Animosity

Animosity is the 8th episode of Glitchtale's 2nd Season. An official trailer for the episode was released on March 28th, 2020, with the full episode premiering on July 19th, 2020.

Plot
The episode begins with two of Rave Rutrow's employees driving to the giant Pink Blob and running over some of the little ones along the way, treating the activity as a game. Rave strictly tells them to stop as people's lives are at stake.

He proceeds to inform Undyne and Ronan of where they need to go before dropping them off. Before he closes the door, Ronan tells him to be careful this time. Somewhat affected by this, Rave closes the door and drives away. A flashback occurs with Rave, as a child, sitting in a van with his brother, Noah, to attend a meeting with him. When asked if he listened to anything he said, Rave says no and tells him that he is sounding like their mom, who is angry at Rave to the point of not talking to him anymore. Although Noah recounts all the things Rave has done to upset her purposely, he says that the real reason she's angry is that she knows that he could accomplish something if he put effort into it, also adding that he has the potential to do so much, even if he doesn't seem interested in doing so. He also tells Rave that even though he doesn't do well around people, he insisted on coming to his meeting with him, and that makes him proud.

As Rave thanks him, Noah offers that they go watch a movie when they are done, only for a truck to crash into their van, sending it over the cliff they were driving along. As Rave comes to, he spots Noah, who was able to protect him with his magic, impaled on parts of the wreckage and barely clinging to life, much to Rave's horror. Later, Rave is seen in the hospital waiting room when his mom arrives and asks where his brother is. She is told that Noah is dead and coldly tells Rave it should have been him, which Rave agrees with.

In the present day, Rave snaps out of the flashback as a kindness wizard tells him they have reached the Avalon's location and need his orders, to which Rave responds with 'let's kill this damned thing'. Rave then calls Ronan to tell him that it is getting closer and asks to be notified once Undyne is in position so they can trap it in the park. Ronan acknowledges the message and turns to Undyne, enthusiastically asking if she is ready.

Undyne stares into the distance and tells him she can make the jump with a clear street. Ronan bravely tells Undyne to leave it to him and that she should run as soon as an opening is seen. He charges up his magic and begins attacking pink creatures, clearing the street of them and allowing Undyne to race through. Ronan takes his cue to inform Rave and ask if the shield is ready, which prompts Rave to order for the shield to be activated.

This shield works and contains the creature. Rave creates an opening for Undyne to hurl a spear at the creature, but her. Unfortunately, the spear isn't strong enough, and the creature retaliates against her. It reaches out with a tentacle and slams her unto a building with immense force. This naturally concerns Ronan as he shouts out her name. Then, Rave calls him again and tells him to check Undyne as he reassures Ronan that he'll keep it contained as long as possible because they need to get rid of it. Ronan, of course, stays there and thinks fearfully, wondering whether he should attempt to get up there or trust that she will bounce back. Undyne, on the other hand, is struggling inside of the floor she got knocked into but managed to get back up after having remembered how everyone is counting on her, making her as determined as ever. She blasts a hole into the building roof and goes through a transformation signifying her determination has made her more powerful. She then launches herself out of the building through the original hole and attacks the creatures with a yellow spear that ricochets and kills all of the pink creatures terrorizing Ronan. Ronan sees this and calls out Undyne's name in a shocked yet questioning manner.

We then get a close up on one of a kind wizard's soul, which is shown to be draining and on its path to becoming an empty soul. We also get panned unto a wizard, who is still actively powering the shield and yelling how they're losing power. Then, the Kumuzilla breaks a hole in the shield and leaks its continents, creating smaller pink creatures which luckily get shot and killed by Rave with magic fueled gun. He then orders the wizards to keep them away from the arena and stand back as he tells them he'll power the Avalon.

