Five Nights of Redemption
Ok so this is chapter 21 the second part of the Asriel fight, I'll try to get more then 2 songs from RED in this one this deserves the full range of emotions for a fight like this so hold on, I'll tell you at the end if I cried while writing this if I do then I'm sure you will and that's what I want so please tell me in the reviews if you cried while reading and listening and tell me exactly what part, nough waffling let's go
Chapter 21: brother: from the beyond
Freddy didn't know who this person is or why they are here now, the voice sounded male so that's a start at least but who did the voice belong to, was it one of the children, couldn't be it was deep like the person was in their late teens, did the voice belong to a human or monster, that was the one thing that couldn't be determined from sound alone they had to reveal themselves and soon.
From the look on Asriel's face he knew him very well as he was looking really angry and trying to search out for the mysterious person, Freddy was perplexed at Asriel's behaviour and wondered who this person was to Asriel as he was muttering over and over "after so long, why now?" the only thing Freddy could think of was Chara but he was dead and he died young but Freddy had no other idea.
Asriel: "come on then, if you're going to come back, show yourself"
Freddy: "who Chara?"
Asriel: "ha, he would love to find a way back to this world but he can't, at least I don't think he can, no this person is closer to me then Chara could ever get"
Freddy: "and who the hell would that be?"
Torigore: "that would be me, my name is Torigore, I am Asriel's biological twin brother"
Freddy: "WHAT! Mum never said anything about you"
Torigore: "that's most likely because of me running away"
Torigore stood in front of Freddy, he was 7 foot tall, has soft white fur, floppy ears, blue eyes, horns like Asriel's adult form and wears a sleeveless purple jacket with a lighter purple shirt baring the Dreemurr crest, blue jeans and a black cape, despite being Asriel's twin he appears older because he was left alive and when he ran away he found a human soul and spent time on the outside world and grew to embrace it, now that he's back he has the chance to give his brother new life.
Asriel: "so you came back, why?"
Torigore: "because I was a fool to start with running like that, I should have stayed with mum and dad, I'm sure it would have helped with the breakup"
Asriel: "what do you even know about it, do you know what happened to me?"
Torigore: "what, besides turning into a freaking giant demon to destroy all of time?"
Asriel: "SHUT UP! You know nothing, dad made that DR. whatever her name is conduct experiments on innocent monsters that were near death to see if they could live a bit longer, but they got fused to other monsters and they were in constant pain, the experiments were a success however and I was turned into a flower"
Torigore: "wow, I bet that was a... groundbreaking experience"
Asriel: "ugh, why do you have to have mum's humour, it's annoying"
Torigore: "because she had to give something to me while you got all her love"
Asriel: "only because I was her favourite and you was always trying so hard to get her to notice you and she never did"
Torigore: "yeah well I bet she doesn't love you anymore, I bet she's appalled at what you've become"
Asriel: "SHUT UP!"
Asriel then launched more homing lasers, Freddy tried to move out the way but he still couldn't move, everything he tried to do just wouldn't work for him, Torigore could see that Freddy was struggling and he had to help him, Torigore had the strongest fire magic out of the Dreemurr family but even that wouldn't be enough to help Freddy, he had to go one step further but how he didn't get his Dreemurr armour yet, they only got that once they hit 18, he had something else, he had the human soul and with it he could access a power on the same level to that of Asriel, he powered up and produced a light that was brighter than anything Freddy or Asriel has seen before.
The light then turned a shade of yellow and started to die down, then golden wings made of feathers started to spread out from the light and soon the light was gone leaving behind a shiny golden version of Torigore behind, he touched Freddy on the shoulder and Freddy felt his fake fear wash away, he could stand again, he could fight and he was ready to give Asriel what was coming to him but before he could he was stopped be Torigore, there was something he wanted him to do.
Torigore: "Freddy, what you are seeing now is not my brother, this is his imagination turned into hate, hate for me leaving and hate for Chara killing him, it's your job to save your friends then we can save him, it's the only way to stop him from going back in time and killing Chara which could destroy reality, time cannot be changed so easy, you just get lucky... a lot"
Freddy: "so how do I save my friends exactly?"
