Bête Noire's War

## Casualties

*"They say ignorance is bliss... All I'm doing is trying to prevent you from killing eachother again... Just sacrificing a couple hundred to save thousands... Only I understand... That's why I have to make sure I'm the one in charge."*
―Bête Noire to Chara[src]
**Bête Noire's War** was the city-wide spanning conflict for the fate of humans, monsters and the whole of Earth. The conflict began when Bête Noire initiated her plan to obtain enough power to complete her quest for the execution of all monsters and subjugation of humans. After monsters were freed from the Underground following the Battle of New Home, Bête began a bloody campaign to retrieve human SOULs and gather their magic for greater empowerments.

Facing this global menace, the Human Safety Organization, the Anti-Monsters Department, the HSO Armed Forces, the Determino City Police Department, the Pacienco City Police Department, Frisk, W. D. Gaster, Chara and their allies challenged Bête's ruthless crusade to prevent her from massacring Determino City. Their efforts allowed them to successfully protect the citizens of Determino City, and with an enraged and grieving Gaster, Bête was obliterated for good.

## Background

Before Bête's existence emerged, it started long ago, around a thousand years ago, with the Lightvale family, specifically Agate Lightvale. While the family originally lived peacefully together, Agate and her brother, Copper Lightvale, had got into an argument about whether humans and monsters should live together (Copper's view), or they should stay in the Underground (Agate's view). Agate challenged her brother in a duel which Copper had won, which humiliated Agate, causing her to lose her trait. Agate searched for a new trait that was greater than her brother's, as she then found it.

In the end, Agate had killed both of her siblings, which her soul started to crack from the inversion. She took Amber Lightvale's corpse and preformed a dangerous spell, using Amber and her own soul to create the hostile Fear-beast herself, the Bête Noire. With this, Agate induced her now twisted view of humans and monsters onto Bête.

## War

A thousand years later, Bête finally awakened, prepared to initiate her plan. She split herself into two entities to look more human-like, using Amber's child appearance as an innocent facade. As she walked down the street, she noticed Frisk putting a magical illusion on him to make it look like Bête was going to get hit by a car. Frisk shields the fake car to "protect" Bête, which Bête acts cheerful and happy-go-lucky around Frisk and everyone else Frisk introduces Bête to after gaining his trust. While she was doing this, she was gaining information in secret.

It doesn't take long for Bête to reveal her sinister and true nature as she starts to spread her Kumulings to kill any human in sight, taking their souls and storing it inside itself, meanwhile Bête would battle against some of the main characters, while even also internally battling against HATE from taking over which she acquired from Jessica Grey. She also gained temporary ally’s during this, using HATE to her advantage to control Sans and Asriel for extra help in battle.

## Aftermath

In the end of this genocidal rampage, their efforts allowed them to successfully protect the citizens of Determino City, as Bête is brutally murdered by Gaster in pure rage of everything she has done, repetitively attacking her without giving her a break to recover. After her death, the HATE she stored inside was released, possessing Bête's corpse and using her abilities. Unlike but similar to Bête's plan, HATE wants to destroy everything in existence. After another tough battle with Asriel and Chara working together, they manage to stop HATE, as humans and monsters were at peace again. However, Bête’s War did lead to hundreds to thousands of deaths of multiple humans, and even to some monsters, and destruction to the city.