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Rerezz?

11:28 AM
11/14/3272

Dimension 9 - Undertale
Planet Earth - Mt Ebott
The surface

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Super Mario Sunshine - Sirena Beach

Taking a break to visit a few friends, Michael, Samus, and Jenny entered dimension 9. Sans left a wireless buzzer connected to his phone, so when Michael pressed the button on the nearby wall, Sans appeared behind the family, and led them through a 'shortcut'.

After sparring a bit with Undyne, Michael sat back and relaxed.

"You've gotta be the toughest opponent I've ever had!" Undyne remarked, breathing hard.

"It helps when you run through the Hammond Pilot Certification Simulator twenty times. Skills are practically maxed out. I gotta say, Undyne, you sure you lost against Asgore? With combat skill like that, you might just wipe the floor with him."

"Thanks. Sans may have those bone attacks, but you have power over the ground itself. That's impressive."

"Thankfully, I didn't use any of my weapons, or any of my Light abilities."

It was then that a certain skeleton in a lab coat arrived. "I've been meaning to ask about that."

"Oh. Gaster, how have you been?" Michael asked the scientist.

"Quite well actually. Now, back to what I was going to say. You 'derezzed' Chara, right?"

"Yeah?"

"I've been examining those small cubes that remained of her, and there appears to be some sort of remnant aura. My equipment can't seem to identify it."

11:34 AM
11/14/3272

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Entering Gaster's laboratory underneath the skeleton family's house, Michael took notice of a tray on a counter, filled with the cubes that were once Chara. All sorts of devices were scattered around it, as if Gaster was attempting to figure out how this came to occur. Frisk and Asriel were there too, and they couldn't figure anything out about this.

Michael had an idea, and he took out his Data-Knife. Samus saw this and turned to Gaster. "Seal the room." She ordered. Hesitant and confused, Gaster locked the door to the lab.

"Let's see what this aura is all about." Michael activated the Data-Knife, causing dimension 9's interface to appear again. He tried to access Chara's files, but it started bugging up, with reports about an overload of unknown energy. "Hmm... Fascinating."

Just then, Rocco appeared. "{Michael, what if that aura and the unknown energy are residual traces of the Light?}"

"That would make sense, considering I killed Chara with the Hammer of Sol. Maybe if I..." Focusing his Light on the pile of cubes, Michael somehow pulled out... a mote of Light. The interface cleared up, and the cubes began to glow and distort, swarming together like a 3D puzzle literally solving itself. The glow died down, and the cubes were gone. In their place was an entity that was considered dead... until now.

"Chara...? Alive...?" Gaster was practically speechless as to what just happened.

Suddenly, Chara began moaning in agony. "Everything... burns... Everything... stings... I... feel... pain... Nothing but... pain..."

"Was Chara in pain that whole time? She was suffering in that state?" Jenny wondered.

Gaster lightly slapped Chara's cheek, bringing her back to her senses. She quickly sat back up, letting out a scream. She then put a hand to her chest, where there was once a hole made by the Sunbreaker Super. "What... What happened?"

"Chara." Michael said bluntly.

Chara turned to face the Pilot, recognized and remembered him, scampered off the desk and hid under a nearby table.

"Huh. Chara's afraid of me. That's... unexpected."

"Well, you DID brutally kill her with ease... and with a freaking war hammer made out of fire." Sans had a point.

"Hang on. There's more cubes over here." Samus stated.

Michael pulled the residual Light out of the smaller pile, resulting in the weapon Chara used. "Her knife." He put plainly. Michael turned around, pulled a shaking Chara out from under the table, and held her up in the air by the collar of her shirt, his right eye aglow.

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Titanfall 2 - Triptych

"I didn't WANT you to be brought back to life, but this means you get a chance at redeeming yourself. If I were you, I'd take it. If you still wish to cause genocide, remember that I WILL be coming back."

"...OK..."

"Good." Michael dropped Chara on her hands and knees.

Chara was once a genocidal maniac, but after an experience like THAT, her murderous bloodlust... was gone, the megalomaniac within her increasingly terrified until it... ceased to be. She now knew the true meaning of pain, and has thus lost her taste for inflicting it.

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"So, if Chara is alive again, what do we tell everyone?" Frisk asked.

"We should tell them the truth. We should tell them that I took the residual traces of the Light back, which inadvertently caused Chara to be reassembled back to life."

11:53 AM
11/14/3272

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Super Mario Sunshine - Sirena Beach

After spreading the news to everyone who was aware of Chara being dead, Michael decided to stay a while longer and talk with the monsters some more.

"Hey, punk!" Michael turned around, seeing Undyne.

"So, care for another round, Undyne?"

"You bet! I'm gonna win this time! I can feel it!"

"You're on! Samus, Jenny, keep an eye on Chara." Undyne summoned her spear, while Rocco gave Michael a deactivated javelin. "Rocco, this thing is one of Rasputin's Valkyries! I can't use it on her!"

"{It's unpowered. Calm down.}"

"If you say so."

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Super Smash Bros. Melee - Targets!

The sparring match began.

Undyne charged in, but Michael performed the Gambler's Dodge, rolling out of the way of Undyne's attack. She threw her spear, only for her opponent to immediately manipulate the ground, forming a wall of solid rock. Undyne jumped over the obstruction, but Michael had seemingly vanished.

Of course, he used the Blink. Clever.

The rock wall was suspended high into the air, then came crashing down on Undyne... from so freaking near orbit!

Due to the properties of reality type B, Undyne's health bar appeared just after the attack.

917/1500

"Ow..." Undyne wheezed.

