I will admit, I had most of this typed up...mainly, because I wanted this so badly to happen. This takes place during/after the previous chapter, but it isn't on Sans' POV...it's someone else. AND you guys get to see what Sans has really been doing behind the scenes.

1. "Missing Pieces" Manic Pixel

2. "Awaited Return" Nyx The Shield

3. "Gaster's Theme Remix-W. 's Meglovania" amella

*NOTE* CAPS does not mean that the character is shouting. Paps speaks in all caps, Gaster does too.

"Bold Italic" would be the wingding font that Gaster speaks in. All skeletons can speak it though Gaster is the only one who can't speak any other language, so he uses magically conjured hands to speak with other monsters.

I do not own Undertale, all I own are Kristen (the brothers' mother), Lucida and Boli (the brothers' aunt and uncle) Triton and Sedna (Undyne's parents), Drake and Serran (Alphys parents) and Betus and Gammet (Alphys' siblings).

Chapter 7

Gaster watched as Sans discovered Alphys' remains, found Mettaton's wreckage, took his place in the Judgement Hall and patiently waited for the human to come to him. He had to admit, he was afraid for his child. After watching Papyrus fall and Kristen take his shade into this bright light that Gaster couldn't see into, he watched his eldest child a little more closely. Though, there were some moments where he couldn't watch him, such as right after Papyrus' death and right after Undyne and Alphys' deaths. His aura felt…eerily strong for a monster's…even before he absorbed the six human souls that they had collected. Gaster chalked it up to Sans' determination to avenge his brother and his friends' deaths.

But even then, Gaster could see that the ivory of Sans' soul was tinted with faint amounts of pale violet, green, orange, and yellow…coupled with the stronger swirls of the human soul that ringed it. It was just…just odd. He'd never seen anything like it.

He heard a sharp scraping sound and he watched as the human started towards his son. Gaster's eyes narrowed as he saw the dark shadow surrounding the child, a shadow that took human form…with glowing scarlet eyes and rosy cheeks.

"YOU LITTLE BRAT…" Gaster growled as Chara took control of the other child's body, sending a pale, dimly flickering light out of it before it was snuffed, "THAT POOR CHILD…"

He watched, unable to do anything, as Chara came within striking distance…and Sans immediately killed her. Gaster gave a chuckle and Sans a smirk…right as the world rippled and the whole thing seemed to replay, only this time…Chara looked mad. Gaster's misty form writhed in anger as Chara took control of the timelines, continuing after Sans killed her many, many times…

Until the screen flickered and froze right outside the Judgement Hall…right where Gaster couldn't see. He heard Chara's laugh and he gave a loud snarl of anger, slamming his fists against the screen as flashes of blue-tinged white light blazed through the hall, as Chara was thrown against a wall only to leap out of the way as a line of bones smashed through the stonework. He caught a glimpse of Sans as the Judge leaped and dodged out of Chara's slashes, only to go out of his field of vision.

"YOU KNEW I WAS WATCHING!" Gaster snapped, "YOU…YOU…"

"careful, 'dings, y' might break somethin'," came a familiar voice.

Gaster whirled around to see a short, sturdily built yet mostly trasparent figure of cerulean blue light standing behind him.

"you need those hands after all," Kristen's shade smiled.

Gaster's hands shook and his eyes flashed as he reached out to touch the shade of his wife. His misty, liquid fingers slid off her cheek bones, but she gently took his hand and laid it where he wanted to put it, smiling gently as she closed her eyes and leaned into it.

"KRISTEN…" he whispered as she reopened her eyes and stepped back.

"sans needs you," she told him, "i'm dead, so i'm no help, but you're not…"

"I CANNOT LEAVE THIS GODFORSAKEN PLACE," Gaster told her, holding his hands out helplessly.

"i know," she told him, "that's why i'm here,"

She walked to the screen before turning towards Gaster, her eyes burning a brilliant cerulean.

