When I woke up, I couldn't see a thing, all around me was just blackness. I held me head, feeling it throb after slamming into the wall so hard, but in doing so, i could faintly see my arm, so I decided to illuminate a little by charging my ki, which lit up a small amount of the room I was in. I decided it was a good a time as any to heal up a little, so i took out the burger I had, expanded it and ate it, healing me fully. I walked and suddenly, my scouter briefly flashed with a power level of 89,000 then it just died out. I took it off my face and saw that the thing had several cracks on it; I tried jiggling it and hitting it a little, but it didn't turn back on.
"Great, it's busted. I'll just have Alphys fix it up once I get out of... where the hell am I?" Suddenly, I saw a glimmer of light in the distance and began walking towards it, as I got closer, I realized it was a save point, which I didn't even know I created, but I touched it and my save locations popped up. As I was about to select my most recent save, I felt the whole place shake and the save files began to crack, suddenly they just shattered and Flowey's face appeared, but looking like he was on T.V.
"Howdy, it's me Flowey, Flowey the flower."
"How many times do I have to deal with you?"
"Oh, you'll never get rid of me, especially now that I got all of the human souls. You see, while you and the king were fighting, I managed to take them from right under your noses and you didn't notice until it was far too late."
"Yeah, I noticed, but I'm not backing down, you're dead and I'm making sure of it."
"Hehehe, do you really think you can stop me now? I am the god of this world, and once I'm through with you, I'll show them all, monsters, humans, everyone! I'll show them all the true meaning of this world! Oh, and one more thing, forget about escaping to your old saves, they're gone! But don't worry, 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 bloddy pieces, over and over and over!"
"Fine, go a head and try." I got into a battle stance and began charging a ki sphere.
"You really want to try and face me? Heheh, you really are an idiot." I fired and detonated it, bringing light to the room, and I immediately regretted it, for what I saw was worse than my nightmares. Somehow flowey changed his face and projected it on a T.V screen, there were pipes, or intestines in the shape of flower pedals surrounding it and in two of them was an eye each, and to top it all off, there was, what looked like human teeth with gums in a vertical shape connected to the bottom with an eye on each side and he ha two cactus-like arms. Suddenly, I realized where the 89,000 power level came from.
"Oh, sweet lord." He then let out a maniacal laugh and wasted no time in beginning his attack. He began firing, what seemed like shurikens, but about as large as me and enormous clusters of them, I tried dodging as much as I could, and couldn't really blast them away, they were far too powerful and weren't very affected by my blasts; for once in my life, I truly felt what it was like to be helpless, to be afraid and fending for your life. I kept dodging, but got hit quite a few times and was heavily injured, I didn't even have time to eat anything aince I was too focused on surviving; suddenly, a warning sign flashed on the screen with a light blue soul and the field changed, flowey disappeared and there were floating knives everywhere. I kept dodging until I saw the soul glowing, almost as if it was calling fo help, I decided to answer the call, maneuvered around the knives and grabbed it; almost instantly, all my wounds healed and I felt re-energized, but then flowey came back.
"Ugh, stupid souls, let me do the work! I command you!" He began throwing the shurikens again, but he also added finger guns on vines that were hard to dodge and I got hit a few times, but I was slowly getting better and better, that is until he began to surround me with giant bullets, to which I got hit twice and found out how to dodge them afterwards. Suddenly, the screen flashed again and there was the orange soul broadcasted. The field changed to floating gloves reaching in and out, this one was much easier to dodge than the knives and I grabbed the orange soul no problem, but unlike the light blue one, this one didn't heal me all the way, but it healed me enough. The field came back to normal and he began firing vines at me which did hit me a bit, but I managed to dodge one of them, only to be placed back and hit by them.
"Agh! What the hell was that?!"
