Chara’s new home
Part 1

‘It worked!’ I thought as I saw the strings break in half, releasing Frisk from the influence of the controller. I ran up to Frisk and catched her as she collapsed, realising that she was unconscious.

‘No! No! NO!’ I mentally screamed as I tried to wake her up, getting no response except for a slight moan from her. My entire plan had been riding on her staying awake! Why hadn’t I thought about the fact that she could’ve been too exhausted to even stay awake! I then proceeded to try to wake her up in any way possible for the next several minutes.

Luckily, she started to wake up by minute seven. “Frisk! Wake up!” I practically shouted into her face, successfully making her more awake.

“Wh-wha… What’s going on?” She asked as she rubbed her eyes.

“There’s no time to explain, I need you to reset NOW!”

Shaken by my determination and she pulled up the ‘Reset’ button, preparing to press it but then pausing, looking at me with curiosity. “Why exactly do you want me to reset? Also, who even are you?” Trying to keep my fury under control, I tried my best to explain what was going on and who I was. They were somehow taking it pretty well until I mentioned the genocide that they did, breaking down into tears. “I re-remember it! Why did I k-kill everyone!?!” Before I could respond however, I heard a deep laugh behind me.

Whipping around, I saw what looked like a shadow human standing thirty yards away, staring at me with a look I knew all too well. “Frisk...reset now!” I yelled as I pulled out my knife, preparing to fight a rapidly closing in evil human. I was too slow thought, and got knocked back as he rammed into me, sending me crashing into Frisk. The controller grinned at this as he stood above us, ready to strike down at Frisk with a dark axe in his hands. ‘No!’ I thought as I felt determination flood into me, compelling me the launch up and stab the human in the chest.

A few seconds went on in silence as the three of us didn’t move, staring at the sight before us. Then, the controller broke it as he gave a small chuckle, bringing the axe down on to my exposed back. This brought a cry of pain from me and a gasp from Frisk. The blow sent me flying to the ground, yelling in pain as I hit it. Even though I was losing blood quickly and starting to black out, I saw Frisk jump for the reset button, about to press it. Seeing this, the controller started to lunge forward, aiming his axe at Frisk.

I couldn’t let it end like this.

I grabbed the controller’s ankle, sending him falling to the ground before Frisk. They tried to get to her, but I refused to let go, pulling them towards me instead. They started thrashing around in a furious panic, screeching and yelling all the while. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was Frisk resetting, causing a bright light to come from everywhere as the world went back in time a couple of days.

Meanwhile

I watched with an odd mixture of sadness and curiosity as the world reset, starting the long process of putting everything back where it belonged. However, I didn’t bother to glance at it, instead, I looked at Chara and the ‘controller’. At first, when I had originally arrived, everything just seemed like the end of a normal genocide run, nothing serious. That changed however when Chara made her move, cutting off the connection between Frisk and the controller, something that shouldn’t of happened, along with all that happened afterwards. What interested me the most however was the controller.

In the universes with ‘original timelines’, Frisk’s actions in the underground are either controlled or influenced by a so called ‘player’, which I learned about after visiting the ‘home’ universe. This however, was more akin to a demonic spirit than a player. Their level of interaction with Frisk and her adventures proved that. What concerned me the most was who exactly this controller was. They definitely weren’t related to Error Sans, since he wouldn’t mess with an original timeline universe, and most glitches in the multiverse wouldn’t be able to affect these kinds of universes either. So that meant that this thing was very powerful and likely only recently created.

I teleported the luckily weak and unconscious demon to a secure location in the Omega timeline to be dealt with later, before moving my attention to Chara. I noticed that she wasn’t being affected by the reset like normal and was instead slipping out of it, into the universe’s local void. I realised that the axe the demon had struck her with had affected her somehow, possibly the same thing that let the demon move around between dimensions, interesting. I quickly fixed the error for the timeline and replaced this universe’s Chara with a clone of sorts to keep it stabilized. I then proceeded to take Chara with me as I went through the multiverse, looking for a location to settle her down.