"you've got one chance, 'dings," Kristen's shade told him, putting a hand on the screen as a crack formed under her palm, "make it count,"

The crack got bigger and Gaster's eyes flashed brightly as the wall between him and the timelines shattered. He reached out a trembling hand, his fluid and misty form shimmering for a second only to solidify as it went through the screen. He gave a soft cry as he nearly tripped over his own lab coat to go forwards, his form glowing brightly as it solidified into the material realm. He patted his chest, his arms, nearly crying in happiness. He was free.

He turned to the cerulean form of his wife, who gave a gentle smile.

"i can't be here like this much longer, 'dings…" she shrugged, "but…i can stay with ya in another way…"

Her form wavered, transforming into a single, cerulean spade that hovered in the air before her husband. Gaster tentatively reached out, watching in wonder as Kristen's soul seemed to dissipate, cerulean blue light bleeding into his hands before disappearing up his lab coat and a warmth coming to rest beside his own soul.

"a bit drafty…but right here's warm enough," Kristen hummed, making Gaster give a peaceful smile.

She was going to stay right with him, and he couldn't ask for much more except...Gaster turned to go down the long hallway towards a short figure in blue. The figure had his back to Gaster, making the former royal scientist speed up, his hand reaching out to his son...but Sans seemed to be talking to someone in front of him…Chara.

"get back here…i ain't done with you yet!" Sans hissed, staggering forwards awkwardly as the demon dodged easily, "you dirty brother killer! i'm gonna…"

Sans gave a soft growl of pain, hunching over and falling to a knee as he trembled slightly. His skull snapped upwards, as if he was hearing something no one else could, only to fall down slightly once more. He looked at Chara again.

"…so…" Sans murmured, an edge to his voice that Gaster didn't particularly like…it sounded like he was in pain, "guess that's it huh?...just…don't say i didn't warn you. welp…i'm going to grillby's."

He turned around and both Gaster and Kristen's souls turned to ice. A long, jagged scar crossed their son's ribcage, red liquid dripping through the tear in his white shirt, his soul splintering along the line.

"SANS!" Gaster gasped, dashing forwards right as Sans' knees wobbled and he pitched forwards, gasping for breath.

The young comedian's eyes flickered as a sad smile crossed his features as Gaster caught him. He lifted his hand and touched his father on the cheek.

"p-papyrus…do you…want anything?" he whispered, shaking.

"SANS, NO, NONONONONO, DO NOT DIE ON ME…I JUST…" Gaster bowed his head, holding his eldest child close, "I AM SO SORRY, SANS…I AM SO SORRY FOR EVERYTHING I DID TO YOU…CAN YOU FORGIVE ME?"

"…dad…?" Sans murmured, his little form seizing as cracks formed in his skull and in his arms and legs.

"YES, IT IS ME…" Gaster soothed, "DO NOT BE AFRAID…I AM HERE…I AM HERE…"

Sans gave a peaceful smile as he leaned his head against his father's chest, his eyes fluttering shut as the cracks worsened…

And Sans crumbled away in his father's arms.

"…NO…NO…NO!" Gaster shrieked as the silvery grey dust sifted through his hands.

He began sobbing bitterly, holding his eldest son's jacket and his youngest son's scarf close to him as his tears made clean streaks in the dusty fabric.

"I AM SORRY, I AM SO SO SORRY…" Gaster whispered, "PLEASE… FORGI…"

He stopped, staring as the Dust blew away enough to show not one…but two souls nestled together in the silver powder. One a brilliant, deep orange color, the other a vibrant teal. He gently reached out his hand and both souls, like Kristen's, bled through him until two more voices joined Kristen's.

"IT'S SO DARK…" a young, clear voice stammered, "WHY IS IT SO DARK?"

"i tried…i tried so hard…but it didn't work…i failed…" a slightly older, softer voice mumbled, "'m sorry pap, 'm sorry old lady, undyne, alphys, asgore…"

"SANS…PAPYRUS…CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Gaster asked gently, getting both voices to hush.

Gaster's eyes blazed navy and orange in fury as he stood up, shrugging Sans' jacket over his shoulders and wrapping Papyrus' scarf around him. A weight made itself known in his right hand and Gaster looked down to see a long, slender, silver blade in it.