Torigore: "the heart of his body is not solid you can phase right through it, I'll try to keep him still and focused on me but you'll have to work quick he'll know what's going on and your friends don't have much time before they forget you"
Freddy: "ok then let's do this"
Torigore then taunted Asriel about Toriel being disgusted in his actions and that he would be grounded for months, and it worked mostly because he was right, Asriel then tried to fire off a round of commits but then Torigore used some kind of mind bond to stop him, while Torigore was forcing Asriel to relive their best memories together Freddy jumped into the heart.
Inside was more darkness, Freddy was getting sick of all the dark and felt deep down in his own heart and told himself never to give in to it, this gave him a boost of Determination and that in turn shone a light in which he would find the first set of friends to save, it wasn't too long till he found the ponies, all 13 of them in the same part of Asriel's heart.
They all had pixels covering their faces and they spoke in a monotone voice as if all of them were trying their best to out Maud, Maud Pie, Freddy tried to reach out to them but it wasn't working.
Freddy: "hey guys I need you to come back with me"
Rarity: "why should we go with you darling, we don't know you"
Freddy: "yes you do, it's me, Freddy Fazbear"
Pinkie: "wow, I've heard some weird names all around Pony Ville but yours is the weirdest"
Freddy: "you've heard my name before and you never had a problem with it"
Fluttershy: "he's probably here to hurt us oh please just go away"
Rainbow Dash: "I bet he's not even that cool or awesome"
Freddy: "ugh Rainbow can you please get better vocabulary, all you say is awesome"
Rainbow Dash: "how do you know that?"
Freddy: "because we're friends"
Applejack: "alright, you reckon we're friends so tell me, what do you think of me and be honest, I'll know if you're lying"
Freddy: "Applejack I think you are a lot like me, I think if Twilight were to fall to an evil she just couldn't defeat I believe you'd have the strength and courage to take leadership of your group of friends, if it had to come to it I think you'd stand your ground and take charge"
Applejack: "wow he's right I would"
Twilight: "alright hot shot so you know some of my friends, but do you know the rest of them?"
Freddy: "yes I do, Sunset, you are afraid no one will ever trust you because you wanted nothing but power and you got it through falsely making yourself a princess, then after you failed and every one shunned you, after that you try your best to make it right again"
Sunset: "oh wow he does know me, I'm so sorry"
Freddy: "it's ok you have redeemed yourself, Starlight, you tried to make everyone your friend after you lost Sunburst to Canterlot once he got his cutie mark, you grew bitter of them even when you got yours and tried to change time to erase them, after you saw what horrors awaited your world you choose to join Twilight in aid of helping other ponies find friendship"
Starlight: "yes I did all that and I regret it every day, now that I can work with my friends to find a better way I want to help others find the same conclusions"
Freddy: "Vinyl and Octavia, you two are a set of ponies that pop in and out of other pony's lives and never really get that much recognition until you found each other, you had differing views on music but you put them together to create something new, you fell in love with the music and each other, now I'm not one to go for that kind of love, I'm a bear so I like it straight or the kind of love you get from a mother and father but I cannot deny... you two are cute"
Vinyl: "Well he's got us pegged right"
Octavia: "of course, he must know us, nothing says a speech of our love like a good friend to see it all"
Freddy: "Celestia and Luna, the princesses of Equestria, how can I forget you, one is the ruler in the day while the other takes charge at night, the both of you have your problems, one was consumed by jealousy while the other basked in the fame of her subjects, you faced each other and soon Celestia won but not without risking her sister's own life and sanity leaving her to spend 1000 years on the moon, not bad I guess, call me cruel but if you ask me if I had a sister that betrayed me I would send her packing and not give a damn what happened to her"
Celestia: "I was mortified by what I had done, I would spend the nights watching the moon as I sent it across the sky only to put the sun in its place in the morning, I could never forgive myself for what I had done, it was a heinous act"
Luna: "you are not the only one to blame sister, I was the one who was jealous so is it so wrong to have done away with me, I think not, just remember it affected us both, we were young back then and the fame was too much"
Freddy: "the two have you have grown through this adventure I can tell"
Moonlight: "you know so much about us, what do you know about me?"