Of course, in the nook of time, Ronan calls Rave and tells him Undyne is ready once more and will try to defeat the creature again, prompting Rave to tell them to go for it. Moreover, Undyne, having been fueled with an immense amount of determination, picks up Ronan and jumps to the roof with him at hand. This naturally scares him, and he comedically asks her to give him a heads up next time. Undyne doesn't respond, moves on forwards. Ronan calls out her name again in the same manner as last time, except this time, Undyne merely says the word "catch". She then jumps up to the air and one-shots the gigantic pink creature with a spear.

But, none of them anticipated how the sudden shot managed to destroy the dome so suddenly that it drained all of Rave's magic and rendered him unconscious. Of course, that's no concern at the moment because after she'd just about managed to have thrown the spear and happily falls from a large drop, as she seems to have lost consciousness. Ronan then recalls what Undyne said and then realizes what she meant by catch as Undyne falls from the air at a devastating speed. Seemingly panicked and rushing to save her, he just barely manages to grab her wrist from the ledge of the building's roof. Luckily, Undyne just about manages to wake up after she is saved and looks down, before looking back up at Ronan as she eventually is pulled back to the roof safely.

Rave appears for a second as we see him powering the Avalon but not before being switched back to Undyne again, who exclaims that they'd done it. Ronan, of course, naturally calls her too generous as they'd barely done anything before finally telling her thank you. Sadly, once he was about to tell Rave the good news, he doesn't respond to his dismay, and when a kindness wizard finds Rave and checks on him, she realizes he isn't breathing. Thus, we manage to then see Rave again in the same after-life that Alina was shown in. He sees two figures off into the distance that resemble Alina and Jessica, so he attempts to reach them but gets stopped by a sort of barrier.

Noah sees him and asks Rave what he's doing in this place before getting interrupted and being asked by Rave to let him pass. Noah frowns and informs him that if he comes, he won't be able to go back, but Rave refuses to understand this bitter fact and tells Noah that he misses them. Noah responds that he knows this, but the city needs him more now, as it is his job as the leader now. This makes Rave smile weakly, as he sheds a tear and tells him in a heartfelt tone how he never told him about that part of his job. Noah doesn't exactly understand what he means at first, so Rave says it sucks. Noah finally understands what he meant, so he chuckles slightly, agrees with him, and continues, saying that even after he was brave enough to take it, making him proud of Rave. Then, the invisible floor beneath Rave begins glowing as Noah tells him one last thing, it being for him to try and start breathing again.

Rave wakes up immediately after and begins coughing up a bit of blood, desperately gasping for the air he'd lost. Here we notice how his hair and eyes are a bit more purple at the moment, but return back to normal once he wakes up and properly catches his breath. Thus, due to him having been unconscious, he asks the kindness wizard what had happened to which the wizard merely responds how he was a bit too reckless for his own well-being. Rave responds in a frustrated tone how they could've all died with the hit that the Kumuzilla had received and couldn't dare put them all in that sort of danger as it's not what a good leader would've done. Afterward, he puts on a slightly childish look as he silently thinks to himself of how he wants to go back to his lab.

We now see a series flashbacks from the last timeline, where Chara died. Chara is then shown trying to save Asriel by presenting to him the Heart Locket, prompting if he remembered them. Asriel then looks down on his, unsure what was going on, as he still vaguely remembers Chara destroying his. Asriel falters a bit, asking how Chara kept his. He looks confused for a second, and the memories pour back. However, Asriel is done talking and moves to stab Chara. He stops himself short, fighting back against the Hate. He still proceeds to fight Chara, and he fights back. The 2 fight for a short amount of time, until Asriel uses Shock Breaker, knocking Chara back. Asriel fires 4 fireballs, further knocking Chara back.

Asriel gets a flashback of Chara, forcing him to attack the humans, though, after the flashback, he uses the Shock Breaker again, stating that Chara tricked him into absorbing his soul, manipulating him to kill humans, attempting to take control over them when they refused, and even doomed them to live as a flower. But the Asriel is fighting back. He proceeds to try to convince Chara to stop fighting. He pleads that he doesn't want to see him die a second time. Chara apologizes for what he did, and the hate recedes slightly. Asriel comes back for a split-second stating the only way to end it is to kill him, as even if they free him, the hate won't go away. Hate engulfs Asriel completely and stabs Chara. Inside what appears to be the depths of Asriel's mind, Chara encounters none other than Flowey himself, who held old items of their past.

