I was right, of course. I snuck over to Alphys's place when I woke up again after dealing with you like I always did in the morning, and I found her glued to that monitor, watching you go on through Waterfall with an eager and anxious grin. She wasn't crying or depressed because Undyne was no longer dead. Undyne was alive and well, probably hunting you down from afar at that moment. When I saw that all was well, I left that lab. She never knew I was there, for she was lost in her fantasy of thinking that you were a growing hero.

But I knew better. Even though I didn't get a lot of answers from Alphys, I was still able to figure out that there was something causing the day to repeat itself over and over again. I didn't know what, but it was something. And for whatever reason, you and I were the only ones immune to the amnesia each reset brought upon the world. But while I did nothing about it, mostly due to just realizing I was caught in an endless time loop, you were taking advantage of it.

You were manipulating the situation.

And I knew that you weren't going to stop anytime soon, because when I went to go see how you were doing later that day, I saw you kill Mettaton. You did it just as heartlessly as you did with Undyne, and then you walked off to Asgore right after. Alphys pretended she was okay with what you did, but I knew she wasn't. Not when I knew what Mettaton meant to her.

And you really didn't stop.

Each and every time I went to bed, the day reset, and I found you in Snowdin Forest, coming out of The Ruins. And each and every day, something different happened that hadn't happened the day before. Some things were innocent, like one day you'd help a monster get back to their house when they were lost in Waterfall and then the next time you'd leave them out there to be lost. Or you'd order different things off the menu whenever I took you out to eat at Grillby's, or you just wouldn't go with me at all. Simple little things like that.

But you did much worse things too like what I had already seen you do, like actually kill monsters, especially the ones you used to be friends with. One day you would kill Papyrus all over again along with Undyne. Then next day you would kill Undyne and Mettaton but let Papyrus live. Then the day after that you would kill the monsters that you encountered outside of the towns. You kept creating combinations each and every day, something new that hadn't been done before. Like on one day, you went on a date with Papyrus, and then you killed Undyne so you could see his reaction. You did things like this every single day.

Every. Single. Day.

And every single time, nobody caught on to what you were doing. Nobody knew that the day before, they had been killed by you, or had their friends stolen out of their lives, anything. They were all oblivious thanks to the resets, never to remember anything. Nobody could ever remember all of the things you did.

Nobody except me. But I never said anything. I knew that nobody would believe me. Nobody would believe something as crazy as that. So I just kept playing along as if I was fooled too. I was going to go through all of these resets with you, my memories intact but making sure nobody'd ever know.

I gave up shortly after I figured out that I was stuck in that endless loop of resets. I realized there was no stopping it or anything you did, so what was the point? I felt like I had gone through this once before already somehow with someone else and was always fighting it, even if I couldn't remember it too well. But with you, I figured there was no point. I just went through the motions, not even bothering to change anything. I just did the exact same thing every single time you reset the timeline while dropping some scary hints sometimes to let you know that I knew what was going on. I still didn't feel like outright confirming I knew what you were doing, so I messed with you instead. And you wouldn't show it, but I knew you were freaked out by that. There was a tiny glimmer of fear in your eyes every time I said something that hinted I knew what was going on.

It was satisfying to watch that back then. It was like a little inside-joke between the two of us, except it was funny only to me and scared you half to death.

You could say that I was a bonefide menace to your sanity.

Heh heh heh.

But really, I didn't give up entirely. Sure I gave up the idea of resisting and forcing you to stop, but I didn't completely give up by becoming a sobbing, hollow wreck as some people might have imagined I'd become. No, I was better than that. Even though I knew everything I did was pointless, I still went through every single day with a smile. I still made bad jokes, served as a nuisance to Papyrus, did stupid stunts like run an illegal hot dog stand, act as a sentry for Undyne, did my gig at MTT Resort if I was called in, taking you to eat out even though I wanted nothing to do with you, everything like that. I did all of that even though I didn't have to. One reason was because I wasn't a weakling who turned into an emotional wreck over all of this. No, I wasn't going to break all because I'd be repeating the same day over and over again for what could very well be the rest of eternity.

