(AN: For anybody recognizing the name of this story it's because a friend of mine decided to screw with me and figured out the password to this account and deleted one of my stories. But not both, dunno why. Anyways I decided to take advantage of it and change some problems that my advisor pointed out so there's been some changes to the overall story folks.)

It was a wonderful day, air brushing across their hair, sun glowing overhead, fresh air with the smell of flowers wafting in with the breeze. Roses, tulips, daisies, buttercups... it was… nostalgic to a sense, not a bad nostalgia but an okay one. Well it depended on which one a person would ask, though nobody would know to differ the question between the two of them. Not even an old friend, the only person to remember when time rewound itself, his memories of ever meeting the second person in the body having long been erased. Leaving him only with knowledge of Frisk, the peace-loving child that survived everything that the Underground could throw at them.

Chara would say something, but then that'd raise a lot of questions and she didn't want to bother with the annoying little flower. Said little buttercup with a face watching them from the treeline up ahead, waiting to watch the fight that was going to happen again. Frisk wanted to wave hi and Chara didn't care, so their hand went up to wave, which Flowey ignored. Probably because it was… what the tenth time they waved hi? She didn't know, it wasn't something to pay that much attention to.

No, while Frisk was busy messing with their body, including but not limited to rolling around in the grass, waving hi to Flowey again, crossing their arms behind their head and what not, she was instead thinking about those Gems coming back again. Four gem creatures, three of them female and one male, coming time and time again to investigate the monsters of Mt. Ebott. Said monsters being noticed by a nearby town full of people that panicked and a few law enforcement people that actually knew how to do their job and asked them to wait back at the mountain while they calmed down the people. And got used to the idea that there was an entire race living a couple miles away from them ever since they first made the town. So the monsters had all went back to the top of the mountain, leaving them alone at the bottom so they could think quietly to themselves.

Truth be told they were actually thinking, just about how to stop the Gems from going up to the mountain, the one named Garnet freaking out for some reason about timelines crashing and trying to fix it by killing everybody. No idea what that was about, not a single time they reset did they figure out what made her panic. Although she always seemed a bit… skittish… nervous? Something along those lines whenever they first met her, and every time after that they had to reset because somebody always died. Whether it was them, Mom, Papyrus or anybody else they called family, it was always another reset. It got on their nerves really quick.

So this time Frisk would let Chara have reign of their body and blow off some steam, something that they'd grown accustomed to over the timelines. After her insistence and the trauma of dying over and over starting to get to Frisk of course. So they laid on the ground waiting, Chara running their hand up and down the knife in their pocket, as she tried to figure out the best way to take advantage of this situation.

Scenarios ran through her mind, thinking of what was the best way to take care of them, Garnet with her oversized and overpowered gauntlets, Pearl with a spear, Amethyst and her whip then finally Steven and his shield. But it only took the Gems in question to arrive at the base of the mountain like before, Steven's voice wafting through first, complaining of walking too long. To which Pearl would say, "You're the one who insisted on coming along, besides it's good to exercise especially with all the snacks you've been eating."

"It's baby fat!" Steven yelled back from beyond the tree line. It'd be at most twenty seconds until the Gems came through, they were never quite sure why it differed. Nonetheless Chara stood up on their legs, dusting off the dirt that'd clung to the seat of their pants. Closing their eyes and letting out a sigh, Frisk retreated into the recesses of their mind, leaving Chara alone. It had been such a long time since Frisk had done that, it caught her off guard slightly, the silence in their head. It was a slight bit unnerving, but she'd done much more unnerving things in their shared history.

Striding forward she dipped their hands into their pockets, feeling the edge knife as the Gems finally came out of the treeline, Flowey already gone from their sight. Garnet was first, huge with square hair, red and black jumpsuit covering everything but her arms and weird fashioned gloves. The most annoying and violent of them all, always disregarding Frisk's pleas to not go up the mountain. Next was Pearl, tall and built like a ballerina, with a long beak-like nose she wore an impractical giant bow on her back. Amethyst, short and purple with a sleeveless shirt came second to last.

Finally was Steven, the only male among their group and the one that reminded her of Frisk a little. Pink shirt with a gold star in the middle paired with jeans and sandals he was always smiling when he first saw them, always ready to ask some version of the same question. After he pulled out the twigs in his hair and noticed them of course, not noticing the confused look on Amethyst and Pearl, or the downright scowl on Garnet's face. "Um hi! How are you doing?" Steven was sickeningly friendly, reminded her too much of Frisk. And this situation reminded her of another one with somebody that was too friendly for their own good.