Freddy: "Moonlight, Moonlight Star, you came to us wanting to put celestial balance right, which in itself was a noble goal, but what you failed to realise is that it was harder then it sounded, everyone has to play their part for it to work but not everyone, or should I say everypony, can be so co-ordinated so you tried to take matters into your own hooves and well it ended badly for you"
Moonlight: "yeah it was a bit of a mess wasn't it, thanks for making me see that I didn't have to do things alone and that I could have the strength to be the first Alicorn King"
Twilight: "ok so you can get my friends to believe in you but what makes you think I'm going to help you, what makes you think I'm on your side?"
Freddy: "it's because I know you love to have friends, friends are what make you who you are, friends are what you depend on when you can't do something yourself, friends are what you need when you feel down, alone, left out, friends are what you need when there is no one/no pony else to help you, friends bring us together and I am your friend"
Twilight: "you are my friend and I believe in you"
Freddy and the ponies then came out of Asriel's heart, he started to feel more like himself but with so many others still lost inside it only made him mad and he broke free of Torigore's mind bond, he launched more homing lasers and Freddy was scared as he was defenceless, Torigore was about to block it with his shear power alone but all the ponies including Celestia and Luna used Rainbow power and the energy sphere was enough to block the lasers, the ponies then used their light to restrain Asriel, he tried to struggle and thrash but then Torigore reengaged the mind bond and played another happy memory of their 4th birthday.
Freddy re-entered Asriel's heart and was covered in darkness again, he searched his own heart to try to find the next batch of friends to be saved, faces flashed in his mind, a smile formed on his muzzle and he was filled with the Determination to save them, he followed the light and the feeling to where they were, this time it was the monsters and again they had pixelised faces and monotone voices, Freddy wondered if Alphys wanted to be featured in her own anime and this could be the part where she forgets herself but then a miracle gives her, her memories back and she uses a great power to save the others, oh well Freddy will have to do.
Freddy reached out to them and tried to take them back with him.
Freddy: "guys we can't stay here we have to go, come on"
Toriel: "I'm not going anywhere with you, I don't know you"
Freddy: "mum please it has to do with your son"
Toriel: "son, he's gone and never coming back, I have no one left"
Freddy: "no he's here and you have to see him, if you don't then you may never see him again"
Toriel: "there's nothing to see, everything I ever loved has either ran off or died"
Asgore: "who are you any way, why do you need us?"
Freddy: "I'm Freddy, I'm your adopted son and friend, I'm here to get you out of here so please come with me"
Undyne: "we're not going anywhere freak, you can just go back to the small hole you came from and just leave us alone"
Alphys: "yeah, j... just b... back...k off"
Freddy: "come on guys"
Mettaton: "oh please darling you look like the next fashion statement with that fur, go shave it off and make millions"
Sans: "ha yeah you look unbearable, hahaha"
Papyrus: "OMG, Sans will you ever stop with the stupid puns"
Sans: "nope"
Freddy: "exactly, Papyrus, you hate Sans' bad puns because they are so unfunny, you try to be at the top but you only get so far because you are so obligated with other things, you want to set a good example but you don't want to capture a human to get into the Royal Guard because you think it's below your standards"
Papyrus: "nyah, you're right, I mean why capture or even hurt a human if the Royal Guard is just looking after the underworld, know what I don't think I want to be a Royal Guard any more I'll just be THE GREAT PAPYRUS!"
Freddy: "Sans, you like to just chill and be friends with people to help them with settling into Snowdin if they fall down into MT. Ebott, but you don't let them walk over you, you have the power to fight anything if you wanted but as normal your too lazy and would rather go to Grillbys"
Sans: "welp... can't argue with that one, nice going bud"
Undyne: "oh wow you know a few things about us, what's so special about you?"