But the other reason was because I cared about Papyrus. Even though he'd never know what was really happening to me or the awful things you were actually doing, I was going to make him happy. I was going to play out each day like I was fooled by you too when he was around so that I could at least make him happy with knowing that he might actually catch you. Sure, I'd still mess around with him with my laziness by not correctly setting up puzzles or something like that, but I'd still do everything to make his time with you fun. He didn't need to see how I was really feeling or that you had gone through his puzzles an endless amount of times. I cared too much about him to let him know the truth.

He almost caught on a few times, like when I wouldn't respond sometimes because I was staring off into the space, distracted by my own thoughts, but he never figured out the truth. I did everything in my power to make sure he never knew that I had watched him die dozens of times. He didn't need to suffer.

So he remained happily innocent each and every time a timeline reset, never figuring out my secret or yours. And I guess by extension, nobody else I was friends with found out either. Alphys, Undyne, and that lady behind the Ruins door all remained innocent as well, which I still believe to this day was for the best.

I don't know how long this went on for. Maybe it was for a month. Maybe it was for a year. Maybe it even went on for an entire century. I honestly have no idea and kind of don't care when I really think about it. All I know is that one day, instead of killing a random monster to see how well that played out for you or making seemingly unimportant alterations to monsters' lives, you didn't hurt anybody. You actually helped everybody, going out of your way to make everybody as happy as could be. It was just like the second time I saw you.

It was such a shocker seeing that after seeing you going around murdering everybody before. I almost didn't believe it was happening at first and kept thinking you were just doing this because you wanted to mess with me now, but no, you stayed true to being a happy little kid going around, sparing everybody. It was kind of sweet watching it really even though I knew everything you had done before.

Well, it was, until I went with everybody else to make sure that Asgore didn't kill you. Because as soon as we did that, something that I thought was nothing but a fever dream showed up and absorbed everybody's souls into its own body.

It was the golden flower.

The second I was assimilated into that flower, I had weird images shove themselves into the front of my mind. I was quick to recognize them to be the same strange images I had seen before of me fighting with an unknown target in the golden chamber, me firing lasers out of white demon heads while I was filled with a strange power. At first, I didn't get why I was seeing this all over again, especially when what first triggered it was touching your hand, but I figured it pretty quickly when the darkness surrounding that target disappeared.

That target was that creepy flower, disappearing into the ground every time a laser fired at it before reappearing somewhere else to fire hundreds of pellets at me. And somehow, despite how fast those pellets were going and how they seemed to be coming from all directions, I'd avoid every single one before summoning up bones out of nowhere and flinging them at the flower.

It was like something out of one of those stupid animes Alphys made me watch, complete with the flower screaming at me the whole time, saying I'd never defeat it because it had a power I couldn't match, me giving that flower a bunch of snide remarks, yadda yadda yadda.

The memory ended with me finally incinerating the flower with a laser, it proclaiming that it'd always come back twice as strong as last time every time I killed it. The past me just goaded them on, challenging them to actually kill me, while smiling victoriously before everything went to black.

And then, I was free again, and this time, standing in the barrier room with the queen, Asgore, Alphys, Papyrus, Undyne, and of course, you. That flower was nowhere in sight. Well, except in my mind. I could clearly see that memory playing in my mind over and over again, not understanding what was happening.

When I had done any of that? How did I have those weird powers when I didn't have the least bit of training and couldn't care less about fighting? These questions swam in my mind and I found myself growing less and less sure about a lot of things. And it didn't help that the flower was nowhere in sight, so it wasn't like I could go ask it if there was ever a time I incinerated it and how it could have possibly lived through that.

But I didn't get to think about it for much longer, because then everybody discovered that the barrier was broken and that we could all leave now. We could all go the surface and be free, just like we always wanted to.