Still though she kept them walking, finger dancing along the edge of the blade in their pocket, remaining silent the entire time. Their hair covered their eyes, so the only thing Steven and the Gems could see was the thin line that was their lip. Steven reached up to pull out another twig and kept smiling, with just a hint of concern in his voice. "Are you okay, we heard that there were some problems up around here, so we came to see what it was."

She kept walking and Garnet took a step forward protectively of Steven, who was still smiling. The corner of their mouth twitched, that damn smile, a smile she'd seen many times before on different people but it always annoyed her. And every time she saw that smile it annoyed her, always hopeful and ignorant and naive and just… she hated that smile. But she did enjoy getting rid of things she hated, it was always nice. She smiled back, a more cruel smile than Steven's, one that made his disappear.

Whipping out the knife she broke into a sprint, Garnet shoving Steven behind her and summoning the giant gauntlets she used as a weapon, instead this time using to block the low blow that would have hit Steven's face, and instead would have hit Garnet's thigh. Their knife clanged against the strange material of Garnet's gauntlet and Chara hopped back several times before she could retaliate, knowing better than to be near the gauntlets. Garnet looked at them from behind her sunglasses and pounded her gauntlets once. "That thing isn't human."

Chara laughed as she looked at the faces of everyone else, Steven scared, Pearl angry but slightly confused at Garnet's comment and Amethyst just plain angry. They had always seemed to baby Steven in all their encounters. "Aren't you the bright one Garnet? Care to kill me again like before where I plead for you to not do anything?" She grinned and traced their lips with the knife. "Well if you wanted to, that's too bad, I'm not going to lay down and take it."

Garnet simply raised an eyebrow at them, before looking back at the gems. "Make sure it doesn't get near Steven. I'll handle this" Pearl and Amethyst nodded, their weapons being summoned from forehead gem and chest gem respectively. A spear was held aloft, delicately hanging in white fingers and a whip was gripped in a purple fist, both blocking the way to Steven. At least the annoying smile was gone now, even though she didn't touch him. It still worked though, so she redirected her attention to Garnet in front of them, who was frowning down at them now, red gauntlets crossed.

"What, you scared of little ole' me hurting Steven over there?" She inclined their head towards Steven, watching Garnet for a reaction. Her comment garnered none from her and so she flipped the knife in their hand, so the blade was pointing down and held their hands up next to their face. With a smile Chara started to slowly walk forward, staring at the gauntlets that hung at her side, waiting for the slightest of movements to leap out of the way.

Garnet raised her fist up not fast, nor slow, but deliberately Chara tensed but otherwise remained still, not knowing what to expect. So when the gauntlet rocketed towards them, from only ten yards away she hit the ground, practically slamming their own head against the ground to dodge the fist as it flew overhead. She glanced back to the rocketing fist behind her, smirking at the fact she dodged that without Frisk's help, then returned her attention forward to see another fist about to slam into their face.

Distantly aware of the feeling of flying she noted in her mind that Garnet was a lot faster than what she believed her to be, maybe because of the fact that she threatened Steven. Was she a mother? A thump alerted her to the fact they landed, and so she pushed them up off it in short order, reaching up to feel for the source of wetness on their face and found a broken nose. Always one of the first things to go besides a broken leg and always one of the most annoying.

On wobbly legs she smiled through the minor stream of blood on their face, copper taste leaking through their teeth, and stared at Garnet. Gripping the knife she broke out into a full sprint, ignoring the relatively minor pain that drummed behind their eyelids. She was vaguely aware of Steven making some type of noise, likely crying again, but she paid no mind and focused on the gauntlets that raised themselves up to beat them into the ground again.

Garnet took several of her own steps forward to meet her halfway, bringing one fist rocketing down, which she simply pirouetted away from and sliced at the closest open spot she could, that spot being an open patch of skin on Garnet's arm. Keeping the motion going she rolled away, feeling the air whistling behind their back as Garnet missed and instead cracked the earth. Coming back up she twirled back towards Garnet to see another strike coming towards their face, and she felt a familiar and unnatural force take a hold of their legs and collapse them. That would be Frisk making them dodge another punch to the face, which she did appreciate.