"I told you didn't I? I can save over any point in time I wish, which I just did." I realized this battle was far harder than I originally though, and I originally thought it was impossible. A few more rewinds later, the dark blue soul came up and I was transported to where there was a cieling of stars around me with giant ballerina slippers of all things; they weren't much of a hassle to dodge, but the cieling prevented me from getting to the soul, so I did something risky, but it was my best option. I blasted the cieling with a planetary burst which worked and broke enough away that I was able to get through and grab the soul; just like with the orange one, it didn't heal everything, but it was close to full. The next flowey segment wasn't much different, apart from the fact that he began to drop mini nukes at me and summoned a swarm of flies that I narrowly avoided. The next soul to come to my aid was the purple one that began with firing words to hurt people's feelings and to hurt me physically, one of them even broke my ankle.
"And who said words never hurt anybody?" I reached the soul and it healed me like the others, mainly fixing my ankle. The next fight used the same rewind gimick, but I knew what to look out for, so I survived relatively unscathed, but did suffer a few wounds. The green soul was next and flowey was making sure I was dead, there were frying pans raining down fire, so I did the only sensible thing and flew straight through the flames, obtaining a few third degree burns, but I grabbed the soul and was back up to full strength and health, but I wish i could say the same for my gi, the thing was destroyed, but I couldn't worry about that now, I had a weed to kill. I was brought back to fighting him and did one of the stupidest things imaginable, I charged and flew right towards him, throwing a punch that did basically nothing, I realized my mistake a little too late, he literally swatted me out of the air and I slammed on the ground , breaking it a little.
"You should have just stuck to dodging, but you were too stupid to think that way, now, you're dead." He lifted one arm up and slammed it down on top of me, I may have blocked, but it barely did anything, I was just lying there, barely alive, and just as he was about to slam again, the final soul came to my aid. I was transported to where there was a giant gun firing bullets randomly, I saw the yellow soul above it, but I was too weak to move, suddenly a bullet came my way, and I managed to find the strength to blast it away.
"No... I can't die here, not right now." I weakly flew up and grabbed the soul, but the health I gained wasn't gonna be nearly enough for my next encounter with Flowey. "Guess this is it. I'm finished, there's no more use in fighting back."
'Stryker, don't give up.'
'We believe in you Stryker.'
'Stay determined, don't let him get to you.' I looked around for the voices that appeared, suddenly, my soul began to glow multiple colors and from it the other souls came out and morphed into, what seemed like kids, the oldest, the orange one, was around my age, but in more spiritual forms. The light blue soul spoke out first, a little girl.
'Stryker, we sensed your strength, we know you have the power to beat him.' Then the yellow one spoke, a young cowboy.
'Partner, you gotta show that weed justice and give him all the power you've got.' But how? He's much stronger than me, I can't even beat him in my giant form.
'While it is true that you lack the strength, you have more than enough courage within you and more determination than any of us. Combined, we have the power to stop him.' The purple soul spoke, a girl with shoulder length hair and glasses who seemed younger than me.
"How do we do that?" She spoke again.
'If all 6 of us pool our power into your soul, our strength will become ten times greater than the pure sum of our strength.' I looked around me and the others nodded.
"Alright, let's do this." The light blue one came first.
'Before you go, there's something I need to tell you. Flowey is Asriel, we've looked into his mind and just saw a scared little goat kid who just wants to be free. Please, show him mercy in the end.'
"Don't worry, I will." She became a soul again and was absorbed into mine, boosting my power and healing my injuries. Next came the dark blue soul, a girl older than the light blue, but younger than the purple.
'Be swift and agile, you'll win for sure.' I nodded and she did the same. The others followed, purple, green, a middle school aged boy with an apron, then yellow. Finally, I was face to face with orange, the one soul that related to me the most. He had the outfit of a fighter and he was about my age as well.
'Stryker, I was just like you, I could use ki and just began using soul magic, but I have limit, you on the other hand, you have no limits, I can feel it. Be the fighter I always wanted to be.'
