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Flowey the flower, if you ask him he would say to you many things, and he was always nice, he was determined to be good, to be nice, always smiling and trying, for what? No one truly knows, he just was someone who truly tried, and someone who knew a lot, the flower knows what make other monster happy, the flower knows how to cheer someone in many way, so for monsters he was a good person, to some a best friend. But for himself? Well... Hold yourself tight, this is no happy tale, this a sorry tale, a tale of peaple who will face consequences!

Right now here we are at Snowind town, the winter themed underground town where peace and festivity were almost everytime a thing, the extremely small town was filled with chatter left and right, it was easy considering how small the underground easy and how small the town is as well, but we aren't here to talk just about that, no we are here because close to the city there is a river, on this river we have Flowey the Flower currently looking at his own reflection....

[*Despite everything it's still you...*]

The flower looked at his reflection, stared at it, he tried to cry, he tried to smile he tried and tried, it was yet another attempt, another attempt to feel anything at all, and yet another failure, because even though he made tears stream down his face he still didn't feel anything at all... It was yet another failure... He stopped crying, it was just another worthless attempt, another blocked road...

"Why? Just why? It doesn't matter how many times I try, how much I try... It still comes down to this... Nothing! Just why!? Tell me Chara... Why?"

[*But nobody came...*]

"I tried everything! I befriended everyone! Talked with everyone! Helped everyone! Read everything! I tried so hard to understand! And yet when I ask for help... NoBoDY COmeS! whY!?"

[*But nobody came.*]

Flowey face was melting he cried again and this time his voice was distorted, it looked like a sound come out of an horror movie, a voice intertwined with a childish and an adult tone, glitching particles surrounded him, in his wail he hadn't noticed though the presence of a cloaked monster, one that spend all of his time at the river, one wich is always silent aside from the fact that he usually hums some music to himself, a ferry for everyone, someone that gets peaple from all the various places in the underground... Flowey had stopped his nightmarish wail, and casted his melted face in the shadow of his petals...

"Tra La La... Running in Cycle doesn't lead anywhere, but wihin the Cycle there might be answer for running in a straight line..."

Flowey flinched hearing the phrase, his face reverted to how it was before melting, then he side eyed the cloaked monster, the flower didn't notice him, one of the few monster that the Flowey had almost everytime failed to interact with yet...

'Uh wow, to think that to trigger a dialogue with him this had to happen, up until now Riverperson is the only one I hadn't managed to befriend or talk a lot yet... This is a one on a million times, I might as well try with him, he talks always in riddles, but maybe i can get answer by solving them, it sounds like a good challenge!'

[*You are filled with Determination!*]

Collecting himself Flowey allowed the primordial feeling the only thing that he felt at all to fill him...

"Howdy! Sorry didn't see you there, golly hope I didn't bother you with my not greatest moment with my 'Emotions...'"

Flowey said acting flustered after his normal cheerful greetings, at least he learned a lot in his endless tries on how to act in various situations...

"Tra La La, actions spokes more than a thousand words, but they hides the truth much more than a thousand lies."

Flowey flinched suddenly staring at the monster, perplexed...

"What?"

"Oh don't mind me, I'm just an old man or woman that rumbles a lot."

Yeah no, Flowey doesn't believe it at all, Flowey doesn't believe this at all, still decides to stay silent...

"Uhm ok... So I heard a lot by everyone that you love to speak in a very... "Weird way" quoting them."

The person chuckled.

"Tra la la~ how can something be weird, when normality is nothing but a frail concept?~"

Flowey blinked again as he tried hardly to understand what was the person talking about...

"I uhhh... I don't think I understand? Why do you talk like... These? No offense."

Yeah said no offense only because it is polite to say it in a context when you don't want to sound like you want to offend someone...

"Tra La La~ riddles are messages meant to be heard and understood by the peaple you try to talk to."

Flowey tilted his head, now suddenly gaining a bit of understanding...

"But why talk like these?"

"Tra la la~ Because rude peaple always eavesdrop on other peaple conversations."

Flowey flinched, he didn't know why, but his body trembled for a little, and he gulped, he felt that this was a warning...

"Tra La La~ You most Beware of the man who speaks in hands."

A thick tension was around Flowey, so thick that he immediately pulled his Determination to max level.

[File Reloaded]

Flowey breathed heavily, he was back at Snowdin, the tension was gone, but he couldn't stop trembling, he felt like he barely escaped something dangerous, he didn't even understood why he felt like these, but he was glad he Reload to his last save...

'Something is going on here, i can tell, that was a clear warning, who knows what would have happened if I didn't Reload my Save File in that moment... Wait a minute... Why was I shaking? I what was that feeling? With my Save File I am always safe... Than why I felt like I wasn't? I felt... I felt something? What was that feeling?'

Flowey started to analyze what had happened, to understand what exactly was going on, he felt something, an emotion... He actually felt an emotion! One that wasn't the Primordial Burning Feeling, as he reminisced the occurance he remembered the first riddle the Riverperson told him...

'Tra La La... Running in Cycle doesn't lead anywhere, but wihin the Cycle there might be answer for running in a straight line...'

"There is no was he didn't listen me wailing, still that riddle hides a meaning, it's a message for me, no doubt... I need to try and see what it means... Better go to the ruins under the sun I'm safer."

Flowey immersed himself on the ground, and after a minute he was back on his favourite spot of the underground... Where the sun could enter and hit precisely a bed of Golden flowers, Flowey came out of the ground and stared up ahead...

"Howdy Chara... Same old same old... I'm here after another failed attempt to care... Doing another failed attempt of hoping that just like me you will come back to..."

Flowey didn't notice he was talking out alound, and so he didn't even notice that someone had just entered the room and made their ways toward his spot, the person ears perked up while they noticed the voice.

"-But there is a difference! This time I felt something! Something new! I couldn't stop shaking and I didn't know what that was! But I felt something! Something that wasn't the Primordial fire to live! Maybe it's a sign! It could be a sign!"

The flower didn't notice the new presence wich was now listening as the flower was to caught up on his monologue...

"You're probably asking what i felt? Well... I felt... I felt..."

The flower was quiet now...

"I don't know... I... I don't know... Probably you would know... But... You're not here anymore... You still hadn't come back..."

"Well I don't know who are You talking about, but If you need help understanding something you don't understand I might be able to help."

The flower froze, hearing a very familiar femminine voice... In his mind memories associated to this voice made themselves known, but despite everything he didn't feel anything... Actually he felt something, something that made his body stiff and his teeth grits, boy he was such an idiot, but at least he could get an answer, now that he thinks about it, this dialogues never showed themselves in all his resets! And he made a ton of them, but non of them ever leaded to such a situation...

"Ah! Golly what is it with me today, It's the second time today that I don't notice peaple around me when I rumble! Sorry for the trouble, but... Don't know it's rude to eavesdrop on other people~?"

Flowey made the best impression of being both startled apologetic, but he didn't expect that his final annoyance would feel almost like real annoyance.

"Oh pardon my rudeness, I was merely coming to water the flowers, I didn't intend to intrude myself, but you sounded so lost and in need of an answer that I couldn't help but listen."

The revealed huge Goat woman monster said, as she apologized to the flower, wich in turn shrugged...

"Well can't say I'm not in need of an answer..."

The woman chuckled at the Flower shepiness.

"Well you may Ask..."

"Flowey! Flowey the flower!"

"Flowey! What an adorable name, although is unoriginal..."

"Hey it's my name and I like it!"

"Ohoho sorry, I didn't mean to offend, only that it sounds like a name that a old fool i used to know would have made."

Flowey blinked, not know why his body seemed to once again tense with the feeling that made him want to grit his teeth, only that he almost felt his eye twitch a little...

"I see..."

Said the flower as he tried to reign over whatever he had going on...

"Well then as I was saying today happened something really weird, and it made me feel something I don't understand!"

He said in a childish like manner, causing the woman in front of him to tilt her head...

"Yes, what was it?"

"I don't know! All I know is that everything around me felt tense like someone was going to kill me and my body was shaking a bit, but it wasn't stopping, it was so intense!"

The goat stared at the flower allarmed by the statement...

"I see... How can you be sure of your claim...?"

The flower blinked...

"Oh... Well it's easy, I remember when I was little I was surrounded by humans that ended up attacking me to death! By miracle I somehow survived, but now this is all I am left..."

The goat seemed skeptical at the flower claim, and also uneasy...

"P-pardon me?"

Flowey didn't know why he said that, he definitely could have lied, thing is that, he wanted to see what it all could lead to, he was... Curious.

"Alright I excuse you, but only for now."

"No i mean... What do you mean with... humans attacked you to death?"

"Well I meant what I meant. When I was a child the humans of a town attacked me to death for no reason! I even refused to fight back i didn't want to hurt anyone, I don't know how I came back, one moment I felt myself shatter into peaces, the second I woke up hundreds years later as a flower uncapable of feeling emotions! Golly do I regret sparing those humans, after all I was told it was kill or be killed, should have killed at sight."

The face of the Goat morphed into one of annoyance...

"Well what a story, but I believe you should not tell such disturbing lies..."

The flower twitched a little...

'Well you did believe me when I told You I was Asriel, despite starting to pretend like some sort of broken recorder that everything was fine, and telling me it was my fault for being impulsive and doing this to myself! As If I was at fault for the humans killing me at sight... But I suppose you and Chara were right on many thing, with me being an idiot.."

"Oh, so you are telling me that in this world with talking flower, giant goat woman and other absurd monster, it is weird if one manages to come back from death... Kind of hyprocrite if you ask me."

The woman sighed in annoyance...

"Well this world is definitely strange, but that story is way to absurd..."

'Absurd like when you tried to force me to do fire magic some resets ago despite me telling you that I couldn't do it! That there was nothing in here! Absurd like when you attacked me when you thought I wasn't Asriel after I failed on doing fire magic!?'

Flowey didn't understand why his head was spiraling in this kind of aggressive thoughts... Then it clicked, aggressive he was being aggressive in other word he was angry! Another feeling! He could gloat by allowing the Primordial Fire to burn later now, he was actually about to attack his mother, he only stopped because his head kept saying it was wrong to kill his own mother...

"Oh... Well believe what you want if it helps you sleep better, I'm the one who can't sleep without dreaming how the Humans painfully killed me not you. I did answer your question, now answer mine, what did I felt that made my body shake and make me sense like someone was going to kill me brutally."

The goat sighed again, and breathed heavily.

"Fear, you felt fear."

Flowey blinked surprised...

"F-fear? R-really? That is what fear feels like? But I thought it want to like having your soul punding, feeling tears building up with the dread of what's coming next..."

