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It's really dark. It feels like I'm floating, but I'm… not? I'm not really sure. Everything around me is black, and it makes it hard to tell. Where am I, and what am I doing here? I try to remember, but my thoughts feel hazy. I don't really want to remember, I realize. It's too much work.

Then in the midst of the darkness, I see bright things. They're rectangular, and words seem to inhabit the center of their shapes. There's two of them, floating before me. I look to the left one first, and it says Continue. I don't even look at the right button, but I know that this one is the right one. My hand moving forward seems to agree with me. I lightly tap the Continue rectangle, and the darkness starts to disappear.

Then suddenly… Determination. Chara whispers.

I blink rapidly, trying to see if it's a trick. The light contrast from the previous darkness was enormous, and I found myself squinting my eyes at the brightness of it all. I was back in the judgement hall. Or maybe… I hadn't ever left it in the first place? I frowned, confused. What was going on?

Chara seems to notice my jumbled thoughts, and she shrugs. "It's the Last Corridor." She echoes. "Or more well known as…"

"The Judgement Hall." I complete the sentence for her.

She narrows her eyes at me. "How did you know that?" We stare at each other, and Chara frowns. "...are you okay?"

I blink at her, trying to figure out how to explain the occurrence to her. "I think I may have just had some deep intuition."

Chara's eyes are even more narrowed now, like she's trying to piece together a puzzle. "Yeah?" She prompts.

"I know what's going to happen next." I explain. "I saw it with my own two eyes, but I don't know how. We're going to meet Sans, and he's going to fight us. I try to regain control from you, and he attacks us before I can make my first move. Then he…" I stop when I realize it's time to explain the part where I died.

For some reason, even though I know it's just foreshadowing, the pain feels so real. I can still imagine it, however much I don't want to. The bones, sharp and scratching. The beams, blue and burning, acidic to the touch and disintegrating me into nothing more than dust. Into what all monsters turn into at my hands.

Chara notices my silence. "You died." She guessed.

"Yeah." I gulp. "I-I'm really glad I got the foreshadowing warning though. Now I know what I have to do. But at least… could you just explain tactics with me? Before we approach Sans?" I sighed a little. "In that foreshadowing, I found out that the reason I took control back was because you were ignoring me."

Chara scowls a little. "Ignoring you? You sure I wasn't just trying to concentrate?"

I tilt my head. "Concentrate?"

"His attacks are hard, you know. Harder than Undyne's." Chara facepalms with our hand, looking annoyed. "I have to actually pay attention at all times. I can't just listen to you ramble while I try to predict his movements."

And just like that, I'm left feeling like a stupid idiot. Of course. Chara was just trying to mentally prepare herself for Sans, and I had disrupted her thinking and ruined her plans. She knew we would have to fight Sans. She hadn't told me, true, but she had been planning up for it. I could've trusted her. I grimace a little, realizing I had underestimated Chara. She was always right, I knew that. Yet, that foreshadowing showed the opposite of what I knew. I had foiled her plans, and allowed Sans to kill us.

"Sorry." I apologized. "I won't do anything rash this time, but it still doesn't excuse what I could've done." I sigh. "It could've killed us."

"Whatever." Chara dismisses. "Just as long as you do things right this time. We'll be fine as long as you follow your foreshadowing warning."

I nod, glad she had forgiven me so quickly. "But do we have to fight Sans?"

"What? You don't want to?" I shake my head. "Why?"

"He's not worth it."

Chara only grins in response. "Oh, no." She twirls the knife in our fingers. "He is totally worth it."

I frown. "How?"

"Did you see how powerful he was in your foreshadowing?" I nod. "Wasn't what you expected, huh? See, he's the most powerful monster in the Underground. Which also means that defeating him will give us tons of experience. You do want to get stronger, don't you?"

I think about it. "Just how hard is he?"

"Very hard." Chara grins.

I'm suddenly starting to have second doubts. "If he's really the strongest, then why would we need to become more powerful after defeating him? I mean, we're already almost home, right?"

Chara's happy mood is immediately erased by my protests, and she scowls at the mere thought of sparing the skeleton a chance of mercy. "Why?" She growls. "Why're you so insistent on letting this one go?"

I blink, unsure. For some reason, I don't want to follow through with this idea as much as with the others. But I don't want to upset Chara, so instead I ask, "Is it possible to spare him though?"

"What?" Chara scowls. "No."

I nod. "Okay then." Cue a sigh. "Let's do it."

Chara rolls our eyes. "Took you long enough to agree."

Once again, we proceed down the hall. But this time, I pay less attention to my surroundings and focus on what's in front of me. I don't want to be surprised by Sans' appearance this time.