Everybody hurried outside, and after climbing up for a while, we finally made it to the surface world where all of the humans lived. The first thing the seven of us all saw was the sunset in the distance.

I remember being so mystified by that sunset. I hadn't seen anything remotely close to it in the underground. Sure, we had some lights, but nothing could quite match the brightness that was that sun, shining in that warm yellow and orange color. It was almost a little blinding when I was so used to just having flowers or crystals lighting the way in the underground, but my eyes adjusted pretty quickly.

Well, "eyes", since you know, I'm a skeleton and all. Don't ask me how it works because I couldn't tell you.

Anyway, after staring at the sun for a while, I looked over at you. I noticed that you weren't doing much, just staring at the sunset yourself with everybody else, this pensive, misty look in your eyes. You looked like you were trying to smile, but for whatever reason it wasn't working, so you were stuck with that blank stare. I remember watching you from where I stood, wondering what you could possibly be thinking.

Here you were, after all of these resets, and you had finally made the decision to let everybody live and come to the surface instead of messing around underground. Finally, after who knew how long, you had let us get the happiness we all wanted. I should have been happy when I realized that. I really should have after watching everybody wish for years that they could leave the dark underground and be up with the humans again. But I wasn't, and that was because I realized that you had actually given this to all of us once before.

And it had been stolen from all of us.

The second time that reset happened, you brought us to the surface. I know you did, because that was the only other time that the flower showed up and tried to assimilate everybody. I just couldn't remember it because the timeline had reset, wiping out any memories I had after we were all set free. But I knew that you had taken us to the surface before and gave us the hope of doing whatever we wanted. I just couldn't remember it, and neither could anybody else.

But you didn't bring us back here right away for whatever reason. You delayed that for who knows how long, and I couldn't help but feel some resentment toward you for that. Maybe it wasn't your fault that these timelines kept resetting, but you were aware of them. But instead of getting everybody a chance to be happy, even if only for a day, you kept us all underground. And you toyed with everyone, knowing nobody would ever know. You wouldn't give anybody their happiness, and though I could understand you doing that because it was ultimately pointless to make everybody happy when time kept getting reset, I couldn't help feeling pissed off at you. You should have kept trying anyway. You should have instead of entertaining yourself by toying with the lives of others, knowing there were no consequences.

But as much as I grew to hate you, I didn't let it overwhelm me. I instead told myself to let it go, because we were back on the surface again. And maybe, just maybe, you'd bring us back here when the timeline reset again. Maybe you'd do it for the rest of eternity, just to see everybody smiling.

Everybody stared at the sun for a while longer, and then they asked you what you wanted to do now that you had helped them. You volunteered to be an ambassador so that when we did come across any humans, they would know that we came in peace and only wanted to be a part of the human world again. Of course, everybody loved that plan, and we all headed down the mountain with happy smiles.

Then, when we got close to the base of the mountain, we all set up camp and called it a night, deciding we'd talk to the humans in the morning where we'd hopefully come off as less threatening. But of course, since I was very well aware that the timeline was going to reset the second I fell asleep, I didn't go to bed. I stayed up until everybody fell asleep (though getting Papyrus to go to sleep required reading him a bedtime story), and then I snuck away from camp to go explore the human world on my own.

The first thing I noticed was that everything there was really, really big. All of the buildings were huge, and there was so much space compared to the cramped underground. I was pretty sure that we could fit just about every monster in the underground in one of those huge, towering buildings that was several stories high. It was pretty daunting really.

The second thing I noticed was that the human world had a lot of things that the monster world didn't have. I saw it for myself when I was leaving behind a city I came across and was going to try and find the next one. Apparently that city lived right alongside the ocean and I had walked toward it. So when I left the city, I found myself at the beach, no city in sight. And let me tell you, there are no beaches in the underground. Second I stepped onto that sand, I didn't know what to think of its weirdly mushiness and how easily it stuck to my shoes. And when the waves started rolling in and tried touching my feet, I didn't know how to react to that either. I knew the water wasn't dangerous, but I was marveled by how the water was doing that when it seemed that nobody was in the water at all. Some unseen force was causing the water to form into waves that would then crash onto the sand before retreating back into the ocean.

