Frisk stared at them in shock. Nemo's fist was inches away from Asgore's face. All it would have taken was one strike, and he would be dead. "I… I can't." Said Nemo.
"Nemo?" Asked Frisk.
He lowered his fist, and clenched his other as both of them shook at his sides. "I can't kill him. I don't want to kill him." Said Nemo as he turned over and looked at Frisk, letting them see his face as more tears formed in his eyes.
Asgore was at a loss for words. "...After everything I have done to hurt you… you would rather stay down here and suffer… than live happily on the surface?" He asked.
"I don't deserve to be happy…" Said Nemo. "And I don't think Frisk could be happy knowing what I had to do to get them out of here."
Asgore was silent for a moment as he smiled sadly. "...Humans… I promise you… for as long as you remain here… my wife and I will take care of you as best we can." He said. "We can sit in the living room, telling stories… eating butterscotch pie… we could be like… like a family…"
Nemo smiled at him, and looked over at Frisk, who was smiling as well. "I think we'd like that." He said.
Then everyone's eyes widened as Asgore was surrounded by friendliness pellets. Nemo tried to dash forward to help Asgore, but he was too late as they all struck the king. All Nemo could do was watch his dust fall to the ground. The duo saw Asgore's soul, and then they watched as one last pellet struck it and caused it to shatter. Then they saw Flowey pop out of the ground. "You idiot." He said. "You haven't learned a thing." Suddenly the six human souls started floating around him. "In this world… it's kill, or be killed" Flowey's face got all melty as he began to laugh and the souls floated towards him.
"No!" Shouted Nemo as he tried to stop him. BUt he was too late as everything faded into white.
They looked around. It was dark. There was nothing there. Not a speck of light, and yet they could see each other clearly. It was just a void of black. "What… is this place?" Asked Nemo.
"We're in Flowey's world now." Said Frisk calmly.
"...What?" Asked Nemo. Frisk turned around and looked at something. It was a star. They started walking towards it. Nemo followed them, still confused. Frisk placed their hand on the star and looked up at something that Nemo couldn't see. Then there was a weird thudding sound followed by the sound of shattering. Suddenly an enlarged version of Flowey's face appeared before the duo. His face was then replaced by a square of static for a moment before returning.
"Howdy! It's me, Flowey." He said, his face occasionally glitching out. "Flowey the flower! I owe you a huge thanks. You really did a number on that old fool. Without you, I never could have gotten past him."
This made Nemo glare. "Listen here you little weed…" He growled.
Flowey's face then shifted, becoming a black and white version of Asgore's. "But now, with your help…" The imitation then began to melt, grossing out both humans who were present. "He's dead." His face then turned into one of his more malicious, smiling ones. "And I've got the human souls!" They could hear the sound of laughter as Flowey's face disappeared for a moment.
"Boy!" He said as his face returned, still occasionally being replaced by static. "I've been empty for so long… it feels great to have a soul inside me again. Mmm, I can feel them wriggling…" This caused Nemo to internally gag. "Aww, you two are feeling left out, aren't you?" He asked.
"Not particularly…" Said Nemo.
"Well, that's just perfect." Said Flowey. "After all, I only have six souls. I still need one more… before I become GOD." Nemo's eyes widened as he remembered something Undyne had told him. That if Asgore had obtained seven souls, he would become a god. And now, Flowey was one soul short of completing the set. Flowey's face began to shift and become more terrifying. "And then, with my newfound powers… Monsters. Humans. Everyone. I'll show them the real meaning of this world." He said as his face vanished again, and laughter could be heard.
"Oh, and forget about escaping to your old Save File." Said Flowey as he reappeared. "It's gone forever."
"Save… File?" Asked Nemo as he looked between Frisk and Flowey. But it didn't seem like either of them was going to give him any context.
"But don't worry." Said Flowey. "Your old friend Flowey… has worked out a replacement for you! I'll Save over your own death. So you can watch me tear you to bloody pieces… over, and over, and over…"
"I'm not gonna let that happen." Said Nemo.
"...What? Do you really think you can stop me?" Asked Flowey incredulously. "Hee hee hee… you really are an idiot."
His face vanished as the humans' souls manifested. They then saw the other six souls manifest in the air and fly into the sky. The entire area they were in was suddenly drowned in a red flashing light that'd probably trigger a seizure as the dark silhouette of… something, descended from the… sky? Ceiling? Nemo still wasn't even sure where this place was. Suddenly a white rectangular screen with a smiley face on it appeared. It's smile broadened into a grin. And it's eyes widened, becoming red and green. The red light faded, revealing the creature's true form.
