I'm baaa-aaack! I can see you didn't miss me...

(Anyone know where that's from? I won't blame you if you don't, don't worry)

Anyways, yay! New chapter! I'm not dead! All good things!

Also... WOW. Guys. I need to thank you all so much. Seriously. When I started this out, I was just some kid deciding to put my ideas up on a Fanfiction site, and now, thanks to all of you, I'm actually writing a full multichapter story. It's eighty-one pages now, you know? I've never written that much by myself before. And it's all thanks to you. Your reviews, your favs, your follows... even you Silent Squad members who quietly follow along without showing me where you are- you all motivate me so much. Really, every time I get writer's block, all I have to do is look through my reviews and I want to write again.

Thanks for sticking with me, I guess. We're maybe halfway through Untrue Resets now, maybe three-fifths of the way. I can't thank you guys enough. All of you.

Now that that's out of the way! Song of the week: Somebody to Love and Just Somebody I Used To Know, the Glee covers. I just love Glee covers, really.

Hopefully you'll like the new chapter? Drop a review to tell me what you think's gonna happen next? I can tell you, I have some evil plot twists planned. You heard that right- planned! I finally wrote out my ideas for the ending of the story! Woot! I have an outline! (I should've done that from the beginning... shh)

We're checking up on our favorite pacifist/genocidal duo!

Undertale does not belong to me! Toby Fox is King! Enjoy, my friends!

Chara wiped the dust from their knife. They stomped across the floor of Napstablook's house, grinning at the way the dust from the Glad Dummy spread across the floorboards. Maybe that would teach the ghost not to mess with them. Napstablook was one of the few things Chara couldn't kill, after all. They had to take… preventative measures.

They smirked as they felt DETERMINATION from Frisk's SOUL slip into their own. The little pacifist was nearly completely overtaken with Chara's presence. Just a little while longer, and their SOUL would be the perfect vessel to house Chara's own.

Chara didn't have an actual SOUL yet. It was more like… a phantom of Frisk's SOUL, filled with their DETERMINATION. Now, though, Frisk's SOUL was greying out with how much DETERMINATION they were losing, and Chara's was becoming stronger by the minute.

Stowing the knife in their inventory, Chara pulled out the tapes they'd scrounged from the skeleton brothers' basement. There was five in total. One was dusty- the one Chara had found in the drawer full of ripped scarves. It looked mildly damaged. Chara used the computers on Napstablook's deck to play the tape.

"HUMAN! HEY, QUIT MOVING WHILE I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

They felt Frisk stir inside their mind, alarm rushing through the true owner of the shared SOUL as they tried to look through Chara's eyes to find Papyrus. Chara let them. They leaned forwards, listening to the tape with interest. However did Sans get his hands on an audio recording of his own brother's death?

"THE WAY YOUR HANDS ARE ALWAYS COVERED IN DUSTY POWDER… IT FEELS LIKE YOUR LIFE IS GOING DOWN A DANGEROUS PATH!"

He'd probably stolen it from Alphys' cameras. But that didn't clear up the mystery of how he'd gotten a recording from another timeline… well that didn't really matter. Chara smirked at the thought of Sans listening to this. Frisk had calmed down once it became clear that the familiar speech was just a cassette tape.

"I, PAPYRUS, WILL GLADLY BE YOUR FRIEND AND TUTOR. I WILL TURN YOUR LIFE RIGHT AROUND!"

Chara let Frisk hear the tape as well. They wondered how the crumbling of bones into dust would sound on tape. Turn it off! Frisk shouted inside their mind, surprisingly angry.

Interesting.

"ARE YOU OFFERING A HUG OF ACCEPTANCE?"

A grin spread across Chara's face, and… the tape fizzled to a stop.

"Come on!" they complained. They checked inside the cassette. The rest of the film inside had been ripped apart. It smelled like bones.

Figures.

"Well," Chara hummed. "There's four more tapes, isn't there?"

The second tape was short.

"heya, other mes. making a recording of this on the off chance that i'll forget."

Huh. Why would he make a tape…?

"all right. i'm gonna inject myself with determination. let's see if this changes anything."

Chara tilted their (Frisk's) head. If Sans had ever injected himself with DETERMINATION, they'd never noticed. Had they ever had a fight where the skeleton had been melting…?

The tape clicked- past-Sans had turned it off- before crackling on once more. "never do that again," Sans' hoarse voice gasped, and the tape ended.

Chara giggled. They were sorry that they'd missed that detail in their past Genocides. It sounded like it had been entertaining.

They tried the next tape. Frisk, trapped inside them, was calm and didn't fight for control, for once. It seemed the pacifist was as interested in the tapes as Chara was.

"um, is this thing on?"

"It s-should be… u-uh, hi, future u-us. we're gonna r-r-record this e-experiment for s-scientific purposes. Sans, d-do you h-?"

Chara blinked in surprise. Alphys and Sans… what were they doing?

"yup. in this corner, we have…" There was a pause that Chara could only assume held some sort of dramatic flourish. "a human soul!" They nearly jumped in surprise. "and over here, we've got me, the idiot who thinks this is a good idea."

"I-i'd like to g-g-go on record a-as 'not c-comfortable with t-this'. I'm p-pretty sure this i-i-is child a-abuse, Sans."

"i'm not a kid."

"You're l-literally fifteen."

"irrelevant. right, we're sciencing and i'm pretty sure alphys may be a little drunk because for some reason she agreed with me to do this. about that, didn't we agree to not do drunk science anymore?"

"C-can we please just g-get on with this, t-the s-s-sooner we start, the sooner it's o-over. I k-know you're s-s-stalling."