Freddy: "nothing, there's nothing special about me, nor is there anything special about you either but what there is, is a hatred to killing humans, Asgore wanted you to bring him human souls but as you and Asgore collected them they faded and you got nowhere and that didn't help even after Monster Kid tried to help you, it didn't work because he's too young to understand"
Monster Kid: "sorry Undyne"
Undyne: "it's ok, thanks Freddy, say when this is over remind me, the next time I see Asgore I'm going to punch him right in the face"
Freddy: "no problem, Alphys, you are just like some of the kids that come to my pizzeria, you are inquisitive and full of life, still just a young girl who has fallen in love with anime... and Undyne"
Alphys: "..."
Freddy: "you may be timid but what you don't realise is that you bring life were ever you go, just look at Mettaton, he was a ghost asking for a body and fame and you gave it to him, you did it the best why you knew how, make it anime"
Alphys: "well yeah you're right, I was only trying to help and well I guess I may have gone too far, I made him a killing machine"
Freddy: "but that wasn't your fault, he was the one to go crazy and kill all those actors"
Mettaton: "indeed I was a bit power mad and I did do all those things and I regret every one of them, thanks to you Freddy we can be friends now"
Asgore: "I'm impressed that one can know so much about us, but how, what do you know about me?"
Freddy: "Asgore... dad, you were torn by your son's death and you thought all hope was lost, but you had the Determination to carry on and find another way to get that hope back, you did everything you could to bring your son back from the died and it worked only to have your son become a soulless flower that knows only to kill"
Asgore: "yes and I'm ashamed to have done it, if only I had listened to Alphys then we won't be in this mess right now"
Alphys: "what did I tell you?"
Freddy: "ok Toriel, now it's your turn"
Toriel: "there's nothing you can do to change me, I know what I've been through I know what has happened, so just try it my child"
Freddy: "oh that's fine, as long as you know all about your son and that you can see him right now"
Toriel: "hum, oh right because he is alive and himself again and not a mindless, soulless killing flower, no thanks to you Asgore"
Asgore: "dear, I'm tremendously sorry but I believe him, I think we can see him, we can see Asriel"
Freddy: "it's true"
Toriel: "ok then show me"
Freddy then pulled everyone out of Asriel's heart, he was still being restrained by the ponies and Torigore saw Asgore and Toriel, he was shocked to see them after so long, they looked the same, not a thing had changed on them, then again the Dreemurr family has a very long life span so it was no surprise really, but when you've been gone for so long it's still a shock, Toriel looked upon Torigore and she couldn't believe her eyes, the pixels on her face were gone and she rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things and she wasn't.
Torigore gave a nervous smile and a wave, he then scratched the back of his head and tried to talk to Toriel.
Torigore: "oh hi mum, thought it was time I came back after hearing my twin bro call out to put his pain to rest, it's taking it's time but I have to do what I can right... ha"
Toriel: "TORIGORE DREEMURR! What time do you call this, 12 years, 12 years you've been gone and look at you, golden form, beautiful gold wings, you taken a human soul haven't you?"
Torigore: "well yes..."
Toriel: "how could you?"
Torigore: "wait slow down, the soul came to me, he said that he knew the future and I should find a safe place to train my new power I gained from his soul"
Asgore: "he? his?"
Torigore: "the soul it's a male, just a boy in fact, he said his name was Ben"
Freddy: "why do I feel like I know that name?"
It was a question that couldn't be answered but as Freddy was pondering the question and Toriel and Asgore were getting reacquainted with their other son Torigore, he forgot about Asriel and with the monsters now free he felt more unstable, he was now having an inner war with his true feelings and his darkest wishes, he started thrashing around again and the ponies lost their grip, he launched homing lasers in random directions, most of them didn't get a lock on but some did but they were not very solid so they all missed.