Usually I’d put her in the Omega timeline, but I didn’t want to risk affecting it with whatever forced her out of her own universe. I kept looking until I noticed something odd. Their was a universe here not related to our own. Usually different ‘genres’ kept in their own areas of the multiverse realm, with some connected to each other. For example, there was a nearby two genre pockets for ‘Fallout’ and ‘Halo’ that were overlapping, creating dozens of universes that had both genres deeply involved. While this was usually normal, the universe I found wasn’t part of that connection, but instead a regular universe in our space.

After conflicting with myself for a few moments, I decided to send Chara to that universe for two purposes. One was to hopefully help Chara recover from the mess she’s been through. The other was to include this universe into the ‘overlapping zone’ to keep anything bad from happening to it. I started to float towards the universe, making sure that whatever the axe cut gave her wasn't going to severely damage the universe's codding along the way.

Just before I sent Chara down into it though, I felt a presence appear behind me. I whipped around, expecting Error Sans to be there, ready to ambush me. Instead, I was met with an amazing site. It was a giant Alicorn with a red mane and tail, white coat, and caring blue eyes. She also had a mark on her flanks, displaying an ink pot and quill. She was currently looking at me with an emotion on her face that I knew too well, determination.

“State your business for approaching one of my sacred worlds. Answer carefully, otherwise I will not hesitate to send you back to where you belong.”

While I probably couldn’t get hurt, Chara could’ve easily since she wasn’t a multiverse being. Remembering this could happen if I messed up filled me with determination of my own to protect her.

“Hello. I assume that you’re the one who watches over your dimension? I’d like to ask for a favor.” I then moved to the side a bit to show Chara floating behind me, sleeping almost peacefully. “My friend here needed a new home universe since she could no longer live in her own. I had seen that this universe here was within the space between both of our genre realms, yet wasn’t related to ours. So I’d like to make that possible.”

She looked thoughtful for a moment before looking at me with a steady gaze. “That would probably for the best for both your friend and my universe. I’ll keep an eye on her, but I suppose we have a deal.” With that, she and I shook hands/hooves. I then focused my energy on putting Chara safely inside the universe before fully returning to the multiverse realm just outside.

“Thanks again Mrs. Faust. I’m sorry I nearly did that without your permission.”

She looked at me with a motherly aurora not too far off from Toriel as she responded “It’s alright my child, you were being rushed and you found the perfect opportunity. I might’ve done the same in your position. By the way, if you don’t mind me asking, what is your name?”

A small smile formed on my face as I answered “You can call me Core Frisk.”.

Back to Chara, because this story is about her!

“Auugh. What happened?” I mumbled as I slowly opened my eyes, trying to make sense of what happened.”

‘Wait a second… Frisk!’

I immediately looked around, trying to find Frisk while identifying where I am. I succeeded with neither, since I couldn’t find Frisk and I was in a forest clearing, which confused me. How did I even get up here? The only way to break the barrier was with seven souls, and I’m pretty sure that Frisk didn’t do that.

Not her, but someone else!

I then remembered the controller and started to panic as thoughts and theories started flying through me head.

‘Did we win!?!’

‘Is Frisk alright?’

‘Did we manage to reset?’

‘Was that all just a dream?’

‘Did that demon take Frisk’s soul and the others to break the barrier or something?’

I paused as I realised which one of those was the most likely. Especially since only one involved getting to the surface. Before I could do anything however, I heard a bush rustle nearby. Backing away from the bush, I pulled out my knife as I saw several glowing, yellow eyes stare at me. All of a sudden, three wooden wolves leaped out of the bush, slowly closing in on me.

‘What the hell are these?’ I mentally shouted as I checked my inventory for anything that I could use. All I had was the knife, my heart locket, and some instant noodles. Exiting it, I dropped into a fight stance, ready for the familiar soul vs. soul battle that I had become accustomed to over the years. However, that wasn’t the case as the wolves attacked anyway, knocking me back into a tree.

“So that’s how it is huh? Well it doesn’t matter, I’m used to this old song and dance as well.”

Now knowing what to expect, fighting the wolves was pretty easy. The first two had been killed pretty much instantly due to them blindly rushing at me. The third was a bit harder, but I managed to cut their leg off and finish them off, reducing it to a pile of twigs and leaves like the other two. Noticing my low HP, I ate the instant noodles, bring my HP up to 16/20.