In a blue flash of light, he appears before us. Chara stops, waiting for him to speak. And admittedly, I'm waiting too. Will things go accordingly to the foreshadowing? Chara makes a scowl upon our face, like just seeing the comedian is enough to make her angry. The corner of our lip is twitching in annoyance.

"Heya." Sans grins at us mischievously. "You look frustrated about something."

It take me a few moments to register the words, but when I do, I'm completely bewildered. I was pretty sure the foreshadowing hadn't shown him saying those words…

His grin is eerie. "Guess i'm pretty good at my job, huh?"

Our soul is drawn out again, and I'm still confused. Things were going relatively the same, but the dialogue was different. Was my foreshadowing just inaccurate? Was that the reason?

"It's a beautiful day outside." He notes. "Birds are singing, flowers are blooming."

At least this part was the same. "If I remember correctly, he'll attack us after telling us to…" I cringe. "Burn in hell." Chara nods our head to my statement, showing she heard me. At least she wasn't ignoring me anymore.

"On days like these, kids like you…" His eye sockets are back to that pitch black. It's unsettling, and I prepare for his next words. "Should be burning in hell."

Our soul dings blue and we drop to the ground. By now, I've figured out the blue soul's specialty; it makes gravity return. Chara jumps, and we hop into the air as bones erupt from the ground. The blue soul lets us jump like we're on the moon. Our soul dings back to red, and the array of bones come again. Chara ducks through the openings like it's child's play. Then the big blasters appear.

Chara doesn't move, and the blasters fire around us, completely missing. Then a new pattern shows up. Chara flies to the side, and they miss. Then she moves back to the center, and the new blasters miss as well. Once the two big ones have appeared, she's already in the clear. They blast their beams and go away. I can't help feeling relieved that they've gone.

"Huh." Sans prompts, shrugging sheepishly. "Always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first-"

Before he even finishes his sentence, Chara is already swinging. Sans ducks; the first time I've ever seen a monster try to avoid one of our attacks. I'm a little surprised, to say in the least. But Chara is furious. She attempts another strike, but Sans is sending more bones our way.

"What?" He winks. "You think i'm just gonna stand there and take it?"

The bones are coming in rows, on both sides of us. Each row consists of two bones, one shorter and one longer. We'll have to jump through the gaps between them to avoid them, since our soul is still blue. It'll take precise timing and aim, not to mention balance and a knack for repetition. But by the time I've analyzed all this, the attack is already over. Chara had done a great job all on her own. We looked mostly unharmed, and I found myself feeling awed at her skills once more.

She darts forward to strike, knife swinging. But Sans simply moves a bit to the right, completely dodging the attack. I've never seen Chara miss an attack. I've also never seen her so frustrated.

"Our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. Timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting…" Chara tries to swing our leg at him, but she accidentally hits a bone attack sent from Sans.

Immediately, the pain is tracing its way up our leg, but more are coming. They now come in patterns of blue and white. The blue ones are longer, while the white ones are short and easy to jump over. Each bone is evenly spaced apart. Remembering the blind dog in the snow area, I try to understand the pattern. However, Chara doesn't even seem to need to think, just passing through the attacks like she's mind-reading them.

She tries again. Sans makes a sideways swerve this time, his hands still in pockets. It's almost as if he's performing weird dance. "Until suddenly, everything ends."

The second attack comes again, but the lengths of the bones are different this time. The openings appear in different places, and we have to jump accordingly to match them. Sometimes, the one on the left will come faster than the one on the right, and it messes up my coordination. But not Chara's. She stays in focus the whole time, jumping in place like a bunny rabbit. I would laugh, if it were not for the fact that this was a serious battle. I also didn't want to disrupt her concentration.

This time, Chara backs Sans into a corner before striking. But he avoids it by what seems to be teleportation. One moment he's in front of us, and a moment later, he's behind us, flinging bones. Chara hisses in annoyance, lunging at him, but he's already on the other side of the room.

"Heh heh heh…" His eyes turn dark. "That's your fault, isn't it?"

Nothing he's saying is making sense, so I start to ignore him. How can he expect us to listen to him as we avoid his attacks, anyway? This time, undodgeable bones appear. Only a few platforms are put out here and there; safe zones for us to hop onto. Who knows who put them there? The point is to just get across the river of bones swimming below us. After all, Sans is on the other side. We jump on easily, and meet a few close-calls with interfering bones, but we make it unscathed.

We're close to Sans now. Another attempt to hit him is made, but he just teleports back to the other side of the room again. "You can't understand how this feels."

I feel something crawling up on my back. Probably apprehension, but I can't be sure since we're already on the move.

It's basically the same move again, but the platforms are more diversely placed. Extra bones also float above the platforms, like Sans is messing with us, but Chara ducks under them like a veteran army crawler. Long bones are slowly approaching from behind and ahead, but Chara makes it to the small moving platform before dropping to the ground, successfully making it past. She strikes and misses.

