Chapter 16
After our trio rented the room, all of us saw it was a conjoined bed and that it was very large, very fluffy, and it was a bit tall for me and Norma to get into on our own. In fact, Mew Mew had to get us into the bed when we got there, and we then turned off the lights and we sighed contentedly. "You know... for the first time... I actually feel safe..." Chara smiled.
"Me too... but Flowey's still out and about, so I think we should take some turns in sleeping and one of us staying awake," I said.
"Or you could just have me watch over you guys. After all, ghosts don't need sleep," Mew Mew smiled.
"Even better. If you see Flowey, take this trumpet and blow into it at the highest pitch you can muster, okay, Mew Mew?" I smiled at her.
"Okay, I think I could do that," she smirked as me and Norma then laid under the covers and we finally had some peaceful sleeping time.
I then had a dream, one that I would never forget. In my dream, I woke up and I saw 6 different colored souls nearby, but I couldn't get to them for some odd reason. Like, there was a big void of darkness between me and the six souls. "Crow... is that you?" one of them asked, me recognizing the voice immediately. It was Tootie! She sounded just as adorable as I remembered!
"Tootie? Yes! It's me! It's Crow!" I said to them with a smile on my face.
"Crow! Oh thank goodness! Where are you?" Bullet asked, his soul glowing a bright yellow while Tootie's was the magenta one.
"I'm in the hotel near the CORE! I'm literally directly underneath you guys!" I smirked at them.
"Your that far in the Underground?! Hot damn, bro! I couldn't even last three hours before I got caught by that Undyne creature!" said the voice of Tex, who still had a nasally voice on him.
"How are you even talking to us, though? I mean, we're all dead right now. Our bodies are kept in Asgore's basement, but our souls are still alive... what's even going on now?" Andy asked.
"I'm sleeping in a bed at the hotel... we must be able to speak right now because I'm so close to you guys... listen, I have a very good plan to not only free you guys, but also save all the monsters in the Underground, okay?" I said, them gasping as I then heard Cinder speak.
"You do?! Please tell us! I want Burgerpants to leave here the most! Oh, I just wish I knew how he's been doing at the burger joint without me!" Cinder groaned.
"How's Tori doing? She helped me out when I fell down here accidentally, but then I got captured by Undyne the moment I got to the caves," Shiva said with a worrisome voice. I couldn't blame her, as she was the youngest of our group.
"To answer your questions, Toriel is doing fine and I have a plan in place to have all of us have a happy ending. It requires having all of my monster friends in the area you're being kept, making something fall for a trap, and then me and my new girlfriend going to the surface to find human souls from graveyards," I said, the group cheering at that and me smiling.
"Okay, big bro! You knock 'em dead out there, alright? We'll be waiting! If what Asgore said is right, the moment our souls reconnect to our bodies, we'll be back to life in no time!" Bullet said with a smile.
"Got it," I smiled as I then felt a flash of light happen and I woke up to the feeling of Norma nudging me with her head, me smiling and getting up, stretching my arms out and smiling at her.
"Ready to head out, hon?" she asked me.
"Ready as I'll ever be... but before we leave this room, I need to do some shopping and make some calls," I said, knowing exactly what I had to do on the way to the capital. I had to call up my friends and then go do some shopping.
I ended up calling everyone I'd met and became friends with and talked them into meeting up with me at Asgore's castle near his throne room. I called Toriel first, who was a bit hesitant at first, but then I told her of a certain flower that planned on killing everyone if he got the human souls, her then agreeing and hanging up. I then called Papyrus next, and he and Sans then called Undyne and Alphys, who happened to have a pretty good date, from what I heard. And then, when I was finally finished shopping at both the burger shop (for food) and at the alleyway (where I got the rest of my siblings' stuff in the form of Bullet's hat and empty gun and Cinder's apron and frying pan) I then made my way forward to the CORE, where I got on the elevator and went up it with Mew Mew and Norma not far behind, me then hearing Reaper Bird's parts talking in my bag again.
"So this is it, right? Time for the finale," Astigmatism asked.
"Ribbit Ribbit... yeah, it's almost time," Final Froggit croaked.
"Tell us when the plan is to unfold, and we shalt prepare for the trap," Sir Whims said.
"You got it, guys," I smiled at them as I then used a save spot with Norma by the entrance to a strange arena and, upon entering it, guess who we saw? Mettaton. And he didn't look too happy with us.
"So, we meet again, Crow Burr!" Mettaton said with enthusiasm in his voice.
"Yes, we meet again, but we don't have time for a fight. We need to get going to Asgore before a catastrophe happens," I said.
"A catastrophe? Whatever do you mean?" Mettaton asked.
"Something big is about to happen that holds the fate of all humans and all monsters in its hands. We need to see Asgore immediately and we do not need anything to go wrong. Please, just let us through? It's very important!" Norma said.
"Well... if you say it's that much of an issue, then our battle shall wait. Besides, if what your fanbase says is true, you plan to free every monster down here all at once. Very well, go on ahead!" Mettaton said, him then getting out of our way and us going past him and to the elevator, me hitting the button that said 'castle' and the elevator going up pretty fast and very high in the process, lasting for about twenty seconds before the elevator stopped and the door opened up. And when we exited the elevator, we saw that we had finally made it. Asgore's castle.
