I hope you enjoyed the last chapter... ahuhuhu!! that was very fun to write.

am i evil? tell me if im evil. then i can sto- wait what am i talking about? I ain't stoppin anytime soon lol

have fun

i hope this chapter infuriates you.

Chara woke up on a bed of golden flowers similar to the one they had landed on at the start of their journey. Sitting up, they scanned their surroundings for any sign of Frisk. They didn't seem to be nearby...

"Frisk?" Chara asked quietly.

They attempted to stand up, but their legs weren't quite ready to support their weight.

"Oof!" they fell back down.

"Chara?" a faint voice in the distance called.

"Frisk! Is that you?" Chara picked themself up and began to walk in the direction of the voice.

They couldn't see well in the dark, so they slowly progressed with their arms in front of them. Their outstretched hands hit something, so they began to investigate.

"Chara would you please get your hands off my face?" it said.

"Oh!" Chara let their arms drop. "Sorry..."

"It's fine. Let's keep moving." Frisk grabbed their friend's hand so they wouldn't get separated, and the two made their way past the piles of trash.

They reached a platform with some sort of yellow star floating above it. Chara climbed up onto the wooden plank and helped Frisk up after them.

"What is that?" Frisk asked.

"I don't know... there were some in the ruins, too. I don't think anyone else can see them, though. I asked Asgore about it, but he just looked at me weird."

Chara out their hands over the star. *You are filled with determination. File saved. A voice said quietly. They smiled and stepped back, looking at Frisk.

"You do it."

Frisk shrugged. "Okay," They said.

Holding their hands over the star, they felt a rush of... something.

*New file: Save at the same time. A glitchy message popped into their head.

"Let's try at the same time." Frisk said.

They both reached out one hand and the star glowed brightly.

*Having a companion on your adventure fills you with determination. Files saved.

The two children looked at each other and smiled.

"Let's go." Frisk said, grabbing Chara's hand again.

They kept walking in a content silence. They were about to pass a practice dummy when Chara held back.

"Stop."

Frisk looked back at them. "Huh?"

"There was a dummy like that one in the ruins, and it attacked me. Asgore stopped it then, but there's no one here now and I don't know if we're good in a fight..."

"Oh... Maybe we could sneak past it?"

"I dunno... maybe."

"Well we should at least try..."

The two began to sneak (as well as they could in the knee-deep water) past the dummy, trying not to bother it.

Nothing happened. When they looked back at it, however, it seemed to dip its head down, as if to acknowledge them.

"Huh..." Chara thought aloud.

The two took a few more steps until Frisk stopped them. "Shh! I think I heard something!"

The two stood still and held their breaths, listening intently. There were, indeed, muffled voices coming from ahead.

"Wonder what that is..." Frisk commented.

"I dunno... let's go see."

As they got closer, they heard the voices get a bit louder.

Then, there was a quiet, yet forceful voice. "No."

They came out into a room and saw...

"Red?" Frisk asked worriedly.

The small skeleton looked up at them before burying his face in something orange and weeping. He shuddered violently and his bones rattled from his heaving sobs.

"Red, what's wrong?" Chara asked.

The sobs only grew louder, and Red's grip on what he was holding tighter. His breath was coming in short gasps, his cries drowning out chances to breathe.

The children stared at each other, confused, before realisation set in...

- - -

"Ughghgh where could they be??" Flowey asked urgently and slightly frustratedly.

"I DON'T KNOW." Blue responded for what felt like the millionth time.

"If I were a human, where would I be...?"

"WELL I MEAN I'D PROBABLY BE ON THE SURFACE."

"Oh wow, Blue. Reeeaaalll helpful."

"WELL I'M JUST SAYING, IF I WERE A HUMAN AND I FELL UNDERGROUND, I WOULD WANT TO GET HOME. THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I WOULD LEAVE LIKE THEY DID."

"Well, I guess that makes sense... maybe we should go help Red and Papyrus."

"WE SHOULD AT LEAST CHECK THE REST OF THE FOREST JUST IN CASE, THOUGH! WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN THIS FAR."

"Sounds good to me."

They kept going until Blue stopped in his tracks, an unreadable expression in his face.

"Uhhh... Blue?"

"Something's wrong." He stated flatly, without the usual cheeriness.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know... I felt something odd just then... Like... I lost something important..."

"Maybe we should turn around now and go check?"

"Yeah... after all, if something's wrong... THE MAGNIFICENT BLUE.... will... help... YEAH..." he struggled to bring his happy mood back.

"Maybe we should make sure you're okay first." Flower suggested.

"No... NO, I'M FINE, LET'S GO!!" Blue turned and began to quickly make his way towards Snowdin.

