Sans POV

April 25, 2020

I feel them come over me while fixing my tie. Chara. I lose all control of everything. Just a voice in my own head. They walk over to Dex and get her attention. She turns back around. And then...

I'm acting just like Liam. Chara's having me recreate her nightmares with her best friend! Why!? No, no, no, no, NO! Please, NO! I want to get out of this, I want to take back control, why!? WHY DOES CHARA INSIST ON TORTURING US LIKE THIS!? I don't want to watch, I can't help, I can't...

She looks so scared... of me...

Chara pulls away and smirks again. "finally." NO! "why so quiet? admit it, i'm good at this." WHY!?

"I..." CHARA, YOU IDIOT! CAN'T YOU SEE SHE CAN'T EVEN TALK!? Why do they insist on doing this!?

"left ya speechless." In any other situation, that would be smooth as hell. But not when they're giving MY BEST FRIEND A GODDAMN NIGHTMARE COME TO LIFE! "i can see that."

"W... Why..?"

"why not?"

"B... Because..." Oh, I don't know, because HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION!? I COULD NAME FIVE! Off the top of my head! She growls quietly, barely audible. "Rrrgh... I thought you were my friend!" Say no! Kick 'me', shove 'me'! Hell, you could kill this form and I wouldn't even be remotely mad! "How could you..." I find myself cheering when Dex pushes Chara to the floor. "Have you no shame?" Well APPARENTLY not! She pauses and smiles. "I have always wanted an excuse to say that." Chara stands up.

"heh... worth it." She frowns.

"The ground wouldn't want you to rot in it." Then grins again. "I am on fire today with the cool quotes!" Heh.

"i dunno, monster dust actually makes the ground really fertile." Well, they do make a point...

"So you don't have any shame. Well then. I shame thee double, y- thou abominable fiend." THAT'S RIGHT, CHARA, THOU ART AN ABOMINABLE FIEND!

Chara scowls. "shut up," They mumble at me.

"Why would I do that?" Dex hisses. "You deserve it." Suddenly, Chara leaps up and choke-slams the kid the wall.

"i said, shut up," They snarl, "or else." They press harder and the kid somehow manages to nod, fear showing again. Chara smiles again. "good. and remember." The eyelights flicker and disappear. Chara digs the sharp bone fingers into Dex's neck. "don't even try, got it?" She nods again. They let go.

"now, let's go. dinner's in a few minutes." I want to help Dex. But I can't. Not until Chara gives me my body back. But when will that be?

Dex POV

April 25, 2020

Sans turns around. I clench my fists and punch the back of his head, forcing him to fall down. After a split second, he looks at his hand, then turns around to see me. I summon a bone knife into my hand and contort my face into a snarl. His eyes widen and he puts his hands up and in front of him.

"w- whoa whoa whoa, is that really-"

"Necessary? Yes."

"it really isn't-"

"YOU! Do not get to speak. You rotten pigeon egg." He grabs his head suddenly.

"no, no, no, no, no, don't do this again, please, get out, get out, get out of my head now-"

"What?" Again?

"i- it's chara, they're trying to- aaargh get out-"

"How do I know it's Chara doing it? How do I know that you aren't just making up some stupid reason for me to forgive you? Just so you can do it again and again, and blame it on Chara?" I hiss. He looks back up at me.

"please, you have to believe me, you have to help me, they keep hurting you and i can't let them but i can't-" His voice cracks and his eyes are filled with pain. I don't want to believe him. But I guess...

Sans's hands drop from his head. He tries to stand up, but I point the knife at his neck.

"Stay down, Chara." Sans grins.

"heh. caught me, magic girl."

"What do you want to gain from this?" He- no, Chara- is surprised.

"what?"

"What do you want?"

"i... i guess i just wanted a body again, and..."

"Cool. If we get you a body, will you stop?"

"i mean... i guess." I let the knife disappear.

"Then get up. And let Sans have his body back. We'll have Alphys get the old Humanbot one."

Chara POV(this section partially written by @LunaLeGayPotato)

April 27, 2020

Finally. I have a body of my own again, and it even looks kind of like my old one when I was alive. I look around at the people around me. Alphys looks relieved. The comedian is frowning, eyes narrowed in suspicion. Magic Girl- Dex- looks straight-up cold. She watches my every move like a hawk, like she expects me to murder everyone. Right now, I have no bad intentions. I just want to go and explore for myself and... And see Asriel again. Well, Flowey, I guess, since he's a flower now and calls himself that. What a creative name. I scoot out of bed and try to stand up. I'm a little shaky, but otherwise okay. I turn to Alphys. "Thanks for letting me use this, doc."