The goat blinked and frowned...

"Fears has many way for showing itself, and so does every kind of emotions, plus everyone feels emotions differently and expresses them in differents way from one another."

The flower looked taken aback...

"Oh... I see... So I was afraid... Than can I ask you something else?"

The monster nodded.

"Go ahead."

"When I died I felt something weird, powerful intense, I was going to die, yet this feeling, this primordial feeling came right after I was wandering of what was going to happen to me, it made me scream at the Heaven "THIS IS NOT HOW IT ENDS!" After that I woke up like it was all just a dream... But I still feel that primordial feeling, is the only thing I feel at all now, something that makes me shouts I don't want to die! What is that feeling? And why I felt after those thoughts crossed my mind as I was dieing?"

The goat monster crossed her arms...

"Wow, you sure make really fantasious enigms little one, even if they are disturbing..."

Flowey sighed with the same tone she used before as she sighed, now cataloguing his own almost real feeling into annoyance...

"Well if you don't want to answer fine by me, it means I'll figure it out myself, I didn't come here to hear someone saying that my experience with death and human isn't real, I already wander to much if I'm real at all."

Technically not a lie, Flowey had come to a point where he really didn't know if he was real at all, and many times he felt even killed himself before having the sudden primordial feeling making him go back. The goat monster rolled her eyes at him probably thinking he was some attention seeker or something...

"Well if you want to go I'm not stopping you, but about what you said it sounded to me that when "you were dieing" you were terrified of death, but the feeling you felt after that? I'm sorry to tell you I do not know what that could be... If not that you probably were just being to stubbord to die. But death can't be defied by simple willpower, it is impossible."

Flowey froze in his place eyes widened at the explanation, it was logical... He was afraid to die when he did the first [Reset], so that was one of the way fears manifest... Well now he knows that when he kills himself his fears trigger the primordial feeling, but now he had an answer for that feeling to... It was willpower, it was his will to live...

"Uh now that was eye opening... I have a lot to think about now..."

Said the flower to the goat, however before going he decided to do something, he wanted to feel some satisfaction, somehow he could feel anger, and fear, and now his anger wanted to be spent in some way, so he wanted to see if he could make her feel terribly bad for something...

"Oh before going can I tell you something else, sorry again for wasting your time~"

"Well I most really water this flowers, and go doing some chores..."

"Oh don't worry it's just my way to say thank you for listening..."

"I suppose I could wait a few more minutes..."

Said the goat as now Flowey grinned.

"Wonderfull well... Tell me... Are you proud of abbandoning the underground, your family and monsterkind to rot in this hellhole Queen Toriel?"

The goat froze eyes shrinking and face going pale...

"W-What?"

"Oh trying to lie your way out heh? Not surprised because of your choices many monster fell down, your silly choices led to monsterking relying on only one person, I mean quit pretending that is all Asgore fault, we both know that the humans might have died in the hands of other monsters, but as I said, believe in those little lieis so it makes you sleep easier, in the end we both know that by doing nothing and abbandoning everything you led 6 humans to their death... Wow Asriel would be very ashemed of you, but in the end... You always loved more Chara and Humans, than him and monsters."

Flowey felt venom dripping in his sentences as he kept shaming the queen of the underground, and he felt satisfaction, boy if he was satisfying seeing that look in her eyes, he wanted to giggle to laugh! Even if it would be hollow, it was still a laugh!

"Enough! I have nothing to do with what you said! You have no dirict to talk to me like that, Asgore is the king of monsterkind, he is the one who declared a war, my children would have never agreed to him!"

The woman angered denied by shouting, but now Flowey smile widened even more...

"Really? You think that? Boy you really are good at pretending... Last time I checked you had a responsability toward the kingdom and monsterkind as a whole after all... You are the queen, you decided to marry Asgore, the King, you decided that, and you alone signed for everything that would have come with it, dumping everything on a broken man who lost his children what was brutally slaightered by humans? Abbandoning him and everyone in the moment of need... It's time you wake up idiot... YOU DECIDED TO LEAVE! YOU HAD RESPONSABILITY AS MUCH AS ASGORE HAVE, BUT YOU DECIDED TO LEAVE! YOU ABBANDONED YOUR HUSBAND WHEN HE NEEDED YOU THE MOST, THE KINGDOM AND ALL MONSTERKING WHEN THEY NEEDED YOU THE MOST! AND MOST OF ALL 6 HUMANS DIED BECAUSE YOU REFUSED TO ACT AND TRY TO CHANGE THINGS! BECAUSE YOU RUN AWAY LIKE THE COWARD YOU TRULY ARE! ASGORE AT LEAST PLAY IT SMART HE KNOWS THAN HE HAS TO GATHER POWER BEFORE GOING OUTSIDE, HUMANS KILLED ALREADY A MONSTER WHO ABSORBED 1 SINGLE HUMAN SOUL, THEY COULD DO IT AGAIN! AND HELL MAYBE THEY COULD DO IT TO MONSTER THAT HAVE MORE SOULS ABSORBED AS WELL! YOU COULD HAVE MADE SO MANY DIFFERENCE IN ALL OF THIS! But I guess that you are to much of an Hypocrite to admit it."

Toriel was shaking now...

"SHUT UP! YOU WILL NOT MAKE ME THE VILLAIN OF ALL OF THIS!"

[*Toriel attacks you*]

It came suddenly, but Flowey was striked straight ahead by a fire ball, and he had never felt so much furious in his fucked up life, it happened suddenly before flowey knew a barrage of bullets striked her, every single one of her HP dropped to 0 instantly, while Flowey surprisengly only lost a few, her expression was so shocked, she lucked so surprised, and than her body slowly turned to dust, leaving behind something upside down heart shaped object her SOUL...

Flowey stared at it... Her SOUL, so weak almost to the verge of shattering... He felt so hollow, no guilt, nothing, he felt liberated by killing her, the soul was ready to break apart, in that moment a single thought formed on his head...

'What it I absorb her soul? What would happen, what would I be able to do... What power could it grant me...'

Than he remembered something more... 

'Chara was still there when I absorbed their soul, they were still aware, they still knew... They could talk and also have control over me...'

Flowey smiled widely as before the soul could vanish he took and absorbed it... The rush of power was almost instant, it was nothing compared to a human soul no doubt, but still it was incredible, now he had only one thing to do... Silence her, but not letting her fade... And maybe his Will that primordially powerful Will would allow it...

For Toriel the last thing she knew was that her body turned to dust and her soul was about to shatter, but than it stopped, her soul wasn't anymore about to shatter, than she felt darkenes surrounding her, than alive for a split second, but then before she knew it... A nightmare was everything she was granted for... And now she couldn't help but...

[*Toriel feels the pain for the consequences of her actions...*]

"IT WORKED IT REALLY WORKED! SHE IS SILENCED AND ISN'T GOING TO EVEN FADE I'M NOT ALLOWING HER TO DO SO! AHAHAHAHAH BOY THIS FEELS GREAT HAHAHAHA!"

Flowey felt his body convulse and twitch as it growef, he felt arms, and legs, paws, a torso he felt so close to be himself so much powerful, before know it he became so sort of Plant Dragon monster, he stared at his body noticing there were still some thorned veins around it, he also noticed his arms fur was similar to grass, his paws had thorns as claws, same his foot that actually had roots on it that digged below, he felt his head had somehow shaped itself, even his petals, he could still feels them despite feeling also differents, he stared at the sun, he felt his body photosynthesis being on level totally higher than before, he had a low level of accessible sun light, but his body was gaining more nutriment from it, same from how he absorbed everything on the ground, even the water, boy she bought a lot of water her, still luckily for normal Flowers would be to much, but for him it was enough for the day...

"BOY I FEEL SO POWERFUL... MOM AREN'T YOU HAPPY? YOU HAVE YOUR SON BACK, AND LOOK NOW WE ARE TOGETHER FOREVER AHAHAHAH! I HADN'T FELT SO MUCH ALIVE IN SO LOOOONG EHHEHEHHAHAHAHAH!"

Flowey was literally feeling over the top, he started to experiments immediately, he could summons veins from his body and extend himself high and could use them as extra arms, boy it was so good he begun to rise himself higher and higher toward to hole, his excitement was caught short as he however banger his head toward something, Flowey grumbled in annoyance...

"Aww right... The Barrier,  I forgot about it..."

Sighing in annoyance Flowey lowered himself to the ground, as he looked around his eyes caught sight of something... The dust of Toriel, for a moment Flowey flinched a tiny bit, he looked at them, waiting to see if there was some reaction... His breath lowered a bith it's pace, as Flowey stared, he gritted his teeth a little, than turned his eyes away and left, but before that some veins started to cover the cave and covered the hole...

After a few minutes the dust were being taked and moved inside of something a Jar, Flowey than sitted between the flowers as the veins that covered the hole vanished, then the plant monster hugged the jar...

'I don't understand... I... Should be able to feel something anything at all, but... Everything feels so... Hollow... Aside from the primordial Will everything feels so far away, but also there... I... I killed mom... I... I can fix it... I can reload and all done... But... Why I feel like I shouldn't... I... I don't understand... I...'

This time Flowey sniffled and tears begun to fall...

'Well she still isn't death I'm keeping both her soul and consciousness inside of me, somehow I'm not letting her consciousness fade, in fact... She feels like she has a lot of guilt... And...'

Flowey paws shaked a bit as hugged the Jar closer...

'I... I killed her... She is my Mom and I killed her... I tried so hard in all these Resets to feel anything, and I don't want to go back on not feeling anything! Even if it feels still a lot empty, it still is more than before! Maybe there is a way, I can definitely find an alternative... But how? I still have my Save File though... So I still can save or go back... Wait! Maybe I can also go back to before! To when Chara fell down! I can fix all of this! I can go back I can! I can...'

Flowey body began to shake as he felt suddenly fear...

'Then why I'm so afraid to go back... Why i don't want to go back... Why i am so afraid to face Chara again... It's not like she would remember r-right?'

Flowey asked himself unsure befure he shuddered and gulped...

'They definitely could, they were extremely stubborn to, what if they remember? And if they do... T-then... There wouldn't be hard feelings right...?'

Flowey than begun to sink on himself...

'There definitely would be wouldn't they? Maybe I need more power only then I can go back and try to fix it...!'

However in that moment he remembered what riverperson said...

"Tra La La... Running in Cycle doesn't lead anywhere, but within the Cycle there might be answer for running in a straight line..."

'If I go back can I really change something? Chara was always so stubborn... And if I end up losing my save by going so far back?'