"Here we are..." I said as we then moved out and through the place, the different castle towers going past us as we went down the path until we got to a very familiar-looking house that was just as white as everything else. It was an exact replica of Toriel's house back in the Ruins! Only this one had lots of golden flowers in it and it also had two different gift boxes right inside the front door.
"It'd be best to open those boxes up. They could help out in the fight if the trap fails," Chara said, me then looking in it and seeing that one of them was a locket with a heart shape to it and that the other was a gardening knife.
"Uh... okay... here, Norma, you take the locket, and Mew Mew gets the knife. Besides, Flowey already hates my trumpet, so that'll be more than enough," I smiled.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Flowey hates high-pitched noises! Does anyone here in our group know how to sing high soprano?" Chara asked with a smile.
"I do. I'm the highest soprano in school! I bet our combined high pitches could make him wet his roots if he ruins the trap," Norma smirked.
"Indeed," I smiled as we then made our way down to the bottom of the house, through the basement, and then we came across a door that had the words 'throne room' next to it. And guess who we saw right there? All of our allies we asked to meet up with us, including Toriel, Alphys, Undyne, and Papyrus. But Sans? He wasn't there at all...
"Um... hey, guys," I smiled, all of them smiling at us.
"So, are we ready? We all got the text and came running when we heard how dire it is," Undyne said.
"And... well, I need to smack my husband across the head when we see him. He's just on the other side of this door. We must be careful in there, as it is a garden," Toriel said.
"Yes, let's... just gotta wait for Sans," I said, him then appearing from the southwest lugging something surprising. Six different coffins, all of them having a different color of heart on them.
"hey, i'm here. we'll need these to save crow's siblings," Sans said.
"Wow, bro! I never realized you were strong enough to pull that much weight!" Papyrus gawked.
"heh, it's only cause this is a serious moment. i only show how tough i really am when it's serious," Sans said, us then nodding and proceeding through the door and me then tapping on the bag that held Reaper Bird.
"It's time, move to position behind the throne," I said to them, the group then exiting the open flap in their new form, which was the color of 6 different hearts that they then hid behind the throne and how Asgore was right in front of the throne in the garden and he was preoccupied by watering his flowers. And once in position, we then made our presence known.
"King Asgore, it's Undyne," Undyne smiled, him then chuckling to himself before getting up and turning around, him starting to speak as he did.
"Ah, Undyne. How has your endeavors gone in... capturing... the... huuuuuuu..." he stammered when he saw every single one of our group there.
"Loss of words? Don't blame ya, mister Dreamurr," I smiled at him.
"I uh... what are you doing here, Tori?" Asgore asked, Toriel approaching him and then slapping him in the face with some pent-up frustration.
"Do not 'Tori' me, Dreamurr! You could've very easily just taken one soul, then gone to the surface to collect the remaining six and free all of us peacefully! This plan of yours is so incredibly brazen and brash," Toriel frowned at him, Asgore sighing and kneeling after that.
"You're right... I made that decision in a fit of rage... I couldn't bear the loss of our children at the hands of the vicious humans above..." Asgore said, our happy time being cut short when I heard the scuffle happen, just as I expected.
"Wh-WHAT?! W-What is this?!" asked a very angry Flowey as I then saw that Reaper Bird's plan worked! They managed to pull Flowey out of the ground and I saw that he was being held in place to the Reaper Bird by his roots. He was trapped and he knew it. But upon seeing the Reaper Bird itself? My friends reactions were... very worried.
"Huh?! W-What is that thing?!" Toriel asked in shock.
"I-It looks like... scary..." Papyrus gawked.
"It's okay, guys, I believe that Crow can explain everything," Undyne smiled, me nodding at that.
"Okay, here's how it worked out, guys. I didn't tell you everything about the plan because of this Flowey bastard having an annoying trait of eavesdropping on our conversations. I knew he'd follow me here in silence, wanting to steal the 6 human souls to try and destroy the world. But thanks to Alphys, we have the upper hand," I smiled.
"Alphys?... What is the meaning of this?" Asgore asked.
"Well... remember when I injected Determination into the monsters in my lab?... Well... the monsters ended up losing their physicality... and started to melt into one another... at least 5 different Amalgamates, as I called them, were created. Reaper Bird, here, is made of Sir Whims, an Astigmatism, and a Final Froggit," Alphys explained, Toriel's eyes angrily looking at her. "But Crow had an idea in place once he gave me the courage to... come out with the truth. See, an Amalgamate is able to turn into various different shapes and forms, as their bodies are mostly in a melted state. He had the Amalgamates that had families return home while Reaper Bird, having no family members, hid inside of his bag the whole time. Crow's plan in place is that Flowey is also an Amalgamate... I didn't want to say this, King Asgore... but... I injected him with Determination without your knowledge... and then it all went downhill from there..." Alphys said.