"O-oh, n-no problem, C-Chara!" I chuckle and roll my eyes at her signature nervousness, them turn to Sans and Dex.

"So, you two. Are you going to take me back?" Magic Girl seems confused.

"Back... where?"

"Aresog, of course! I haven't really gotten the chance for a tour yet." Sans growls and clenches his fists.

"why would we ever do anything for you, chara?" He spits my name like it's poison. "after everything you did?"

"Understandable. I'll go explore myself, then. I wonder how Mom would feel if I turned up alive again..."

"Um, she's sorta already dealt with me 'dying' and coming back to life multiple times, so I'd guess she'd be growing tired of it by now." Dextria points out, momentarily losing her seriousness and going to her sarcastic self. Though, it's better when she's smiling. Quick, think up a bad pun.

"Well this time I won't KID around with her feelings and stay alive." I make finger guns at Dex, who I assume is trying to hold back her laughter from her expression. Trying to frown. Hilarious. Sans rolls his eyesockets and sneers. "Oh, come on, comedian, I thought you were all about bad puns!"

"not from you, brat." I narrow my eyes but don't react violently. That would earn a worse score from them than I already have.

"Hm... What if... We actually do take Chara back to the new monster kingdom? We want them to be good, right? It's like those cartoons. We have to act good towards them." I turn back to Magic Girl. It's true, all I've ever wanted was to be treated with some kindness after my life up here with the humans. Sans doesn't stop glaring at me.

"how do we know they won't just kill everyone first chance they get?" I sigh and put my hands out as if I was sparing him in battle.

"I promise that I won't try to kill someone and if I do, I give you full permission to destroy me." That seems to convince him a little, as I see him relax if only slightly. I hear Dex sigh in relief. I've just gotta be good this time and I be able to earn their trust. And, who knows, maybe get closer to Magic Girl...? She is one of the more interesting humans I've met. Dex thinks about it and addresses Sans.

"I made a promise like that once. Remember? You didn't go through with it. I had to do it." She says. I open my mouth and raise a finger, concerned. "Long story. Don't ask." I close my mouth.

"yeah." As we leave, he grabs my arm and hisses in my ear. "and if you do... i won't hesitate, bitch."

I've officially got my own place in Maple Bluffs now, hooray. Although, I'm a little jealous of Magic Girl, but also scared for her. She gets to go on all these dangerous missions and risk her life for the monsters. I sorta wish I could be the one out there, sacrificing my life so monsters can live happily. But... I did promise to not die on Mom again. I don't think she could take it if she lost another child permanently. Ugh, why am I so torn between this... It's not like anyone would care if I just stayed here... To help them with stuff... Actually, come to think of it, I think they'd actually prefer that. To stay here and help the community while they're out distracting and disarming the Anti-Monsters.

I hear the latest raid party returning. Speak of the devil... I walk out to see Sans, Undyne, and Mom walking up to the castle. Dex isn't with them. I start to get nervous and speedwalk up to them. "Where's Magic Girl?" Toriel looks at Sans and Undyne nervously.

"She... She got captured. It happened while we were distracted. We noticed too late. We couldn't do anything." I clench my fists. After all that's happened, can't we go a week without something like this? Magic Girl believed in me. She got me into this body, and damn it if I'm going to get back out of it because of her. I owe MG my life. I think it's time I pay it back.

"Where's their base?" They all look surprised.

"Chara, my child, you are not planning to-"

"I'm getting Dex back, whether you come with me or not." They all exchange a look, then nod and look at me.

"fine. if you wait for us to get you a suit, then you can come with us to help get the kid back." I smirk.

"Well then, let's get our friend back."

The next day, I get my uniform. It's technically blue, but Doc made it appear relatively green, because green fits me better. My tie is blood red, and my hat stripe is yellow. I think it fits me.

"all right everyone, listen up. alphys is staying back in case of trouble. we're gonna hijack a smaller truck. chara, you make sure the driver gets us to where we need to go. undyne, tori, and i will take care of the other passengers. tori, you're also on lookout. everyone ready?" I nod. We're all ready to kill.

Dex POV

May 4, 2020

I find myself having trouble concentrating on the mission. My mind keeps wandering away and I have to work hard enough to not have a total flashback. It's a big mission, though, right now. We're ambushing a group of higher-ups. My job is to take out two of them. 