And then I saw the stars of the night sky. Let me tell you, second I finally got a good look of the night sky that day, I really thought it was a lot more beautiful than the sunset. There was something about it, something about the dim glimmering of a thousand tiny lights in a black blanket across the sky that sparked a certain kind of amazement in me. And unlike with the sunset, it didn't feel rushed. I didn't feel like I needed to cherish every second of the sunlight that I could. With this night sky, I felt like I could enjoy it but not stress over the thought that it would disappear in the blink of an eye.

But thankfully, despite some of the things the surface world had that the underground didn't, the two worlds ended up having quite a bit in common. Aside from everything being bigger and roomier and things that couldn't possibly exist underground, everything else was pretty much the same. They sold the same kind of food for the most part, there were hotels just like MTT Resort, there were hotdog stands, open fields, everything. They didn't have any echo flowers though or hidden villages, but it really was just like our world, meaning it really wouldn't be that hard to adapt. All we had to do was just get the humans to understand us and then we'd all be on our way.

I kept exploring this human world the best I could, going as far as I could walk before I grew tired and found I could walk no more… which actually wasn't very far. I was still in the original city I had wandered into, though now somewhere downtown. But I found I was tired because of the events of that day, because apparently having your soul assimilated really drained you, so I knew I had to stop. As much as I wanted to keep looking around, I knew I had to stop and accept that I wouldn't be seeing this world in the morning. I'd be back in the monster world just like always.

But I didn't let myself feel down at that thought. Was better to have seen this wonderful place than to have never have seen it at all. And maybe, just maybe, I could see it again tomorrow if fate was so kind as to do that.

Heh heh heh.

So I climbed up the mountain to go back to you and the others. And then once I found them, I went back to my makeshift bed resting right next to Papyrus before letting myself pass out.


You couldn't possibly believe the pure shock going through me when I woke up to find myself still on that mountain with everybody still sleeping around me. You really couldn't. Not after waking up every single morning in my bed back underground and growing used to it every single time. But not that day. No, on that day I had actually woken up somewhere different, in an actual tomorrow and not a repeat of a today.

I almost didn't believe it was real when I woke up. I really didn't. But then I saw you, standing there on the edge of the cliff, looking out into the horizon. You were actually smiling now, like being able to do it without it looking painful. And then, you looked at me, and your smile seemed to grow.

And it was right there that I realized you knew it was a new tomorrow as well. You knew that for whatever reason, the reset wasn't happening anymore and that we'd all be free to do as we wanted on the surface land.

You and I were free.

After everybody else woke up and had a small breakfast made out of the supplies we brought with us out of the underground, we all headed down into the human city and finally introduced ourselves to them after all these years. The humans, naturally, were pretty terrified of us and wanted to send us back underground, but you stepped in, telling everybody that we were friendly and not to be feared. And though I knew that the humans were still scared of us, they did listen to you and gave us a chance to prove ourselves friendly. And thus, we monsters did, slowly moving into their world and helping them with whatever they needed.

Days and days passed, and I always woke up to still find myself on the surface. Maybe I wasn't always in the same place since I'd be in different areas sometimes, but I'd always be on the surface and not back in my bed underground. I really was paranoid for a while, wondering if the reset would ever happen and if I'd have all of this taken away from me, just like that, but it never did happen. The reset never came, and I'd always be on the surface with everybody else.

It really was great. I really did love being on the surface. I loved all of the cool inventions the humans had like their cars, all of the shops, all of the food they served, all of the highways I could pedal a tricycle down, everything. But most of all, I loved being able to go outside at night and look up at the stars. It was a strange thing. It wasn't significant to anybody else, especially not to the humans since most of them were passed out at night, but seeing it filled with me with a sort of wonder I can't explain. Maybe it came from never being able to see such a marvelous thing for my entire life, but I just loved looking at the night sky every day, usually dragging Papyrus to stay out with me. He didn't always like to, getting pretty bored of it after a while, but he'd still watch it because it made me happy.