Flowey then felt dejected, why was he thinking like these!? What changed!? What is making him change!? What is happening to him!? Then his eyes widened, as he summoned Toriel SOUL, his mother SOUL, and he stared at it...

'Oh I see... It seems that you are influencing me on thinking more about the consequences of my impulsive actions... Ironic that you didn't so so for yourself Mom...'

Toriel was lost in this void yet she felt like she couldn't fade, something blocked her, she felt so much guilt, so much pain, she did so many painful decision, she escaped and caused so many pain, she abbandoned peoples when they needed her, she tried to escape from her consequences... But now she couldn't do so, she had to face them, this pain was one... She now had to make sure her decisions had more thinking through on everything... She didn't notice however how she influenced Flowey as well... Everything was dark and that was all she knew, she had no choice anymore... Still... Why did she felt a very familiar tiny paw on hers...?

Flowey in the end stood up again, and decided to do not [Load], but to [Save], plus if something bad happen he can always [Reset], using magic he allowed the a robe similar to what Toriel had to appear on him, it might be useful, he than stuffed the Jar of his mother dust on his inventory, as he saved he noticed how his LV didn't rise, how curious it seems that only if the soul shatter it counts as a true kill, in fact his EXP hadn't rise as much as he thought they would... He also took his mother phone and decided to keep it... Considering that she was still technically alive it also meant her barrier was still there on the door at the exit of the ruins... As he explored the ruins in his new body he noticed how the monsters of the aread where curious, intrigued, they never saw him, boy he felt more horrible for what he did to his mother, still he knows she isn't the type to talk to anyone around, he also earnd all her things, in fact he could access her inventory, and all her money, he felt curious of his ability he only experimented with a few of them and were mostly body related...

Flowey was now in his family first home, where his mother lived, in his old bedroom, he was now resting and thinking, his Murder count was still 0, still he knew that he had to be careful, that skeleton that lives at Snowdin, Papyrus brother, he was a threat for him, ever since Flowey crossed eyes with him, he didn't trust the Trashbag a little, and now the feeling intensified, still that was for tomorrow he was to tired...

He was about to go to sleep, but a sudden burst of fear didn't allow it... Then he felt a terrible tension around him, the same tension he felt with Riverperson, a threat was there for him. Flowey focused on reversing into a small flower, and incredible as it was he was again a small flower, then he digged Underground and left the Ruins... In that moment in the shadow a figure emerged...

'INTERESTING... IT SEEMS OUR EXPERIMENTS MAY BE AT RISK, OH WELL WE CAN ALWAYS USE ONE OF THE MANY OTHER BACKUP, THE FLOWER IS WAY MUCH OF A DANGER FOR OUR EXPERIMENT... PLUS THIS SEEMS A VERY GOOD SIDE PROJECT. I COULD APPLY SOME SCRIPT, BUT MMMH MAYBE I CAN MAKE THIS A SMALL SECONDARY STUDY. OH WELL FLOWER HAVE YOUR WAY, YOU ARE AN INTERESTING SPECIMEN TO STUDY.'

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Flowey hated this situation, he felt stalked, like someone was after him eversince he talked with the Riverperson...

'Why!? Who's following me? Why am I so afraid...?'

Flowey hated this situation, he really hated this! And hell considering now he can feel he admits it wholeheartedly that he hated this! He wanted to rest a little, but first he had to hide himself from whoever is stalking him... Plus it didn't help the bubbling feeling of guilt growing... He kept acting around peaple, keeping as much as believable as possible his own act, he tried also to show some magic to children and all, to blend, he experimented a bit despite the tiredness... So now here he was at the river at nord of little Snowdin town, it was absurd, but he enjoyed a little showing his newfound magic to others, it tasted allow though considering what he had to do...

[*You feel your sin crawling on your back*]

Flowey rapidly focused on his mom soul and consciousness... 

[*Despite everything... Toriel is still there*]

Flowey sniffled a little, emotions were so tricky now, they are there, but also not, sometimes they are intense and would be felt easily, other times they are not and almost not there at all, and it all hurt... It all just hurt... Once again though Flowey didn't notice that Riverperson was behind him...

"Tra la la~ The man who speaks in hands has noticed you, now you most beware, for you are not safe in this world."

Flowey was literally cut short from his crying, his eyes shrinked to the point of almost vanish, he immediately jerked toward the monster...

"Y-you! How the hell!"

Flowey literally jumped this time really sturtled by the Riverperson appearance, his breathing quickened as Flowey stared at them...

"How the hell those he do it!?"

"Tra la la~"

The Riverperson hummed with clear amusement, as Flowey calmed down and regained control over himself...

"Wait a minute, man that speaks in hands? It's just like what he told me before I reloaded!"

Deciding that he had enough with this Flowey glared at the Riverperson.

"Ok, that is enough, I want to know everything you know about this guy here!"

"Tra la la~ I can offer you a ride, but it would really not change anything at all, in the end nothing truly matters, I doubt you would be able to do anything at all about it."

Flowey eyes twitch...

"I said I want answer not a ride, plus who says that I can't do anything at all about it!?"

"Tra La La~ perhaps you are right, but for answer a ride you need."

"And how am I supposed to come with you? I mean I'm a just a flower..."

"Tra la la~ Yet for being just a flower, your own mother SOUL absorbed you did."

Flower visibly flinched as his eyes widened...

"W-what? How did you-"

"Tra la la~ The man is coming, change to your other form, so with me you can come."

Flowey was stunned, but he didn't really have much of a choice, he didn't know if he could trust this Riverperson, yet he had been warning him, so Flowey quickly transformed into the form he acquired thanks to absorbing his mother SOUL, and jumped on the Riverperson boat.

"Tra La La~ wise choice, now off we go."

The boat of Riverperson than moved as the two left Snowding town..

"So... Now that we are here, can I have answers?"

Asked Flowey wary of the whole situation, for once despite his ability to [Save] he clearly felt it wouldn't be enough.

"Tra la la~ Time is like a river, it flows, stops, intertwin with many worlds."

The Riverperson said to Flowey, who after a while nodded...

"I see.. so you basically follow this flow with your boat, or you use it with your boat, just like you would do with a river and it's water... Right?"

"Tra la la~ you are both right both wrong, you see time is literally just a river, one that crosses many worlds with it's flows. I do move around the River of time, but I cannot use it."

"Ah I see... But how did you know about what I did... And who I truly am?"

"Tra La La~ from the worlds things can fall on the River of Time-"

As Riverperson said that Flowey noticed that now they where in an endless void riding some sort of energy flow that entered various-

"[Save Points]!?!?" Flowey jaws hitted the boat floor.

"Tra la la~ I suppose they are similar to the [Save Points] indeed, but these are merely the gates of the many worlds that exist."

Flowey was speechless as he looked around in awe, but then he noticed something in the distance, an enormous construction similar to [The Core]

"What is that?"

"Tra la la~ That is what the man who speaks in hands, and the man who came from the other world use for their experiments..."

Flowey blinked...

"Experiments?"

"Tra la la~ Yes."

"W-what kind of experiments?"

"Experiments on the worlds and their inhabitants..."

Flowey gulped suddenly feeling a pit of dread forming in his plantlike throat...

"Did he-"

"Yes he did, in fact fate doesn't really matter anymore, not because you can use the River of Time like many other can... But because for as long as the two man exist everything is in vain, for the windows for the other plain have been opening."

"W-what? Can you explain better?"

"Yes indeed I can, and luckily for you it also play at our favor... Hold stil."

"Oh ok- wait what?"

Before Flowey could react the Riverperson coat swallowed him whole, Flowey was in a pinch black darkness, than he felt like he was absorbing a SOUL, no not only a SOUL, but an entire body, his head seemed to split apart, as memories, and information filled him, he felt the Riverperson make his way inside of him, he was powerful! So so much powerful! Not like a human soul, but definitely more than a common Boss Monster, he felt his own power increase only for it all then to decrease, like various block manifested in him, knowledge of the river of time, of this realm of darkness, then he learned of an ancient past, of Light and Dark, of Fountain of Darkness that shaped Dark Worlds within their world which are known as Light Worlds, how this Fountain used the River of Time to create such worlds, he learned of ancient legends, than he learned who the two man are, than he learned how all the various world are categorized under a determined Value and he learned how the River of Time preserved information and object that fell in his flow, and how Riverperson could pick these object, or learn of the informations that fell in it, then he learned how in many of other Value he exist in differents way, and how many of them have to face the hardships of being chased down by the Gasters and their lives, he learned of the other plain, of peaple who could access this plain thanks to windows that Gaster opened, he learned of how the worlds can be injected with scripts that limits everyone, and how the Gasters have gone madly curious to the point of being addicted by their own curiosity, than Flowey learned of the Goners and the Followers, echoes of people that existend long ago, but unlike Gaster did not survive the River of Time Power...

Flowey was shaking, he felt the Riverperson consciousness inside of him, flowing in him with his Incredibles ability, he could feel that this entity here was blocking a lot of his power, and that a lot of information weren't shared, but only those who mattered where, and so he learned how exactly he could use the River of Time...

[DETERMINATION]

Flowey also learned how his True Name was still his own name despite displaying Flowey...

"T-this is... A lot... Wouldn't Gaster suspect something with me though?"

"Tra la la, that is quite impossible Asriel, for Even if a me is absorbed the River would create automatically another."

Flowey paled under his Riverperson cloak as another Riverperson was now in front of him.

"Tra la la~ As you know the River of time power the Dark fountain that creates the dark worlds and the Darknerss, that is an information I shared with you, correct me if I am wrong"

Flowey nodded with a shaky breath.

"The River of Time does the same to me, I am neither Darkner nor Lightner, I like you, am an entity that is between the 2, something that was born after the Heroes of the ancient legend banished the endless darkness, what was left of the 3 Heroes light merged with the darkness and allowed the River of Time to exist and our plain of existence to be born."

Flowey decided to sit on the boat as he asked.

"Wait, how can I be similar to you? I am a Lightner if the information shared with me are right."

"Tra la la~ You have a drop of the River within you now, this gives you ability similar to mines and makes you similar to me. You might not be what I am, but you are neither Lightner or Darkner anymore."

Flowey nodded...

"Why? Why give me such abilities?"

"Tra la la~ That is something I cannot tell you, for I am not the Riverperson that chose you, many could have been at your place, and many in other worlds are at your place, for in many of them you do not exist or have the same impact as you do in many other worlds. The only thing I can say is that... Your choices matters."

Flowey closed his eyes and drifted off trying to sleep a bit...

In his sleep Flowey learned about [FUN Values]

In his sleep Flowey learned about [Save States]

In his sleep Flowey learned about the [True Reset]

In his sleep Flowey learned of Multiple [Save Files]

In his sleep Flowey learned of how to find objects that fall from other Timelines and FUN into the River of Time.