"as per usual, you're absolutely right. you have the scalpel?"

"Are you c-c-completely s-s-sure you aren't going t-to die?"

"around 97 percent. i stocked up on extra sleep hp. let's get this over with."

"It'll j-just be a t-tiny nick. In three, t-two, one-"

"agh-!"

"Sorry! S-sorry, we're done."

"well, i'm not dead, so apparently i can cut off bits of my soul if i take proper safety precautions. sweet. phase one, complete."

"D-don't worry, i-it'll grow b-back. And now w-we know you c-can survive getting bits o-of SOUL c-cut off. That's g-good… now for part two."

"and we put the soul piece in with a previously cut piece of justice-yellow soul- man, i feel like i'm on a cooking show."

"Please d-don't say t-t-that. It's d-disturbing. O-okay, the separate SOUL pieces are in the same container-"

"oh. oh jeez. not gonna lie, that's both cool and sorta gross. the soul pieces merged."

"The m-monster SOUl looks like i-it's taking control of the huma- n-never mind. It j-just got swallowed u-u-up."

"well, i guess we know now that i should probably never absorb a human soul. that would not work out well. and also that dead human souls can bond with monster souls, which was the point of the experiment. you can bring that to asgore, right alph?"

"D-definitely. But let's n-not do that a-again."

Click.

Chara sat in silence for a moment, thinking. So apparently Sans and Alphys had worked together before they'd 'met' in Frisk's influence… when Sans was fifteen, and Alphys was some-younger-age-than-she-was-now. That was an intriguing bit of information. Chara could feel Frisk's curiosity as well.

Maybe there was another tape about their experiments?

The fourth tape made Chara freeze. "you've been busy, huh."

They snatched the tape out of the player and ignored the way Frisk brightened when they flinched at the sound of that monologue. Stupid comedian.

The last tape was a sharp, righteous voice, mocking and proud. "You're going to have to try harder than THAT!"

"Ooh," Chara hummed. This tape wasn't damaged like Papyrus' death recording. They sat back, enjoying the sound of fighting that came through the recording. Hopefully they would be able to kill Undyne soon to boost their LOVE.

They grinned when that tell-tale slash and the accompanying gasp filtered through the tape. This would be good.

No! Frisk's mental shout surprised them, and Chara's hand shot out against their will. No more! Their hand grabbed the film and wrenched it out of the cassette. The tape sputtered to a halt.

Chara yanked control back and snarled at Frisk. "Fine! So you want to avoid that so much, we'll just have to kill her for real!"

They left the tapes in Napstablook's house, continuing onwards with their knife gripped tightly in their hands.

Asgore was confused.

His Royal Scientist had called for evacuation. Total and complete evacuation of the entire Underground. Monsters were piled into the lab basement, and Snowdin Towners pulled Hotlanders aside in order to explain the situation. Asgore himself had been brought into a mostly empty room by Alphys, his Royal Guard Captain Undyne, and the two skeleton brothers. They explained there was a human out there, killing monsters left and right.

"If there is a human, why is no one engaging them in a FIGHT?" Asgore asked. "We do need their SOUL."

Undyne's eye locked on his. "Your Highness, I don't think you understand. Asking monsters to fight that thing- I don't think it even is a human anymore! It's a murderer! We'd be asking innocents to give away their lives."

"she's right," Sans interjected. His Judge was steadily avoiding Undyne's gaze even as he agreed with her. Asgore wondered why. "there's no way any normal monster would win."

"Sans f-fought it f-for maybe a m-minute, h-he got stabbed. He n-n-nearly F-fell, trying t-to get everyone s-safely away," Alphys added. "N-no one else has fought it, s-s-so I think we should trust his j-judgement."

Sans flashed his eye briefly blue and gold, a signal to let Asgore know that that was, in fact, an official Judgement of the human. It was too dangerous to even go near it.

"What will we do?" Asgore murmured. "We cannot just let them run free."

Undyne's trainee, Papyrus, glanced towards Sans. Asgore winced at the sight of the dust on the red sash he wore. "I THINK MY BROTHER MAY KNOW WHAT TO DO?"

Asgore didn't know how anyone could know what to do at a time like this, but Sans nodded. "undyne's going out to meet them."

"W-WHAT?"

Alphys spun to look towards Undyne, who dipped her head solemnly. "You c-can't!"

Papyrus looked like he was about to object as well. Asgore interrupted. "Undyne, you already told me that the human has killed many. I cannot allow you to let them kill you as well."

"Your Majesty, this thing is a menace. We've got it on good authority that it killed the old Queen, too." Asgore felt like he'd been punched. Toriel… "Someone's gotta do something. And we said normal monsters won't survive. The four of us, we've figured out a way to use DETERMINATION to keep me alive."

Alphys and Papyrus both seemed like they were not previously aware of this and like they wanted to say more, but kept quiet. Asgore had to admit that Undyne, trained and determined, had a good chance of killing the human. He actually felt anger in his chest when he thought of the last human SOUL. They'd murdered Toriel, and probably many, many more. "... All right."

"Good." Undyne turned around. "I'm gonna go get ready."

She marched out, and after a moment, the others followed, leaving Asgore alone in the tiny room.

Chara listened to the tapes! Finally! And we got a little look at Asgore, too!

YAY!

Sorry, I'm optimistic, haha. I wonder, whatever do those tapes mean... TheDeductionist actually was partially right in their guess on what the tapes were, so props to you, pal!

And soon up... Undyne VS Chara! WHO WILL WIN?

Thanks for reading, reviews and constructive criticism are welcome, and have a nice day!

-TheEscapedCharacter