Flowey tells Chara this is where Asriel left him and looks at a card of Chara and the rest of the Dreemur family, saying this was all that was left of him. He turns around and says that in order to save everyone, he must kill him and Asriel. Chara again refuses, and Flowey says that if he doesn't, he'll kill everybody, including those he loves. Chara instead tells Flowey that he's going to save everyone. By doing that, he says that while the hate did strip away his hopes, Asriel helped give it back to him in the end and that he and Asriel both taught him what hope does, it allowed him to see the invisible, feel the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Chara then holds up his soul, and all the Hate begins going inside. Flowey, quite horrified at what he's witnessing, yells at Chara to stop, adding that if he takes the Hate out of Asriel, then no one could do the same with them. Chara grunts back that he's only letting it in. In the real world, Asriel is fully stripped of all the hate that has now gone into Chara.

As it begins to consume them, Asriel tells Chara that he's always been there, even with the hate. He holds up his locket, allowing the locket Chara has to refuse the hate inside him to take over, keeping him how he is now, and effectively tamed it to Animosity. Once Chara confirms Asriel's statement to be true, the siblings' hug. Asriel asks that he thought he was the crybaby, only for Chara to say this time does not count.

Toriel is running. Running from the memories and hallucinations brought on by Bete. Until Bete traps her and prepares to kill her. However, Gaster intervenes, and cuts apart Bete's scythe, then uses his Bravery attack. Gaster walks out from a doorway, stoic and with his hand still orange. He puts his hand away and uses his Hands, lighting them red and revolving them around, shooting like a Gatling gun. Bete blocks and jumps out a hole in the wall. Gaster then looks at a badly injured Asgore, stating to Toriel that she can do more for him than he can, and also said to at least pretend that she cares for monsters this one time. Meanwhile, Bete is confused about what Gaster is doing here. Suddenly, a blue light illuminates her, and we see Sans, riding on a Gaster Blaster, the hood of his jacket flapping, revealing his 2 blue eyes and his signature smile. Bete blocks as Sans fires the Gaster Blaster, slamming Bete into the wall. Papyrus appears beside Sans, and Bete calls them "a Jester and his lackey" and asks if that was the best they could send. Sans looks a bit annoyed at this but then as Bete said she wasn't scared, a Hand punches her out of nowhere. Gaster steps out and reconciles with his sons. They have a group hug, and Bete states that they had trapped her in a chain. "But a chain is only as strong as it's the weakest link". Bete targets Papyrus, but Papyrus smashes her with a bone. Gaster and Sans use combo attacks, punching Bete through an office building and blasting her down onto the ground. Bete lands on a wall and pushes off to attack Gaster. However, Sans keeps her still with telekinesis just for enough time for Gaster to smirk at her hopelessness. Sans then slams her into a building with telekinesis. Bete, having fallen on the floor, manages to get up and shoots many arrow-like projectiles at a nearby building, causing it to become unstable and drop a series of falling debris. While Sans and Gaster shield themselves under a blaster, Papyrus uses the opportunity to run through these falling materials and summon a barricade of blue bones behind Bete to prevent her from escaping. Bete sees this and hacks at Papyrus twice, missing both times. After this doesn't work, though, she charges up her arm and punches Papyrus with such force that sends them flying towards a building's wall. But, unbeknownst to her, Gaster and Sans sneak up and send a blast from her left and right onto her, which managed to aggravate the hate inside her and make her scream finally. Then, she yells at the duo to stop as she somehow manages to seize Papyrus and grab him with one of her hands, which she enlarges and uses to squeeze the life out of him. On the other hand, this threatening scare tactic doesn't manage to work on them and only causes Sans to appear right beside her and send a blast to her face. Papyrus, of course, doesn't fully recover from this, and after having gotten Bete away enough to ask Papyrus him if he's alright, he turns around and asks him.

