*... (they)

Frisk: '...'

*...Okay. I guess...we're close to the end...it be stupid to throw in the towel now.

Frisk: 'Yeah! Good old sunk cost fallacy!'

*...

Frisk: '...Do you need a minute?'

*...Just...just a bit.

*...You sit down...weren't you in a rush or something? Angel this and that?

Frisk: 'Eh, no point in moving onward if you end up crashing. That would just slow us down.'

*...

*You're a lot calmer.

Frisk: 'I am?'

*Ever since you met Gaster...you've been angry at me.

*You shrug.

Frisk: 'Y'know me Chara, a loudmouth till the end.'

*It seemed personal.

Frisk: '...If you think it's personal then you shouldn't prod at it Chara.'

*...

*You sigh.

Frisk: 'Fine fine fine...I'm...sorry for being a jackass. I just remembered a lot of stuff. And a lot of it was about you and-'

*It pissed you off?

Frisk: '...I guess. But well...I think I was more confused than angry. But now I'm certain...no matter what deviations in the timeline...your still the same Chara I've always known.'

*...Is that a good thing?

Frisk: 'Hahaha, hell if I know!'

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*...

Frisk: '...Welp. We can't keep pushing our luck forever, ready to reset?'

*Hold on. Do you remember the Mettaton Bot?

Frisk: 'Yeah, sure, what about it?'

*I remember that Gaster's scientific paper on the core said it could-

Frisk: 'Be re-arranged like puzzle pieces?'

*...How do you know that?

Frisk: '...A banana shadow told me.'

*...Okay. Well...if Alphys knows about the number of monsters we need to progress she could move the Core to ensure the final core monster could never reach us.

Frisk: 'Yeah uh one problem. There's no way Alphys knows about the whole angel thing. I doubt she'd even be alive by now if she knew the truth.'

*But Sans could tell her!

Frisk: 'Well...yeah sure. I guess Sans could in theory tell Alphys about thi-'

*And from the very start he's been working to stop us!

Frisk: 'Like the incomplete information he gave us about the angel?'

*Yeah!

Frisk: '...That ended up forcing us to kill everyone?'

*...Well...

Frisk: 'See? That's the issue with Sans. You think you got his motives down to the numbers and then out of nowhere, he pulls some bullshit like that. Hmm...maybe he wants the world to end.'

*What? No way he'd forsake all of monsterkind for some sort of...grudge? Revenge? Uhm what is his angle here?

Frisk: 'Who knows Chara. But I wouldn't trust a single thing that bonehead has to say.'

*...We can't ignore the possi-

Frisk: 'Chara you're setting yourself up for disappointment.'

*We can't ignore the chance that he's tricking us, Frisk.

Frisk: "Ughh."

Frisk: 'Fine. But the moment we get to the end of the core we're resetting. Deal?'

*...Deal.

*You get up from the floor. You move onward.

*You move backwa-

Frisk: 'I didn't do that.'

*...Sorry.

*You move onward to the core.

*...

*Hey Frisk.

Frisk: 'What?'

*Thanks.

*You roll your eyes in a very impolite way. Before... bursting into a wide smile?

Frisk: 'Just toying with you. It's no problem...no matter what Chara...we're partners to end.'

*...

*To the end we go then. (are)