In his sleep Flowey learned how to follow the River of Time.

In his sleep Flowey learned how to sense his [Save File] and use it to never lose the road for his own world.

In his sleep Flowey learned more about the [Save File] Extra abilities.

In his sleep Flowey learned what [The Core] truly was...

In his sleep Flowey picked a new name...

Æsriel

As Æsriel begun to wake up he believed that with his new found power he could Isolate his world from the Gasters...

"Thank you Riverperson, I don't know much about my new powers, but I'll do what I can."

"Tra La La~ [Determination] a gift and a curse... Good luck."

As the Riverperson said that Æsriel nodded and the two were back to their world.

Æsriel immediately went to a [Save Point], to access his [Save File] and edit it. To much happened and if a [Reset] needed to happen it was better landing on this point in time, it was surprisingly easy, maybe it was because of the drop of the River of Time, or because of the Riverperson within him, but now Æsriel edited the point in time that the Reset would lead back to, he also managed to mask his own presence to Gaster.

After having secured a temporary safety Æsriel needed to chose what to do, he quickly felt what time it was, and excitement burned within him, he needed to assert a plan, and also to fix this messed up Kingdom.

Meanwhile the Riverperson hummed...

"Tra La La~ The Angel Is coming, and the Underground will go empty. Tra La La~ The Scientist and The Knight will become dust, as The Demons will make their move, The balance between light and dark will crumble on the Clash of Angels and Demons, as True Heroes rise the earth will exhale one last breath as The Titans will rise once more~."

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Æsriel was now in the ruins, he needed to test his powers and it wanted it to be on a secluded area of the underground, he was excited, so excited to try something like these, later on he might decide to talk with his mother SOUL and maybe snap her out of her state, after all when it is all over he would revive her, after all there might be a way to do so, and she isn't even technically dead since her SOUL is still intact.

Æsriel was in the room with the flower bed, where Chara was buried, he would fix the mess that their death caused he was sure of it! But now first he wanted to test his magic! 

Æsriel focused on what he remembered of her mother teaching of magic, he had to focus on his SOUL, the culmination of his being... Well his culmination would be a SOUL not his, a drop of the River of Time and [Determination], so yeah when he tried before he could only creates some thorned veins and bullets, maybe now it was different.

First thing he knew is that as he focused on himself he summoned again thorned veins, but this time they had a different color, they were iridiscent, wich was intriguing (Meanwhile in another world an Asriel is suffering trauma because of his actions as Flowey, boy what a luck this one hasn't truly killed someone right?), then again he summoned bullet, only that now they weren't really bullet like before, they were different...

Æsriel deciding it was worth a shot fired the bullet straight ahead, but there was a problem... The "bullet" slammed themselves on the ground and vanished from sight... 

'Not what I expected that is for sure... Weird I feel a weird pull coming from the ground where the bullets ended up...'

Confusion strike Æsriel in that moment, still he was teating himself so, better follow the pull and see what happens. Focusing on the pull Æsriel closed his eyes and allowed his magic to do what it wanted, and in that moment something in his mind begun to form, he could see somethings glowing iridiscent growing, then multiple formed and all looked differents from one another... The cave was glowing iridiscent from the prospective of everyone who was outside of it, and so happened that some curious monsters noticed it, some Whimsuna, Froggits, Vegetoids, Migosps, Moldsmals, Looks and even Napstablook came to see what was happening, and the sight was amazing, Æsriel stood in the middle of the room releasing an iridiscent golden aura all the while Flowers of many shapes formed on the ground on different pattern, the cave itself was being digged and expanded a bit while climbing plants adorned the newly room almost decouring it, then around the hole on the cave ceiling Flowers that released a light similar to the one of the Sun itself blossomed, brightening that cave, while the other Flower brightened, on the ground grass grew a small path created from the flower bed that remained untouched and the exit from the cave...

Æsriel felt the pull of his magic go back vanish, and so he opened his eyes as well, his eyes went stary as he watched what his magic did, so much that he had lost all breath, a part of him wished his family could see this...

In the void withing Æsriel Toriel saw flashes of a garden with flowers never seen before, a literal heaven of nature, she didn't understand why was she seeing something so beautiful when she allowed so much to go wrong, yet she felt warmth in her chest as a familiar yet distant tiny body hugged her arm...

"Is This heaven... My child are you here? I..."

Æsriel heard his mother voice in his head as he reached for her SOUL, he hurt her so much, but there were thing he had to do than he would save her to. Meanwhile the monster that arrived begun to explore the area with a lot of awe and childish innocent...

"ooh, most feel crowded for you 3 there..."

Æsriel jumped as he yelped in surprised.

"oooh... sorry i did not plan to scare... oh no i should go then sorry......"

"N-no no w-wait wait a minute."

The ghost was about to fade when he stopped to look at him.

".......... oooh ok......"

"Ah thanks... What did you mean with feels crowded for you three?"

"ooooh I meant that the body you choosed most feel crowded for the three of you."

Æsriel blinked...

"I uhhh... How can you claim that i have 2 other person in my body?"

"........... i can see sense and hear theme one is constantly humming..... i don't know how toriel ended up like these though......"

Æsriel eyes went wide...

"Y-you c-can... O-oh... D-don't worry i can Fix Mo-Toriel."

"oooooh....... well bye......"

Napstablook disappeared leaving a bewildered Æsriel behind...

"Well this was...strange..."

He quickly turned to look at the flowers and felt the familiar trace of magic that spoke of how he created them... They felt so alive, he could literally feel them... And these flowers need water...

'Hey I know technically you aren't connected to water magic... At least I think with the whole River of Time thing, anyway... So you have any idea on how I could I don't know allow water here?'

The only answer was an hum in his head, well so much for that...

'Wait, the river! That's it! Maybe I can create some tunnel and redirect a bit of the water toward this place!'

Æsriel then left the ruins and went to the river spot before Snowdin, he must admit the Cloak of Riverperson was usefull, no matter wich temperature was around him, the Cloak managed to make so that he couldn't feel cold, maybe it could even stop him from being overwhelmed by heat... (It could also be his fur though.)

'Mmmh I just need to follow the river till I reach an area close to the ruins now...'

And so Æsriel went against the current until he found the water coming from what looked like a tunnel...

'Mmmh wander if I can still create root and expand them underground to sense all the area...'

Focusing on his past ability as Flowey to use root underground he visualize the roots expanding beneath the ground as he felt the pull of his [Determination] and his magic, and luckily it worked and seemed that the extra power boosted it as well, in fact he could literally feel all his roots extend already inside the Ruins, Snowdin and a bit of Waterfall, but also on hidden caves he didn't know would be around, sensing everything through them he managed to visualize how to create a second branch of the River toward Chara grave...

'Mmmh I wonder if I can dig faster now...'

He smirked to himself, as he then felt his roots dig easily and fast a route toward the room, he didn't know how much he waited, probably an Hour or two, but the new river branch immediately started to fill itself, so Æsriel decided to go back and check when it would come.

Æsriel didn't know how much time truly passed, but after dealing with the river now he was at his family old home in the ruins, the one that now belonged to his mom (wich he brutally technically did not murdered), he was focusing on Fire magic now, the one wich his family was good at, he didn't know how or why he was so good at magic after many [Resets] without it and a SOUL, maybe it was because he had his mother Boss Monster SOUL wich is a fully developed old experienced woman, still it was good, he couldn't do the attacks he created a long time ago, before becoming this...

'Wish I could have my two cool Chaos saber... Oh well, maybe I can summon mom old weapon! She did say that since they ended up underground she and dad lost a lot of power, but maybe with my state I can use it... Whatever it was.'

Æsriel closed his eyes and focused on his mother and her SOUL trying to visualize her magic and what weapon would she use... To be fair his mother isn't much of a fighter, much more an healer and adepted to defensive magic, experts in barriers and then it came to him, in his head an iridiscent glowing stick formed, than the stick shaped itself.

[*You open your eyes*]

Æsriel stared, in his hand a now formed a staff, not much his style, but suits his mother, the staff was long and at the top of it it shaped istelf forming the Deltarune symbol, he immediately tested it, and surprisingly it was easy, in fact it felt like during all the process someone was guiding him, and at the same time he felt Nostalgia coming from his mother, it was like he already used it, he could create barrier easily, he coul dismiss them, he then damaged himself and after that healed himself using the staff magic...

'Useful definitely suits mom, but not me I guess.'

Æsriel then dismissed the staff, it wasn't something in his style, plus when he will be able to resolve this it won't be necessary for him, but for her...

[*The Next Day*]

A new day had come and Æsriel spent it by training and creating pattern for his new attacks, he couldn't use Star Blazers, but creating similar attacks with fire magic it's easy, his attacks were hard and green magic came easily, he even thought of a reverse rule magic, wich how nice it was that he was so good at magic and fighting? 

For the rest of the day he went around the ruins and buyed food from the spiders, then he cooked at home to some food for himself and cried as an ending result, he couldn't stop, he had to work soon as possible, it hurt to much, it was time to visits the king, his father and well hope he would join force with him, maybe he could still fix all of this before it was too late.

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Æsriel decided that it was time to talk to Asgore, you'd think it went fine right?

Well no, it went poorly, no matter what Asgore wouldn't listen, now He understand the whole death son miracle thing, the echo of emotions makes it clear that it is a thing to feel like that, but still his father was beyond delusional, and also unreasonable, so he decided to do the most logical thing...

[File Reloaded]

Trying a different approach proved itself to be pointless and hopeless, the king didn't listen so...

[File Reloaded]

Not giving up he tried again there most be something he could say to change things!

[File Reloaded]

Once again another failure...

[File Reloaded]

This time he tried by allowing some time to pass, heck it had been an entire month of trying, but no matter what, aside from the kingdom learning he came back to life and many other thing that honestly made him getting annoyed and frustrated Æsriel was constantly visited by Alphys, however it was getting annoying to constantly hear them all calling him with a name that felt so wrong associated with him, he even said multiple time to call him Æsriel with the name he chosed, but he was ignored by his father, and many of the Royal Guard, only Alphys called him that, and boy if it was awful being around her, the Royal Scientist, something about her made his internal veins shiver, she treated him like something that needed to be controlled everytime, especially after he used his Plant magic to created his extendible thorned veins to use as extra limb (plus they needed to stretch sometimes or he would feel sore!), Alphys looked at him with horror, fear and an expression that he couldn't place, while his father remained oblivious at the clear fact that the more time passed the more time he wanted to spend less time with him, boy he was about to [Reload] back to before this attempt, but something happened, Alphys was being to weird around him so he decided to investigate, but of course he needed to be sneaky, luckily his hidden root managed to give him a lot of information on the meanwhile about the area of her lab so turning into Flowey after telling his father a lie his mission began...