Omega Flowey let out a distorted laugh that shook Nemo to his very soul.
From it's upper eyes it created four pointed star bullets and launched them in triplets at the humans. Frisk and Nemo ran around, trying to avoid the attacks, but they were pelted multiple times. Then Flowey created flamethrowers near his arms and started shooting fire at them, and it burnt. Nemo realized that he had said he wasn't gonna let Flowey kill them, but he was now realizing that he didn't really have a way to hit that freak in any way that would hurt him from down here. More star bullets came flying at them from the upper eyes, the humans did a slightly better job of avoiding the attack. Suddenly thin vine hands came flying at them, and they were able to avoid most of them while only being grazed by a few. A different star pattern came from his upper eyes, which the humans avoided by running to the center, only to be blasted by a laser from Flowey's mouth. Frisk stumbled to the ground, Nemo ran over to help them, only to be toasted alive by Flowey's flames.
Nemo groaned as he fell to the ground. He watched as his soul shuddered for a moment before shattering. He groaned as his head dropped to the ground, and he died.
Nemo looked around. He saw Frisk standing next to him, a look of terror on their face. Nemo looked up to see the silhouette of Omega Flowey descending once more. "I'll Save over your own death. So you can watch me tear you to bloody pieces… over, and over, and over…" Nemo's eyes widened as he remembered Flowey's words. His eyes widened as Flowey laughed. He realized what he had meant. Frisk was no longer the one who could rewind time. Flowey was the one in control now. Frisk took his hand in their own. Nemo looked at them and smiled. He couldn't give up. It was fighting time, and this time he was determined to win.
He was expecting the triplet star pattern again, but Frisk pushed him out of the way just in time for a circle of friendliness pellets to appear where they were standing and fly into where they had been, and continue on their paths flying outwards, more circles repeating the process. That was when Nemo realized that their foe was unlike the others. He remembered what happened each time, so he wasn't going to repeat the same action. This was going to be harder than he thought.
Case in point when more vines came at them. Frisk and Nemo scattered, splitting up to divide the vines' attention. They continued to run around, ducking around the vines as they shot past them.
Nemo turned his attention away from Frisk just in time to skid to a stop and backpedal away from the flames as they started shooting streams of fire at him. His back wound up colliding with Frisk's; the duo looked at each other before looking at the flames approaching them. Nemo grabbed Frisk and dived out of the way, just in time to avoid being hit.
Nemo looked up and pushed Frisk out of the way before rolling to avoid even more vines, these ones being more focused on him. He raised his arms as one vine struck him and sent him through the air.
He rolled and stood up just in time to see pellets manifest and fly at him. He ducked down and dived to the side. He shot a quick glance over to see Frisk handling themself well enough. Nemo continued to run around and avoid the pellets.
He then turned and ran as he noticed the flamethrowers appeared. He did a baseball slide, going under the flames before punching the flamethrower, altering its trajectory so that it shot fire at Flowey, burning him instead. Flowey screeched because of this.
He used his upper eyes to glare at Nemo and summoned star bullets that flew in triplets at him. Nemo sidestepped the attack, smirking as he started to get into the groove of this fight.
"Nemo! Look out!" Cried Frisk. Nemo looked up just in time to see a mass of blue energy form in Flowey's mouth as he fired a laser at the human. Nemo used his arms to shield his face as the laser pumped him straight into the floor. Nemo let out a choking sound as he tried to stand up.
Just then star bullets came flying from his lower eyes in the widespread fashion. Frisk ran over and tackled Nemo out of the way of the attack and into a safer spot.
Once the bullets stopped, Nemo tried to stand up, only for Frisk to let out a cry of alarm before pushing him out of the way of another friendliness bullet circle. "Deja vu." He groaned as Frisk helped him avoid the attacks. "How are you this strong? Seriously? You're pushing a guy who's probably one and a half times your weight around like it's no big deal.
"It is a big deal." Gasped Frisk tiredly. "You're not easy to move." The duo started sidestepping as the lower eyes fired another widespread array of bullets. Just then they heard a strange sound. They looked at Flowey's TV face to see it replaced with the word "Warning" and it had the cyan soul beneath it. Then everything went black.
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