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Part 4.0: The True Lab Experiments

The lore will be revealed in the middle of the actual route and this part exists here only to avoid the confusion with some other parts while reading.

When Dr. Gaster took a role of a Royal Scientist he started studying the anomaly of a red soul. He took Frisk's body and learned that it doesn't decay like normal human bodies would, likely because the underground is filled with magic energy. This gave Gaster an idea that if human bodies stay intact and don't decay or turn to dust he could try to revive them.

Magic alone couldn't revive the body and using Determination from the broken soul would be too risky so he had to wait for other human to arrive.

More humans eventually fell into the underground and died onew way or another. Dr. Gaster didn't execute the plan with reviving humans immediately and was working on other stuff while assistant Undyne was studying the effects of Determination on fallen down monsters and dust infused objects. The experiments were happening strictly under the command of Dr. Gaster to avoid any mishaps. Gaster's genuis mind managed to save many lives but he stopped at that because Determination is a limited resource.

Flowey was made out of the experiments and Asriel was resurected from the dust shortly after. So that means that both Flowey and Asriel exist at the same time. Although Asriel is brought back, Asgore and Toriel stayed unable to age due to being boss monsters. Same goes for Asriel since he's stuck in the age he was previously at.

After the experiments with monster resurection Dr. Gaster passed away, not being able to complete what he originally planned. Undyne, as his closest assistant, took the role of a new Royal Scientist. Based on doctor's notes she tried to complete his plan of resurecting human bodies.

The first attempts were not very succesful because Undyne didn't have enough knowledge of her own. Not knowing the right dosage of Determination she injected each body with different amounts of it, mixed with extra monster magic. Frisks body ending up having the most of it. Each body ended up coming back alive, although each unstable in some way so they all had to stay in the lab.

After some time the most of the human stabilised enough to be able to leave the lab.

Frisk is the only one who managed to escape without being allowed to. Their (still broken) soul disappeared from the lab shortly after.

When meeting the humans will be reffered to as [Color] Soul.

Part 4.1: The Surface

Chara didn't have a great time on the surface (for very multiple reasons) and wanted to get away from humans by any means. They stole a bicycle and drove it to the mountain because they already heard the stories of many kids going missing there and wanted to disappear too.

When they got to the mountain they fell down the hole (not the mountain hole yet) and broke a bicycle, also getting a few bruises from the fall. They used the bandage on the bruises and found a random stick on the ground (starting armor and weapon because they had nothing on before that).

Chara then walked for a bit before finding the cave with a hole. They dropped a stick in the hole to see how far down it will go. Though still hesitant, they jumped down.

Part 4.2: The Garden

Chara lands on a lush flowerbed and, despite the softened fall, they lost consciousness from hitting the head. When they wake up they see Flowey next to them, asking if they're alright which startled Chara. When Chara calms down after a moment Flowey properly introduces himself and suggests them to go further ahead.

Up ahead them met Asgore who got here because Flowey called him. He helped them to go through the Garden (basically more open Ruins with a lot of plants) by explaining the puzzles and general speech for being nice.

They then got to the training session and Chara is able to choose one out of four dummies to train with, one of which is a Flower Dummy. No matter what they do in the end Flower Dummy becomes Mad and leaves.

After all the walking Asgore made tea for Chara and himself, talking about the fate. After the talk Asgore says that he needs to do something and leaves.

After some general area walking and puzzles Chara meets [RG 03 and RG 04 counterparts] (cat and mantis girls) on a picnic. They were arguing about something and (if you either interact with them or try to walk past) they will notice Chara and try to get them into the argument to figure out who's right. No matter the result Chara continues on with the area.

From that point if at any moment of the long room Chara turns around and walks to the start of the room they can barely notice a human figure leaving the room. If they get back all the way to the first room they will find a note that says: "You have something that doesn't belong to you. Give it back." Despite the creepy text there are no other interactions with it.

On the way back Chara enters a balcony full of fire with an NPC who forgot his name. He says that he sells only adult drinks so since Chara is a kid all he can give is either water or fire juice (which is lliterally juice on fire).

After some more puzzles Chara encounters Yellow Soul who challenges them to a battle. The Soul speaks about Charaa being a human and they are the key to monster's freedom. Chara can either question the statement or attack the Soul and depending on the action in the end The Soul will either give an armor or a weapon (attacking The Souls on normal route doesn't kill them)

The Soul then reveals his name, speaks about other Souls and what they are and leaves.

After a battle they met with Hapstablook who's been filming the Garden for their blog. They have a small chat (no battle) and after that Hapsta helps Chara to get to the end of the area, mainly because they wanted to leave and a human would make a great company.