After not receiving much of a response, Gaster tells Papyrus to hold still and heals him with one of his hands while Sans takes off his hoodie and begins talking to Bete after getting on one of his blasters. He tells Bete because he's tired, she's tired, and Gaster and Papyrus are tired and ask Bete to finish it everything right here. Upon snapping, he summons hundreds of gaster blasters as he prepares his special attack, Gaster Blastermation, which naturally terrifies Bete on sight, enough to allow her to use her special attack. Gaster is watching this and realizes what was about to happen as he tries to warn Sans far too late, and Bete uses Rhabdophphobia, and she seemingly turns the tides of the battle by taking all Sans's blasters and turning them against him.

Luckily though, Gaster manages to protect Sans with his hands and encases him in two giant kindness-powered hands, though they sadly break in the process and render Gaster temporarily unconscious. This immediately concerns the skeleton brothers and makes Papyrus rush towards him, but not before Bete turns to him as well and fires the blasters at him and defenseless Gaster. Thus, as a final effort and attack, Sans conjures up the magic and determination to counter Bete with yet another of his special attacks and blasts with more than enough blasters to defeat hers, yet partially melts in the process. Once he'd done that, he comments on how that was tiring and asks the two whether they were alright, though before he could say more, he runs out of magic and turns to dust, with his soul shattering a second later.

This quickly brings Papyrus to his knees and onto the verge of tears and causes Gaster to stand there in a state of shock. Gaster thinks about the many instances of how he'd tried to save Sans from dying due to being fallen down, with a drop of water being shown dripping into a cup with water almost about to reach over the brim each time. Then, after the third symbolic drop being dripped in we get panned back at the current situation at the face, where Bete tries to attack Gaster once more with the arrow-like projectiles, with at that moment, the symbolic cup shattering. This was immediately followed by Papyrus feeling a magical change, as Gaster seemingly takes his powers and blocks the blast with kindness powered hand. After this, Papyrus grunts in pain as his soul is shown to be getting drained at the moment and making him wonder what he's feeling. Gaster then walks towards Bete, while she reassures herself in her own mind that she only has two more to go as her fear rises ever so slightly. Meanwhile, Gaster, appearing to have fully snapped, tells Bete to come, angering Bete as she mistook it for underestimation. Hence, she immediately launches herself towards Gaster and attempts to attack him with her scythe from the behind. Gaster easily counters this stopping her scythe with two kindness powered hands and then blasting her with five determination powered hands after having stopped the scythe. After getting knocked to the ground, though, Bete does something slightly different, as she shoves her fingers onto the floor and turning them into massive tentacles that seem to try and seemingly consume Gaster. Gaster is, of course, unfazed by this and counters the attack with integrity hands effortlessly, destroying her fingers in the process.

Wasting no time for her to recover, Gaster forms a patience string, wraps it around Bete, and pulls her over his head at a long distance and slams her to the ground. Annoyed, Bete begins to stand, only to be forced to run from justice bullets again made from Gaster.

Gaster stops and asks her if that's all she had to offer as an attack. He then says in a deadpanned tone, "it's my turn", and finally shows his anger and hostility by letting out a ferocious scream that shakes the whole area and finally using his strongest attack, Polychromatism. Summoning seven small hands, two large ones, and an enormous Gaster Blaster. As one of his giant hands grabs Bete, he angrily says that she isn't getting away this time. The other hand then grabs the lower half of Bete. Gaster demonstrates his hands by pulling them in separate directions. The giant hands follow and rip Bete in half. Before Bete could recover, Gaster then impales her with perseverance needles and crushes her by slamming one of his giant hands onto her. As this goes on, Papyrus gets closer and closer to death. Hate also leaks from Bete's body as she dies from Gaster's relentless attacks. Gaster, not noticing that he's killing his son, blasts Bete with his giant Gaster Blaster, watching her scream in pain with no emotion. Gaster ignores the pain in his soul and hits Bete with blasts from everything he's brought out. Papyrus then screams his name, causing Gaster to look at him and realize what he's doing. He seizes the attack, thus regenerating Papyrus' magic and stopping further damage to his soul. Looking at what's left of Bete Noire's corpse, Gaster falls to his knees and states that he is tired, before falling unconscious into Papyrus' arms.

