Across the timelines [an Undertale Fanfic] (revised)

You're who?!?!

  "Chara, can I ask you what made you like this? Why do you want to kill everyone so badly?" Frisk asked as he took a seat on the ground. Patting the spot next to him, Chara hesitantly took the seat next to him, unsure about this decision. "What happened to you?"

Chara looked away from the other boy, reliving the memories he wanted to bury inside him. The memories of all the torture and abuse he had to endure all due to a little theory. Everyone in his village believed that humans were born with evil in them, so in an attempt to free themselves of that evil, they would force all evil into one person. One child was chosen at random to be the "vessel" and was blamed for all of humanity's evil.  Chara could still remember all the hateful words people spat out at him, how they all ridiculed or even hurt him, all because he was the one who was chosen. Ever since he was a little kid, he had been beaten, abused, and an unwanted waste of space. His own human family had given up on him, leaving him on his own like a piece of trash on the street. An orphan, unwanted and unloved...

"Time took it's toll for me. I lost hope in humanity long before I fell down here, Frisk. Alphys is wrong about me being you from another timeline. I have gone by so many names over the past resets, but my real name is Chara. I was the first human to have fallen down here." Looking back at Frisk, Chara shrugged as he said, "I was the one who had started it all. I used to live with Toriel and Asgore back when Asriel was still himself, not a flower, but my stupid mistake killed my brother and I. I can't go back to that life anymore, no matter how much I may have wanted too."

As if surprised, Frisk stared at him as he tried to think of Chara loving the monsters. He had said that he wanted to kill them, and yet, they were his family. Why did he loose hope? What did the humans do to him that pushed Chara into being this way? Why couldn't he go back to living peacefully with the monsters? What mistake did he do? He knew that the first human had died by illness, and that they merged their soul with Asriel's because they were homesick, but was that the mistake he regretted so much?

"Before you ask me, I'm not telling. My reasons are my own, and are between Asriel and me." Standing up now, Chara was ready to walk away until Frisk took their hand. He wanted to learn more about Chara than what Chara was willing to share. "No. I'm not saying anymore. It's none of your business anyways."

Frisk nodded, deciding to find out when Chara was ready to tell him. "Come on, let's go back with the others. I'm sure mom wants to know that you're okay, Chara, and you know she wouldn't mind taking care of you again. I know she's misses you a lot." Frisk took his friend's hand in his before saying, "she used to say that I looked like someone she used to know a lot. That person that I reminded of so much was you."

"I can't go back to her anymore because I don't trust her. I don't trust any of your so called friends." Chara looks away from Frisk as he says, "Toriel tried to keep me trapped up in the ruins, and forced my hand when I needed to get out. Papyrus thought a little kindness could change my past. Undyne wanted to hurt me. Mettaton wanted to stop me. And Sans... Sans wants to kill me."

Frisk shook his head no, remembering his own journey through the underground before breaking the barrier. Everyone was so happy, and no one held any hate for the humans anymore. Everyone was living in peace. Mettaton got a job at a television show. Undyne and Alphys were happily dating. Toriel and Asgore talked about their mistakes and agreed to be friends for now... Sans and Papyrus are like his brothers. Together, they all made a family.

"I'm sure once they get to know you, they'll love you. You just have to show them that you can be good." Chara looks at him with a look of doubt as he decides to help Frisk up to his feet. Frisk only continued to smile at him, feeling it in his heart that his words were reaching the troubled boy in front of him. "You're not bad at all. I can see the good person inside of you."

As the two walked back, hand in hand, Sans followed close behind them, ready to give Chara the bad time he knew the kid deserved. Frisk wouldn't be able to fight him if he needed to. Frisk didn't see the need to kill anyone, unlike him. That monster, the real monster, needed to be put down before he takes someone away from them.

"If you kill off my bro, prepare to get dunked on." Sans whispered to himself as he made his way back to Toriel's place, knowing that's where he'd be expected to be.

Meanwhile back in Alphys's lab...

"Oh man, what did I do wrong? It's supposed to be like a heat ray, so it should have been simple enough..." Alphys complained as she examined her experiment. "Why did it bring another Frisk here? And why is this one bad?"

As she continued to check her calculations, she placed down the machine before going back on her computer. As if she had forgotten, she remembered that she had hid cameras all over to watch Frisk when she heard he fell in. Deciding to see what the boys have been up to, she decided to check the cameras.