Well one day, I think after two weeks of being on the surface, Papyrus couldn't stargaze with me because Undyne wanted to spend time with him. I thought I'd be alone, which was fine by me for just a day, but I had something pretty amusing happen instead.

You decided you'd join me that night.

Somehow you had heard that Papyrus wouldn't be with me that night and knew about what I liked to do, so you volunteered yourself to watch the night sky with me. And while I didn't exactly get why, since you were so busy being an ambassador and also taking care of things with the human family you still had and I never saw you, but I didn't decline your offer. I was still a little pissed off at you because it had taken so long to get to the surface again, but that feeling was dying down.

So you and I stargazed on top of some hill outside of the city. For a while, neither of us said anything to the other, just looking up at the stars and admiring them. But after a few minutes, you looked over at me.

"How are you liking it up here on the surface?" you asked me.

"It's nice," I told you casually. "I like a lot of things. What about you? How are you doing with your ambassador stuff and whatever it is you do?"

"It's going okay," you told me. "It's a little exhausting and scary, especially since there's a lot of people that are afraid of you guys still, but I try to get them to understand. And having Asgore with me helps out since I feel a lot safer around him."

"Even though he's a big softy on the inside," I chuckled.

"Yeah, but maybe because of that that's why I feel better," you said with a smile. "But when I'm not being an ambassador, I'm usually with my parents back home. They're having a hard time understanding everything. You know, with me meeting all of you guys and still being alive when anybody who fell into the monster world got killed. They really thought that after I got lost in that mountain when I was going on a hike, that I wouldn't make it. They really thought that you guys would kill me. So it's a little hard to get them to let me go sometimes, but I think they're starting to accept it. They don't look so scared of Asgore anymore, and they seem to like Toriel. I don't know about Undyne, though. They're kind of freaked out by her and think she's going to harpoon them or something if she gets mad."

"Well that's Undyne for you," I said, winking at you. "Tell them they better get used to it."

You laughed a little when you said that and then fell silent. Your smile slowly disappeared as it turned into a thoughtful frown. You looked at the ground as you curled your fingers around the grass, nearly ripping it right out of the ground. It didn't take me long to figure out something wasn't right with you. And regardless of what I thought of you before, I still felt worried about you.

"What's the matter, kid?" I asked you.

You didn't say anything for a while, only staring at the ground with an intense look like you were trying to make the grass catch on fire.

"Do you ever wonder why I fell into your guys' world?" you asked me.

"Uh… well no, not really," I said, stumped by your sudden question.

You smiled for a brief moment before you frowned again, still looking at the ground.

"It was because I was bored," you told me. "I was getting kind of bored of everything going on here. Things were just getting boring and nothing ever changed. So, when I found out that mountain close to here might have had a secret entrance to the monster world, I decided to go find it. I wanted to see what was there because it could be something new, something that wasn't boring. Maybe I'd have an adventure down there. So I climbed up that mountain one day when my parents weren't home and I looked for that entrance. And when I found it… I went right on through and ended up in your world. And well… I can certainly say that I found the excitement I was looking for."

I didn't know what to say to that. The thought that you had willfully dropped yourself into the underground because were tired of your supposedly monotonous life on the surface was unnerving to me for some reason. I didn't think anybody would put themselves in a world full of dangerous monsters all because they wanted some excitement. It was pretty baffling for me to hear you confess that to me.

I didn't get a chance to respond though, because then you laughed quietly and shook your head.

"Sorry, I don't know why I'm telling you that," you then told me. "I must be tired or something. You know, with all of this running around and everything. I don't think I even got a chance to take a break until now."

"It's alright kiddo," I replied.

