31 - MY ETERNAL REWARD

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(FRISK POV)

I hunched over. His detached hands sparked with white electricity. He hit me again.
"AAAGGGHHHH!!! *Hff hff* now I know what being tased feels like," I looked up at his face. His eyes were half closed. He wasn't smiling. His face showed a blank expression of rage I knew all too well. "Why are you doing this?" I said through strained breaths.
"You killed my king. My friends. My brothers... An entire civilization, a people," He glided toward me. "Dusted." He struck me again with a series of quick jabs.
"Urghh... That... That wasn't me! I wasn't... myself..." More hits. More damage.
"You can play the victim all you want, human filth. You think you can just run?!" He kicked me across the floor. It hurt so bad. I reacted out of reflex, I curled up into a ball and started to cry. He kept hitting me with attack after attack. "YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST LOAD A SAVE AND ESCAPE THE CONSEQUENCES?!" He wrapped me in purple wire and brought me toward him, the pain was unbearable. I felt the blood trickle down my face as he brutally attacked me with his magic.
"P-please... Stop... *sob*" He got up close to my face and whispered:
"Did you stop when the monsters pleaded for MERCY?" A smirk appeared on his cracked skull as his eye glowed a vibrant yellow. "No comment? How about I jog your memory?" He put his hand on my forehead, and I was instantly hit with a wave of yellow magic. Everything went dark.

Monster Kid's face of genuine terror as I went to attack him is a sight I'll never erase from my mind. He was scared for his life, and I would've taken too if it wasn't for Undyne.
"N-no, please stop!" I looked at the knife I was holding. Sparking with red magic. That's how I did this: "U-Undyne? Are you hurt?" MK shouted. How did Undyne live? A spear through the eye and out the head should have killed her! Do monsters not have brains? She was wearing an eyepatch over her wound, but it didn't cover the hole in the back of her head, I saw the dust slowly fall from the back of her head.
"Hurt? It's nothing. Next time listen when I tell you to leave next time, okay?" MK nodded. He ran away as she turned back to me. "... heh... 'It's nothing.'... no... s-somehow, with just one hit... I'm already... D... Damn it..."Her upper body started to slide down where I had cut clean through her. Dust from gash fell on to the ground like a twisted snow. She looked up. "Papyrus... Alphys... ASGORE... Just like that, I... I've failed you. No... My body... It feels like it's splitting apart Like any instant... I'll scatter into a million pieces. But..." She clutched onto her chest. "Deep, deep in my SOUL. There's a burning feeling I can't describe. A burning feeling that won't let me die. Speaking of which, you're going to regret what you did back there. " My vision skipped forward. The final blow. I couldn't move. I just stood there and watched her become too determined for her own good. The DT melted her body and contorted it in grotesque ways. I didn't even bat an eye. LV 12. 64 HP, 32 AT, 12 DF. I'm appalled at myself. I can't move on my own, the other me continued on, not even bothering to wipe the dust off her shirt. Oh god. Oh god. Suddenly, I'm pulled back to the present.
     "Oh God I'm so sorry. *sob* I'm so sorry." The skeleton hesitated.
     "You're not done yet." Another flash of yellow magic hit me.

   There I stood, in front of Papyrus. A cold sweat trickled down his skull. We switched places since last time.
     "Ah... Human. You came back! F-from waterfall." I said nothing. "I... I went to go see Undyne today, but she... wasn't there... I suppose that's because of you..." ... "But that's ok! B...Because even if you have lost your way, I, THE GRRREAT PAPYRUS, IS HERE TO HELP YOU, HUMAN!" I hate this. My visions accelerated. Papyrus, dead. I went to the ruins, killing every monster on my way. Toriel, dead. Killed every monster I could find. I went back to Hotland, my visions skipped and broke. Suddenly, I saw a glimpse of a blood-stained sans and the words: LV 20 echo in my head, and just as fast it was gone.

I was in a black void similar to this one, the only ones there were me... and Chara. He looked different though, I couldn't quite discern his features, and his voice sounded much similar to mine.
"Hello, Frisk." No. "We did it. We killed every monster in the underground. Don't worry about the ones that 'escaped', Flowey took care of them." I spoke up.
"Chara... what is going on?"
"Ah... right... as if you don't know, my SOUL, is your SOUL. And as you increased the power of your SOUL, I realized finally why the universe let me live again... Power. I was to become a god, and you, human... are just a means to an end. But to truly become god and cleanse this world of sinners like you, I'm going to need our SOUL to myself." These words remain in my mind to this day. I keep telling myself 'it's not him', but I'm just lying through my teeth. My SOUL is his SOUL, and both have become corrupted by LV... I remember the next words as if I said them a second ago.
"No, this is all wrong, I'm RESETing and we're going back to the way things should be. This should have never happened." Chara started to leak black fluid from his eyes like tears.
"No? Hmm... How curious, you must have misunderstood. SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THE ONE IN CONTROL?"Laughter filled the void as a knife was plunged into my SOUL. I felt my myself splitting apart, breaking like glass. A wound in my mind was formed that can never be fixed that day; when I RESET without a SOUL. It had cracked, shattered. And before I could die I had LOADed my last SAVE point.

I was pulled back into reality. I wanted to die. I want to die. I'm an awful person. Gaster is right, I shouldn't be allowed to live. I'm not void of consequences. I don't even remember when I learned his name was Gaster. He had let go of me and was scrawling over my SOUL chart. I wanted to cry, but no tears came out. I just sat there, in the inky nothingness. With a man banished from reality who wants to hurt me for all eternity. I think I finally know what this is. The ninth circle of hell:

Oblivion.

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Missing entity; VOID overflow

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