"Well, that move definitely... 'rocks'." Sans joked. A tomato appeared in Jenny's hand, her Ghost having transmatted it from the skeleton family's refrigerator. She then threw it at Sans's face, but it swooshed right through his right eyehole. For a skeleton, Sans suddenly wore the most hilarious expression of shock and surprise ever seen. A tomato just went seamlessly through his eyehole! "Yeah... If you'll excuse me, I have to get a fruit out of my skull." With that, Sans walked back into the house.

Undyne broke out from under the rocks. "Let's try this again!" She swung her spear, only for it to be blocked by Michael's javelin. A metal kick to the face and Undyne was knocked back down. "AHH! MY FACE! What is that leg made of?!"

"Military-grade titanium, lined and reinforced with carbon fiber. Lightweight, yet heavy-hitting. Same with my arm." Recovering from the hydraulic kick, Undyne swung her spear again, but Michael caught the spear in his right hand, snapping it in half with ease. "Hmm... Interesting frontal design and formation. Basic, yet exceptionally efficient. And impressive, but its center is fragile." Michael remarked tossing away the broken half of the spear. Undyne formed a new spear and attacked, but Michael struck the center of the spearhead with his javelin, shattering it. "Told you."

Another attack, and Undyne had actually managed to score a hit.

2983/3000

"Good move." Michael sent an uppercut straight to Undyne's lower jaw with his left fist, momentarily disorienting her.

A few nearby rocks were pulled in, forming a stone fist over Michael's Spectre arm. When Undyne turned back around, a rock punch met the side of her face.

"So, who's the winner this... Oh..." Michael trailed off, seeing Undyne's health.

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1/1500

Michael pulled out his Data-Knife, then overrode an interface into existence. Finding Undyne's reality code, Michael proceeded to manipulate it for repairs. A nearly empty bar appeared on the holographic screen, and Michael dragged the slider to the other side, filling the red bar with green, then hit a button that said 'APPLY CHANGES'.

Undyne's body flashed, her health bar instantly maxing out.

"You OK?" Michael asked.

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Super Mario Sunshine - Sirena Beach

"Yeah... Yeah, I'm good. I... I feel great! What just happened?" Undyne wondered, standing up like nothing was wrong.

"I manually altered your health bar back up to full." Michael stated, showing her the interface that was currently displaying her statistical information in a modifiable format.

"Out of my full health, what was I at before you changed it?"

"Just a single point. You're lucky. You must have a sort of special property about you that allows you to survive an otherwise fatal blow. You'd have died otherwise." Michael concluded.

"Wow. I can survive a fatal blow?!"

"Apparently." The interface vanished. "We'll call this one a draw. What do you say, Undyne?"

"No, I'm giving you this one. You almost accidentally killed me while sparring. I'd say we're done. You're better."

"I don't really think so. You kill me, you're better. I kill you, I'm better. Content with being equals?" Michael asked, quoting Kuben Blisk.

"When you put it that way, I'm OK with it." They shook hands. "So... You accidentally rerezzed Chara, huh?"

"'Rerezzed'?" Michael repeated, confused.

"Yeah. You derezzed Chara, turning her into those cubes. When you made the cubes turn back into Chara, you rerezzed her." Undyne explained.

"Hm. Fascinating."

"Wait. If you can manipulate a Monster's health bar back up to full with that interface, then..." Chara trailed off, looking at Sans.

"Don't even think about it, Chara." She looked back at Michael, seeing his Spitfire pointed directly at her.

Sans became curious of the weapon. "What... is that?" "What? This? It's a Pilot primary weapon. Say 'Hello' to the Spitfire MK2 Light Machine Gun, or Spitfire for short. Manufactured by Jaewon Industries, the Spitfire has a firing rate of 540RPM, a magazine capacity of eighty rounds, and has a heavy recoil that stabilizes over time under sustained fire. This thing shreds with conventional polymer-cased cartridges that have an 8mm copper-jacketed tungsten penetrator and are propelled at an extremely high velocity."

"Good god..." Chara wheezed.

Michael chuckled. "If you think THAT'S powerful, wait until you meet a Titan."

"Yeah, I don't really want to."

"Anyway, what should we do about Chara?" Gaster questioned.

"She's from YOUR world, so I was hoping YOU would have a suitable idea." Michael had a point.

"I, the great Papyrus, believe that Chara simply needs proper guidance down the right path. Sans, Gaster, and I will look after her." Everyone looked at the tall skeleton in confusion, even Chara.

"I suppose we could give that a try, and I might have a bit of an idea. Call it a gift." Michael then opened the interface, altering the data for... the RESET?! "There we go. Your RESET button will now revert your world back to thirty-seven minutes after this exact point in time." Typical. Michael had been talking to Gaster, and the scientist had informed him of Sans's nightmares involving the RESET. "Chara, behave. Sans, Gaster, Papyrus, if she tries to kill anyone, use the dimensional communication channel Error Sans and I established." Michael stated, pulling out the Dimension Key.

"Michael, do you wanna go back home?" Samus asked.

"Yeah, I've got other things to do this week. Zavala's assigned a few patrol missions in my schedule for tomorrow afternoon on Venus. Something about the Vex experimenting on the Fallen. Disturbing."

"Need a shortcut back to the portal site?" Sans offered.

"Do you even need to ask?" Jenny questioned in return. Sans brought them back to the portal site, and the three returned home.

Huh. Chara's back. Fascinating. Not only that, but she's... scared... of what Michael can do. Can't say I blame her.

See you next time, and it looks like the Forsaken DLC went live today.