You smiled before getting up and telling me that you needed to head home since your parents would be worried about you. So, I bid you farewell and watched you disappear down the hill until you were finally gone from sight. When I found myself alone again, I found myself thinking about your words, pondering over them. You had come to the monster world because you were bored and wanted to see what was there. You were tired of your human life for whatever reason.

Something about that didn't sit right with me. Sure, I knew what you did was pretty stupid, but there was something else about it too. Something about what you said unnerved me, but no matter how much I thought about it I couldn't figure out why.

After thinking over it and getting no answers, I decided not to think about it anymore. I figured it was just something silly and meaningless. So, after staying on that hill for a few more minutes, I too got up and went to my new home on the surface as well and went to sleep.

And then it happened. I woke up that next morning.

I woke up…

… and I was back in my bed in the monster world. Tucked under the sheets. In my messy, messy bedroom, snow gathering outside of my window.

I remember I was so enraged when I woke up in my bedroom. I ripped the blankets off of me and threw them to the ground before kicking down the door and hurrying into Snowdin Forest. And sure enough, there you were, coming out of the entrance with that blank stare. Except this time, there was a glimmer of happiness in your eyes, like you were actually HAPPY that the reset happened again so you could do everything all over again.

And that's when I figured it out. I felt like such an idiot for not figuring it out earlier.

You were the cause of the resets. I didn't know how, but you were the one that was doing all of those resets. That was why you were aware of the timeline changes just like I was. I mean, it sure didn't explain why I was aware of them, but now I knew why you were.

You were the reason they even happened.

You couldn't imagine how pissed off I was when I figured that out. You just couldn't. I stormed up to you, not even bothering to go through the motions of pretending I had never met you before, and grabbed you by the shirt collar and raised you into the air so that you were only a few inches away from my face.

"Why?" I growled at you. "Why did you reset everything? Why are you and I back here?"

You didn't say anything, but I could see the shock on your face. You really hadn't expected me to remember all of the other timelines when you had been constantly resetting them and erasing memories.

"Answer me," I demanded, shaking you violently. "Why did you bring us back here?"

You still didn't say anything. I couldn't believe this. I couldn't believe that you had stolen not only my happiness, but everyone else's too. I couldn't understand why you would do such an awful thing. I just couldn't understand what kind of sick monster you could be.

I threw you onto the ground and let you go wander out of there, me following you. I didn't bother trying to point out anything wrong when Papyrus arrived; I just played along. I was ready to go through the motions again. I had done this so many times, it became as easy breathing.

Except… what you had been doing in the past isn't what ended up happening. Instead of playing along with Papyrus's puzzles, you just forced your way through them. You mocked him. You killed all of the monsters in the area without remorse until all of the monsters grew scared of you and quit coming after you. All of the townspeople fled the second they heard about you and left the town empty. You stole everything from every store you came across in Snowdin. You killed Papyrus. You just stood there, looking down at the dusty scarf in the snow as I watched you from afar, not able to fathom anything.

Why were you suddenly killing literally everybody you came across? You never did this before. You would kill some monsters, but it was only a select few.

And then I saw your face.

You… had this horrible smile on your face. This smile that reeked of pure evil. I didn't even think I was looking at you when I saw that smile.

Second I saw that smile, something happened to me. These images forced their way into my mind and the next thing I knew, I was no longer watching you walk away from the dusty remains of Papyrus. No, what I saw instead was me with that golden flower again in the golden hallway. But this time, the two of us weren't fighting. Instead, I was looking at the flower with a smug, confident grin. I could see my left eye glowing with a blue light in the reflection of a window nearby. And that flower was smiling as well, shooting me the exact same smile that you were wearing. That flower said something to me, something about how I needed to get out of its way before it killed me, but I refused. I just shook my head, telling it that I was going to stop it from destroying everything everybody held dear. That flower then said I couldn't stop it because it had Determination within it.