Together they went all the way to Asgore's place. The exit was seemingly locked at the moment but Hapstablook was able to leave because they're a ghost. Chara stayed with Asgore to rest. When Chara woke up they asked Asgore for a way to open the door. Asgore (surprisingly) doesn't try to keep them at his house because he sees that they're strong and already managed to get some friends on the outside. Asgore helped Chara open the door but didn't go with them because he's not ready to face Toriel yet. He mentions that she's nice but kind of lost so seeing a human face could pottentially brighten her mood.

When Chara steps through the door they enter the corridor leading to the exit. While walking through it Flowey pops up multiple times trying to make Chara go back basically by saying that Asgore doesn't know anything and the outside world is actually very dangerous. Near the exit Flowey attacks Chara since if he can't stop them at least he can have their soul. Despite the violent tendencies Flowey didn't try to kill them, hesitating. He eventually gives up and lets Chara go.

Part 4.3: Luminest

After leaving the Garden Chara enters Luminest River. A forest surrounded by a river with glowing minerals soluted in it and some minerals being solid in the open.

A little further ahead Chara notices Sans asleep at the sentry station. Papyrus enters shortly after and sees human next to Sans. Papyrus hides a human by putting a box on their head and wakes Sans up by shaking him. The skeletons (mostly Papyrus) start to argue basically with Papyrus saying that Sans isn't doing his Royal Knight duties and Sans saying that he didn't ask for the job and that he doesn't want to do anything since he's not interested in any of the "success" and "popularity" stuff Papyrus is talking about.

When Papyrus leaves Sans says to Chara that he noticed the "disguise" and that they're definitely a human. He asks them to NOT play along with whatewer Papyrus is planning. Sans will think of traps and puzzles just to make an illusion of work but he will also give Chara a way to cheat through them, making himself look like a total loser that can't do a normal puzzle and totaly doesn't deserve to be in the Royal Knights.

Either completing puzzles or skipping them won't affect anything and is just for extra dialogue or faster competion. [The exact puzzles are not thought of yet so they are not as important at the moment]

Throughout the interaction between the skeletons Sans always points out how terrible his puzzles are while Papyrus saying that Sans isn't as bad as he thinks he is.

Meanwhile in the overworld Chara meets Monster Kid who looks for a little appreciation from people around because their sister is not being nice to them. Also Occasionally they are met with members of Luminest Feline Unit.

When Chara gets to the Luminest Village they enter Muffet's Pub where they can play card games and donate to the Pub Performancer Muffet who will invite them backstage later if donated enough.

If played enough card games a Blue Soul appears and challenges Chara to the "ultimate card game" which is a battle to death. Muffet is not against it and doesn't stop the fight. In contrary, she cheers for the Blue Soul. In a battle you can't attack and after winning Blue Soul gives you a deck of cards as a weapon regardless.

At the end of the area Sans blocks the way, saying that Papyrus won't leave him alone from reminding that he needs to catch the human. So Sans got an idea to "play terribly" against Chara and eventually fail to capture them, rendering himself unable to do anything so Papyrus will leave him alone.

Chara can either play along, do nothing or actually attack. Sans will improvize with either of the acions but he will get tired from actual attacks and end the battle early.

After the battle Sans decided that he'll just quit being the Royal Knight instead of beating around the bush and that he'll do that at the next meeting with Alphys which should be pretty soon. Also after mentioning the Royal Knight he says that they exist to keep anyone from going near the Queen's Castle. After the Queen locked herself in a castle no one really knows what she's like.

Part 4.4: Waterlake

Waterlake is an area made out of small artificial islands surrounded by water, used to power the thermal generator underneath.

Right at the entrance of an area there is Papyrus standing next to an empty sentry station, wondering why Sans isn't here or at any of his stations at which Chara answers that he quit. Papyrus is surprised but doesn't question it, remembering how he was acting previously.

Papyrus then says that he was about to go to Spooky DJ's musical premiere but instead he will go talk to his brother.

Later ahead Chara meets Hapstablook who was heading towards the premiere. They mention that they know Spooky DJ personally and since they now know Chara too they'll take them to the V.I.P. front seat.

The show starts and Spooky DJ enters the scene. The crowd cheers and Spooky DJ starts performing music but after a bit they started having a panic attack and run backstage, leaving the crowd confused. Chara and Hapsta went backstage to check on them.