‘I thought that those bring my HP up higher?’ On closer examination, I saw that 4 HP was currently shaded over, preventing it from being healed. After a bit of thinking, I realised that it was from the slash in my back from when the controller attacked. Speaking of which, I should probably get help for. Just as I started walking down a path that was connected to the edge of the clearing, what I just thought and saw sent me to a halt.

‘I have a maximum of 20 HP… which means that I’m somehow at LV 1! How is that even possible?! Besides, why am I even in a solid form, I don’t have the soul to exist like thi…’

I checked my stats and saw the tiny red heart float out of my chest. After making sure it wasn’t somehow Frisk’s soul, I started wondering about what this meant and how I had my old soul again, walking down the path in the meantime.

1 hour later

I saw the trees and brush space out ahead as it lead to an open plain. ‘Finally!’ I thought, ready to leave the forest behind me. Between my walk from the clearing to here, I had come fought another group of wooden wolves and barely avoided being seen by some lion and scorpion hybrid. As I exited the forest, I looked around and checked my surroundings, which brought very promising results. In front of me was a small river that had a bridge stretching across from it. Beyond it was what looked like a small medieval town, and beyond that was a mountain with some sort of castle on that.

‘So apparently we went back in time… great.’ I noted as I looked around even more. To the left was more of the river and what looked like train tracks. To the right, the river formed into a small lake before continuing towards the mountain. What really got my attention though was the cottage just a couple hundred feet away from me. I started to walk towards it but stopped myself and started having a mental battle about what I should do.

‘We need to know where and when we are, and this could very well be our only chance!’

‘We don’t know that! Besides, there’s going to be humans!’

‘Why not monsters? If we went back in time, then maybe we went far enough that we’re at the time where monsters lived on the surface.’

‘Do you see Mount Ebott anywhere?’

…

‘Exactly.’

‘Listen, we don’t know what’ll happen if we don’t get the cut on my back dealt with soon. It’s likely got an infection by now, and we don’t know how much worse it’ll get.’

‘Bu-’

‘Also, it’s about time we put our hatred of humanity behind us. They’re not all going to be bad. Frisk, the 6 souls, and I are all examples of that.’

‘...fine.’

With that decided, I walked towards the cottage swiftly, determination flowing through my body.

After about a minute of walking, I reach the cottage. I couldn’t help but feel as if the setting was familiar, especially the town itself. I couldn’t tell why, but it just was. When I had been walking up to it, I saw a bunch of random animals hanging out near the cottage. Whoever lives here must be some sort of animal caretaker, maybe a veterinarian. After realising I was just thinking about this to stall for time, I decided to just get it over with. I knocked on the door a couple of times, standing back so it wouldn’t hit me if it swung outwards. After a minute of silence and muffled moving, I see the door open slightly, a figure starting to become seeable.

“Um, hello? Do you need…” The sentence stopped as we both fully got a view of each other. What was in front of me was not a human but a pony, a pegasus to be exact. She had a yellow coat, along with a baby pink mane and tail. Her teal eyes looked at me with an odd mixture of fear, confusion, and excitement. All of a sudden, I remembered where I saw her from.

Flashback

‘Just what are these things supposed to be for!?!’ I mentally shouted in frustration as I followed Frisk through the trash dump section of Waterfall, watching the strings with a stare that could give a demon nightmares. As we walked through, a noise started to become noticeable beyond the splashes of Frisk’s feet and the shifting of the trash around us. Getting ready for a fight, Frisk started sneaking towards the source of the noise until we were reached a pile of scrap electronics and metal, the noise coming from behind the pile.

“Gotcha now… huh?”

The noise we’d been hearing turned out to be an old TV, playing what looked like a modern cartoon show. How the TV was even working, let alone picking up a cartoon that was likely made decades after it was created was beyond me. As Frisk started to turn around and leave, I decided to try to see what cartoon is was before I was spiritually dragged away. All I saw was a bunch of multicolored ponies, along with a title.

'My little pony: Friendship is magic'

‘So idiotic.’ I thought as I turned around and followed Frisk.

Flashback end

I stared at the pony for a few more moments before falling onto the ground, losing consciousness as I heard an "Oh no!" come from the pony as I fainted.

Author's Note

Enjoy!

Core! Frisk is owned by Dokudoki on tumblr.

Stay determined folks!