Underverse: SOUL

Darkest Hour.

{Undertale: The Original Universe}

Sans was walking around Snowdin, taking in the same sights that he always did. Since the last Bad Time Trio meeting, there hadn't been any more distractions or drama to deal with. Just Sans and Papyrus living their best lives, hanging out together, setting traps for any humans, and eating very..."good" spaghetti. All part of the routine that both Skeletons had grown accustomed to.

At this particular moment, Sans was on the border of Waterfall and Snowdin, just taking in the beauty of his home. After everything he and the other members of the Bad Time Trio had went through with Nightmares crew, the relaxation was welcomed.

Sans' phone buzzed, he grumbled slightly. He knew it was either Papyrus bugging him with a new spaghetti recipe or it was Toriel calling to tell him a joke. He slowly pulled his phone out of his coat pocket, reading the notification. It was a text from Shift Chara. "Hm? Wonder what's up?" Sans read the text, he stared at the text. A knot welling up in his throat. "Th-This isn't good-"

Sans stared at the text message that read: "Sans! It's an emergency! Judgement Hall is under attack!"

He shoved his phone into his pocket and teleported to the Hall.

————————————

(10 minutes earlier, Judgement Hall, Shift Chara)

Chara was sitting next to a pillar within the Judgement Hall, scrolling through her phone, hoping for something to happen that would let her, Sans, and Paps go out on a mission together. But all had been quiet since Nightmare's little uprising a couple of weeks ago. She let out a sigh, looking over to Swap!Papyrus. "Hey Paps-?" He glanced up at her, a cigarette loosing hanging from his boney mouth. "'Sup Chara?" He asked, "Is it just me, or is it really quiet...the whole incident with Nightmare was a few weeks ago now, shouldn't something have happened by now?" Chara asked. Paps puffed his cigarette, chuckling to himself, "Maybe we scared 'em all off." Chara smiled slightly, but shook her head. "No. That's not it. Nightmare and his gangoons were a massive threat, surely somewhere a bad guy would've come after us, thinking we were weak." Papyrus nodded in agreeance, "Now that you mention it, it is a little odd that not a single peep has been made out there in that vast multiverse. Maybe another one of the groups has been taking calls on our behalf? I know that Cross guy leads a rather nice hit squad." Papyrus suggested, but Chara shook her head again. "No if they were taking calls for us, then they would have told us, surely...."

Chara sat in silence for a moment, before opening her phone and pulling up Shift Sans' contact, and calling him.

Ring......Ring......Ring.........Ring..............Ring......................Click

Chara sighed in annoyance, "King Sans isn't answering his phone, Paps' call your brother, if anyone would answer a call, it would be Blueberry." Paps' pulled out his phone and dialed his brother's number. "I think you're freaking out over nothing, if something were wrong, we'd know it by now.." While Papyrus was trying to deny that anything could've been wrong, the fact that there was a certain unease lingering in the room that both people felt was to strong.

Ring......Ring......Ring.........Ring..............Ring......................Click

Papyrus looked at his phone, dropping his cigarette in disbelief, "Maybe he's asleep...y'know? He is a sack of l-lazy bones after all....heh-" Chara looked him in his eyes, "Paps, when has Blueberry missed a call from you, ever?" Papyrus looked at her, "Y'know....when he is uh-......uh......" He sighed, "Okay, so it's a little weird that he isn't answering, but that's not enough evidence to warrant going on a hunt for a bad guy, we don't have any proof." Chara looked at Papyrus skeptically. "Heh- Y'know, almost had me going for a minute there, whoever you are." Shift Chara summoned and knife and dashed at 'Papyrus', appearing behind him instantly, a slash mark forming on his chest. "But, our Papyrus would definitely know something was wrong if his brother didn't answer." Papyrus looked at his chest, and chuckled slightly, turning to look at Chara, smoke bellowing off of him. "Heh- took you long enough..." Smoke began to fill the room, consuming Chara's vision.

Chara woke up on the floor, laying next to a still asleep Swap!Papyrus. She quickly looked around the room, sitting up quickly. For the most part everything looked normal, until she got a closer look at Papyrus, seeing a smoke trail leading from his mouth, to the doorway into the Judgement Hall. That's when Chara spotted him, a dark, smokey figure standing in the doorway, with glowing white eyes. "Who the hell are you, let Papyrus go!" She summoned her red knife to her hand.