"I AM GOING TO KILL THAT LITTLE BRAT," Gaster seethed, tightening his grip on Kristen's rapier and teleporting into the throne room…right as Asgore's soul shattered.

"S-See? I never betrayed you!" came a small, squeaky voice from near the human's feet, "It was all a trick! SEE! I was waiting to kill him for you!"

The human's eyes narrowed, a feeling of unease rose in the Gaster's ribcage as Sans and Papyrus' souls flickered and sputtered, almost as if they were nervous.

"A-A-After all, it's me, your best friend!" the flower panicked as the human shuffled closer, eyes burning with scarlet hate, "I'm helpful! I can be useful to you! I promise I won't get in your way!"

The human knelt down, putting a hand on Flowey's petals in an almost loving way.

"I can help…I can…I can…" the flower stammered…

And his voice changed, surprising Gaster slightly as he recognized the voice.

"Please, don't kill me..." Asriel sobbed, "Chara…please…"

"Oh Asriel…" the human, Chara, whispered, "It's too late for that,"

She grabbed the flower's stem tightly, getting a terrified squawk out of Asriel.

"Let's see, spare…" she hummed, ripping off a petal and making Asriel howl, "don't spare, spare, don't spare, spare…"

Asriel started crying harder as Chara ripped off the last petal and waved it in the air, smiling sinisterly.

"Don't spare," she grinned as she began to viciously stab the former prince, her former brother, with the knife until there was nothing but shredded greenery amongst the other gold flowers, "Hehe, I guess that's enough, Frisk,"

Her scarlet eyes rolled back in her head and the child fell to the ground, moaning piteously as black fog coalesced into a figure not much taller than the other child. Chara gave a squeal of pure joy as she patted her solid body, her scarlet eyes blazing brightly.

"W-W-Wh…" the other child stammered, trying to get up on her hands and knees, "What did you make me do…"

"Greetings, I am Chara," Chara grinned, ignoring the other child, Frisk's, question, "Thank you. Your power awakened me from death. My 'human soul', my 'determination'. They were not mine, but yours. At first…I was so confused, our plan had failed, hadn't it? Why was I brought back to life? You. With your guidance, I realized the purpose of my reincarnation. Power. Together, we eradicated the enemy and became strong,"

Gaster noticed in growing concern that Frisk was sobbing, shaking her head and covering her face with her hands…did Chara take over this child and…

"Now…" Chara announced, snapping Gaster out of his thoughts.

She raised her hand, two boxes flashing into being before the other child.

ERASE DO NOT

"SHE WOULD NOT…" Gaster whispered.

"Now, we have reached an absolute. There is nothing for us here," Chara told the other child, unable to keep her excitement down, "Let us erase this pointless world, and move on to the next!"

The other child shook her head, still sobbing as she rocked back and forth, reaching for the 'DO NOT' option.

"…No?" Chara asked before giving a terrifying smile, "Hmmm, how curious. You must have misunderstood. Since when where you the one in control!?"

Chara started forwards, knife in hand as black liquid bled from her eyes and mouth. Frisk screamed, covering her head with her arms, her wide, blue green eyes terrified as Chara evaporated into black smoke and took control of the other child. Chara stood, reaching for the 'ERASE' button…

Only for the button to flicker and fade, covered in sticky tendrils of shadow as the room started getting darker and darker.

"…"

Chara whipped around to see a form in a dark labcoat, covered with a blue jacket, and a tattered red scarf fluttering in the breeze, standing with its back towards her. She frowned as he held out a hand and a cool teal light glowed from what looked to be a monster's soul resting on his holed palm.

"…just…don't say i didn't warn you," Sans' voice whispered softly from the soul, "welp…i'm going to grillby's. p-papyrus…do you…want anything?"

The soul's light flickered and went out.

"DO YOU REMEMBER?" a soft, gentlemanly voice asked as the figure turned a glowing navy eye to Chara.

"Gaster…" Chara whispered.

"YOU THINK YOU ARE ABOVE CONSEQUENCES…DON'T YOU?"

