Authors note: Warning, large chapter ahead!
Asgore and the rest of the household left for Alphys's lab, to find that Gaster and Undyne were present as well. Gaster greeted everyone "It would seem that Alphys has had a side project going on." Alphys came through a set of double doors "O-Ok guys, this w-way." She led the group through a hallway that took them to a room filled with monitors and gadgets. "S-so first off, the cancer research is going well! W-We have the medicine on clinical t-trial." Everyone cheered, then Frisk spoke "So what is the other news Alphys?" Alphys offered a light smile "W-Well you see, the assistants and myself took notice of human souls. W-We are allowed to humanely investigate them. S-So my first q-question was this: If humans die a more physical death rather than having their soul attacked, w-what happens to the soul? So w-we made various machines th-that would help us keep track of them. W-we took said machines to a nearby hospital w-with an unfortunately fresh human donor. Their soul b-began floating above them, and we noticed th-that over t-time the uh...determination of the soul begins to fade. As the determination faded, t-the soul became less visible. However, we n-noticed that eventually the levels stopped decreasing and w-what was left of it just floated there until the daughter came in once we were done. T-That's when something strange happened, the soul moved to fl-float over the young girl's shoulder." Frisk's eye sockets widened "Woah."
Alphys began to sweat as she got more into detail "E-Eventually we asked the d-daughter if w-we could run a sc-scan on her after a week. W-When we did, the soul was still there floating over her. S-So we asked if it was o-okay if she could stick around for a bit, under compensation of course. She agreed and we w-went to work. We found that i-in that st-state, We could access the soul's memories and view them on screen with audio and everything!" Alphys pointed to a rather large looking monitor "N-Naturally the girl was sh-shocked, but it seems as th-though souls do not simply cease to exist. Rather, t-they remain visible until most of their determination fades, and they keep watch over those important t-to them. W-We ran this test on various other people, and received the same conclusion."
Suddenly it clicked as to why she called everyone, especially Frisk over. Frisk was staring at the monitor for some time "Do you…..think my parents are doing the same thing?" Alphys walked over and held her hand "Do you want to find out?" Frisk nodded as she was put in a chair with a machine in front of her. Everyone watched as the machine whirred to life ,Alphys brought the screens around for Frisk and everyone else to see. Frisk gasped as she saw two faintly glowing hearts , one above her left shoulder, and another above her right."Th-they must have been watching over you for a very long time, both of them are red souls too." Frisk instinctively placed her hands on her shoulder, feeling nothing there, and yet on the screen the heart on her left was resting on top of her hand. Alphys spoke again "I-I can show you their memories and the things they saw , i-if that's what you w-want." Frisk smiled "What better way to introduce you all to my parents? Go for it auntie." Alphys flipped a switch and another monitor appeared, everyone sat quietly as they watched it play. They saw Frisk in her father's arms, her first word, her first step, her first day of school. They got to see Frisk as she grew, until the time came when the accident would happen. The memories from then on seemed as if the parents were always standing behind her, commenting and wishing they could be there for her more. The time came for Frisk to eventually climb Mt. Ebbot.
On Screen
They watched as their daughter began to climb the forbidden mountain "Frisk, kiddo stop!" "Please my child hear us! You don't have to do this!" But Frisk did not hear her parents, they were dead afterall, and she fell into the hole. Unscathed Frisk looked at the flower patch when her mom spoke "Those flowers must have broken your fall." Frisk would eventually meet Flowey "Oh what a nice looking-OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IT NEARLY KILLED HER!" The parents were frantic until Toriel came and healed Frisk, causing the parents to sigh in relief. Frisk's dad spoke "So it looks like monsters are real, and range from psychopath flowers to motherly goat people." Frisk's mother laughed "Well you know what they say dear, sometimes you gotta grab the goat by the horns!" laughter ensued as they followed Frisk through the ruins, getting to the point where Frisk called Toriel mom by mistake "Oh no, i'm sorry Ms. Toriel,…..its just that, you remind me a lot of my mom before she died." "I understand my child, I am sorry to hear that you lost your mother. Have no fear, I shall take care of you small one." The rest of the ruins played out, and Frisk being ever observant, managed to get past Toriel without killing her. After another friendly chat with Flowey, Frisk went through the door to Snowden.