"I'll make sure of it. Don't worry." He nodded, but before he was absorbed into me, he said one more thing.
'By the way, my gloves suit you, you should keep them.' I looked down at my hands, realizing that I still had the gloves on since I first arrived at Snowdin. Then, orange was absorbed into me as well; I felt stronger than ever and could feel the souls resonating within me.
"Alright, let's do some gardening." Flowey came back, seeming much more dazed and slightly confused.
"What just happened? And how are you still alive?!" He tried to slam his hand down on me, but I just dodged it effortlessly, jumped towards him with an energy gauntlet prepared and landed a clean blow to his face which managed to crack his screen and send him reeling back a bit.
"Well now, looks like the tables have turned Flowey."
"I WILL END YOU!"
"Oh really? Well then. I'd like to see you try." I concentrated my ki and went giant, growing to his size and catching the punch he threw at me. I then began to unleash hell on him, throwing a barrage of punches that he couldn't block, grabbing him by the arm and slamming him back and forth on the ground. I then threw him and began appearing behind him, elbowing him elsewhere or just to the ground. I then threw him once more and charged a planetary burst, but the souls appeared around the ball and enhanced its power.
"THAT'S IT! I'M TAKING YOU AND THIS MISERABLE PLANET TO OBLIVION!" He charged a beam from the mouth below him and fired, just as I fired mine.
"Planetary Soul Burst!" The moment the two beams hit, mine completely overpowered his and engulfed him in a multicolored stream of pure power. I ended the blast, grew back down to normal size and walked to where I knew he was. Down on the ground was flowey in his normal state, broken and beaten. He looked up at me and then back down.
"Go ahead, finish me off. You won." I instead held out my hand to help him.
"No, I'm not going to."
"Wha? Why try to help me? After everything I've done?"
"Trust me, I've done something similar in my past, and just as I'm showing you mercy now, someone showed mercy to me. So let me help you, Asriel." He looked shocked at what I just called him.
"H-how do you know that name?"
"The souls told me. And I can bring you back. You can be with your family again, you can be a normal monster again."
"You would really do that for me?" I nodded, then began to concentrate all of my determination in one point. Suddenly, dust began to swirl around and finally, a monster soul appeared.
"Here, your very own soul. You can be who you once were." He was cautiously looking at it, but then touched it; the moment he did, the soul absorbed into him and a golden light surrounded him, when it faded, Asriel stood before me, not Flowey. He then began to cry and hug me.
"Thank you, thank you so much."
"You're welcome. Here, I believe this belongs to you." I gave him the locket and he looked at it with a sad expression.
"You can't bring Chara back huh?"
"So that's what their name was? Sorry, but no, human souls require much more power and determination than I have currently, besides, according to the souls, there's no more traces of theirs left."
"It's alright. I was prepared for the worst."
"Now then, where exactly have we been for the past fight?"
"It's a little pocket dimension, similar to your save point. Here, I can take it down." He put his hands to the ground and the entire thing shattered around us and we were back to the barrier.
"Cool, hey, speaking of save points, what about mine? Didn't y- didn't Flowey erase them?"
"No, actually. It was just an act to get you to feel like there was no escape. Your save points are all still there." I decided to save here anyway, and when I did, i saw that all of them were where they were supposed to be. I came back to the barrier and spoke to him again.
"Alright, before you go off to see your parents and everything, there's something I need to do." I walked up to the barrier and the souls hovered around me, then, I charged up an energy gauntlet with the souls surrounding it and punched the core with all I had; at first, it seemed like nothing happened, but then, from the orgin of my punch, cracks began spreading all over until it completely shattered and dissolved into pure magic. Suddenly, the souls appeared in their spiritual forms once more and they all talked as one.
'Thank you for finally freeing us. As we depart, we give you our power and one more gift.' I was surrounded with sparkling golden dust and when it faded, I felt about 10 times weaker, but I could feel something else coursing through me.