Backstage there is Undyne trying to calm down Spooky DJ. When she noticed Chara she introduces herself as a current Royal Scientist and a close friend of Spooky DJ. After a bit of talk Hapstablook joins with the idea that Spooky DJ would feel less stressed if they perform with someone else. And that someone is obviously being Chara. After calming down Spooky DJ, although unsure, agrees to perform with Chara.

After that Undyne comes out to the scene, announcing the performance delay due to the change of plans and that they will perform with human later. Chara was then left to walk around the area on their own again. Chara finds the gift shop of [RG 03 and RG 04 counterparts] who talked with them about different stuff.

Later on they find an old part of the scene where the Green Soul was waiting for them. Unlike previous two they didn't actually start a fight and instead they were excited to meet a new human.so excited that the floor under them broke and they both fell down.

Chara falls into the Lower Waterlake where both Flowey and Asriel find them. Flowey apologized for attacking them earlier while Asriel joins the party for the rest of an area. None actually question Green Soul being there.

Lower Waterlake is a more wild location with lots of water plants, including echo flowers. Chara and Asriel were walking through the area, talking.

Whenever a battle starts Green Soul joins the enemy side while Asriel stays at Chara's side. Green Soul isn't actually part of the battle because you can't act on them but they will throw random bullet objects that have a chance to be green.

Green Soul mentions that they better not meet Purple Soul because she is deeply set on taking Chara's soul. Right around that time they, in fact, encountered Purple Soul. A 2 vs 2 battle happens (Chara/Asriel vs Green/Purple) at the end of which Green Soul gives their armor and Purple Soul gives their weapon. Asriel left the party to do his own thing.

Later Chara finds Spooky DJ's house. Spooky DJ invited them inside. They say that they don't actually feel comfortable being a public star so the concert is completely cancelled. Instead they suggest to mix music together (minigame, the result will be playing on random TVs and radios).

After making music with Spooky DJ Chara leaves and walks through the cave corridor with wind getting progressively stronger (how is there a wing in the underground anyway?)

Part 4.5: Winded Steps

[the area us still in progress so there will be less consistent information, the name of the location can change too]

Winded Steps is a wasteland area with Queen's castle being visible from a distance. Wind physically pushes in the direction opposite from the intended path making it harder to move. The transportation doors to move between areas are finally active but there are also extra set of doors in-area.

While walking Chara sees a huge group of Royal Knights training. They are being trained by head of the Royal Knights - Alphys.

The new Royal Knights that still study are part of random encounters and dont possess much of a danger like more trained ones.

Across the area there are many, many, MANY mascot Mew Mew animatronics whose eyes seem to follow Chara's movement. One of the animatronics comes alive due to being possessed by a ghost. Ghost's wish to kill a human and animatronic's anti-human protocol combine in power andshe starts chasing Chara.

Chara gets into a building with cameras and locked doors and they start playing a FNAF minigame to survive against Mad Mew Mew who (as a ghost) constantly changes between different bodies. The minigame was also required to activate the transportation door which transports them to the next part of the area.

On the next level of the area they finally met Alphys directly. She aurafarms before leaving the scene (no idea how this plays out yet)

The second floor is mostly the civil living area. Chara meets Hapstablook in the area because they actually live here. They apologised for pressing Spooky DJ into performing and say something in the lines of "things can't always go the way you wanted them to go". They then mention that Orange Soul is their neighbour and she is likely going around the third floor so there's no need to worry.

On the contrary Chara meets Orange Soul right as they left the living area. She is a big anime fan and the main assistant of the Royal Knight Alphys. She chases Chara down until the end of the floor.

Chara enters the third floor which is extremely more windy. There are many wind related puzzles and stronger random encounters.

At one point both Mad Mew Mew and Orange Soul appears and they team up against Chara. Attacking Mad Mew Mew specifically will result in body being destroyed but the ghost will immediately replace it with a new one from somewhere around. Attacking Orange Soul will result in animatronic automatically taking hit as a defense protocol. Having enough damage you could technically get rid of all animatronic bodies but other than that the actual strategy is to wait everything out. No acts affect the fight to go faster.

At the end of the battle Orange Soul gives Chara either weapon or armor depending on what they ask for. Chara gets to the transportation doors and all backtracking is unlocked now.

At the end of the area there is Alphys aurafarming at the edge of a cliff. The fight starts and Alphys is a huge summoner. She calls Royal Knights of first, second and third tiers whenever there are none. The amount of summons is limited and to get a chance at comleting the fight you actually need to get rid of them (both acting and attacking works). When Alphys is alone she becomes vulnerable to damage and starts getting exhausted. Acts help to get her tired faster but the progress happens automatically. When she's fully exhausted she accepts her defeat and asks to be executed as a failure but Chara refuses so they're friends now (yay)

Part 4.6: The castle

Straight path ahead (no longer windy) leads to the castle. Asriel and Flowey meet them. They go through the story telling sequence. By interacting with the mirror they'll say "despite everything it's still us, and it's still you too."

