Undertale: Guardian vs Fear

Saving The Guardian

I come to, and realize I'm laying down, Branden's hoodie folded up into a pillow for me to lay on. When I look around, he's nowhere in sight.

"No." I say, then immediately go to stand up as the small skeleton, Sans I believe, appears with the torso of Mettaton and a corrupted Soul in his free hand. "Where's..."

"No time." He says. "Heal this Soul, or we're all boned!" I shake my head and start to heal the Soul, and in no time at all, the Soul is completely healed as someone rounds the corner, eyes red and pink, with a knife in hand. "We're gonna have to be crafty, so hold onto this for me." Suddenly I'm holding the skeleton's arm and I do everything in my power not to scream. Suddenly I'm behind the person and I realize the plan quickly enough to take the Soul from the skeleton hand and shove it into the person's back, putting the Soul back in place and they drop to a knee. "Nice work, kiddo, that was real HANDY of you."

I shake my head. "Want me to give you a hand?"

"Didn't think it would cost me an arm, thankfully I didn't need to give up a leg too." Sans says and I facepalm as I hand the skeleton his arm back. "Heh, I like you kid."

"Branden, where's Branden?" I say and before he can answer, a bright glowing light comes from the arena and I slowly walk to the ledge as I see the blast coming down on two people. "What in the hell?"

"Branden, damnit, no!" I hear the person behind me say, as she, Sans, and Frisk now all join me.

"What is he doing?" I ask, but I turn and see the silhouettes of two people in the middle of the large white blast, then it stops. "He's going to kill himself..."

"He's sacrificing himself to protect us." Frisk says and turns and sits on the half wall to keep from seeing the sight. The girl in the green and yellow striped shirt slams her fist down on the ledge. "Chara, there's nothing we can do."

"I know and it pisses me off!" She answers.

"Sans, send me down there." I say without taking my eyes off the scene.

Sans responds confused. "Wha.."

"Send me down there now!" I turn to the skeleton and shout. "Please!"

He sighs and places his hand on my arm. "If he survives, he's going to kill me." Suddenly I'm standing a few feet away from Branden as he holds the pink child by their shirt.

"It's over, Monster." Branden says, and I launch a fury of flame bullets, without thinking, I pull my orange sword out and rush at them. Branden drops the child and loses his focus for a moment as he sees me approaching. I swing and slashing at the monster recklessly, before a hand grabs my wrist and pulls me away from a pink spear launching at me. "Damn it, Somer!" Suddenly he summons Gaster blasters and holds the monster down by their Soul. "Get away, now!"

"Not if your going to kill yourself!" I say and launch more flame bullets at the child, connecting but not doing much damage it seems.

"Why do you care so damn much!" He asks as the blaster fire and connect with the child, and without thinking, I grab him by his face and kiss him hard. Pulling away he looks at me, and I see the black surrounding his eyes slowly disappears until I'm looking at only his red eyes. "Oh."

"Pitiful." The monster says, and we turn to see them stand up. "You let yourself be entranced by love."

"Yeah?" Branden says and steps in front of me. "Well, maybe it's exactly what I needed." He disappears and a bone comes out of the ground, straight through the monster child. "We both have about 15 SP, so let's see who is really stronger, Monster." Suddenly he's back and holding his red machete. "Let's see what you've got left." He says as the monster now lands on it's feet, pink scythe at the ready.

"You'll just end up dead without your Hate!" They say and lose an arm for it. "Wha..."

Before they can answer, Branden swings again and severs the head off its shoulders and causes a shockwave to launch and blast me with a huge gust of wind. I'm barely able to stay standing as I block anything from hitting my face. The monster now drops and lays there, Branden standing over the body and he takes a heavy breath.

"That seemed pretty anti....wait, there it is." He drops as he finishes the sentence. He lays down on the ground on his back, breathing heavily. I go to him and see his SP is all the way down to 1. "Now, before you yell at me-"

"What the fucking hell?!" I snap on him as I start glowing my green magic to start healing him. "Your SP hasn't been lower then 70 since I met you!"

"Yeah, I wasn't exactly lying when I said both of our SP's were below 15." He says. "Surprised I survived at all."

"I wasn't about to let you kill yourself anyways." I tell him.

"So, when?" He says.

"When what?" I ask, trying to focus as his SP is now up to 50/87.

"When did you fall for me?" He says and I freeze. "Well, you knew I was going to ask."

"Yeah, just not so suddenly." I answer. "I guess when I saw the way you tried to carry everyone's problems on your own." I say as I heal him again. "You showed me how to fight and I got to see part of a side that you didn't show me earlier." I chuckle. "Plus, I was a little jealous of you in school, so I got to understand why you were different from us all."

"Wait, in junior high?" He asks.

"Yeah, did you forget already?" I say with a smile. "Our spar?"

"Oh wow, it feels like a long time ago." He says. "I remember being told to use only my Soul magic."

"I hit you with flame bullets and even made a small flame dagger, then you snapped and I saw the first Gaster blaster in my life." I say. "I was scared for my life, and Toriel couldn't figure out why you'd even summon a blaster in our spar. Especially when I did so little damage at the time."

I finish healing him to a perfect 87/87 and he sits up. "That's a long story, and honestly I don't know if you'd believe me." He pulls me to him and kisses me hard then pulls back. "That's for kissing me during that fight." I'm frozen as I just stare at Branden. "Now, the question becomes, is Frisk going to be pissed or not." He shakes his head. "Chara's going to be pissed for Frisk, sounds like what's happening." I shake my head and go to ask what he means, before hearing someone scream at the top of their lungs. I can't understand a word of what's said, but I look up and see Chara being held back from jumping off the ledge. "Great."