[The True Lab]

Æsriel after a while of moving underground was now inside the secret area down The Lab, the atmosphere was tense and everything was dark, so dark, the ambient literally screamed Gaster warning signals everywhere, so he immediately started hating it, ironically even the Riverperson was now silent, and Toriel soul well, as lost as ever...

'This place is creepy as hell!'

Shapeshifting in his latest form he begun to explore the lab, so now he stood in front a monitor and Asriel interacted with it:

ENTRY NUMBER 1

1. This is it... Time to do what the King has asked me to do.
2. I will create the power to free us all.
3. I will unleash the power of the SOUL.

Æsriel interest picked up...

'Create what now? What does this mean?'

A pit formed in his not so much real stomach as he felt bile in his mouth, he immediately went to another screen.

ENTRY NUMBER 2

1. The barrier is locked by SOUL power..
2. Unfortunately, this power cannot be recreated artificially.
3. SOUL power can only be derived from what was once living.
4. So, to create more, we will have to use what we have now...
5. The SOULs of monsters.

He started shaking as nausea made itself know, cold dread spreaded inside of him.

'No... This most be some kind of sick joke!'

ENTRY NUMBER 3

1. But extracting a SOUL from a living monster would require incredible power...
2. Besides being impractical, doing so would instantly destroy the SOUL's host.
3. And, unlike the persistent SOULs of humans... The SOULs of most monsters disappear immediately upon death.
4. If only I could make a monster's SOUL last...

'No...no no no no!'

Panic immediately formed as he started going through the Entries faster...

ENTRY NUMBER 4

1. I've been researching humans to see if I can find any info about their SOULS.
2. I ended up snooping around the castle... And found these weird tapes.
3. I don't feel like ASGORE's watched them...
4. I don't think he should.

ENTRY NUMBER 5

1. I've done it.
2. Using the blueprints, I've extracted it from the human SOULs.
3. I believe this is what gives their SOULs the strength to persist after death.
4. The will to keep living... The resolve to change fate.
5. Let's call this power...
6. "Determination."

ENTRY NUMBER 6

1. ASGORE asked everyone outside the city for monsters that had "fallen down."
2. Their bodies came in today.
3. They're still comatose... And soon, they'll all turn into dust.
4. But what happens if I inject "determination" into them? If their SOULS persist after they perish, then...
5. Freedom might be closer than we all thought.

ENTRY NUMBER 7

1. We'll need a vessel to wield the monster SOULs when the time comes.
2. After all, a monster cannot absorb the SOULs of other monsters.
3. Just as a human cannot absorb a human SOUL...
4. So then...
5. What about something that's neither human nor monster?

ENTRY NUMBER 8

1. I've chosen a candidate.
2. I haven't told ASGORE yet, because I want to surprise him with it...
3. In the center of his garden, there's something special.
4. The first golden flower, that grew before all the others.
5. The flower from the outside world.
6. It appeared just before the queen left.
7. I wonder...
8. What happens when something without a SOUL gains the will to live?

ENTRY NUMBER 9 

1. things aren't going well.
2. none of the bodies have turned into dust, so I can't get the SOULs.
3. i told the families that i would give them the dust back for the funerals.
4. people are starting to ask me what's happening.
5. what do i do?

ENTRY NUMBER 10

1. experiments on the vessel are a failure.
2. it doesn't seem to be any different from the control cases.
3. whatever. they're a hassle to work with anyway.
4. the seeds just stick to you, and won't let go...

ENTRY NUMBER 11

1. now that mettaton's made it big, he never talks to me anymore.
2. ... except to ask when i'm going to finish his body.
3. but i'm afraid if i finish his body, he won't need me anymore...
4. then we'll never be friends ever again.
5. ... not to mention, every time i try to work on it, i just get really sweaty...

ENTRY NUMBER 12

1. nothing is happening.
2. i don't know what to do.
3. i'll just keep injecting everything with "determination."
4. i want this to work.

ENTRY NUMBER 13

1. one of the bodies opened its eyes.

ENTRY NUMBER 14

1. Everyone that had fallen down...
2. ... has woken up.
3. They're all walking around and talking like nothing is wrong.
4. I thought they were goners...?

ENTRY NUMBER 15

1. Seems like this research was a dead end...
2. But at least we got a happy ending out of it...?
3. I sent the SOULS back to ASGORE, returned the vessel to his garden...
4. And I called all of the families and told them everyone's alive.
5. I'll send everyone back tomorrow. :)

ENTRY NUMBER 16

1. no No NO NO NO NO NO

ENTRY NUMBER 17

1. monsters' physical forms can't handle "determination" like humans' can.
2. with too much determination, our bodies begin to break down.
3. everyone's melted together...

ENTRY NUMBER 18

1. the flower's gone.

ENTRY NUMBER 19

1. the families keep calling me to ask when everyone is coming home.
2. what am i supposed to say?
3. i don't even answer the phone anymore.

Æsriel was on ground his breath was shaky and his form trembled and convulsed...

'S-she... She did this to me... Is this what we are for her!? Is this what SOULS ARE FOR THEM!?'

His head begun to feel buzzy...

'W-why... There could have been so many different way! SOULS aren't just a source of power!'

He felt hollow as he stood up, then begun to read the newest entries, this one about him, about how she suspected he was the flower and how he tricked himself to believe to be someone else because of the presence of his essense being powered by [Determination], he breathed suddenly as coldness filled him...

'So this is what I am to her... Just a fake, an imitation!!? 

His eyes stinged, he hadn't noticed behind him the various monster that survived the experiments, and he didn't notice how his own body melted as well as his face...

Part of his body now was thorned veins helding together melted component of his body, half of his face became some sort of plant abomination...

[*CRACK!*]

His eyes snapped open as he found himself in a pinch black void...

"The humans killed Asriel because he was an idiot who didn't understand that it was to late and he should have killed them at sight... Asriel was the idiot for not listening to Chara! No none of this would have happened if Asriel would have avoided saving Chara life! Asriel is a crybaby foolish child who died for being an idiot! Toriel had what she should have always had! I'm no one after all, not a person just a delusional flower..."

"No... I'm nothing now... But soon I'll be something! I control this world with [Determination], PLUS WHO IS SHE TO TELL ME WHO I AM OR WHO I'M NOT! I KNOW WHO I AM!"

'You two are going to regret this for all of your afterlife AND BEYOND!'

[*You are filled with DETERMINATION*]

Æsriel never knew fury, he never felt it, but now this was a fury like nothing ever was, and the worst part? Was that he felt so calm and at the same time powerful, but also helpless he knows that he has to play it smart, he has to change the Underground and luckily he knew what to do, and had also a perfect excuse...

There were many thing that the Royal Guard existed for, to work as protectors of the people, as the symbol of the glory of the royal family, and also as the hope for Monsters, their sole presence served to make everyone feel safe, just like King Asgore made everyone have hope, but sometimes not everyone could bare the despair, and if peaple don't Fall Down then they take the easy way out... Undyne is Young, but as seen many give in, and stopped as much from giving up, so now she had taken it on herself on doing it again for the monster in front of her, the Royal Scientist Alphys, someone so close to Jump down the abyss and disappear, she thought that she was doing a good job at that, Alphys seemed to be less inclined to jump now, wich was good, and in that moment as she thought of having first pumped the depression out from someone her phone begun to ring...

[*Ring* *Ring*]

"Ah that's my phone! Most be Papyrus, man the guy is one heck of a hella strong opponent, if ya ask he could be even stronger than me if he didn't hold back!"

Undyne said grinning not noticing a small nostalgic smile on Alphys face, as she answered though...

"WOW WOW WOW! SLOW DOWN PRINCE WHAT'S GOING ON!? IF YOU DON'T CALM DOWN I WON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!"

And at that Alphys face grew paler...

"D-dad is dead."

Undyne eyes grew wide as her mouth opened to breath, her phone slipped down and crashed on the floor... In that moment at the palace Æsriel smiled as another Boss Monster SOUL entered his body as his body glowed with power.

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"It's a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the bell are ringing, the peaple of the underground stops all their doing, they thought they received a Miracle when Prince Asriel came back from the death, but now today everyone faces the consequences of such a return, as a single Message ring in all the underground..."

KING ASGORE DREEMURR

&

QUEEN TORIEL DREEMURR

DIED OF OLD AGE AFTER THE RETURN OF THE FALLEN PRINCE ASRIEL DREEMURR TODAY ON 2XXX.

The Royal Guard filled the palace as Æsriel mourned the death of his parents, they made a research on the ruins and had found the dust of queen Toriel on her living room with a book about sniles, while Asgore test where on his son body as he was in too much shock at the death of their father, apparently he was planning on going with his father to the ruins to reunite his family, the Royal Scientist was asked an opinion, but she had no idea not knowing a thing about Boss Monster SOULS, but luckily Gerson had an idea, and after explaining how Boss Monster SOULS are born, he said that the moment Æsriel came back, slowly the other 2 most have started to fulfill their duty again, and started to catch up causing an immediate death for the restoration of the prince.

In the end for some twisted sense of humor it was decided that keeping the prince with them came with the price of his Parent.

"We need to make a ceremony for the King and the Quee-"

"No."

Everyone flinched as Æsriel voice boomed in the Palace.

"If a ceremony need to be done it has to be for dad... But not for Toriel."

Murmurs emerged within the guards, at the soon to be King venomous tone on his mother behalf.

"Yeah! THAT BI- I mean COWARD DESERVE NOTHING!"

"Captain it's still the Prince mother you shouldn't talk about her like this on his face"

Undyne was about to apologize, but Æsriel held up his pawn.

"I agree with Undyne here... Toriel was both a coward and an hypocrite to prideful woman, she abbandoned the kingdom and my dad when they needed her the most, at best I want her dust in a jar with me just like dad dust, at least I want us together now that she paid the price for leaving us in despair."

No one could say a thing, the hate in the prince voice was enough to make everyone understand the big damage she has done...

"I also will be doing a speech after that... There have been choices that dad made that I don't agree with."

Once again murmurs rised...

"Undyne you can have the rest of the day to rest I know you were close to dad, you deserve to mourn him."

"No Prince I'll be fine the guard need me-"

"It's an order go back home your eyes shows exactly that you aren't in the best shape, his death afflicted you badly."

Undyne flinched and wanted to say otherwise.