Everyone watching was looking at the screen intently, Sans smiled and put his hands on Frisk's shoulder they knew what was next. "Human. Don't you know how to greet a new pal? Turn around and shake my hand." Frisk's parents were nervous, until a loud wet farting noise erupted from the handshake, causing them and Frisk to laugh "heh the old whoopie cushion in the hand trick. its always funny." The parents watched as Papyrus and Sans did their schtick, laughing loudly "Oh my god if we were alive knowing these guys would have been great!" Frisk's father said, nonchalantly leaning on the sentry station "Looks like the monsters we heard about are not the same thing." They watched Frisk pass through Snowden and Waterfall. Sometimes though, the screen would blink out and be back at certain points in the memory, like papyrus's spaghetti trap, or before the cliff that Undyne stood on. They laughed as they watched Frisk's cooking lesson with Undyne, and throughout Mettatons shenanigans. Alphys paused the session to speak "T-This is strange, the only reason it w-would skip this much is if there were things the souls didn't w-want us to see." After some pondering Sans spoke "well, maybe they're just making sure they remember right." Alphys shrugged and continued the session.
Frisk had began fighting Mettaton, Alphys told Frisk about the switch. However in the middle of the fight, the scene went right back to the door before hand. This time however Frisk just tricked Mettaton right away and the fight commenced and finished. "W-wait what? These ch-changes in what you did after the scene reloads itself….wh-what's going on there?" Frisk bowed her head down "Hey dad….think it's time we tell them?" "looks like it kiddo." Gaster smiled "It would help out greatly young one." Frisk began explaining an ability to save and load through her determination, confirmed by Gaster,Sans, and Chara. Everyone was shocked, Toriel spoke " So all of those 're loads….were when you either died or had to try something else?" Frisk nodded "There was a third option to, reset, which apparently would reload me all the way back to the start, taking away everyone's memories with it. Dad and grandpa G are the only ones able to know when a reset or load happens." More explanation came as everyone came to grasp this concept "SO YOU HAD THE POWER TO DO LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU WANTED, AND YET YOU CHOSE TO NOT USE IT?" Frisk smiled "Well papy I did use it, but only the load and save ability." After some more chatter, the session resumed, Frisk was standing before Sans in the judgement hall. "So you finally made it, the final part of your journey is at hand. In a few moments you will meet the king, and decide the fate of this world. That's then, now you will be judged." Everyone held shocked expressions, Frisk's parents silent as Sans's speech went on, explaining LV and EXP "but you. you never gained any LOVE. 'course that doesn't make you completely innocent or naive, but that you kept a certain tenderness in your heart. no matter the struggles or hardships you faced, you strived to do the right thing. even when you ran away, you did it with a smile." Though the shadows covered most of Sans's face, everyone could hear a slight sense of pride and gratitude in his voice. "You never gained LOVE, but you gained love, if that makes any sense." At the end of Sans's speech, the Frisk on screen was crying and walked over to him "I-I dont want to fight…...but…...I have to get home…" Sans put his hand on Frisk's shoulder "as long as you do what's in your heart, no matter what, i know you will do the right thing. I'm rootin for ya kiddo." With that he vanished, leaving Frisk and the ghosts of her parents. She would go on to fight Asgore "Please, I don't want to fight." "Listen to her!" "Asgore. I Don't want to fight you." "Look man just stop this crap!" "ASGORE STOP FIGHTING!" but no matter Frisk's pleas, he would not relent, earning a glare from Toriel, and a strange look from everyone.
The Frisk on screen was crying "Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys…...everyone….I...i'm sorry." she pulled out her worn dagger and began to fight back. Everyone watched as the two did battle, Asgore's theme playing loudly, the song of a fight that nobody wanted to happen. Frisk's parents were in shock at what their baby girl was forced to do. Frisk got in the final hit, bringing Asgore to his knees "Ah, so that is how it is." Asgore would give his own small speech 'Human, this war has gone on long enough, take my soul, and leave this wretched place." Frisk gave Asgore a harsh look, raised her blade, and threw it behind her "No." "Human….despite everything I have done, you still choose to spare me? I promise my wife and I shall take care of you, we could sit in the living room, eating butterscotch pie. Like….a family." Toriel still had her eye on the screen, but was giving Asgore the stink eye, only to have her attention completely turned to the screen as that Asgore was surrounded by pellets. Frisk closed her eyes "Oh god here we go." Gaster put his hand on her shoulder "I hate this part." "this is what you told me about, isn't it kiddo?" Flowy's pellets killed Asgore, Frisk could be heard screaming "NO! NONONO FLOWEY! YOU PIECE OF CRAP!" "Hehehehehe You IDIOT! In this world, IT'S KILL, OR BE KILLED!" With that Flowey took the souls and everything went dark.