"Thank you, all of you. Now go, enjoy your afterlives, you deserve it after all these years." The souls faded away to go and claim what they have longed for since the beginning. I decided to try something out, I concentrated on the new power I obtained, it almost felt as if I was going giant, but when I felt like how I feel after I transform, I opened my eyes and saw I was the same height, but felt much more powerful, almost twice as strong as when the souls imbued their power into me and I didn't feel like it this was draining my ki whatsoever, it rather felt like it was fuled by pure determination from my very soul, almost as if it was charged by it. "Heh, soul charge, I like it. Now then." I turned towards Asriel who was looking at me in amazement. "Let's go see everyone else." He shook his head and snapped out of it.
"S-sure." I held out my hand and he took it, to which I threw him on my back so we could fly throughout the underground. To make a long journey short, we visited our friends and told them the barrier is finally broken; the dreemurrs both couldn't believe their son was alive again, but hugged him and amde sure he was real, they were both in tears, especially Toriel. I managed to get Alphys and Undyne together and Sans decided he would rather be a lone wolf for now; Alphys managed to fix my scouter and made it out of more durable material too as well as combining the technology with my now destroyed phone so that it doubled as a cell phone too. All of us met up at the exit to the barrier at the end of the day and walked out together. We overlooked the sunset, something I thought I would never see again, but was glad I did.
"Stryker, my child, do you want me to repair your clothing?" I looked at Toriel, snapping out of my thoughts and looking down at the gi which was still destroyed; half of the chest was torn away, one of my pant legs was gone, I had holes and burn marks everywhere and I didn't have wristbands anymore; but surprisingly, I declined the offer.
"No thanks Toriel, I can make another, but I want to keep this one to remember the adventures I had here." I felt so great after freeing the monsters, I went into my new soul charge mode and did a victory lap around the planet. I landed and looked at the calendar on my scouter, realizing I had been in the underground for nearly 4 days. Asgore then spoke up.
"Well, now that we're back, we'll need to find a way to integrate back into society, Stryker, would you like to be our ambassador?" I thought about it and then thought up a better idea.
"Actually, I think I know what will work better. Look, these people know me, after almost the tournament three months ago and becoming earth's protector, I've become a popular sensation, I have power here and I can use that power for benefit." It took about two days to convince the world that the monsters are actually good and after that, everyone accepted them with open arms, all traces of the war erased. The monsters were given their own land, the size of a small city to begin building a new overworld civilization. The next day, I decided to call Cherik who actually managed to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Cherik, you would not BELIEVE the week I've had." I told him everything about my adventure and he seemed to be eager to come back to earth for a little, but decided against it.
"Well Stryker, seems like I did the right thing in leaving the earth in your hands. Hopefully we meet again soon and you can introduce me to your monster friends as well as that new form.
"Yeah, sounds like a plan buddy." We hung up and I looked among the stars, wondering where he was now.
For the next month, the monsters began building their new city and they can build fast, by the end of the month, they had completed about hald of it and it was nothing small. Toriel had opened her own school of magical arts where humans with soul powers would go to in order to develop their powers. Asgore still was king, but was also the representative of monsters since, well, he's the king. The monsters began to slowly adapt to eating human food, but they still had their own. Overall, ever since I showed up, monsterkind has had quite the bright future, and for as long as I live, they and the rest of earth will be protected by me.
A/N: And that marks the end of Strykertale. I'm so glad you guys enjoyed this, it was a lot of fun to type up and now I can fully focus on Journey of a Saiyan. By the way, Happy new year 2018 everyone, hope tonight brings lots of parties and joy. By the way, if you want to know more on the power of the souls and why omega Flowey has the power level of 89k check out my undertale power levels video which is on youtube on the channel of the same name, Charisonic558.
Anyway, glad you guys enjoyed, please leave a review telling me what you thought about it and I will see you all later, peace.