"What kind of fool do you take my son for, Chara?" Gaster questioned, as he casually dodged to the side, avoiding her blade once more. He narrowed his eyes, causing them to flash blue and orange and he took a grasp on her soul. Bringing his hand forward, he sent her flying across the room and her back collided with the wall behind her, hard.

"They will die.." She giggled. "And there's nothing you can do about it! All it takes is one hit, right?! And then he'll be dead!!" 

"Hmpf." Gaster lowered his head a little, as he closed his eyes. A small chuckle escaped his mouth, which caused Chara to raise a brow at him in wonder.

"And just exactly what do you find so funny?" Chara demanded. Gaster grinned, raising his head back towards her and opening his eyes. He began to speak.

"Well, you see, Chara... That's where you're wrong." 

"Huh...?"

****

"Sans, you're honestly boring me! You seem so sloppy!" Chara giggled, trying to slash at him with her blade, again and again. Each time he was only able to narrowly avoid it.

Beads of sweat was already starting to form on his forehead, which caused Chara to enjoy the moment even more.

"You're going to die, you pathetic little comedian... And this time, Frisk won't be here to save you!!!!" She screeched, as she lunged forward with the knife. Her smile widened in glee, as she felt her knife collide against Sans' chest, causing a small spot of crimson red to form in his white T-shirt.

"What a shame, comedian. Looks like play time is over. You could have been a little more fun.. Now, it's about time I went after Frisk... You could have saved her... But I guess none of that will matter now, that you're just going to turn to dust." She said. Sans said nothing, frozen on the spot. She exhaled, turning on her heel. "Toodaloo!" She called over her shoulder, as she began walking off. Sans narrowed his eyes after her and clicked his fingers, which suddenly caused huge bones to form right in front of Chara, blocking her exit. She squeaked in surprise, and then slowly turned around to face him.

"you're not goin' anywhere!!! i'm not done with you yet..." Sans grimaced, his gaster eye glowing. Chara stared back towards him, a look of disbelief on her face.

"But... I struck you.... One hit... Why are you not turning to dust already?! You should be dead!!" Sans chuckled. 

"y'know kiddo, you thought this whole thing would be so easy to do, that there's one thing you never took into a count.... what are my stats, hm?" 

"H-Huh..?" Chara narrowed her eyes, wondering if he was bluffing. She quickly brought her hand forward, which suddenly brought Sans' stats up in front of her, and her eyes opened wider.

"How did you...? When did you...?" Clearly baffled by the information in front of her. Again, Sans laughed.

"y'know, it's not like i wasn't prepared for this situation... after all, ever since our whole meeting a year ago.. i decided that maybe always stayin' at 1 hp forever wouldn't be such a good idea... 'specially since frisk always kept onto me about how i should have improved it... so i just thought, eh why not? never know when that little runt may show up again... i want to protect frisk... she means EVERYTHING to me... we're finally actually livin' together, and we're gettin' on with our own lives now... and i'm not goin' to let some brat like yourself try and take her from me..." 

****

"W-What...?!" Chara stammered, her eyes wide, after Gaster had explained the very same thing to her. Gaster smirked, his hands still in the pockets of his long black cloak.

"My son isn't a numbskull, Chara. None of us are. We always probably suspected that you would try to come back...So I took it upon myself to help Sans with his HP. After all, we had to be prepared. All you've done is brought yourself to your own death, once again... You haven't learned a single thing..." 

Chara's eyes widened in horror. 

"N-No... NO! YOU'RE LYING!! YOU'RE... You're lying..." Chara muttered. 

"Chara..." Flowey frowned. "Please... Just stop all this... We really don't have to fight you..."

"SHUT UP ASRIEL!!" Chara screamed at him. 

"Chara...!" Flowey continued.

"No! Stop it, Asriel! Just go away! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" Feeling distraught and angry, Chara threw her blade towards Flowey, who luckily just dodged it. In dismay, Chara fell to her knees, seeming completely defeated. Gaster sighed.

"It's a shame that you only decided to stop now... Maybe we could have resolved all of this ages ago..." Gaster mumbled. Taking a couple of steps closer towards Chara, he took one of his hands out of his dark cloak and held it out to her. She stared up at him in confusion. Then, suddenly she looked startled and quickly got up, as she swatted his hand away.

"No! Don't do that! I don't want your sympathy!"

"Chara..." Gaster replied. "If you could just calm down... If you could just accept that I'm willing to give you a chance... We could help you... I've honestly had enough of all this fighting. I know Sans and Frisk probably have too... Frisk didn't ever want to have to FIGHT you.. She would have wanted to MERCY you... You can be a better person, Chara... You just have to let us help you..." Again, he held out his hand, waiting for Chara to take it. She stood there, wondering exactly what to do or what to say. Her emotions were all over the place. She didn't know whether she should straight up kill this guy, or accept his offer...

"Chara... Please..." Flowey whispered, causing Chara to look in his direction. "It doesn't have to be like this.. We can help you........ All you ever wanted was to be loved, right...? Well, so did I... I just wanted to be loved... And I just wanted to be able to love and care about someone else... Please, Chara, if you're still in there... Accept it... Please..."

"A-Asriel...?" Chara murmured in return. In the place of Flowey, she once again started to imagine her old, goat friend staring back at her, with a heartbroken look across his face. At that moment, she burst into tears and ran straight for him. His eyes widened in surprise, as Chara put her arms around her old, flowery pal and bawled. 

Normally, with Flowey's usual souless state, he wasn't really expecting himself to feel anything in return... However, despite that, he actually started to feel his eyes slowly well up... It wasn't too long after, until he had actually started crying too! With a smile on his face, Gaster let out a calming sigh as he stared towards the two.

"Asriel... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry!" Chara whined.

"No, I'm sorry, Chara! I was the one who pushed you on in the first timeline! I kept telling you it was 'kill or be killed' and--"

"But then I was the one who betrayed you in the end..." Chara pointed out. Flowey sighed.

"It doesn't matter... I'm just happy I get to... Speak to my best friend again..." 

"...Yeah..." Chara managed a small, sad smile. Beaming towards the two, Gaster continued to watch the heartwarming scene before him. However, it was short lived, and his eyes widened. Chara seemed to have noticed it too, because she slightly faltered.

"Asriel... I have to go..." Chara quietly murmured, pulling away from the hug. Flowey stared at her with wide eyes. 

"W-What do you mean..?"

"It's happened.... I can already feel my soul shattering here in this present time.... Sans has obviously killed me in the past... I won't be here for much longer...." She whispered. His eyes widened in horror.

"W-What?! NO! CHARA, YOU CAN'T GO! NOT NOW! NOT AFTER ALL THIS!!" 

Nonetheless, no matter how much Flowey wanted to scream and cry out Chara's name, it wouldn't have changed a single thing... 

"I'm sorry, Asriel..."

Right before him, he saw Chara's body disappear into the air, just like that. The final thing he saw, was Chara's glowing soul... Which obviously shattered into two, also fading into nothingness, just like her body had prior to it... 

"CHARA!!!!"