"Knowing that one day, without any warning…" He sighs. "It's all going to be reset."

Chara growls with frustration. "Come on! He's like, the easiest enemy!"

I'm momentarily distracted by Chara's words. "Easiest?" I question, obviously not comprehending. He was a lot harder than I had expected him to be, though Chara did seem to be dwarfing the attacks' appearance quite a bit. "I thought you said he was the most powerful?"

"Wrong wording." She corrected, growling. "He's the weakest, but the hardest."

I narrow my eyes. "Weakest?"

"1 Health Point." Chara answers. "One defense. One attack."

"But his first attack…"

"Karmic Retribution." She puts it bluntly. "Now quiet."

The random phrase doesn't really explain much, but I oblige to her orders. Sans is sending more bones and platforms at us. This time though, they go in all horizontal directions, and seemingly at random as well. Chara makes us move between the objects like a ballerina, quick and swift. The movements remind me of someone, but before I can recount it, the attack is over and Chara is thrusting the knife forwards.

Sans avoids it, practically flipping over us in the process. "Look." He commands promptly, landing gracefully. "I gave up trying to go back a long time ago."

There's only one platform this time. We board it without thinking, and suddenly, bones cover the whole floor. Individual bones fly before us, posing a threat as to strike us. Chara jumps and darts between them, landing on our safe zone after every maneuver. When the attack is over, the bones disappear with the platform. I wonder if it's even worth it to keep attacking Sans anymore, but Chara leaps forwards without hesitation. He ducks to the side, still grinning. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was having fun.

"And getting to the surface doesn't really appeal anymore, either."

The platforms return, and I go on the lookout for bones. There aren't any, but something worse is taking their place. They're the skeletal floating heads that killed me in the foreshadowing.

Chara seems to be in control of the situation though. She jumps on the correct platforms when needed to, and bounds off when things look risky. She's good at what she does. It makes me wonder how she got so good in the first place. How does she know everything? I had always just taken it for granted. I hadn't really ever wondered about Chara all that much. There hadn't ever been a need to. After all, she was helping me get home. What did I need to question that for?

The round of blasters end, and Chara attempts to jump onto Sans from one of the platforms above. Another strike, and another miss.

"Cause even if we do… we'll just end right back here, without any memory of it, right?" Still makes no sense.

The same attack from two moves before is back. It's repetitive, making things easier for us. I don't even know why Sans bothers to use the same tactics on us even after seeing us dodge it completely the first time. Chara doesn't waste a moment in trying to attack him, but he avoids her all the same.

"To be blunt… it makes it kinda hard to give it my all."

He's not even giving it his all? I gape, baffled. Then just how hard would his attacks be if he was actually trying? We're going through the second attack again. We jump repetitively, keeping our stance. Chara swings with full force, despite the chances. She still misses.

"...or is that just a poor excuse for being lazy…?" He shrugs sheepishly. "Hell if I know."

Now there are long bones coming from the right, and short ones coming from the left. Finally some change. Soon, the tall ones are passing above us as we skirt between the short ones. As we reach the edge of the hall, we just hop between the bones to avoid getting trampled against the wall. It's tricky trying to keep between them all the time, but nothing Chara can't handle. She swings again, but he just grins as he avoids it, hopping past us.

"All i know is… seeing what comes next… i can't afford not to care anymore."

It's the fourth attack. We're back to the repetition again. We leap accordingly, not missing a single opening. I don't even know why Chara tries so hard if she knows we'll never hit him, but she keeps at it. He just teleports behind us. We turn around to meet him.

"Ugh… that being said…" There's a trail of sweat forming on his skull. His pinpricks dart nervously around, and it lands on our knife. "you, uh, really like swinging that thing around, huh?" He shuts his eyes briefly, sighing. "Listen."

"Or we don't have to." Chara suggests out loud, already starting to shut off our hearing systems.

But I stop her. "No. I want to listen."

She frowns, an incredulous expression on her face. "What? Why?"

"It seems… important." I blink at Chara's frustration, but she can't defy me. I've already made up my mind.

He takes a deep breath, preparing his words. "I know you didn't answer me before, but… somewhere in there. I can feel it. There's a glimmer of a good person inside of you. The memory of someone who once wanted to do the right thing. Someone who, in another timeline, might have even been…" He hesitates. "A friend?"

I blink, not completely understanding. Chara's silent.

"C'mon buddy. Do you remember me? Please, if you're listening… let's forget all of this, okay? Just lay down your weapon, and…" He shrugs helplessly. "well, my job will be a lot easier."

He doesn't make a move. He's not attacking us. I frown, confused, not understanding. What is he doing?