I nearly fall over when Undyne elbows me. "Now!" She hisses. I jump down from the fire escape and kill one of them immediately. The other one doesn't go down so easily. He catches my arm and I try to yank it back, but fail. I hear Alphys through the radio. She's watching us from home.

"W- Watch out!" I feel a prick in my calf and my limbs suddenly feel like jelly. I fall limp and black out.

May 4, 2020

I wake up and immediately go rigid. It's almost pitch black. I'm afraid of the dark. My wrists are chained to the wall above my head. I'm definitely not strong enough to pull them off. There's duct tape on my mouth. I try to scream. Even I can barely hear it. It smells... dark, rainy, earthen, like moss. Like a dungeon. I look around. My eyes slowly adjust to the darkness. I'm alone. I can't help but feel scared. The last time I was chained to a wall in the dark... I shudder.

Those are some of the more noticeable scars.

The door opens, exposing a silhouette. I want to roll my eyes. The AMO just loves their entrances. It's Kiri, wearing a suit of her own- like ours, but dark grey and lime green rather than blue. I start trying to pull my bottom jaw away from the duct tape. Wasn't there a strategy to get tape off..? I can't seem to remember.

"Hi there, Dexy. You're a Bluesuit, huh? Still don't see it? They destroyed your home... Both of our homes. How can you join them? They killed James! They killed him, and Juan, and the twins- you know, Alex and Alexis? They're all dead, Dexy! Even Mr. Stewart and his family! They loved monsters, and, I mean... How can you be a part of the literal monsters that destroyed everything we love!?" She pauses. "Everything... Other than you." I don't- can't- respond.

"But that's what people do, isn't it?" She says softly. "They learn to love each other, despite everything. And yet you couldn't learn to love me. You. You, who seemed to have the heart to love the whole world and everything in it."

I turn my gaze away, jaw clenched. I want to pity Kiri. She's just a heartbroken girl who's lost everything. But... She's hurt my friends. And me.

"I wouldn't be unkind to you." She says, cupping my face. Gentle thumbs stroking my jaw. My heart thumps. I have to direct my brain to keep the memories away. One plus one is two. Two plus two is four. Four plus four is eight. Eight plus eight is sixteen. Sixteen plus sixteen is thirty-two. Thirty-two plus thirty-two is sixty-four. Sixty-four plus sixty-four is one hundred twenty-eight. That doubled is... two hundred... fifty-six? Yeah. 256 doubled is, uh... My brain starts working the math. "I would never do such a thing as that." Five hundred twelve. I take a deep breath and finally rip my lower jaw off the duct tape with my remaining stress.

"I dunno. Kidnapping me sounds pretty unkind to me." I say, surprisingly nonchalantly. No emotion shows through. Kiri's grip tightens.

"Making someone fall in love with you," She hisses through her teeth, "Then blatantly refusing to love them back. That's unkind, Dexy. This all? This is just business." Ha. Sure it is. Not some sort of elevated racism, no sir.

She lets my face go and crouches down to my level.

"They told me everything Liam did to you." I clench my fists, digging my nails into my palms. "You never told me. Or anyone. You should have said something. We could have helped you. After everything... You still gave him chances back then. How? How can you give such a dirty rotten person your heart... And then keep it to yourself for those that care? Why can't you accept who your friends are? Why didn't you say anything? At all those sleepovers?"

"BECAUSE!" I snap, digging my nails in harder. "BECAUSE IT HURT, KIRI! IT STILL HURTS! EVERYTHING HURTS AND I CAN'T STOP IT AND I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST AND EVERYONE KEEPS BETRAYING ME AND, AND I have to deal with all THIS, and I... I just wanted to be truly happy for once... But I can't... Because everyone... Everyone who I thought made me happy... You all just want to take advantage of me but I can't change who I am, and I just... Want to escape it..." I sigh and drop back down as far as the cuffs will let me go, relaxing my fingers. Tears drip down my face. "I want to escape it..." Kiri shakes her head, watching me through dark hazel eyes.

"You really aren't my Dexy, are you? You're not my friend. You're not the person I fell in love with anymore." She looks away, then back at me. "Dexy really is dead, isn't she? And all that's left is this pathetic excuse." She stands up and walks out. The door slams shut. The guards are silent. I wish they would talk or something. Then they wouldn't be able to hear me crying.

(wow dex is having mental breakdown what a coincidence

hahhahahahhahahahaha

long story)