Chara finds the boxes where items are supposed to be but they are already open and empty.

They eventually reach the last corridor type of room and Chara is alone again. In the corridor there is a Red Soul (Frisk but the name still wasn't revealed). They reflect at Chara's route and say that the Queen (Toriel) does not want to fight them but she will anyway for the sake of freedom. They say to continue forward.

Ahead is the throne room with Toriel in it, looking out of the big window. Her interaction with Chara is mostly melancholic and contains weak care. They go to the barrier and the battle starts.

In a battle Toriel (instead of destroying) covers mercy button in flames. The button is still interactable but moving into the flames will result in unavoidable damage. Fighting doesn't do any damage but most of the time is slower than spamming mercy. Depending on the actions Toriel will either ask to take her soul and leave (violent) or to stay with her as a family (peaceful).

Before Chara is able to do anything Red Soul appears and backstabs Toriel, jealous of her attention towards Chara because ever since they became a living corpse Toriel distanced herself away from them and from other humans too. "Because despite them being here they are no longer alive, they are no longer human, they are no longer the kids they were."

Red Soul is able to use all attacks from other Souls. But they are not strong enough to control the saves and loads. So if Chara dies at any point in time and respawn at ANY savepoint Red Soul will immediately appear there and straight up kill all the witnesses (if there are any) before starting the fight.

The tone of the fight changes overtime and at the end of the battle Red Soul somewhat calms down and pleads Chara to help "get a better ending for others" after which they kill Chara to reset the timeline into its proper state.

By backtracking into the house for the Soul items both armor and weapon are finally there.

If Chara is not on a pacifist timeline Red Soul just keeps killing them until they do a full reset and go through the whole underground without killing.

Part 4.7: Backtracking

First thing Chara is supposed to go to is Hapstablook's house because they invited them by the phone. At Hapsta's place there are also Alphys, Orange Soul and Sans and they are having a cooking live stream. At the end of the event Alphys asks to deliver Undyne a message that Orange Soul helped to write so Chara went towards her.

At Undyne's place she was cleaning the Spooky DJ scene, mumbling about everything in the setup being eventually useless. Purple Soul was there too, reading a book about creepy stuff. Undyne eventually notices Chara as they give her a letter from Alphys. Undyne immediately understands what the letter is about and asks about dating tips. Both Chara and Purple Soul give different tips after which Undyne leaves.

When Undyne is gone Purple Soul invites Chara to visit the lab that only Undyne and the Souls have access to. Only Cyan Soul was inside the lab at all times because of him having too much magic injected so the gained abilities are too unstable. Red Soul had dangerous levels of magic too but unlike Cyan Soul they wanted and managed to escape.

By going through the lab Chara finally discovers properly human lore in-story.

[everything further ahead I am making up as I go and the lore is extremely unstable]

Cyan Soul is helping with the soul research and he figured that to break the barrier the souls don't need to be absorbed by one entity and can just attack the barrier as separate entities. But for that all souls need to be resonated with the most powerful one which is Chara's. But this is pure theory and Cyan Soul doesn't know for sure what happens when the souls resonate.

Chara is then given a choice to agree with the plan or to wait a bit if they didn't do something.

The last bit of backtracking requires them to go to Muffet's (which she said to come by later) and fight an extra bossfight because Muffet wants extra humans on the menu. Not much details on the fight, Muffet gets crazy but gets bored eventually.

After completing whatever other stuff they have Chara can finally get back to the lab.

Part 4.8: An Ending

When Chara agrees to participate in the plan a point of no return begins. Undyne comes back from her date with Alphys and asks what is Chara doing in this part of the lab. Cyan Soul tells the plan and asks for a meeting with the Queen to get the souls.

At Toriel's place she takes the souls out of their containers and allows Chara to interact with them.

When resonating with the souls Chara is able to see the memories of the fallen humans. The more souls they resonate with the more general control they end up losing due to being overwhelmed. [the main cast of characters] joined the scene and started trying to ground Chara.

[At this point I got tired of writing the long version. The lore is already written in the short version so I don't have anything to lose by not writing it here.]

Also comparing to Kris Eclipse is canonically one pixel shorter than them (image from the middle of a progress so few details on the sprite are different)