Frisk rolled them to the side and she pushed them up off the ground, flipping the knife once more and giving Garnet a smile, who watched them with a frown. Again breaking out into a sprint she aimed the knife at Garnet's neck, so high out of reach. Before she could even get close though Garnet was the one to flash forward, gauntlets raised up to pummel them into the ground. Chara grinned and shifted the knife to their other hand and Frisk tensed their body up, but still letting Chara have them run.

The gauntlet flew for their face and Frisk bent their right leg down to skid underneath it, Chara slashing upwards at Garnet's arm. Kicking up off the ground Frisk made them cartwheel up and out of the way of another strike, and another swipe from Chara to her arm. The moment they stood up another fist came towards them and Frisk hopped to the side, its breeze kissing their cheek. Then Chara spotted another flash of red coming at an impossible angle out of the corner of their eye, and Frisk turned to dodge that one but wasn't prepared to and instead managed to maneuver them so it would do as little damage as possible.

Which ended up with the fist slamming into a raised knee and sending them flying back towards the mountain and slamming into the ground. Landing on the ground with an oof, Chara rode the waves of pain with a smile and rolled onto their good leg, cocking their head at Garnet's snaking arm, returning back to its original size and shape. "Resorting to something like that to hit us? Tsk tsk." Chara wagged their knife back and forth at Garnet.

Who curled the corner of her lip into a snarl. Chara took a step forward and grimaced as she shifted weight to their hit leg, feeling something definitely not in its proper place. Alas, she was full of DETERMINATION to see this through and actually cut one of them down to size. So that's what she was going to do, one way or another.

Standing up straight Chara grinded the heel of their bad leg into the ground, hissing through their teeth as pain lanced through their body. And she gripped the the knife once more, taking a closer look at the other two and how they summoned their weapons, like every other time they did. Always from their gems, not from some pocket or anything, the only one that never summoned it from their gem was Steven who always summoned it on his wrist. With whatever damage Garnet did to their leg it made them a little less mobile and she was already fast, so they needed to remove some of her advantages. Her gems, that Chara guessed let her summon her gauntlets, which meant all they had to do was cut through the wrist on one of their arms.

Since they shared the same mind and she wasn't bothering to hide her thoughts Frisk knew her plan and agreed with her. Rushing forward once more, knife gleaming in the sun, free of any blood or dust despite them cutting the gem, as Garnet ran at them with her own gauntlets raised. Once more they ran at each other from across the small clearing at the base of the mountain, both determined to end it.

Garnet came in from above with one fist and the other cocked way back, intending to make up for any possible dodge they would pull. Disregarding that fist entirely they ran into the strike, and ducked at the last possible moment, feeling the rock-hard material graze their hair, while they skidded on their heels and looked up waiting until they were right under her wrist. The moment they were they smiled and pushed up off the ground and swung their knife with all the might they had, right through the wrist. The first instant they met with some resistance, then cut straight through, twirling away with the force they had put into the strike as Garnet gained a look of horror.

That disappeared as her body poofed like dust and two gems fell to the ground, making a wonderful plop noise as did they when their twirl directed them back into the earth. Chara smiled through the pain echoing in their knee at the two gems on the ground, red and blue glittering under the sun. "Garnet!" Screamed a voice in pure panic from the direction of the forest.

Oh right there were more of them… snarling Chara made them stand back up and look at the other Gems no longer on the sidelines, save for Steven, who were now rushing them. Brandishing their knife Chara responded in kind with her own charge, to the closer of the two, Amethyst. The purple freak slammed her whip down and Frisk rolled to the side, then pushed back off the ground as Pearl shot a blast of energy from the tip of her spear at where they would have stood up at. Flipping up they ducked under another whip strike, and hugged the ground as an almost instantaneous second one came after the first, which Chara took as a means to sprint forward out of a runner's position they had gotten into. Only to stop dead in their tracks as more beams of energy grazed the front of their shirt and singed some of their skin.

Their arms flailed out in front of them to stop their movement into the energy blasts, making them an easy target for Amethyst to wrap her whip around in one stroke, its crystals jutting out at irregular intervals slicing into their skin. "Come here you little freak!" The next moment they were sent flying through the air once more, but instead this time towards the treeline and crashing into a tree. Chara had a moment to register the fact they were upside down and something cracked, whether it was the tree or their body she couldn't tell, before they were sent in another direction, everything being a blur.

Until another painful smash into the ground and the rock-covered whip loosened itself from their arms. Such wonderful pain was spreading throughout their body because of four fucking hits, and that was pathetic. They'd faced worse before and lasted longer against things more dangerous than these Gems, Chara grabbed at the dirt under them and squeezed it until it ran out through their fingers. Frisk had gone up against a practical god and she'd handled Sans all by her lonesome, somebody who altered the rules of the battlefield with a wave of his hand, so to lose to these three was unacceptable.

