind. The skeleton wavered a little before he stood strong again. Images… Memories flashed before him and his bone hand froze in mid movement. He tried to ignore it and shook his skull staring with the blue light in his eye at Flowey. The flower had stopped inches away from the wall due to Sans frozen movement earlier.
"Come on bud, my patience is wearing thin here. You know how this will end if you don't spill the dirt." The skeleton muttered out. His mind partly hanging in the past, in his mind eye he saw the image of a bloody Frisk before him. Sans shook his skull once more. Not a bloody Frisk, but Chara. The skeleton could practically feel the tension in his bones as he stared with black eye-sockets at the flower.
"LIKE HELL I AM GOING TO TELL YOU ANYTHING! I WILL KILL YOU AND EVERYONE YOU CARE ABOUT JUST YOU WAIT!" Instead of Flowey, Sans saw Chara.
He reacted without thinking. Hearing a flower pot breaking into shards Sans blinked as he saw the flower pot broke and in pieces as well as the flower pinned to the wall with bones by his leafs, eyes wide in fear.
"Look here you pest plant." Sans voice was thick with a dangerous undertone as he closed his eye-sockets. A Gaster Blaster was materializing behind him hovering over his head. He did not plan on firing it at the flower but the fear he saw was something he was going to use to get his answers.
"I am sick of your lies and I am sick of your threats." Bones appeared and shot forward, implementing themselves into the wall inches away from Flowey.
"You better tell me what is happening in this timeline or…" Sans only opened his right eye-socket. The blue flame reappearing burning brighter and stronger than it had before, bringing the strange feeling from days ago back with it along with memories and images he wanted nothing more than to forget. Taking a deep breath Sans ignored them as he continued.
Pointing with his thump at the Gaster Blaster over his head Sans shrugged as his grin became sinister. His left arm was now stretched out to the side, his face getting a slightly shadowed by the charging light of the beam yet partly light by the blazing blue fire in his right eye. "Welp… you better hope I miss."
He waited. Minutes seemed to pass as the flower stared wide eyed at his Gaster Blaster. He felt that it had charged enough and was ready to be fired at any moment. When Floweys head dropped, slowly the skeleton lowered his left arm, but the charging light stayed.
"Go on…" Sans had to strain his hearing to catch the flowers whispering. "Kill me."
The blue fire in Sans right eye-socket vanished as he stared at the flower emotionless and default grin in place. The instant the blue flame disappeared, so did the strange feeling as well as the unwanted memories and images. He didn't forget them but it was suddenly very easy to push them into the far back of his mind.
"What does it matter? You all are trying to stop the game." Flowey continued lifting his head only a little, empty humor in his voice.
"What game?" Sans asked his eye-sockets pitch black now. The Gaster Blaster vanished behind him.
The flower only hollowly chuckled. "What game? Mine of course. Why do you think I made the kid reset so often? Why do you think I called out her name? As long as the kid resets this game will never end and I will be the only winner!"
The skeleton didn't move as he watched the flowers face getting more and more hollow and empty. "I will kill them no matter how often I have too! I will never let her have a happy ending not her and not Frisk! This is my game! My world! MY WIN!"
Sans eye-sockets narrowed as Flowey started to laugh, the flowers face twisted more and more into something sinister and evil as resentment, hate and anger crossed his features. "You know what? If I wanted I could destroy all your oh-so-great efforts in protecting that stupid human!"
The skeletons left arm shot up again as his fingertips started to glow blue a bad feeling started in the back of his mind. "He thinks he can keep her away. Away from your precious human girl. Away from a fragile soul. But you know what?!"
Floweys face had twisted into something not recognizable. Bones appeared around Sans as he was ready to attack the flower, he wouldn't kill it yet but if he had to he would bring him as close to death as he could.
"All I have to do is call HER name. Everything you worked for would be gone! FOREVER!" Sans eye-sockets went wide, he stumbled forward trying to reach the soulless flower in time.
"DO YOU HEAR ME CH-" Static washed over Sans as he froze in place. His whole body was shaking as he slowly moved to stand and looked around in the black void he was in.
Flowey had disappeared and was replaced by the white figure that had seemingly kidnapped little Frisk earlier. Still trying to digest everything the flower had just tried to do, Sans did not look forward to returning.
Slowly the white figure hold out one its hands. Registering that movement Sans took a step back, holding out his left hand but nothing happened. Blinking the Skeleton glanced behind him to find that he didn't summon his gaster blaster or any bones for that matter. A little panicked Sans tried to reach for his magic but couldn't not a single bone appeared. The white figure moved its hand closer to the skeleton, urging Sans to look at it.
"00x x0x0. xx0 x00x." (1)
The skeleton blinked. The white figure nudged its hand once more forward but did not move closer. Finally Sans took notice of the light red glow in its hands, a transparent red soul was floating there.
"What…" The short skeleton reached out for it but the white figure was quick to pull back refusing for Sans to get any closer to the transparent soul.
"X0 xx0 0xxx0. X0xx0 x0x 0xx 0xx0x0xx." (2)
"Who are you?" Sans finally asked but the white figure only shook what looked to be its head.
Suddenly the white figures head snapped to the side and its body started to tremble. Slowly it pulled back the transparent red soul, nearly cradling it in its arms. It seemed to turn back to Sans and the skeleton felt the strange feeling in the back of his mind again as well as the feeling of a bad foreboding.
The figures head seemed to look down its side down at something and Sans followed curious with the light in his eye-sockets. Slowly he looked down the white figures other hand and noticed a black chain. The chain was warped around its arm, following the chain saw that the white figure was holding a familiar hand. The chain was warped around it too.
"0xx xxx0 0x x0 0xx0 xx0 x0x0xx0 0xx." (3)
The skeletons eye-sockets went wide as static washed over him before he could glance at the person the familiar hand belong too only to find himself in his laboratory again. Flowey was staring at him from his shelf again a look of suspicion in his eyes.
"Are you brain death?" The flower suddenly asked as he eyed the skeleton carefully.
"Huh?" Sans blinked. Hadn't he pinned that flower on a wall? Also he was fairly sure he had smashed that flower pot. He looked around his lab. Everything looked fine, nothing destroyed by bones of friendliness pallets.
"Wait I forgot you don't own a brain you IDIOT!" Flowey yelled now slightly irritated that he was being ignored. The flower growled as he didn't get a reaction out of the short skeleton. Flowey opened his mouth to yell out another insult at the skeleton but blinked as his mouth was taped shut, a glowing blue light staring at the flower close up.
"If you know what's good for ya bud. You better keep that mouth of your shut forever. I don't understand completly what just happened bu-" Whatever Sans was about to say was cut short by the ringing of his phone.
The short skeleton shot Flowey another glare before he looked at the small electronic device in his bone hand to see who was calling him. Flicking it open he hold it against his skull. "Sup b-."
"SANS! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE HUMAN! WE ARE BRINGING-" Sans didn't hear the rest of Papyrus slightly panicked yelling as the phone dropped onto the ground.
(1) 'You save. Will help.'
(2) 'Do not touch. These are her memoris.'
(3) 'You need to go back and protect her.'