"He's letting us make the first move." Chara attempts to explain.

"No." I ponder, narrowing my eyes. "He's sparing us." The realization strikes me, and I turn to Chara, betrayed. "You lied to me!"

"No, I didn't. And no, he's not." Chara rolls her eyes at my guess, like she can't believe how stupid I am. "Monsters never spare you. It's always either a lie or a trick. You can't go falling for that stuff, or else you'll die."

"But… he seems serious."

"He's been serious the whole battle."

"No, Chara!" I sigh, annoyed. "You know what I mean. I think he actually wants to spare us. He's letting us go."

"Why would you think that? He's just a monster. All monsters are merciless."

"Not him." I guess. "He's different. I mean, he's the first monster to ever present the option. And he looks unbeatable. Just trying to get the experience won't even be worth it, no matter how much there is. We should just spare him, and go on our way." Chara looks ready to protest, but I'm already on a roll. "We're almost home anyway, right? There's no use having our time wasted here. It's the most sensible option."

"It would be." Chara hissed. "If the enemy wasn't a monster. Which he is!"

I hesitate, but shake my head internally. Sans is staring at us, silently judging. He doesn't see the conversation I'm having with Chara in my head. He's like a third wheel, left out from all the action.

I gain control back for my mouth, and Chara seems slack with shock. "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to spare him." Is my answer. It surprises even me, but I keep on with it.

"Don't." She warns.

"I'm just trying to get home." I respond.

She narrows her eyes at me. "You're betraying me?"

I hadn't thought of that. I tilt my head, thinking. "No. We're just going to get past him without fighting. It'll make things faster."

"No." Chara repeats. "He won't spare you. I'm sure of it."

"But he might."

"That's not good enough." Chara growls. "If you die, you die. There's no going back for that."

I sigh, conflicted. I'm taking a huge risk here. Maybe if I manage to convince Chara, it'll convince myself too? "You can't hurt him, and you know it." I attempt.

Chara seems insulted. "I can hurt him!" She barks back. "Just not yet."

"And when will that be?"

"Soon." She promises. "See the sweat on his skull? He's tired. It won't be long until he makes one misstep. And then, I'll strike!" She sounds desperate.

I sigh. "I mean, there's not even a scratch on him. He's undefeatable, Chara. I'm surprised too, but maybe you should just accept it. You can't know and beat everything in the world."

Her eyes are wide, disbelieving. "You're losing your trust in my skills?"

I gulp, but I have to convince her. "...yes?" I squeak.

She blinks, then growls. "You're on your own, Frisk." And just like that, she's gone.

Complete control comes back. Feeling returns to my limbs, and my knees feel wobbly. Chara's gone. She's gone forever. I had betrayed her, but it would be worth it. I was doing the right thing. My hand is shaky, still holding onto the knife. Sans eyes it, waiting. Remembering what he said, I drop it. It clatters to the ground, leaving echoes bouncing around the hall.

Sans looks surprised. "...you're sparing me?" He sighs, relieved. "Finally. Buddy. Pal. i know how hard it must be… to make that choice. To go back on everything you've worked up to. I want you to know… i won't let it go to waste." He opens his arms, winking invitingly. "C'mere, pal."

I blink, unsure about what to do. Without Chara to guide me, I was basically useless. Was he offering a hug? He's not far away; and it'll only take a couple of steps to reach him. I bring an arm forward, reaching for him. I take a single step forward, and then his eyes flashes.

Before I can react, pain is searing into me. There's something sticking through my torso. It's a bone; struck me from behind. I hadn't noticed. The pain is so strong, I can't feel it. My hands feel wet. I drop to the ground, blood already soaking my sweatshirt and the golden tiles beneath me. Everything's red.

But there's something blue, too. The skeleton stands before me, still grinning his eerie smile. He's a lot closer now, leaning down to get a better look at me. "Geeettttttt dunked on!" He whispers eerily. "If we're really friends… you won't come back-"

I've grabbed onto the blue. It takes me a moment to realize that it's his jacket, but he's already jerked back, his left eye flashing a vibrant cyan. He looks bothered about something, almost angry. My hopes deflate, although I wasn't sure what I was expecting anyway. There's a splotch of red on his jacket now.

I close my eyes, and he watches me bleed away on the tiles. Not moving, not helping.

Chara was right. She was always right.

I should've just listened to her.

Wow Frisk this is what you get for sparing these totally untrustable monsters and betraying your one and only friend that's ever helped you in this entire mess. :P

Also, if any of you are confused as to what Frisk believes she's experiencing when she "foreshadows," you should just watch the Tell Me How I Die movie. Even if it isn't for the purpose of understanding, I highly recommend it! :D (Even Ryan Higa plays a part in it, if you know who he is...)