Everyone watched in stunned silence as Flowey made his monologue, Frisk's parents unable to comprehend what was happening. The Frisk on screen stepped forward "What? You think you can still fight me? hehehehe , you really are….an idiot." In a dramatic reveal, Flowey's omega form appeared, scaring the hell out of everyone. They watched as Frisk did the best she could, dodging pellets and bullets, only to still get hit with vines, or other bullets. They watched her die several times before being loaded back in. Eventually she got through all the souls and they began healing her, Everyone was too stunned at what they saw to speak, their attention focused on how the hell Frisk survived this. They watched as the souls healed her, and her fighting Flowey back. "YEAH FRISK KICK THAT FLOWERY MONSTROSITIES ASS!" Undyne shouted pumping her fist in the air, everyone was cheering excitedly, especially when Frisk got the last hit. "NO! NO!" file reloaded. "You idiot." Present Frisk hid her face in Sans's jacket, hugging tightly. They watched as Flowey trapped and relentlessly killed her in painful ways, over and over, until the souls rebelled during yet another monologue.
Sans, like everyone else, was speechless, all he could do was wrap his arms around Frisk, and hold her tightly, rubbing circles around her spine as he watched "FRISK….DID THIS TRULY HAPPEN?" "Punk….you STILL made it through that?dang your tough" "O-Oh my god….Frisk…" Toriel was seething "And you let him into our house why?" Frisk removed her face from Sans's jacket "You will see soon." Frisk's parents were still at a loss for words...they could do nothing for their daughter. Eventually Frisk would hit reload and events happened as everyone else remembered, all the way until Flowey absorbed everyone's souls.
Toriel and Asgore were in shock "As-Asriel?" "Howdy, Chara. It's me, your best friend…." ASRIEL DREEMURR. Hopes and dreams began to play as Asriel used everything he had against Frisk, her first death occurred….but it refused. They watched as her soul put itself back together through its determination. "Undyne…..this is why I stand by what I said….anime is real. This fight is about as anime as you can get." Asriel entered stage two of the fight, they watched as Frisk struggled to do anything. Eventually her parents spoke once more "You try to reach yoru save file, but nothing happens." Frisk's mother calls out "But maybe, with what power you have...You can save something else?" The Frisk on screen called out for her friends, the first one to show up was Sans. His face was blurred and his voice echoey "just give up….i did" Frisk dodged several of his bone attacks "Hey Sans, how about we take a break instead?" "why even try?" Yet another bone attack dodged, current Sans was looking down at his feet, holding Frisk's hand "Hey Sans, CROSSWORD IS HARDER THAN JUNIOR JUMBLE." " you'll never see them again…." Yet another wave of bones Frisk had to dodge, getting hit by several "Heh, Hey Sans you keep attacking me like this, I'm pretty much BONED!" This causes the lost soul to laugh "heheheh god kiddo that was pretty bad….wait what…..oh what the hell did i do?" Sans rushed over and healed Frisk "kiddo i'm sorry….i don't know what happened." "Don't worry, i'm saving all of you.I'm determined to get us all out of this!" "alright, i'm rootin for ya kiddo." With that Sans faded, but that Frisk could feel Sans resonating loudly within Asriel, seems like he's finally trying.
Frisk called out for Papyrus, and she found him, face blurred like his brother's. "I MUST CAPTURE A HUMAN!." Bone attacks just like his brothers " Hey Papyrus, could you fix me some spaghetti first?" "THEN EVERYONE WILL…." more bones "C'mon Papyrus, I need your help with a puzzle!" This caused Papyrus to hesitate "Would a skeleton statue be called a SKULLpture?" "NYEH, HUMAN WHY? WAIT….WHY AM I ATTACKING, WE'RE FRIENDS!" Papyrus faded as well, resonating louder than his brother. Everyone was watching with tears in their eyes, except Undyne who was trying her best not to. Undyne popped up next "All humans will die!" Frisk blocked all of her attacks, Frisk follows up by clashing herself against Undyne, showing her fighting spirit "You're our real enemy!" Another wave of spears to block, Frisk gave the biggest smile she could, like how she knew Undyne did. " You are in the way of all our hopes and dreams!" Frisk blocked another wave "Hey Undyne what about that recipe you were gonna show me?" This causes Undyne to stop and blink "Wait….what the heck was I just doing?!" Her soul faded back into Asriel resonating louder than Papyrus, Toriel, Asgore, and Alphys were saved.
