The Departure

by shadowcat500

Set at the end of the Genocide run. Sans is fighting Chara at Judgement Hall Alphys is desperately trying to free the remaining monsters from the barrier Frisk is trying to free themselves from Chara's control (and heartlessly mocking her) Genderless Frisk (I may have used some male pronouns though) Female Chara

4. Chapter 4

The Departure Chapter 4

This chapter contains content cut from the original due to length so whoever's reading this, you're getting more of the story than whoever reads the original project! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Sans raised his hand and slammed them into a wall again, snapping their neck and incapacitating them for a while, at least until they reset. 'catty, could you please get alphys out of here? this should lead to the surface.'

'Nonononononononononononononononononononononononono, no, no, nooooooooo. He's rescuing them! That scrap of LOVE could have given me a physical form!' ranted Chara as the reset screen appeared once more.
[Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. You want a physical form?]
'Yes, I told you that already. You knew that before I told you.'
[I thought you were lying and only wanted to kill everyone!]
'A soul would be nice too.'
[Couldn't you just be nice and walk through the Underground and then take a soul from the containers?]
'They are too weak. You do know that the souls are sentient and still possess the minds of their original owners, right?'
[No!]
'If I took all of them, my power would be almost unimaginable. However, the clashing of minds would eventually lead my form to collapse in on itself.'
[But how could you take one? You're a human!]
'A soulless human, Frisk. It would require good timing, but I could take all of them if I so wanted. Anyway, a soul originally can only speak in the head of the owner, and tell them about things or tell them to do stuff. However, if the new owner does what the soul wants, the soul will eventually take full control of the body, as I did with you.'
[Just out of curiosity, is there a timeline where you got all the souls? If so, can you show me it?]
'Why, yes indeed Frisk! This is what happened.' said Chara, stepping aside to show a portal. In the portal, there was a huge goat-woman silhouetted against a scarlet sky, souls floating around her as the huge monster held two gigantic swords. Frisk could see shadows flickering around her feet. Then they felt a hand push them into the portal. 'Chara why would you do that!' yelled Frisk. Then they realised. In this universe, they could talk!
'Oh, I didn't leave you. I just wanted to give you a closer look!' they heard Chara say behind them. Suddenly, they were floating above the shadows at the goat-woman's feet. Wait. Those weren't shadows. Those were- those were… dark, shadowy versions of what used to be their friends. Each had turned a pure ebony black with glowing scarlet eyes. They could see Toriel, her beautiful dress ragged and bloodstained, now-black muzzle stained with blood. They could see Undyne the Undying, the green heart on her chestplate now scarlet, her aquamarine spears stained with blood, along with her armour. Oh-oh god, there was Sans. His eye was now scarlet. His jacket was now navy, and bloodstained, and the fluff was gone. He was now wearing scarlet trainers, rather than the usual pink fluffy slippers. He was sending a wall of sharp and jagged bones into a crowd of monsters (Froggits, Vulkins etc.) and sending gaster blaster beams to dust the survivors.
'I used my newfound power to resurrect your old friends as minions. Their only thought is to kill and serve me. But Sans, oh, Sans, when I saw his power, I knew he would make an excellent general. He can think for himself, and his thoughts are more tactical. I increased his magical abilities, and I normally told him to kill weak monsters and make their deaths quick, but leave little behind.
However,' The souls around the huge monster (who Frisk guessed was Chara) rushed towards the monster's chest before rebounding and flying out into their 6 closest friends: Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys, Toriel and Asgore. The other monsters disintegrated, apart from those 6 monsters. They remained a dark ebony colour, but the bloodstains faded, and they all turned towards the small child that was what was left of Chara. 'My power turned against me, destroyed me and saved those 6 monsters.'

Chara dragged Frisk back into their head. 'Come now, we have monsters to kill!' she giggled madly as she hit the reset button.

'But how? The barrier!' screeched a terrified Catty.
'the barrier depended on the magic of the monsters to stay stable. currently, if you tried to go through it through normal means it would leech all your magic until you became so brittle that you couldn't move without shattering. however, it would now allow movement through it using teleportation, so using the device you could go through it.' replied Sans calmly.
'But what about you?'
'i'll be right behind you. or dead.'
'And that makes me feel sooooooooooooo much better.'
'there's no time for arguing. go!'

Alphys felt her soul turn blue and drag itself across the room (her body following) and into the portal. So this is what Sans' gravity magic felt like. It was surprisingly nice, floating across the room like this. Until she heard another laser as the human likely died. Then she suddenly remembered why she was being dragged across the room by her soul and she began using her claws and tail to try to get to the portal as soon as possible. Then it all went a beautiful, clear, glowing cyan.

Catty followed after Alphys with her Froggit, and then she followed by Bob dragging temmie along, and Woshua riding the Vulkin. They all went through the portal. 'At least they will be safe.' thought Sans as he turned to face the knife-wielding, dust-covered human at the other end of the hall.