"Alphys is wrong about me being you from another timeline. I have gone by so many names over the past resets, but my real name is Chara. I was the first human to have fallen down here..." Confused about what she heard, she decided to do some tests to see if what she heard is correct. Is it possible for Chara to be the first human? It can't be. That human was killed a long time ago, so they wouldn't have their soul now. Their soul was shattered across time and space along with Asriel's.

Chara, now that she was thinking about it, the name sounded very familiar to her. Toriel did raise another child before Frisk along side sweet, little Asriel. That human, if she could recall, had past away due to some illness, and soon after Asriel was killed.

Knowing this was a difficult subject to bring up, Alphys felt it was necessary in order to know what exactly they were dealing with. With this in mind, she picked up her phone and decided to ask the one monster who would know everything about him. After all, she did raise him. With a deep breath, Alphys gathered all her courage and dialed Toriel.

Back with the boys...
"Come on, Chara. I have several striped shirts in the dresser you can borrow. We can't take you around with dust on you because you'll scare everyone." Frisk said as he pulled the other boy back into his room. "Change, so we can play with Papyrus and Sans."

Rolling his eyes, Chara said, "alright already. Geez, you're such a crybaby." With that, Chara removed his green shirt with a yellow stripe, along with his little heart locket in exchange for another one with a similar design. Looking back at these shirts, Chara could remember each one that had belonged to him or Asriel at one point in time. He was never much into change, so he had always worn a shirt with the same pattern on it.

"What should I do with this?" Chara asked as he held up his shirt to Frisk. As Frisk took it from him, Chara picked up his heart locket and placed it around his neck before following the other boy around.

Frisk placed the shirt in a hamper that would eventually be emptied when Toriel decides to do some laundry. As they were leaving, Papyrus grabbed Frisk and carried him on his shoulder, a smile on his face as he did so. Sans smiled up at them, but as he glanced over at Chara, he noticed something strange about him.

Chara had only glanced at the others as he noticed Toriel was speaking on the phone. He stopped in the middle of the room, listening in to Toriel's side of the conversation intently.

"Chara? What about the child?" He could tell that the goat wasn't too excitied to be speaking about him, but he could only guess why. She must still remember his death after all. "Chara was a lovely child, and was a good brother for Asriel... Of course not! The boy was harmless! Alphys, what was the point of this call?... CHARA IS GONE, AlPHYS! He passed away along time ago."

'I'm back, mom. I came back.' Those thoughts swirled through his mind as he realized how much Toriel had cared for him. It made the guilty feeling in his heart come back a bit as he knew he couldn't return to her like he's wanted to. He's been replaced in her heart by all the other kids, including Frisk. There is no more room for him. 'But I'm not the kid you loved anymore.'

"Kid, looks like you've left behind a mess when you left her. In your time, Toriel was the queen of the Underground, but now she can't even look at Asgore without remembering the past. That lady loved you, and you killed her without any mercy." Sans whispered as he walked besides Chara. "Let it be known to you now. Mercy is off the table for you. Kill one monster, and you're going to have a bad time."

Chara smirked at his comment, letting the feeling of guilt subside as he said, "we'll see about that. Anything you do to me happens to Frisk, so will you really take that chance to hurt me? Face it, Sans. I'm untouchable."

"No one is untouchable. Frisk will never be killed by our hands because everyone loves him. You, on the other hand, are just a mindless murderer waiting to find some innocent soul to destroy." Sans glared at the boy beside him before saying, "I will defeat you in this timeline. I'm not going to let you ruin the happy ending that Frisk worked so hard to create for everyone. If you truly consider him a friend, you'd do your best to make sure his work wasn't in vain."

Chuckling now, Chara couldn't help but say, "you are a funny comedian. You think that monsters and humans can be friends? It's impossible. Humans are monsters on the surface. They are cruel, evil, and show no mercy against their own kind. Monsters are the same way. They attack you for the sake of attacking. They kill you just for the fun of it. How can these species be friends?"

"If there's people like Frisk in the world, a difference can be made. Talking would be a great start to befriending a monster, but that won't work for the likes of you. You're nothing but true monster. Evil personified. You'll never be able to be happy until you see the whole world burn around you."

"Maybe you're right about that, comedian." Without meeting his eyes, Chara let a simple grin come to his face, knowing that the simple expression would creep out the skeleton beside him. "Maybe I'll never be happy and that's why I had continued to reset the timeline. Maybe I'm not meant to ever find this type of happiness that Frisk has created in this world, but you know what? I couldn't care less. I know the sun will never shine down on me. I have known my fate ever since I first came to this stupid mountain, and I don't care. I couldn't care less about happiness or what it feels like. I'm evil, and that's all I want to be."