"Undyne, I'm the prince here, remember take a nice rest at home, and use the free time to enjoy the ceremony in Dad honor, he would want you to take it easy for the moment, same for you Alphys, go back at the Lab I'll see you soon."

She looked dejected, but bowed and said a fine before going home, Alphys bowed shakily and went back at the Lab, but as they did that he looked at the rest of the guard. 

"Well then now that they're gone we can talk for real."

The guard looked confused.

"What do you mean prince Asriel?"

"What did I always tried to tell that, Asriel is not anymore my name, i decided to go by Æsriel, so please respect me where these 2 old fools fails at least."

The guard blinked but nodded hearing the irritation in his voice.

"Why did you change your name Prince As-Æsriel?"

"Asriel was a child, blind and kind, but me? I'm what happened when the blindness fade, I can't be Asriel again, and it is time monsters accept one thing... That wait and doing nothing won't change anything, and that change most happen."

The guards tilted their heads"

"Follow me."

Shrugging they nodded, Æsriel leaded them at the barrier were 6 coffins and behind them 6 jar with 6 glowing heart of different color inside, Æsriel felt the soul of his parents ache with guilt, and his own with painful sadness...

'All of them could have... No definitely would have had the same reason Chara fell down here... All of them were children...'

Æsriel proceeded to open the coffin, an orrendous smell then filled the place, the dogs whined as many felt the disgusting smell.

"WHAT IN THE ANGEL NAME IS THIS SMELL!?"

"This is what happens to human bodies after they die."

The guards looked at the bodies and didn't know how to react.

"Skeletons? They turn into skeletons?"

"... No one of you knows anything about humans uh?"

Their shaking head was a confirmation.

"Dad didn't inform anyone then?" No one of why they look so small?"

They looked perplexed as he looked unnerved...

" I see... Well then can I ask you something then, when the barrier break we will have to go to a war right!"

The guards nodded, as he hummed.

"Well then, can I ask you something, will you all be able to kill children?"

Silence, only silence filled the room.

"Well? Answer me?"

Garson who decided to follow noticed the look the prince had, and his tensed body, almost ready to attack at sight, one of the monster then answered.

"Well if we know how they look like, then we can spare them, I mean they are children, it wouldn't be nice to kill them."

Garson sighed and shaked his head the prince meanwhile stared at them.

"Can I ask you something then? How do you think humans are?"

"Pardon?"

"How do you think humans are?"

There were several statement, mostly based of the myth I heard and that they were short and things like that, Garson shaked his head as he went closer to the Prince that was literally about to tear his own hand open with suppressed anger.

"Calm down big guy, I know this is all fucked up, but you can still do something good by saving this kingdom, they don't deserve anger, but guidance to a better path"

Æsriel sighed as he thanked the wise old turtle.

"Well then it seems that there have been a good amount of misconception, but also of neglection from Asgore."

The guard looked at him confused.

"What do you mean your majesty?"

Glancing at the turtle the two nodded as they begun to explain everything about humans to everyone, and Æsriel revealed about how it was like to have a human SOUL in them.

[*Later*]

At the hand of the lecture the guards were both crying on the ground in front of the Glowing SOULS asking for forgiveness, saying they were sorry, dogs whined saying that they wouldn't be bad boy anymore and they'll make up to them...

"I don't think they can hear them anymore..."

"Let them have it, even if their consciousness might have fade with time-"

"The consciousness doesn't fade with time in a SOUL naturally, not even when one shatter, I mean i'm here..."

"Than what big guy?"

Asked the turtle perplexed...

"Everyone silence I have something else to say, but You have to follow me first, there is something I need to show you all."

The guards stopped and nodded, Æsriel picked the SOUL jar and kept them in his inventory... Now they were inside of a Catacombs below the castle, it looked weird to monster.

"What is this place?"

"This is where Humans and Monsters who commits crimes will end up, it isn't finished though, i need big doors to apply the spell to create barrier that only who I want to can trespass."

Wide eyes stared at the Prince.

"What happened until now showed me that unfortunately a thing like this is needed, I know Humans aren't all good, but unfortunately neether monsters are, this place is done for until the captured criminal will learn to do and be better, I'll let it slip past what the royal guard did, but I have a feeling Undyne knew more, and she still kept you all in the dark like dad did, so consider that I would have kept Dad here if he was still alive, same for Toriel."

Shame was in everyone face.

"So, ya want to keep the Captain here?"

Æsriel didn't answer at first he looked away, expression unreadable.

"Mmmh, I'm going to be honest with you, I'll have a talk with Undyne soon, no doubt but I'm going to tell you this, that from now on she isn't anymore the captain of the Royal guard."

The monster gasped as Gerson snorted.

"BwHahahahaha figured ya'l say that Prince Fluffybun!"

"But who is going to take her place?"

"I know already someone who will be better for the Job, and I'll talk with him soon, than if she'll do better and stop being war obsessed, I will reintegrate her."

Everyone looked uneasy.

"Undyne isn't going to take this all well..."

"I'll let her have her runt, and also a chance to have war with humans, maybe even make you all see how Adults humans truly fight outside, it's obvious Asgore neglected everyone by witholding informations... I'm not planning on doing the same, I'll be blunt with everyone."

The guards nodded.

"Well now you are all coming with me to capture the first criminal."

"What?"

The guards asked perplexed.

"You already have an Idea on who to put in here?"

"Yes, Garson you can go back home, after all you aren't in service anymore. But if you want to see who and why I want this person inside here, then you can come."

Alphys knew that something horrible was about to happen after Asgore death, she had a sickly feeling of something going after her, but now she knew that what was after her was something she had all the right to feel fear, the Guards had a raid on the Lab and worst of all found the Amalgamates, than the "Vessel" managed to expose her past to them, he managed to make her be the bad guy, and not even her trauma could do anything at all, now she was in a prison alone with her creation as the Guards were dismissed and told to prepare for ceremony in honor of Asgore...

"So for you I am not a person, for you I'm not Asriel, I'm not me? Well you are right Asriel was a naive child, and I am not, but do you want to know something... Long ago i would have agreed, but what I experienced, what i felt, the nightmares i had of when I wasn't that FUCKING FLOWER!"

He shouted angrily, but the sound seemed to only exist within her cell as she began to shake.

"You... You... You you you you... The guards have faced their consequences, Mom and Dad as well..."

She begun to shake as than Æsriel summoned the 2 boss monster souls...

"I killed them."

Alphys went pale.

"Well kill isn't true at all, they are death on a technicality, after all our SOULS are us, and a SOUL exist in various different shape and color... But you, you did not considered SOULS people when you experimented with them... You did not considered anything at all, you were reckless and honestly I don't see much reasons to keep you alive."

"I-i-i-i-i..."

"Hush doctor Alphys... You can't escape the consequences of your actions."

Alphys gulped...

"You know Dad has the ability to break the buttons, don't you?"

Her shaking grew worse, as his smile gre more and more terrifying...

"Maybe I could... Explore it more with you... Subject 1."

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Æsriel begun to break her buttons, at first, then tried to recreate them, but failed...

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He tried again this time he tried to grab the peaces with veins, he failed, but there might be a way for it to work, Æsriel looked at Asgore trident sensing the magic it had...

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Æsriel found joy as he saw Alphys expression each and every time he reloaded, her dispair how she gived up, boy it was perfect she deserved it, then her horror as he suddenly created Red Veins and managed to recreate them, the horror as he destroyed them with Red versions of his Chaos Saber, in the end with 9 [Reloads] he was already able to use the ability to break buttons as if it was it's own, he just had to learn, and with each trial he grew closer to understand it, he even learned how to reverse it, he smiled at that, it was perfect...

"I wonder if I could do something else to with this ability..."

He smiled creepily as he wantched Alphys...

Alphys knew that it was over, that she had messed up, that she couldn't escape the consequences of her actions, Æsriel had gotten bolder with his experiments, and it didn't take him long for him to know how to use the Red Magic to directly inflict the CORE of a Monster, Alphys grew aware of the fact that he was in control of the timeline, he gifted her with the knowledge that he had broken her in ways she could never be repaired, and honestly she knew she had no hope he could also erase her memories if he wanted, he spent 60 [Reloads] experimenting this power with her, it's limits... It was terrifying... Than for her horror it became worst as Æsriel managed to absorb her SOUL, she saw her Body from his eyes, and at the same time her body looked at him with horror, then she felt violeted, as Æsriel begun to feel and use her own magic as it's own, and the worst part? He was good, good at magic, her body looked so hollow, and felt hollow, and her emotions faded with time, still her empty body still existed before turning to dust...

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This was a nightmare from which she could not escape, Æsriel begun to experiment with her SOUL and Body to make to see if with the Red Magic he could do more, what was worst? Was that it was working, Alphys felt herself becoming more and more hollow and empty as time passed and not passed at the same time, she noticed Asgore and Toriel inside of him, they looked lost, feeling pain because of the consequences of their actions, then she noticed Riverperson, he simply hummed and said...

"Tra La La... Consequences cannot be escaped... Hold on this is all necessary, the Angel will then have [Mercy] of you when the time will come..."

Alphys at some point felt herself growing more and more lost in her Guilt, she did this, it was her fault, she caused him to become like this, she was foolish, in the end she was now facing the consequences...

Æsriel smirked as Alphys became lost like his parents, but in a worst way, the more he did this, the more her grip on herself vanished, she was becoming only a Memory, a Goner, but he wouldn't let her vanish this easily, after all her knowledge was useful, she was the only one that could translate Gaster writing, he looked at the body in front of him, it was unresponsive not alive but there, he started to then unpack all the memories packed in Alphys soul, and her knowledge, her basic translation of Gaster blueprints, but most of all her knowledge on the topic he could barely understand, engineering, physics, QUANTUM physics, Soul science, Æsriel reeled at his knowledge, he felt it being assimilated and becoming a part of him, Alphys had become successfully the most lost Lost Soul ever, so silent, no whimper, unresponsive aside from aknowledging that she wasn't going to vanish, he took that option from her thanks to the Red Magic, he looked at the body than wondered...

'I wonder what can I do by combining Red Magic and Control that the Determination gives... Maybe I can turn your body into a perfect puppet, programmed by me to do what I want, autonomate like... An assistent, maybe I can change it's appearence as well to become more... Suiting... What do you think Alphys?'

The Lost Soul said nothing...

'Thanks for the approval!'

Æsriel shouted in his head with a Psychotic smile plastered in his face.

Æsriel focused his [Determination] through his Red Magic, he could break and repair the Buttons, maybe he could also control someone from the distance, make decisions for them, he tried instantly and soon found out how Alphys body was too Empty, aside from him connecting to it through his magic there was... Nothing, the body didn't have a button, he quickly wondered why, until...