After ten minutes, they had reached the edge of town, where Waterfall began.

Blue began to pick up speed as they went, and it was obvious that something was bothering him. Soon, he was sprinting full-on. Flowey began to feel a bit sick as his surroundings faded into a blur. Then it stopped.

"-OOF!" Sans had run into someone.

"Huh!? Oh, hey, Sans!"

"Wha- OH! ALPHYS!!"

"What you in such a hurry fo-"

Blue cut her off. "HAVE YOU SEEN MY BROTHER?"

"No, why?"

"He wants to find his brother to help him look for Frisk and Chara. They weren't in Snowdin." Flowey said before Blue could respond.

"I don't know who Frisk and Chara are. Are they friends of yours?"

"YEAH."

"Huh. Well, while I've got you here, I guess I should warn you that there's two humans running around. I chased 'em a bit, but I made a stupid mistake and lost them."

"TWO HUMANS?! WHERE DID YOU SEE THEM LAST?"

"At the end of this dock, actually. I'll take you there. C'mon, punks!" She bounded off on the platform. Sans glanced at Flowey before shrugging and following the dinosaur monster.

She reached the end of the platform, and Blue came up next to her.

"I THOUGHT THIS WAS LONGER."

"It was, but I kinda sorta cut it off. It fell down there." She pointed down the chasm. "Both of the humans were on it."

Blue caught his breath. "OH..."

"Well, I gotta go have a da- I mean hang out with Undyne. I'll see you around, ya nerds!"

"BYE..." Blue couldn't take his eyes off the drop. "FLOWEY, WE GOTTA GET DOWN THERE AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE OKAY."

"I'm workin' on it." Flowey summoned a thick vine. "Take this and tie it around yourself." He transplanted himself out of the pot. "Take the pot with you."

Blue did as he said, and when Flowey told him to, he sat down on the edge of the platform and slid off it, holding the vine for dear life. Flowey began to lower him down. After what felt like hours, Blue's feet hit water. He shivered.

He looked up, "I'M ALL THE WAY DOWN NOW!"

There was an answering call from above, before Flowey popped out of a pile of trash. Looking down disgustedly at what he had come up in, he quickly used his roots to pull himself back into the pot.

"Let's go." He said.

Blue moved through the dump as quickly as possible, trying not to slip.

A dummy sat by a pile of trash.

"HELLO!" Blue said to it.

"Hi," it replied.

It didn't really want visitors right now, but a nice enough person to smile at it and greet it couldn't just be turned away.

"DID YOU BY CHANCE SEE TWO HUMANS COME THROUGH HERE?"

"Yes, I did. They went through that hallway." It nodded towards the hallway to its right.

"OH! THANK YOU!" Blue grinned at it. "HAVE A GOOD DAY!" He said before moving on.

If the dummy could've smiled, it would have.

"You too!"

Blue walked on until he reached the hallway.

"Wait. I hear someone." Flowey stopped him.

Blue held his breath. "IS THAT SOMEONE... CRYING?"

Blue began to walk quicker than before, and finally reached the next room. There was not someone, but three someones crying. 

Red was in the middle, right by a small stretch of water.  He was holding something, but Blue couldn't see it. Frisk and Chara were in the way. They were both hugging him and it seemed that he had melted into their embrace. All three were sobbing.

Blue approached them. As he got nearer, he was able to see that Red was holding an orange sweatshirt. It looked like the one Papyrus wore today... where was he? Blue took a few more steps before he realized that the sweatshirt was... dusty? Now that he noticed it, he saw that Red, too, was dusty.

"U-uhmm..."

Frisk turned and looked at him, before bursting into tears.

Blue stepped closer and knelt next to Red. Flowey pulled himself out of the pot and wrapped himself around the shaking skeleton.

"Red?"

Red stared at him with empty eyesockets. He didn't need to speak for Blue to know what happened.

"No... Brother..." Blue slowly relaxed and hugged himself, large tears forming in his eyesockets.

Red pulled Blue towards himself, and Frisk and Chara adjusted themselves to make room for him. Flowey used vines to join in the group hug, while he himself buried his face in Red's hood. They were a tangled mess of tears, dust, and souls crying out for another's comfort.

The four of them held onto each other, crying in a heap on the floor.

:3 :3 :3 :3
Here, take a blanket, katycanchan.
Oh wait, it's still not a blanket, it's a dusty orange sweatshirt. It's tear-streaked now, too. Oh, is that a smol crying Blue wrapped in it? Whoops, didn't realize he was there.

Aaaanyways, I hope you enjoyed it!
>:3
Also, theocipher good job you got what the title in the last chapter was referencing!