Chara took a step backwards, her scarlet eyes blazing in fear as she gripped her knife harder.

"YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO HIM,"

He turned around, right eye blazing orange, left eye blazing navy as a glittering silver sword rested in his right hand. Sans' Jacket, Papyrus' Scarf…Kristen's Rapier.

"OH, CHARA…" Gaster murmured, reaching a hand out to Chara, who tried to run away, only to get caught by tendrils of shadow, "I HAVE ELABORATE PLANS FOR YOU…YOU TAUGHT ME SOMETHING WHEN YOU FORCED ME TO COMMIT THE ACTS THAT MADE MY SANS PUSH ME INTO THE VOID. YOU NEVER REALIZED THAT WHEN YOU HAD ME TRAPPED IN THAT GODFORSAKEN PLACE, YOU DID SOMETHING TO HELP ME…YOU GAVE ME TIME TO PLAN,"

He reached out and touched her cheek, making her shudder as his cold bones made contact with her living skin.

"I HAVE ELABORATE PLANS FOR YOU, CHARA," he smiled, "BUT FIRST…"

He snapped his fingers and Chara was suddenly standing above Frisk's unconscious body.

"FRISK HAS NEVER COME INTO THE EQUATION…SHE HAS NO PLACE IN MY PLANS," he stated calmly before turning Chara's soul blue and slamming her into a wall, "I WILL UNMAKE YOU…LIKE YOU DID TO THEM…"

He held out his hand, a bright orange monster's soul burned in it.

"ST-STILL! I BELIEVE IN YOU!" Papyrus' pained, clear voice cried as a teal soul materialized next to it.

"get back here…i ain't done with you yet! you dirty brother killer! i'm gonna…"

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND MOST INTERESTING?" Gaster asked as Papyrus' soul flickered and faded back into his chest, "MY SANS…HE DID NOT JUST HAVE HIS BROTHER'S SOUL WITH HIM…"

A vibrant emerald green soul pulled away from Sans'.

"This isn't about monsters anymore, is it?" Undyne's voice demanded.

A violet soul pulled away as Undyne's flickered and died away.

"Y... you... really hate me that much?" Toriel's voice wept, "Now I see who I was protecting by keeping you here. Not you... But them!"

A yellow soul pulled away as Toriel's faded.

"I-I-I m-m-might not be able to stop you…b-b-b-but I can sure try!" Alphys' voice cried.

"AND THEN THERE ARE THE OTHER SIX THAT ASGORE HAD HIM ABSORB," Gaster shrugged as six human souls spiraled away from Sans' only to disappear.

Chara shook her head, laughing as Alphys and Sans' souls faded.

"You really think that hearing old voices would get me to give up?" she demanded.

"OH NO," Gaster chuckled, "IN FACT, I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD RESIST AND NOT GIVE UP…"

He jabbed Kristen's rapier at her, slicing a thin scar up her right eye and down her left one.

"BECAUSE THEN I CANNOT KILL YOU," Gaster snarled, "OVER. AND OVER. AND OVER!"

He slammed Chara into another wall, summoning one of his blasters and firing point blank at her, bringing her HP down to zero and watching her soul shatter…only for him to force it to come back together.

"'MIGHT AS WELL GET COMFORTABLE…YOU'RE NOT LEAVING FOR A WHILE', " Gaster told her as he drove Kristen's rapier through her heart, "REMEMBER THAT CHARA? YOU DON'T? WELL, REMEMBER THIS…NO AMOUNT OF DETERMINATION WILL GET YOU OUT OF MY WORLD!"

He twisted the blade around, getting a choked cry from Chara before he kicked her off and forced her soul to reform once more.

"BUT WAIT…THERE'S SOMETHING I FORGOT," Gaster told her, "IT IS NOT JUST ME THAT WISHES TO HAVE AT YOU,"

He snapped his fingers and a tall, transparent being made of orange light shimmered into existence.

"YOU ARE NO HUMAN," Papyrus' clear voice called, "BUT, EVEN WITH ALL THE FEAR I HAD ABOUT YOU, I FOUND THE STRENGTH TO CAST IT ASIDE, TO EMBRACE YOU…"

The soul's eyes flared in pain and anger.