Hissing through their teeth with contempt Chara glared up at the two gems who were standing a good distance away but looking back at them in kind. Pearl spoke after raising her spear again, once she realized that Chara was staring at them. "I'm starting to think Garnet was right about that thing not being human."

Chara growled and slowly stood up off the ground, feeling their limbs protesting as if they had reached their limit. She only put more force behind their arms and legs to stand and slowly but surely they stood back up, blood dripping down onto the ground into a small puddle. "I'm not giving up, I'm tired of dying to you freaks."

Amethyst shook her head in annoyance at them and brought her whips to opposite sides, as if to slice them in two. Chara gripped their knife tighter and shifted their weight to the better leg so they would stop wobbling. "Just shut up before I make you shut up."

"Wait! You'll kill them!" Steven yelled from the sidelines, tears going down his face. Chara was reminded of Frisk a little bit at that point.

"Kind of the point Steven, this thing is a danger to everybody that lives around here." Replied purple, not taking her eyes off of them.

"Shouldn't we uhh… study it first or something then! It's just a kid, and from what we heard there's supposed to be a lot bigger ones than them!" Pearl and Amethyst glanced at each other, seeming to think it through. Chara didn't care other than the fact they would go a little easier on them to try and capture them which would mean they got some advantage again. Taking the moment to catch their breath Chara rocked back on their heels and watched as a silent conversation between the two started.

"I suppose that's a good idea isn't it?" Pearl finally said after ten full seconds of silence, which made Steven breath a sigh of relief. Chara grinned and started walking forward, dancing the knife back and forth in their fingers. "Amethyst if you could take its knife?"

Amethyst nodded and flashed one whip forward, then the other knowing that they'd dodge with relative ease. Frisk danced them through both as Chara charged forward to finish the two of them off, having to duck once more to the side as Pearl shot more blasts, relishing the feeling of smacking their own broken bones against the earth. Coming up she noticed that Pearl was charging them for once and not the other one and she smiled.

Bringing the knife up she stabbed for the leg and Pearl smacked it away, twirling through with her strike and coming back down again, which Frisk had them duck under. Slicing at the torso Pearl dodged and retaliated with a blunt strike and Frisk hopped to the side once more, then felt their legs give out under them as Amethyst pulled with her whip that had been waiting as a trap. Spun around once more like before they ended up going in a full circle and were thrown back towards Pearl, slamming into the ground twice in a roll before coming to a stop at Pearl's feet.

Two feet slammed into their arms to hold them in place as Pearl reached down and yanked their knife out of their hands. Then proceeded to check their pockets, confiscating their phone and otherwise taking whatever they had. She stood up and dropped their things to the side, and raised her spear up right above their head, the tip of it pointed straight at them. Then it went to the side and stabbed into their elbow joint, eliciting a yelp from Chara out loud and a scream inside their head by Frisk. Pearl repeated the process with their other arm and Chara bit down on their tongue to keep silent, drawing blood as she moved to their legs.

"I'm going to kill you." Chara growled at Pearl who just frowned down at them.

"You are really a curious creature aren't you?" Was all Pearl said, before reaching to either side of them and having a bubble pop into existence around them. Both of them raised their eyes at this weird movement and watched her hand go over top of them and tap. A weird sense of vertigo washed over them and they closed their eyes, Chara taking a moment to compare it to San's annoying shortcuts, then the feeling disappeared.

Opening their eyes once more they found themselves in a strange room, full of bubbles and gems, weird heart-red veins going up and down the walls and up through the ceiling. Chara let their eyes wander and groaned, they got beat by some pathetic Gem freaks. How? Oh well they could just reset and do it again, or let Frisk take the reins and try talking them out of it once more.

But yet… she wanted to see how this would turn out. Frisk even voiced their agreement, the more they knew, the quicker they could get past it all. So they would wait, stabbed elbows, knees, shattered ribs and everything else broken, they'd wait.

Frisk wanted to take a nap in the back of their mind and Chara let them, knowing she'd always been better at handling the pain the two of them had suffered together. It was something that she was used to by now. Besides at the rate they were bleeding out they wouldn't have to wait long, without their phone they had nothing to eat. So she just hummed to two of them as the time passed, body slowly growing cold and losing feeling once again.