*You move onward. Monster kid looks over the abyss, searching for something.

Frisk: 'Hmm, just one love tap and he'd go falling all the way down the underground.' (Somewhere)

*Your hands' twist, it hurts, and it can hurt a lot more.

Frisk: 'Chill, I can play nice.'

Monster kid: "Yo! Are you sneaking out to see her, too?"

Frisk: "Who?"

Monster kid: "Undyne of course! She's so awesome, I wanna be JUST like her when I grow up. Hey, no telling my parents. You wouldn't want me to get dusted right? Ha ha ha."

Frisk: "..."

*Monster kid shuffled around, trying to look anywhere but at your dead-faced expression.

Monster kid: "Yo, you're uh...being creepy again. I didn't wanna mention it but...about what you said back there. T-that ain't cool yo! You-"

Frisk: "I can say whatever I want, brat."

*Monster kid shuffles a bit more, looking at their legs. Wondering if they should run.

*You smile.

Frisk: 'I still got it, ain't even a bit rusty since my kindness break.'

*You haven't been kind at all!

Frisk: 'I didn't kill them though.'

*...You'll only make the enemies harder to spare with your tongue, quick, let me take control.

Frisk: 'Ugh, fine.'

Chara: "What I mean to say is that freedom of speech is a right for all sentient creatures. To say a phrase or word is forbidden is to give it more power, is to silence the possibility of such a thing, and it is only our prideful exuberance that creates an ebullience that blinds us from the true meaning of such language."

Monster kid: "Umh..."

Frisk: 'Hahaha, you're even worse than me. Exuberance? Who the fudge even knows-'

Chara: 'Don't be so quick to bite. I know all the words I use, and I know that exuberance and ebullience are unneeded ultimately to explain my sentence. In fact, the words barely work within it. Of course, you'd need to know such words to understand that. Which is far below the intellectual capabilities of either of you.'

Frisk: 'Alright smart ass, so your plan is to confuse them?'

Chara: 'Yes, a person with enough empathy and trust in others will assume that every word in my sentence was needed when they don't understand them. And a person with low self-esteem is likely to assume these words make me smarter than them. Allowing me to push myself into a position of superiority, which will grant me more trust when re-interpreting what-'

Frisk: 'I revoke your jock privileges and punish such nerdiness with a wedgie. Tell me, do you like them twisted or-'

Monster kid: "A-alright...so what did you mean?"

Chara: "Well simply put I...I........."

Frisk: "....."

Monster kid: "......"

Chara: '...Your turn.'

Frisk: 'What the fu-'

*You must show bravery and fix your own-

Frisk: 'Dumbass! You just wanted to sound cool, didn't you?'

*You realize it's your own fault for creating such a perilous-

Frisk: 'I'm jumping down this abyss if you don't shut up.'

*...

Frisk: "What I meant was...l-look!"

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*You stand beside Monster kid, looking down into the Abyss.

Monster kid: "What about it?"

Frisk: "It's vast, isn't it?"

Monster kid: "Yeah?"

Frisk: "Well...this is what I was talking about. Jump off a bridge, and dive into the unknown."

Monster kid: "Ohhh, so you were talking about the bridges at Waterfall!"

Frisk: "...Yup."

Monster kid: "Well... I'm not sure I should jump all the way down there. I-i mean, I'd die and-"

Frisk: "Oh, that's just what the adults say."

Monster kid: "What?

Frisk: "Yeah, just recently I jumped from a really tall place. Crashed hard too. But as you can see, still standing."

Monster kid: "Woah, where did you jump down from?"

Frisk: "Mt.Ebott."

Monster kid: "OMG...I've never heard of it! Ha ha, let me guess. Mt as in, Mettaton?"

Frisk: "Heh, I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise."

Monster kid: "Aww, come on, just a hint. Is it another cannon that launches you all the way to a bouncy castle? That one was my favorite."

Frisk: "Sorry, no cannons...but there were a few flowers."

Monster kid: "Oh. That's lame."

Frisk: "Yeah...I was hoping to find a demon or angel, so I could..."

*A memory comes to you.

Frisk: "Prove that I could outsing them."

Monster kid: "Haha, you're crazy! But uh, Yo, that ain't a bad thing. I just...don't think I could jump down. Too scary ya know? Now, if I was Undyne-"

Frisk: "That's not true! We kids can be just as brave as adults! Look at me! I"m not a weakling, I'm not a coward, I came down knowing that I'd come right back up! And with a bunch of cool stories that those crappy adults could never even dream of! Just...toughen up! Into someone just as strong as Undyne... be like...Monster kid the...monstrous!"

Monster kid: "Yo...Y-you're right, Undyne wouldn't yield to the abyss. She be like... 'Abyss??? Pssh, my spear is the light that shall...light it!'... oh Yo! We could be like a duo! Monster kid the monstrous and..."

*Monster kid looks you up and down, trying to find your most defining feature.

Monster kid: "And the deformed leg kid!"

Frisk: "..."

Monster kid: "Oh uh...sorry, I-i can see how that doesn't...w-well I'm sure we'll find a cool name for you eventually! Now onward, let's jump into the unknown!"

*I kick a rock into the abyss before either of you can kill yourselves.

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*No rock noise...very big fall.

Frisk: 'Okay mx.caveman.'

Monster kid: "Or well...maybe find a ladder down."

Frisk: "Y-yeah, sur-"

Monster kid: "Race ya to it! Last one to find it will be a rotten Mettaton eggcellent breakfast!"

*Monster kid races against no one.

Frisk: 'Stupid kid.'

*...You're smiling.

Frisk: 'Yeah, can't wait to kill them.'

*...You approach a sta-wait-wait FRISK PAUSE-

Frisk Lv 9 ?:??

*Save <

*Return

*you...YOU IDIOT!!!

Frisk: 'What? I was still low on HP. Walking around nearly dead is a pain in the a-'

*You...our last save point was BEFORE you killed Papyrus. We could've saved him!

Frisk: 'Ohhhh...'

*Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot, I'm working with such a fudging idiot-

Frisk: 'H-hey, w-why did you even want to proceed if you-'

*Scouting! So we could know what would happen next!

Frisk: '...I can see that we had a...bit of a communication issue. But it's okay, I forgive you.'

*...You know what...I'm sure Asriel can fix this. My time...isn't worth being spent talking to an empty head like you.

Frisk: '...Hey, do you hear that?'

*...Sorta.

*Faint muttering sounds repeat in a consistent pattern. You turn to find an echo flower behind you. You move close to hear its secrets.

Echo Flowey: "Chara, I've been watching you. That 'friend' of yours sure is a control freak...and you're still holding on to those STUPID morals... but that's fine, seeing you two struggle against that barrier's control is loads of fun! I'm guessing you'll spare a few monsters so your 'friend' can prove to themselves that the barrier doesn't control them? Well, you know how I feel about acting so soft...but I'll make an exception this one time.

After all, I wanna see it. The first cracks in that thing's control. You'll show it to me...won't you, Chara?"