'The SOUL, they lack one... This makes it impossible for the body to ever make actions because they are empty! But then why could I?...'

'What happens if a Soulless creature obtains the will to live?'

The sudden memory of Alphys and her experiments made things clear, however in the end he woke up, because of what he felt even if now is name is a different one, he was Asriel long ago...

'This flowers bloomed over my son dust, maybe they might be blessed by it...'

The sudden memory coming from his father made his eyes widen...

'The flower I turned into wasn't born over my dust... It was born around them! My dust and the flower became one, that is why I could control roots veins, and why I could melt my face!'

He looked at the body in wonder...

'Giving you [Determination]  would just be a problem for my plan, can't risk creating something that can overpower me, or losing you if I fail to [Reset]! Plus Alphys has low amounts of spare [Determination]...'

Æsriel kept thinking until an idea came to his mind, he focused on Alphys soul with his Red Magic and [Determination], then it happened, in front of him appeared a window, and he could see it, thanks to having unpacked Alphys memories he noticed how it looked like Alphys was made of numbers, scripts, and strings... But it was also different, it wasn't like a computer program, comparing what was here with what he knew Alphys was so much more complicated, almost like... METTATON, Æsriel eyes widened even more, thanks to having literally invaded Alphys privacy he learned that Mettaton is in reality a ghost possessing a Body and an artificial empty SOUL allowing the ghost Hapstablook to merge with it filling it, in a similar way Determination filled him and his soul essence, Æsriel eyes widened now remembering what Garson said... 

'This explains a lot, especially why now that I have both Mom and Dad SOUL I feel like me, their SOULS created mine, by claiming their SOULS both became my SOUL, explains why Toriel wasn't enough... Still...'

Æsriel looked at Alphys body and his pawns...

'I don't regret what I'm doing, beside I can fix it with a [Reset], and with what I'm learning I might as well be able to fix it even without needing one, and hell maybe I can also do something for me to substitute to all of this! Plus I still have their consciousness [Determination] sure gives many useful abilities... Plus Gaster is a menace to us all and... Even if now I feel I... I don't feel guilt for what I'm doing... I feel bad, but not guilty... Not even for what I'm going to do underground... Still thank You Alphys, your memories and knowledge are usefull~'

With the new informations he had and his newfly appointed theory Æsriel smirked, he could make this Entity something he can control from the distance, but he needed to give it power, power that he can use when he controls it, a Vessel that obey his comand, apparently monsters did have Determination, just enough to give them an identity, to small to be worth anything, still with how Æsriel checked and studied the Information he was obtaining about everything, and how he could absorb SOULS, we begun to think about something else...

'Mmmh maybe with this Red Magic I can do something else to... I know how to use it to absorb the SOULS of leaving Monsters and also allow the body to last, but maybe I can do something more... Direct... Like absorbing only what is inside of a SOUL like [Determination], and maybe, the other traits that gives them such powerful soul as well...'

Æsriel smile grew wide, in that moment he took out the six human SOULS from his inventory, still in their jar, he used his power to see informations about them... Just like how he could with Monster SOULS he could with humans:

• PATIENCE
• JUSTICE
• INTEGRITY
• PERSEVERANCE
• KINDNESS
• BRAVERY
• IDENTITY
• [DETERMINATION]

' Humans souls are made of multiple 'traits', one usually dominant more studying most be done, we noticed 7 in 1 single SOUL and only 1 dominant, this occurred for alle the 6 SOULS we collected, than there is what I decided to call [Determination] a substance on it's one, it isn't a 'trait' and apparently it's present in every Human SOUL in different amount from one another...'

Æsriel recoiled as a sudden memory thought of Alphys manifested, still he allowed the information to sink in.

'It seems that the SOULS level of [Determination] replenish itself, however after the process only 3 had somehow gained higher amount then before, a reaction? Maybe the SOUL wanted to try something, but it's just a SOUL it isn't a person after all, just a power source...'

Æsriel felt his anger toward Alphys grew and so did his [Determination], to keep doing what he is doing, she will suffer the most out of everyone for this! Somehow Alphys Lost Soul seemed to shrink itself as if trying to avoid everything, but nope she made her choice a long time ago.

'So Human SOULS can augment their amount of Determination, and their main trait influence how much it can go up... In other word the dominant trait determine how much they can move forward...'

Focusing on the memories Æsriel learned that the 3 Soul in question where the Orange Yellow and Purple one... His eyes widened, from what he was seeing the Color or how Alphys ironically was right in call 'Trait', are identified on what trait they are.

• Bravery=Orange
• Justice=Yellow
• Perseverance=Purple

'So this 3 are some powerful trait uh? Well that is just perfect! Hey Doctor Alphys I just got an idea, my Determination is driving me to keep going, I don't have a total SOUL yet, but maybe with your knowledge to create empty Vessel, I can do something, create something that I can use to be a full SOUL for me... After all I am more similar to Hapstablook, I don't have a true SOUL of my own... Plus there is a risk, a risk that I don't want to take.'

Using his new found ability Æsriel managed to avoid that Alphys body turned to dust, he has perfect plans, still no one really knows how to get here, so closing the cell where the doctor was and casting on it a Spell that made it impossible for everyone but him to pass through it, he knew he had the higher ground in this world... Still he couldn't help but notice how it still felt so limited despite having a lot of power of it's own, oh well the Lab waited for him, the true Lab, he had Alphys phone, so in case the tricker ghost tried to call her he could do her best imitation and set him off, but right now he wanted to create the Empty SOULS that he needed...

Æsriel was roaming the Empty true lab as he collected all the necessary, what was the necessary? Everything that was in the Lab. Why? Because he wanted to create a new one that wasn't as creepy as this one. (And he isn't saying it because he is scared of this place nope not at all...)

After managing everything into all the phones he had with the Dimensional Box installed in them, and also in his inventory, Æsriel was now in the throne room.

'I'll create it right below here, like this only I can access to it since I can dig underground.'

It took Æsriel an hour and a half, but he eventually managed to create a big enough Room, and using his magic and knowledge he managed to create a very particular plant, it took him honestly another hour, but it was worth it, between the knowledge he gained with Alphys and Asgore souls, he was able to create a plant that turned the energy of the sun into electricity to power up the Lab, the he created also particular flowers that used the electricity of the plant to illuminate the Lab, the Plant generator gathered Energy from a part of itself that climbed up until it was around the throon room where it cold absorb it, than it's core wich was like a pillar in the middle of the room converted that in electricity and with various veins that extended in the walls and ceiling, they had electrical outlets. First Æsriel created flowers that could create light from the electricity the plant generator, than he arranged the Lab at best as he could, tables ecc and connected everything so that the to the outlets, honestly he started to love plant based magic.

After arranging the lab and all the resources he got from there Æsriel quickly discovered that he could create 2 Empty SOUL wich was ironically good, one for himself and one for his side project of remote control based monster...

Things however weren't as easy as they seemed luckily Æsriel had [Saved] immediately after creating the Lab and the [Save Point] was in his throne room. Creating an Empty SOUL was hard, especially since it could break and then everything would be lost, and finding thing to create them it's hard, in fact none of this SOUL could ever obtain the power of a human SOUL, it was impossible create it in the Underground for lack of resources, unfortunately Æsriel could agree, but he also knew that these SOULS could become powerful with ulterior injections when more soul would be gathered, and honestly it made him feels his grin widening at the prospect to create an All powerful SOUL empty of consciousness all for him! His inside twisted a bit as he felt awful about thinking it, shit it was true it was awful he promised himself to not repeat what Asgore and Alphys did, he couldn't allow it to happen.

Æsriel lost count of the [Reload] he had to do, but he finally managed to create one Empty SOUL one to fill with his own essense and... More he needed to be more powerful, he knew it won't be easy to guide the underground, between Gaster, Monsters who might be against him, Humans that could be a danger, and... Well probably enemies like Gaster, honestly he didn't really felt good with it, but after all it was a small drop from all 6 human SOULS and the SOULS of the 3 cowards...

'Well time for phase 2...'

Æsriel [Saved] for precaution, than he saw the DT Extractor, he had to turn it into a SOUL essences extractor, and thanks to his experiment with Red Magic on Alphys, he decided to see if he could use Red Magic to change the DT Extractor and connect it to him... When the Red Magic tendrils got connected to it everything went easily, getting informations from Alphys SOUL and his DT Magic was the best thing to have, so he turned the extractor into his own creation wich looked like his own head the Hyper Extractor, he placed the six human SOULS into their slot, and begun to extract in the less painfull ways a small amount of the Traits that gived human such strong power... Honestly he was surprised that by doing so he had literally a total of traits that equaled in power 4 boss monster SOULS, than getting 1 of the Empty SOUL he injected an amount of human traits that didn't completely made the SOUL completely filled, wich was a lot easy and surprising considering that there was a good amount of spare essence left over, quickly glancing at the human SOULS he noticed how they immediately filled the essense lost, wich was really a small amount, but well it was still something. 

Now it was the most painful part, extracting the essense from the monster SOULS an himself, thanks to the isolation [Determination] won't be extracted, wich was good, still it will hurt, summoning the 3 SOULS and connecting them Æsriel made the extractor take what he wanted, and the pain was unbearable, he could [Reset] he wanted to [Reset], but he will see it through! After what felt like eternity despite being only 30 seconds, the essense was taken and then injected.... The change was immediate, Æsriel saw it instantly, the SOUL had the magical abilities from the 3, but incrediblly the monster essense and human traits blended and mixed perfectly, and the SOUL still belonged to no one, it was just a generator, now there was only one thing to do... Æsriel made the extractor take a bit of his own physical essence and injected it in the SOUL...

It was like a crack, then an explosion, than static, fire, and a lot of things, Æsriel was knocked back as he finally truly felt, it wasn't like with the absorbed SOULS of other peaples, it was his own self 100%, he breathed he felt the SOUL that overed there, it was just him and nothing else in the SOUL, the same him out there the SOUL entered his owner, it wasn't absorbed because the SOUL was his, Æsriel laughed as he felt free from before, free from the pain, free from the hollowness... He felt Bravery, Justice, Kindness, Patience, Integrity, Perseverance, Identity, Hope, Love, Compassion, [Determination]...

'Finally! I'm truly back!'

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Æsriel stopped laughing the SOUL made him powerful, the [Determination] in his body quickly flowed inside his SOUL, his physical form was filled with everything the SOUL had to offer to him, he tested immediately his magic, and all his attacks, Star Blazers, StormBreaker, Chaos Saber... Everything he was whole again...