"AND YOU USE IT TO KILL ME, WHICH I AM NOT AFRAID OF…BUT YOU KILLED MY BROTHER. THAT I CANNOT FORGIVE. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE A 'BAD TIME'…INSTEAD…I'M GOING TO HAVE LOTS OF FUN!"

Chara's eyes widened as Papyrus' shade raised his hand, a staff of bone materializing in it before the youngest of the brothers charged forwards, impossibly fast as the staff switched from white to blue and Chara had to switch from moving and standing perfectly still. Her soul turned blue and Papyrus raised a field of bones, making her leap upwards to avoid it…right as her soul turned around and was thrown towards the ceiling while a blaster materialized and shot at her. Chara looked down at the floor to see that Papyrus' shade was gone…only for a small, transparent being of teal light to be in his place.

"heya squishy," Sans' shade growled, "we've got unfinished business, so stop hangin' around and have a seat!"

He slammed her down to the ground so hard that her soul broke in two and shattered…and immediately Gaster forced it back together. Chara staggered upright, glaring at Gaster, right as a cerulean shape darted forwards, slashing at Chara's knife arm. Chara raised her blade just in time to block a long, slender rapier from slicing her arm off.

"heh, nice job demon," the shade of a skeleton Chara didn't recognize praised, "oh, that's right…i was before your time. well, lemme introduce myself. hello, my name is captain i.t.c. kristen, the hand of justice and the commander of the royal elite guard. you killed my sons, sans and papyrus. prepare to die,"

Chara faced Kristen, who was lightning fast and had killer reflexes. Not even Undyne could have matched the deadly duelist…particularly this seriously ticked off version. Chara lasted perhaps two seconds before Kristen's blade found her heart…and Gaster reformed it.

"COME NOW, MY DEAR KRISTEN, YOU HAVE HAD YOUR FUN," Gaster told her before turning to Chara, "YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO HURT ANYONE EVER AGAIN,"

Chara's form wavered, turning into black smoke as she raced towards Frisk…only for a mixture of ivory and blue bones as well as a blaster to block her path.

"OH, I AM SO SORRY," Gaster smiled, "WHO SAID YOU COULD LEAVE?!"

He turned to Frisk, snapping his fingers as a 'RESET' option burned before her.

"DO NOT FEAR, CHILD," he told her, "CHANGE WHAT THIS DEMON HAS DONE. I WILL TAKE HER SOMEWHERE SHE CANNOT ESCAPE FROM. YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS…BUT…PLEASE…IF THERE IS A CHANCE, TELL MY SONS THAT I LOVE THEM AND MISS THEM DEARLY,"

Frisk's terrified gaze landed on him as she quickly put her hand on the 'RESET' button, leaving Chara alone with Gaster as Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, Undyne, Alphys and the six human souls all disappeared from Gaster's ribcage.

"NOW…" Gaster said calmly as he turned towards the demon, "WHERE WERE WE? OH YES…"

He summoned a wall of blasters and all of them warmed up.

"WELCOME TO MY SPECIAL HELL, CHARA,"

To Be Continued

No one messes with Gaster and Kristen's kids and gets away with it. Chara was behind all the pain the boys went through at Gaster's hands. Sans had been taking the souls of his friends and keeping them safe. He found Toriel's not long after Papyrus died, he went to Undyne before heading back to the house in a previous chapter and he took Alphys with him after he found her. Alphys knew about the other souls ("Can I see? One last time?", she was talking about seeing Undyne before Sans went off to speak to Asgore). But anyway...now I get to write happy feels stuff and not torture feels!

Chara can understand Wingdings, though she can't speak them, chalk it up to her pestering Gaster so much while in the Void waiting for Frisk.

Anyway, hope you liked it. If you did, please let me know!

Qui vállë tóquetë, ván tecë (If no review comes from y'all; no story comes from me)

Máriessë ar mára tecië

Farewell and fair writing

Elhini Prime signing off.