DETERMINATION

Death By Glamour, Part II

"But first, since you worked so hard to get me into this body, I suppose I'll have to make your final moments..." he began, the lights slowly starting to turn back on, revealing Mettaton's new form.

He now had a very humanoid appearance, with black hair that covered one of his eyes, a pink torso with a pink hard oh his stomach, black pointy pauldrons on his shoulders and long legs covered by leggings, as well as pink high heels.

"ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!"

Okay, guess it wasn't an off-switch.

Regardless, he didn't seem as bulky as he was in his previous form, that must mean that he's less durable. Which means, he may even be vulnerable to your usual attacks.

That was good enough for you.

You launched yourself forward, slashing wildly at Mettaton but he danced and weaved around your attacks like it was nothing. He was a lot more agile now. Guess that was what he traded the defense for.

So, instead of being impossible to damage, now he's just impossible to hit? That's not really an improvement to your situation, but you'll just have to find a way around it. You always do.

"My, my, darling! You seem quite desperate to land a hit." Mettaton mocked as he continued to effortlessly dodge your attacks, how the hell was he this fast?! He's a big hunk of metal! Even if it is in a more slim shape, him moving this fast shouldn't be possible!

"Well, if you don't mind, darling, I think it's my turn!" Mettaton said, more bombs and Mini-Mettatons appearing as music started blaring out of speakers you didn't notice before. Did he seriously have his own theme song?!

You were starting to get a little angry. He wasn't taking you seriously. He wasn't taking ANY of this seriously. Like all of it was an act. Simple theatre, instead of a literal fight to the death.

Flowey, using his vines, climbed up onto your shoulder. His pellets and the yellow SOUL's bullets took care of the Mini-Mettatons and bombs easily enough, it was what came after that confused you.

A large disco ball descended from the ceiling and it started glowing.

At first it glew blue, the blue glow enveloped the whole room. Thankfully, you learned what blue attacks do. You stopped dead in your tracks, but then... the light turned orange!

Your eyes widened, but you quickly started moving, running towards Mettaton, only for the lights to change back to blue.

Mettaton laughed as you stopped moving just barely in front of him.

"Well, darling, how would you feel about a game of red light, green light? Or I suppose, blue light and orange light?" Mettaton asked, jumping away from you and landing on the opposite side of the room.

So, he can't be hurt by these colored attacks. Interesting.

"If you can reach me without dying... you get to continue the fight! Let's see if you have the reflexes for this, darling!" Mettaton said

You growled and tightened your hold on your knife, your eyes narrowing at the robot. You were REALLY starting to get angry. This wasn't a game, it's a literal fight to the death, and here was Mettaton not taking any of it seriously! You were not happy with this.

The moment light turned back to orange, you ran straight for Mettaton, your anger completely clouding your mind and judgement. So much so that you didn't even notice the light change color until it was too late.

The light turned blue and you felt your skin starting to burn. You let out a blood curdling scream at the pain as you felt to the ground, writhing in pain from the light's heat, but that only caused it to burn you more.

With every movement you got more hurt.

Flowey's eyes widened as his vines wrapped around your body, trying desperately to shield you from the burning blue light, but it didn't help. It was as if the light went straight through Flowey's vines and continued to burn you.

Mettaton's face looked unnerved for a moment before returning to his usual smile, it seems that not even he expected this to be so brutal.

Shigaraki and Kurogiri watched the broadcast back in the bar, both of their eyes wide in shock as they listened to your screams of agony. Neither of them ever expected to hear your usually stoic self scream like that.

All for One was also watching the broadcast, a sickening smile on his face as he listened. "Perhaps this will teach him that he is hardly capable of going on by himself." All for One said to himself as he continued to watch.

Plenty of civillians were also watching and, despite the fact that they were rooting for your doom, were very much disturbed by the brutality of this. You may have been an irredeemable monster, but you were still human, weren't you? It was needlessly cruel to employ such slow, agonizing attacks.

You twitched on the floor, your throat sore from the screaming, barely having the strength to move even an inch. But with each twitch of your body, the blue light continued to burn.

That was until the yellow SOUL started to crack, eventually completely shattering, sending you back to the empty, black void that you were all-too familiar with.

It was then that you heard a giggle behind you, from that same female voice you heard earlier.

You immediately turned around only to see a girl with brown hair and glowing red eyes and red, blushing cheeks, but still wearing your clothing.

"Who are you?" You asked the unfamiliar figure.

"Aww, don't recognize me? I'm hurt." She said, that same smile never leaving her face.

"I'm your partner, Chara." She said, causing your eyes to widen.

"But... you're a girl now? How, why?" You asked, unsure of what could have possibly caused such a sudden change.

"I was always a girl. I just didn't have the power to make myself look like... well, myself. I had to use your form, instead." She explained. "But now," She began, motioning towards herself before a red heart emerged from her chest. "With your SOUL and DETERMINATION now belonging to me, I have all the power I need to be myself again." She said.

"You died again. That's fine. I made sure to SAVE your progress shortly before your death. Keep yourself calm. Mettaton's aim is to make you angry, to get you to lose your focus. By keeping calm, you're closer to victory." She said, walking up to you and placing a hand on your shoulder.

"I'll just LOAD your SAVE file, remember to stay calm." She said before suddenly pushing you into the void.