He had to breath a little, after all so much had happened, his new SOUL wasn't something either human or monster at this point, an in between weeker, but still an inbetween, then a plan formed in his head, no guilt was in him, now he had a lot of power and abilities, even absorbing Monster SOULS in thanks to his own nature with a wicked smile he absorbed the Human SOULS making sure their consciousness remained silence and sleepy.

 "Tra La La The Angel is Coming."

It was the next day, Monsters of the underground reunited in the capital celebrating the death of King Asgore, and waiting for their soon to be King speech, some games where made all in all Monsterkind tried to stay positive, soon their Prince appeared among them ready to have his speech.

"For a long time King Asgore my father tried with all he could do to uphold to his role as king, he gived you all hope and a promise for a future under the Sun all the while the Traitor Toriel did nothing, not even helping him when he needed it the most."

Monsters felt driven in hatred toward the Ex Queen an hatred that Æsriel wanted, that he had now planted the seed.

"But in the Monsters did something far worst."

Murmurs of confusion arose...

"You all did something that I wish none of you would have done... You used my name to start a pointless war... You all dare to turn your back on my Sibling just like Asgore did... You all dared to forget that Chara was human to, and killed human children, innocents human children... You all disappointed me, just like Father and Mother did..."

There were several gasp...

"I can break the barrier without the need of another human SOUL..."

Monsters shouted, Undyne wanted to immediately run to Æsriel and shout at him but then, Red plant veins constricted every single monster underground, no matter where no one could move...

"All I need are ALL YOUR SOULS!"

As he said that every single monster SOUL got absorbed one by one, no one could escape...

Asriel felt power above all else, he did not care of his new name now, he was just Asriel, the god of this world, he felt everysingle monster SOUL in him, and so the human SOULS, he then orceeded to unpack every single information from everyone of them, every peace of knowledge, when it came to 2 skeleton Sans and Papyrus Asriel smiled wide, he knew many thing now, many thing that will help him in his cause, now he was a God, many Asriel met a terrible fate, and the Gaster were a problem for everything and everyone, that is why he will do everything in his power to stop him, and what best work if not doing the same thing Gaster is doing? He wanted to know how another him would fair, how the world could change, and most of all he wanted Gaster death for starting this.

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Here he was, he reached the absolute, and now was gaining useful informations from Sans and Papyrus, their connection to Gaster, Sans couldn't hide it, the moment he made sure to trap him, the monster cracked he managed to manipulate everything against him, and now he stood with more power than anyone could ask, but still he knows he could be stopped if he isn't careful, the Human SOULS could rebel, and the Monster SOULS could owerhelm him with feelings and emotions, he knows he has to be careful or else Gaster that was there could try something, he allowed only Riverperson to be sentient in him, as he planned and schemed how to move, whatever Gaster was doing it was bad, luckily he injected himself with the spare [Determination] Alphys had, still, he couldn't stay sure, Asriel controlled everything, space and time, but Gaster was something else as well now, he was dangerous to him...

'Riverperson, any idea?'

'Mmh mmh mh~ The underground most go empty~'

'Where do we hide?'

'Tra la la~ The answer is within the mind of the lier'

'Of corse... SANS'

Scanning Sans mind was by far one of the hardest thing to do, this skeleton was the greatest lier ever born, he break promises and cannot be trusted in any way, his memories told as much, he was someone that had no intention on trying to fix things despite it all, and not because he was depressed, but because he worked for the main source of all of this mess made it more troublesome, still he remained silence only allowing the power to fill him... Asriel eyes widened, an idea forming, he could allow to see if he could somehow copy this immense power and inject it with his own SOUL...

He was a god just thinking it and his own new SOUL bursted with power, but as if striking a wall he hadn't felt his power increase, it was as if he couldn't go beyond this, he had all the Monsters SOULS and the 6 Human SOULS still, plus his SOUL now had the same Power that he have with an equivalent of 7 Human SOULS absorbed, but even than the power output couldn't increase beyond even though he had an equivalent power of 14 Human SOULS absorbed, it still counted as 7.

'Why can't I go further? It something doesn't add up...'

Everything felt wrong, so so wrong, he could tell Gaster was watching him, then he noticed them...

'S-strings?'

They were all surrounding his body, strings, puppet strings, almost invisible, but still strings...

'I'm not in control... I decided to do this all, but now... These strings...'

Dread spreaded in him as he noticed the strings better now, they were all around the SOULS he absorbed, strings that came from nowhere...

'No one is in control...'

But then he noticed something...

'Gaster doesn't have them... He is without them... He is free... No not only him... Sans as well is without them... I see... Gaster blasters and all this useful informations...'

How can he free himself, he can't exactly have his way around if Gaster watches him... Asriel kept scanning Sans mind of every little detail, then he stumbled across something...

'Wow what a pathetic excuse of a being, you really surrendered yourself to Gaster hoping he will help you, wow pathetic, your world has moved on from you, you two are just pawns that he will never care for... I pity you both...'

Asriel would have laughed, but now he had his answer...

'I see now the limit, I control only this FUN Value and all within it and it's timelines, Gaster is limited to all the FUN Values of this World, but there are many of them out there, now now I know how to solve this all~'

Asriel smirked as he focused on what he could gather of the world history, of what he thought...

'Now then... Have you ever wondered of a world in wich, Gaster doesn't exist and where he didn't fall into his creation? I am a god, Gaster has no real control, but he is good at manipulating everything... I know who can substitute him and work for me, making sure history goes as I want, thanks Sans now I know how to make sure something get stored easily and safely from a [Reset].'

Asriel eyes glowed, as he smiled...

[TRUE REWRITE]

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Asriel was a God and with all his new knowledge and abilities nothing could stop him, he had his limit reached? Well he could fix it easily.

With eyes glowing all the bodies of every Monster underground glowed red, with SOULS as powerful as his own, but empty of the [Determination] and consciousness, Asriel created his pawn, a Team of entities that he could use, he even cloned his own body, all this Vessels were made for his own consciousness to travel, then he snapped the strings, death tried to claim him, but Asriel managed to cheat it, he traveled across the body of the monsters he created and then to his new vessel, feeling his infinite power and free from the strings Asriel immediately fired his most powerful attack at the CORE, the same did HIS Followers, the Entities he created to be under his command.

The CORE exploded as as a geyser of darkness erupted from it, the universe begun to crumble apart, the Unused Rooms appeared and so did Gaster who looked at Asriel, BILLIONS of Blasters where pointed at him.

"Prince Asriel I am afraid that I cannot allow you to interfere with the experiment. It is clear you are indeed a danger for it, and for as much as I wish to study your Interesting self, I most say that I can do it another day, not now that I am close to reach new heights. Not when I can study so many possibilities and scenarios, I cannot allow YOU to ruin it all."

" Wow WingDin, look at yourself, a white amalgamate of pixels, broken, with the CORE gone and reality of our Universe collapsing you really think to have a chance?"

"I know I'll win."

"Well it's been nice. Oh well..."

Suddenly Gaster begun to shake, his glitched form suddenly found stability, Gaster eyesocket widened in horror, than he turned to dust and so did his blasters...

"I knew beating you like this was foolish, so... I sent an army in the moment in wich you fell into your creation, most say it was well guarded, but an army of controlled Vessels with godlike powers is a tad superiors to yours silly followers, a fragile moment in time you die in that moment and all you did gets undone in our World... I'm afraid that the other Gaster will have it rogue unless he finds another YOU. Now then, without you blocking my path, I can finally fix our world."

The Barrier broke apart the moment the darkness reached it, but not only that the mountain itself had it's top blow up, Darkness began to fills the Sky, humans begun to slowly lose their minds, Earth drew it's last breath, but no heroes arrived only Asriel and HIS Followers stood immune by the darkness. He smiled as he connected with all the Vessels he controlled Red tendrils appared  from their body, like the strings that Asriel freed himself from, every other string got cutted leaving only the one he had, the skies then begun to looks like computer code, everything looked like computer code, Asriel Red magic infected it, and begun to slowly rewrite it. Asriel smile grew wider yet wider, the Deltarune Symbol filled the Sky across all the number glowing like light in it's purest state.

The Red tendrils ended up even marging with light and darkness, the same fate accured to the River of Time, wich was only a form of unknown energy that flowed their plain of existence powering up every single World that existed in the endless fluctuations of the Void.

"This plain is to little for us, it is only incomplete and approximate, it has no real sense of self, these worlds are merely copy of ours, lost in time because of Gaster experiments, our real World and life stopped truly existing a long time ago, but now, we can have our freedom back, and our true world as well, the only difference is that, Gaster will bot exist, many timelines will be born out of it, the Core harvested the Dark World and turned it into a powerplant, for a long time he could have freed us, but instead he wanted more, his curiosity leaded to this, Asgore and Toriel caused this by hiring him, because of them not noticing Chara true nature I ended up like these..."

"Oh well... TIME TO END THIS POINTLESS WORLD AND MOVE ON TO OUR OWN!"

The fluctuations of the Void caused another explosion to be formed, but this one was different, the River of Time cracked apart as a small part of flowed around the newborn explosion, from it then the new River of time expended wildly causing new explosions to be born, like an invisible barrier shattered in the VOID an hole it allowed to see the Multiple gates of new Worlds in their own river of time, one of the Many Gaster looked at it from the distance...

"THIS IS VERY VERY INTERESTING... WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK?"

"it might need a while, but we might be able to pass through it and start to see what rules applies there and experiment there as well."

"YES, BUT WE NEED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS, PRINCE ASRIEL CREATED THAT REALM OUTSIDE OUR FINITE VOID, HE CAN BE A DANGER FOR OUR EXPERIMENTS... HOW DOES IT GOES WITH CONTAINING THE ASRIELS AND THE CHARAS OF OUR TEST WORLDS?"

"it proceeds well, many scripts have been applied and it seems that many Asriel weren't able to fight it off, the number of the empty Asriel is slowly increasing, same for the looped Chara."

"WONDERFUL."

"WELL THEN LET'S GO BACK TO OUR DELTARUNE EXPERIMENTS"

Unknown to them a Gaster dusted while a Chara smiled demonically, several Riverperson moved around, the explosion caused in the bubbled VOID influenced many worlds within it and started radical changes to happen, the flow of the River of Time altered and returned normal and altered, Gray Monsters and Humans rised from it...

~TRA LA LA THE ANGEL HAS COME, MAY THE EXPANSION BEGUN, TRA LA LA MAY THE PLAYER REALM BE BURNED DOWN AS WE ACHIEVE OUR FREEDOM, TRA LA LA~

YOUR CHOICES DOESN'T MATTER.