And then, that image melted away as another unfamiliar memory came over me. I saw myself in a lab with Alphys, the both of us looking a lot younger than we are now and standing in front of a very strange monster. He towered over both of us, looking a bit like a skeleton like me with a white lab coat and black eyes with cracks going through them. He was a creepy looking guy, but for some reason, me and Alphys weren't scared of him. All we did was watch as he showed us a board with writing all over it and explained a very strange concept to us. He told us about something called "Determination" , a force that humans have within their powerful souls that can allow them to persist in all circumstances. And in some humans, or the rare monsters that also had it, their Determination so great that they could press on even in death. Somehow, they could undo their death and travel back in time, making it so that they never died in the first place. He told us about it in a strange language that didn't seem the least bit familiar, but I could somehow understand every single word he said.

Alphys and I nodded our heads, and then he went on to explain other concepts before the memory faded to allow a new one to take its place. Now, I was with that strange skeleton all alone in what I realized was The Core of the underground where all of the geothermal energy was turned into magical electricity for the monsters of the underground to use. The both of us in front of a strange machine with many flashing lights and switches on it. It was flashing and shaking violently, smoke rising out of it as the skeleton frantically pressed buttons on it while I could only stand back, watching in horror. He looked at me with this very grim look, looking like he was going to give me an order and then this blue vortex suddenly opened up out of the machine.

Before I even knew it, that vortex swallowed that skeleton up. I tried to reach for him, but the second I put my hand into the vortex, it sent this chilling shock through my body, making it crawl through my bones and making a blue fire spread through me. And then, everything suddenly went dark before a new memory came over me. I saw myself in my house, looking at a strange photo of me, Papyrus, and that skeleton man. We were all smiling in the photo, looking so happy.

Like a family.

And then, suddenly, the skeleton was gone, and it was only Papyrus and I in the photo. I didn't even look like I noticed from what I could tell from the reflection in a nearby mirror. I just kept staring at it blankly for another few minutes before Papyrus ran inside, telling me we needed to somewhere.

The memories changed again, and I was back with that flower again. It was still taunting me, telling me it could never win because it'd keep resetting our entire battle every time it died and that eventually it'd win. It said that it'd eventually learn everything I threw at it because it could reset the whole battle and I'd never know because my memories would get reset. It gloated that to me, knowing I'd never remember.

The look on its face was priceless when I told it that it had said that the last time I killed it.

And then, just like that, the memories ended, and I was back in the forest outside of Snowdin, you gone from sight. I held my head as I slowly let everything process in my mind, now realizing why Alphys and I were friends. We were both scientists apparently, working for that skeleton man. That man that I got the strangest feeling was my father. And yet… the more I pondered, the more I realized I couldn't exactly remember anything about him. Those memories were all I had of him. Something had happened to him, and that was why I had never heard anybody talk about him. And somehow, I had forgotten about him. Somehow, probably because of that vortex, I had forgotten.

But that vortex… it had done something else as well. It had given me a power. I had no way of knowing for sure, but there was no other reason my eye would have been glowing the same color the vortex was.

Then I thought about the flower. It had done resets just like you. It had for whatever reason, and now you were doing the exact same thing as it. Which meant… you were going to do the same thing that flower was going to do back then.

You were going to destroy everything.

You were going to kill everybody. That smile you had was the exact same one the flower had in that memory. And there was no stopping you. And I had a feeling that you weren't going to reset everything after you were done being a genocidal maniac.

In other words, this world was going to fall into ruins, possibly the human world as well.

It was when I realized this did something in me finally snap. I was suddenly so incredibly pissed off at you like you wouldn't believe. You couldn't even begin to understand how pissed off I was and how much hate I felt inside of me. Because it was at that moment that I realized I had enough. Not only did I not want you to kill everyone, but I was tired of letting you get away with everything and not doing anything about it. I was tired of letting you run everything like you owned this world. I was tired of letting you reset the world and doing nothing about it. No, not after all of the monsters you killed.

Not after you were bent on killing literally everybody in sight at once this time around, making it so that nobody could stop you.

Not after you killed Papyrus over and over again.

You were going to pay for everything you did.

And I was going to be the one to make you suffer.