* This is it. This is the end of the world. It's the end of everything you know.
* You, and all of your friends stand in the space between timelines. Standing before you all, is The First Human.
* All of existence, everyone's lives, their hopes, and their dreams, rests on your shoulders.
* Being here, knowing your decisions will shape the world, knowing the fate of all your friends rests on you...
* Fills you with DETERMINATION...

* But this... isn't really our story. This isn't your story. Perhaps... it's best to rewind. To explain from the very beginning.

Where do we begin, exactly? We could start with the human falling into the underground. Tell the story of their making friends with all the monsters of the underground. A compelling story of compassion, and love. The happy ending that everyone deserved. That's the story everyone loves to hear, isn't it? Except... it didn't end so happily for our human. Just before their life with their new monster friends truly got started, the world went black again. They awoke at the beginning once more. The smell of aster flowers filling their nostrils. The scent of the ruins in the distance.

It was disorienting at first, and panicking secondly. All of their progress was taken back. They'd done so much! They'd done everything correctly, hadn't they? Made friends with everyone. Never harmed a soul... everything had gone perfectly. And yet, here they lie, at the beginning again. So, they set off once again. Unlike the first time around, where they had to reset because they killed a monster in self defence, this time, they did it all perfectly on their very first adventure.

They stayed a whole day with Toriel, the lonely matron of the ruins, exchanging stories, and telling jokes. Being all-around pleasant. Toriel was the one they got to spend the least time with, after all. Their departure was all the more painful for it. They met Sans in the forest, and Papyrus shortly after. Spaghetti was quickly becoming the human's favorite dish. A fateful battle! A fateful date! Alas, poor Papyrus cannot love, but shall remain a good friend. Onward, to the confrontations with Undyne, the vigilant Royal Guard, and a passionate outing with a fish, afterward. Then, a meeting with a lizard, whom they gave their full support, and all of their patience.

Time spent with a robot is time well spent, and our human participates in every event, stomping every puzzle, and dashing to the finish. These events culminate into a show most dazzling, as the human, and the robot dance together, and put on an unforgettable spectacle, like a well-choreographed pair. Inevitably, the human must go. Onward, the human marches, past the monsters, and into the hall of judgment. Cast in the name of GOD, ye worthy. The judge passes the human with some kind words of encouragement. Then, the confrontation with a monster filled with regret, followed by a weed most foul.

Victory. Load. True lab. Amalgamate horrors await, but they aren't there to harm the human, they're truly affectionate! Finally, Alphys is brought a modicum of solace, and peace of heart. Finally, once again, the battle of wills with an ancient goat. But our human's hopes and dreams prove sufficient. Their love is great, and in the end, they hug an old friend, and console them. Don't worry, young goat. Your loved ones will be cared for. At last! The end is at hand! The barrier is down, the monsters are free! Our human goes to bed, happy, knowing once and for all that-

Yellow flowers. The human opens their eyes, once again to be confronted with yellow. In a panic, they get up, and look around, desperately hoping this was a dream. They pinch their arm, and nothing happens. They cry, and scream, for Toriel to wake them up. But nobody came. Twice, now, cheated from their fate, our human collapses among the flowers, and they weep.

"Wh-what... am I.. doing wrong?!" They ask themselves, and the world around them, between gasping breaths. They weep for hours. They cry, until it hurts. Until the tear ducts in their eyes are sore, and their entire face is throbbing with their crying. Sobbing still, they stand up, and try to do it all again. The only way to know, for sure, was to play this game over and over again, until something gives.

"Are you seriously crying?" Flowey asks, before he is blown away by a motherly figure.

The human finds solace in the arms of their adoptive mother, and are guided through the ruins... and it all begins again. The story unfolds as the story ought to, just as before. This time, they do things a little different, however. They make sure to talk to every monster. They fail all of Mettaton's challenges. They try to get into Alphys's true lab, before the fight with Asgore, to no avail. They try to talk Asgore out of the fight, saying it's pointless, but he won't listen. They finish the fight with Flowey, and they finish their story with Alphys. They tried something new, this time! Surely, whatever presence was keeping them here... they should be satisfied with this performance?

And yet, again... the human wakes up in flowers. This time, they are not deterred by this. It's becoming routine, being thrust back against the beginning walls, and being forced to do it all over again. They are filled with DETERMINATION. They go back to work. This time, they try to act cold to Papyrus. But, couldn't keep up the act. They try to be mean to Undyne, but their heart won't let them keep it up.

Yet again, at the end of their adventure, they find themselves in that bed of flowers once again. Once again, undeterred, they go. They try it all another way. This time, after the fight with Asriel, however, they go through all of the underground, to see if there was anything they missed. They find their goat friend at the beginning, amongst the bed of flowers. There was an emotional exchange, as Asriel tells the human about Chara, and how they were truly different. How they weren't a good person. Afterwards, the human gives Asriel one last embrace, before going back. This was it, wasn't it? The missing element. Maybe nothing else they did mattered, it was just this exchange with Asriel. They get back to their friends, go to the surface, and-

They awake, once again, in a bed of yellow flowers.