Frisk's dad spoke "But, there may just be one other person that needs saving, He has to be in there, right?" Everyone watched as Frisk called out to Asriel, they watched the scene play out. His apology, their farewell. The session was paused as everyone enveloped Frisk in a group hug. "You are a really tough wimp!" "so that was the details...nice goin kiddo" "I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!" "Thank you, my child" "F-Frisk….you saved us all….and Asriel…." "Frisk….Thank you."
The session continued, it showed Frisk and Sans outside on their first night "heh i can't stop lookin at em." "They are really cool, a lot more better than the stones in the underground." Sans nodded "frisk….there is something i need to talk to you about….. I know about you being able to save load and reset." Frisk pulled back in shock "Wait what?" "oh, dont worry, im not after ya or anything, it's just that, you see because i'm aware of them, i also can remember things from a previous load or reset….when that damn flower had control of the timeline…..things were nice for a while. until he started killing people. Kid i know you wouldn't do that, but please, promise me that you won't reset….i- i don't think i could handle waking up in snowden knowing we just made it to the surface." Frisk held her hands to her mouth "B-But I did load…..a lot." "heh loading and saving is all well and good, if you want to still do that for caution's sake, that's up to you. but i would rather not start all over again." Frisk nodded "I promise Sans, no resets. Ever." The memories began to blur by after that, many of them being memories everyone was there for, stopping at a more recent memory, Frisk in her hospital bed, bald, ill, and asleep with everyone standing in her room, surrounding her bed.
The Toriel on screen walked over and placed her paw on Frisk's head, tears in her eyes "You are our sunshine…"
Asgore:"Our only sunshine..."
Papyrus:"YOU MAKE US HAPPY..."
Alphys:"When skies are grey..."
Sans:"you'll never know kid...how much we love you..."
Undyne: "Please don't take our sunshine away."
The group stood there humming for a good while, with Frisk's parents singing right along with them. Everyone watching the screen kept their group hug on Frisk, holding her close.
The scene switched again, It was the parents reacting to Frisk's death and rebirth. Frisk's father cried out "No, nonono Frisk stay strong kiddo! You have to hold on! For them, for us!" Frisk's mother was standing next to Frisk watching as Frisk slowly started to lift out of her body. They saw Everyone rush towards Frisk with their healing magic, Frisk's mother was pleading with them "Please…..save our daughter…." When the glow faded, Frisk was there in her skeleton form "What?" Things happened as everyone remembered "Frisk's father and mother both were smiling "Thank you…...thank you thank you thank you…." The words repeated for a while, until the memory faded to Frisk standing with everyone at her parents graves. Frisk's father put his ghostly hand on Sans "Keep taking good care of our daughter, you more than earned that right." Frisk's mother had her hand on Toriel's hand "Thank you...for everything" The view on the screen faded as Alphys spoke "L-Looks like that's it….y-you really went through a lot…..my god…" Frisk nodded "We are here now, that's what counts. Mom….we are going to find a way to save Asriel." Chara nodded "Darn right we are." Alphys pushed up her glasses and spoke excitedly "T-there may be a way to do that, but the idea will take some time, and the logistics of it will cause it to take longer." Toriel stood and spoke "If it means we have a chance at bringing our son back….take all the time you need to do it right." Asgore nodded "We have faith in you Alphys, do what you need to."
With that everyone went home, to deal with the information they received, Toriel and Sans had a long talk concerning his former well being. He assured her everything was fine, and proved it with his increased Hp. Eventually things returned to normal once again, and within a few weeks, it will be time for Frisk's first ever national speech. Knowing that her parents were always watching over her, and are to this day, fills Frisk with HoPe. Knowing that things will only get better, knowing that her brother has a new chance at life as well, fills Chara with determination.
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Authors note: I hope you guys enjoyed this. I tried something similar to this in another fic, but it didn't turn out as well as i would have liked, this hopefully is much better.