One of the homing lasers exploded next to Toriel and she was not impressed, she looked to Asriel and she swore her heart skipped at least one beat, not only was she finally staring at her lost son again but she saw the true terror he had become, she vaguely remembers the drawing he did of this creature and to conversation they had of it, they were talking about if the humans were crazy enough to come down into the Ruins and take out every monster in the underworld, Toriel proposed to Asriel what if she were to be killed by a human, Asriel said he would transform into a god of hyper death and kill every soding human to walk the Earth, she didn't like the language but was at least content with the love and respect he had for her.
Now though she was scared and quite frankly a little cross, she tried to get Asriel's attention to see if she could stop him from changing time and release the anthros, from there they would see what they can do for him and perhaps bring him back to life.
Toriel: "A... Asriel, can you hear me?"
Asriel: "m... (gasp) mum, why, why are you here, I don't want you to see me like this... no go away you shouldn't be here I'm going to make it better for all of us"
Toriel: "my child, what are you talking about?"
Asriel: "it's Chara, it's him, I'll kill him, he made me into this, I'll put it back right, please you have to forgive me for this"
Toriel: "why must you do this?"
Asriel: "because I want to start again, from the beginning so we can be happy, just like we were back before Chara, before our lives all got ripped apart"
Toriel: "no, I have a better idea, you give this up and bring back Freddy's friends and then we can find out what to do with you"
Asriel: "ok, wait no you want to stop me from having a better life, ugh what's this feeling, I want to finish the job but I can't, why, that look on your face, why mum, why?"
Freddy: "that's love my friend, in your heart you want to make things better by killing Chara, but your heart also doesn't want to disappoint the ones it loves, and you love your mother so much"
Toriel: "please listen to me"
Asriel: "ugh stop it, it's burning me"
Freddy: "that's love alright"
Freddy then started to sing a song about the love inside everyone/everypony and the hidden power it has, the power to control and the power to change.
(Now play Love Will Leave a Mark by RED)
Freddy: "there's no use to try and suppress,
It's always there reminding,
The one wound the never forgets, open and undying,
Always alive, always inside,
And no one comes out the same,
Love always leaves a mark,
The scars give it all away,
Burning your heart,
Love will leave a mark,
Twisting, tearing apart,
Holding me together,
Changing every thought,
Haunting me forever,
Always inside,
And no one comes out the same,
Love always leaves a mark,
The scars give it all away,
Love will leave a mark,
With every tear and every sound,
Consumed with the fire that never burns out,
Finding a way through the dark,
Love will leave a mark"
After the song Asriel was crying, crying out for a savour and Toriel wanted to be that savour but there was still one or two layers of anger standing in the way of Asriel's true feelings, but with Torigore and Asgore standing by her side she was confident she could make it through to him soon, as Asriel looked at his family there was a small sparkle of hope in his eyes to see a better life before the faces of them made him want more death again.
He started to thrash around again launching his lasers all over and Toriel and Asgore joined hands to show that they were back together, Asriel saw this and he bawled for the days he knew they were happiest and fired a massive wave of lasers, Toriel and Asgore joined Torigore in using their most powerful forms, the burning guardian and the burning king, both complete with Dreemurr armour, Torigore put his own hands on his parents shoulders and used his mind bond to send them all into Asriel's mind showing him the one time they had a picnic under the hole at the start of the Ruins.
This gave Freddy the perfect moment to save his next set of friends and since the only ones left are the anthros he was going to do his best to get them all back then it's Asriel's turn, then if all else fails Freddy would gladly give his soul to Asriel so he could live again, but he has to make sure he can console and comfort him too.
Ok so that was chapter 21, is it me or am I good at making this story last longer with each new chapter, I swear it was not supposed to go 3000 words without a song I'm sorry I'm really trying to make Asriel's fight an emotional and detailed sequence but how it looks and sounds in my head is not what it turns out on the screen but then nothing ever does right, any way the next chapter should be the last part of Asriel's fight then it's on to Asriel's rebirth... umm awesome name, any way I hope you still liked what we got and that you'll come back, we shall get our Goat bro back actual undertale ending be damned, till next time.
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