"Heh- That's a lot of demands coming from someone as small as you....you're gonna have to incentivize me to listen to you....if you can, heh" He stepped out of the doorway, and towards Chara. She wasted no time dashing to him, taking swipes with her knife....but they didn't do anything...just cut through his smokey body. "That's a dirty trick, I can't hit you." A large smile came across the beings face. "Funny thing that, having a body of smoke comes in handy." He pointed a finger at her and a gaster blaster spawned behind him. "Willing to bet this'll hit you though." The Beam was fired, Chara, barely having any time to react to it, summoned a wheel of knives and spun them around extremely quickly, creating a shield. "Gh- Dammit! Papyrus wake up!" She glanced over to her sleeping friend and looked at the magic smoke, having an idea. "I might not be able to cut you, but magic I can." Chara summoned a knife in her free hand and through it at the smoke connecting this person to Swap!Papyrus, severing their link and waking Paps up. "Hm? What the hell is going on? Chara?! Who is that?!" She looked back to the beam that was being fired at her. "Worry about that part later, right now help me!" Papyrus nodded, and summoned two Gaster Blasters, firing them at Chara, "Chara, dodge now!" Chara nodded, and quickly ducked out of the way, the three beams clashing in the air.

Chara ran to Papyrus, "We can't hurt him, his entire body is smoke!" Papyrus grunted, two of his beams barely matched this guys single beam, "We will worry about that another time, get a hold of Sans, this is an all hands on deck kind of situation." Chara nodded and sent an S.O.S. text to Sans. "That isn't any fun now is it?" The Being of Smoke created a snake and forced it to lunge at Chara, biting her arm, the snake dissolved into smoke and entered the wound. "OW!" Chara clutched the bite mark, not noticing the smoke entering it.

_______________

(Present, Judgement Hall, UT Sans.)

Sans arrived, standing behind Chara and Papyrus, "What the hell is happening, who the hell is that?!" Papyrus looked at Sans, and began to tend to Chara's bite, "I dunno, but I can't keep up with him, we need your magic for this." Sans smiled and stepped up in front of them, facing the Smoking Being. "Listen here pal, I dunno who you are, but you are about to get boned." Sans summoned three Gaster Blasters and fired them at the Smoke. The Smokey Being smiled and chuckled again, snapping his fingers.

As soon as the Being snapped his fingers, a hate begin to boil out of Chara, something unlike she had ever felt before, she began to lose control, falling victim to the whims of this beast. Unable to control herself, he flung Papyrus back, summoning a knife she lunged and stabbed Sans, who wasn't expecting this. "GRAH!" Sans' Gaster Blasters disappeared as he fell to his knees, throwing Chara away. He could feel his single HP draining away as he began to turn to dust, stabbed in the back by one of his closest friends. "C-Chara w-why?" Chara slowly stood up, a look in her eye that was uncaring for what she had just done. "Because," She paused for a moment. "I. Hate. You." Sans stared at Chara, the last of his vision fading as he turned to dust.

Swap!Papyrus looked in horror as Sans faded away, "N-No....Sans...this....cannot.....be....." Suddenly a sharp pain fills Papyrus' senses as a smoky bone pierces his SOUL. "Gr-" Papyrus lays back, knowing this is the end. "Blueberry...I-I...am....so.....sor...r...y..." Swap!Papyrus fades away to nothingness, joining his friend, UT Sans, in the afterlife.

"Good work...I always love taking advantage of human SOULs." The Smoky Being snapped his fingers again, and the hatred went away from Chara's mind. "Wh-What did you make me do?! Why would you do this! Who the fuck are you!"

The Smokey Being teleported behind her, placing a hand on her shoulder and piercing her back with the other hand, "The answer to that question is easy...I am...." He tore Chara's SOUL out, "Hate." Chara collapsed, dead.

"Heh- One DETERMINATION SOUL.....now I just need the other 6....he..hehehe....." the being known only as Hate Sans laughed as he disappeared leaving behind only two piles of dust and one human corpse.

(TBC)

-Scribe