"But see, that isn't actually the whole story here," said Chara's voice as she emerged from Norma's body with her head hung low and her then looking directly at Flowey. "Isn't that right, Prince Asriel?" she said, everyone in our group gasping except the ones that knew about it already. In total, the ones who gasped were Mew Mew, Muffet, Asgore, Toriel, Sans, and Undyne.
"You... You knew all along, didn't you?! How'd you figure it out so easily, bitch?!" Flowey exclaimed at her angrily.
"Oh, would you really want to call me that word. After all... we're brother and sister, are we not?" Chara asked, that making Asgore gasp as well as Alphys and, of course, Flowey.
"C... Chara?..." Flowey asked, his voice sounding much softer right now.
"Asriel, you've been caught hook line and sinker. Now, you only have two different options at hand. One, you could accept my soul, as it is still the combination of both of ours, which will give you back your former traits and your old body... if you refuse, however... then your body will become completely melted into Reaper Bird. And since you don't have a soul, you'd be stuck inside of them, not having any control of anything ever again," Chara said, Flowey looking at her with an angry frown before Chara then touched him. "Shh. Your fate is already decided," Chara said as she then touched Flowey and her body completely absorbed into him, Flowey gasping at that as he then broke free from the Amalgamate and his body shined a bright white!
The blast of the lights was so intense, I could barely hold my eyes open the entire time! And then, as quickly as it started, we then saw a miracle. There, standing before us in a green and yellow striped shirt, fur covering his entire body, and small horns coming from the sides of his head. It was Asriel.
"A-Asriel..." Tori cried as the goat kid then looked around, touched his face, and then his chest, him sighing and looking at us with a sigh.
"I... I'm... I'm..." Asriel said before he fell to his knees and started to bawl his eyes out. "I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY EVERYONE! WWWWAAAHHAAHAAA!" Asriel cried out loud, his tears spraying onto the different flowers in the field in the process, me approaching him first in case anything went wrong.
"Asriel... it's okay," I said as I then went to hug him and Asriel sniffled and accepted it, the tears now starting to seep into my shirt. I then looked behind me and saw that everyone else but Sans looked to be ready to produce tears.
"No, it's not!" he cried again. "I did all sorts of terrible things... I tried to kill you tons of times... yet you still showed me mercy... You had every opportunity to kill me... but you let me live... I don't understand..." Asriel blubbered, all of the others then coming over for a group hug that Asriel felt the warmness of. And I saw that Undyne, THE UNDYNE, was actually crying herself!
"Undyne... are... are you crying?" Papyrus asked, her sniffling at that.
"W-What?... Don't be ridiculous... I'm just... oh, who am I kidding? This is so beautiful!" Undyne blubbered before she started to let out the waterworks, me smiling at everyone in the process.
"Now, King Dreamurr," I said, only after a five minute hug.
"What is it, Crow? What honor can I bestow upon you for the great thing you've done for us?" Asgore asked.
"I want you to release my siblings' souls and have them put back in their bodies," I said, Asgore nodding at that as he snapped his fingers and 7 different soul containers appeared, one of them being empty.
"Fluffybuns," Asgore said, me smiling at that as the lids then popped open and my siblings' souls, now freed from captivity, immediately went to the coffins their bodies were kept and, after five seconds of waiting, all of them opened their lids completely, their bodies smelling pretty rank and their clothing very tattered and rotted, but they were up and about and then started to cheer wildly as all of us were finally reunited.
"Oh my gosh! This is the greatest day ever, Crow! You should be proud of yourself! None of us were able to even make it to Asgore's castle, yet you not only befriended every monster in the Underground, but you gave him back his children and saved all of us!" Andy exclaimed wildly at me as I looked at everyone with a smile.
"Now for the final part of the adventure," I said as I then looked to Asgore.
"King Asgore, please, escort me to the barrier. I'll venture to the world above to bring back souls from 7 deceased people so the barrier can be destroyed... but on one condition," I said, him nodding at that. "On no account are monsters to be discourteous or hateful to the humans above when we get there. Trust me, if we can show the humans above just how peaceful monsters are, then we can both live on the surface peacefully and without war," I said, Asgore nodding at that.
"Now that my children are returned to me, I don't care about destroying humanity. That was just a pipe dream anyways... humans, with their combined might, would completely trounce anyone down here," Asgore said.
"Well, if that's the case, then I'll be the one to destroy the barrier with the 7 souls," I said.
"I know you can do it, Crow. If you were able to get through the entire Underground in only three days, come up with an elaborate plan for peace, and have all of it work out in the end, I'm sure you can make this world lead to a better future," Norma smiled.
"Thanks," I smiled at her, planting a kiss on her cheek and her smiling at that.
"Oh, a smooching contest? Well, two can play at that game," Undyne smirked as she then picked up Alphys and smooched her right on the lips, her gasping and blushing profusely afterwards.
"We'll all go to the barrier with you, Crow. We want to help see you off. Oh, and do not worry, Crow's siblings. I have already signed you all up for the Saving Humanity fan club!" Papyrus smiled widely.
"Hehe, a fan club for humans in the monster world. Now I get why Mettaton's programming was trounced in ratings by you," Alphys smiled.
