Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20200106214513

Does it matter who Mettaton was talking to?

Frisk and Chara were co-existing at that point. Chara was slowing taking Frisk over, controlling more and more of his actions.

I argue in the script that the player is also represented by Chara. We choose Chara's name, thinking it was our own. And many parts of the demonstrate that Narrator Chara knows what we know, and can be active wrong about things like Monster Candy tasting like licorish until we try the candy ourselves and learn it's not licorish-flavored.

Sans also seems to be talking directly to the player in his epilogues, never actually dropping Frisk's name. Only Asriel says "Frisk"  that at the end of the True Pacifist run.

So if Chara is a reflection of us, light or dark depending on our own actions, and Sans, Mettaton, and who knows how many others are talking to the player with the knowledge that We Are Chara, Mettaton is still saying Alphy's has evacuated everyone to a place where we, Chara, won't be able to get to them.

And we never do get to them, do we? We never see Alphys and the others again.

Regardless of whether it's exactly the same portal or not, Alphys is still employing the same technology Gaster used when he got shattered. And the Gaster Followers wonder if she'll face the same fate. Clearly the same danger is still there. So if the portal was deactived, Alphys has turned it on again.

I think you folks are missing the forest for the trees here.

Some of the True Lab Entires are also in lower-case, Sans' writing. Sans knows Alphys, and would have shared with her the knowledge that The Whole Timeline Is About To End. Researching The Anomaly That Causes This is why Sans is here in the first place, he would have certainly filled Alphys in about the dangers.

So, Alphys, who isn't stupid, wouldn't just lock everyone up in a closet. She would take them somewhere completely beyond Chara's reach. And that means escaping the timeline.