Shortly after, Papyrus notices the remains of Bete and doesn't feel safe, so he tries to leave. It then goes into a scene where Bete acknowledges her death, saying that she was keeping "it" under control the whole time, and nothing stands between "it" and everyone. An explosion makes the sky dark pink for a while, revealing that HATE has stolen Bete's magic and taken a physical form. A hallucination is cast on Papyrus, making him see Gaster turn to dust. While Papyrus is distracted from shock, HATE goes for an attack, only for Chara to take the hit (a callback to the very first episode, Megalomaniac, where Frisk takes a hit for Sans from Chara). Papyrus then comes to his senses with Gaster in his hands, revealing his death to be an illusion. While Asriel arrives at the scene, Chara orders everyone the stay back, just to find another explosion, this time with streaks of HATE flying onto buildings, and HATE increasing their height to tower over them. Chara, furious, demands the HATE “You want to see HATE? Then let me show you my Animosity” as his sclera turns black.

Trivia

 * Animosity is "tamed" hate as Chara can put his will over Hate's goals.
 * The difference between this and just small amounts of Hate is that even tiny amounts of Hate can influence the host's actions.
 * The episode's title was announced in one of Camila's live streams.
 * There were going to be 2 parts to Animosity, until Cami decided that there will be 2 separate episodes, with the 1st being Hate.
 * As a result, this episode technically has two trailers, one shared with the previous episode Hate.
 * The definition of Animosity is "a strong feeling of dislike/anger".
 * Sans says "Hiya" to Gaster in this episode, which is a callback to the previous episode when Sans takes Gaster out of the void in the episode *Determination.
 * When Chara was dodging Asriel attacks with his sword, it represents a similar scene to Megalomaniac when Chara was dodging Sans' bone attack.
 * Papyrus was looking at his hands after Gaster (hallucinated) death, which is a callback to Undyne looking at her hands while thinking about Alphys' death in the episode Love.
 * Gaster says "come", which is the same when Chara says "come" to challenge Frisk, Sans, Gaster, and Flowey in Your Best Friend.
 * When Chara refuses to kill Asriel, Flowey says, “I’ll kill everyone you love” - this is a reference to when sparing him in Undertale Neutral Run.
 * Gaster did not die in Animosity, the Hate creature was hallucinating Papyrus.
 * The end portion of Animosity has a call back to Glitchtale's very first episode, Megalomaniac. When HATE attempted to kill Papyrus at his most vulnerable, Chara got in the way of the attack, suffering a slash across his back, just like in Megalomaniac when Frisk did the same for Sans against Chara.
 * There is also a reference to the final episode of Season One when Chara says, 'So be it.', the same line has also been said in this episode.
 * Bete's blasters and Sans' blasters directly refer to Sans vs Flowey. You're able to tell because a similar scenario also happens in that animation.
 * Gaster blocking Bete Noire's scythe has a minor callback to how Undyne blocked Bete Noire's in the episode Love.
 * Gaster telling Bete that she "wouldn't escape this time" is referencing how she escaped the school without being defeated in Love Part 1.
 * Bete telling Gaster, "I beat you once, I'll do it again." is a reference to how she nearly killed him in Do or Die, but was stopped, and now she'll finish the job.
 * This is the last Season 2 episode where Bete Noire physically appeared, as she was well and truly killed off in this episode, with HATE becoming the antagonist for the upcoming final episode.

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