Isn't it funny that how the monsters believe the humans have to die in order for their soul's power to be used, but the all the monsters' souls were used to break the barrier and they survived... Also the monsters are able to summon Frisk's soul outside of their body without killing them, so why the heck couldn't they just use a living Frisk's soul (and the souls of the other kids) to shatter the spell?
After the jury finished reading the book, they have made their decision for the next day.
And they also learned a dark, unfortunate truth.
A woman stood up and looked at Judge Joy. "Before we tell our verdict, there is something I think everyone should know your honor."
"What is it?" the judge asked.
"The book was actually written by one of the wizards that banished the monsters and in the final chapter it explains why the barrier was made and how to properly break it… it was all a test.
Human souls were the key to breaking the spell, but the humans were supposed to be alive. A monster can summon a human's soul outside of their body during a fight. What the monsters were really supposed to do was spare the lives of any humans that fall down and once they had enough, the monsters would summon the human souls and press them against the barrier to shatter it... The deaths of those 6 children could have been avoided if any of the monsters realized this…"
Hearing these words was like getting struck by lightning for Asgore, Toriel and the rest of the monsters.
After all that time spend underground, none of them had thought that using a human soul without killing the humans was even a possibility.
But now they felt like idiots for not realizing they could have easily used the soul's power with no lives being lost.
The woman continued. "As for the verdict, we declare King Asgore guilty of child murder. We also declare Asgore, his former royal guard, former Queen Toriel and any monsters who purposely attacked Frisk guilty for child abuse and attempted child murder. However, if what the book says is true about monsters communicating with their attacks and some of them didn't even know Frisk was human and has hurt them on accident, then we can't punish them for an accident and we definitely can't punish the monsters who haven't attacked Frisk at all."
Judge Joy nodded. "I see… well then I hereby state that any monsters who claim to have not attack Frisk on purpose have to take a lie detector test and if they're telling the truth, then they can still live on the surface. But any monsters that are guilty… will be forced back into the inside of MT. Ebott, where the military will be guarding it every day for 50 years. After 50 years have passed, humans can volunteer themselves to enter the underground and live with the monsters. When 7 humans arrive, they can all write their experiences to the government and if they're all good, the monsters in the underground will be free to live on the surface... But if a human is discontent with their life in the underground before that happens, they are free to leave and the monsters will have to wait for another human. And if a human is killed by a monster, that monster will be executed on the spot."
It was a long process, using a lie detector on so many monsters, but eventually the humans were able to figure out who's guilty and who's innocent.
About 1/3 of Asgore's kingdom was returning to the underground.
Some monsters who were innocent decided to return to the Underground anyway or pretended to be guilty to be with their friends and family.
However, other innocent monsters wished to stay on the surface and so said their goodbyes to everyone.
Some humans who made friends with some of the monsters also came to say goodbye.
Toriel's heart broke when Frisk wasn't among them.
Did they really hate her that much?
…Not that she could blame them.
When the guilty monsters returned to their old home, everything seemed duller.
Asgore tried to give a hopeful speech, but it wasn't enough to raise his people's spirits.
For a whole month, they felt sunlight and fresh air and now it's all gone… and they only have themselves to blame.
A whole year has passed and many things have happened during that short time.
Asgore and Toriel came to an agreement.
They're not together romantically again and Toriel was still mad at Asgore, but they decided to put aside their differences to rule their people again and give them hope.
After Grillby decided to stay on the surface, Sans decided to finally stop being lazy and become the new chef and boss for the restaurant.
Papyrus decided to become a life coach to help boost the confidence and motivation of others.
Papyrus had mostly forgiven Sans for his actions (or lack of action), but their relationship is still a bit rocky and awkward.
Speaking of relationships, Undyne and Alphys had broken up.
What happened was, they both knew that the other did messed up things, but they didn't know the extent of how bad it was.
Undyne knew about Alphys' experiments and how she injected human determination on fallen down monsters. At first, Undyne thought it was awesome that her girlfriend can bring the dead back to life… until Undyne saw how misshapen, disfigured and goopy those monsters have become. Undyne was secretly horrified with what she saw, but she knew Alphys already felt bad and it was an accident so she didn't say anything. She also forgave Alphys for lying for her about what she does. (Though she was mad enough to throw Alphys in a trashcan for it.) But then when Undyne learned and saw from those videos that Alphys manipulated Frisk by putting them in so much danger to be rescued from and basically tricking them to thinking she's the human friend…
Undyne still cared about the nerdy lizard, but she just couldn't ignore such dishonesty anymore.
Meanwhile, Alphys could no longer ignore how reckless and stubborn Undyne is, especially when humans were involved. In the past, Alphys had always thought Undyne was super cool and heroic and would never hurt an innocent on purpose. But seeing those clips opened up Alphys' eyes to Undyne's flaws. Alphys has many flaws of her own, but she would never enjoy hurting an innocent child and tell them that everything would be better if they were dead. She still couldn't believe that Undyne said that, it was cruel beyond words.
Maybe Alphys only loved the strong fish woman for who she thought she was.
The break up was mutual and they decided to still be friends, but tears were shed and hugs were made through it all.
Undyne decided to become a self-defense trainer, always reminding her students to not use these fighting skills to attacks innocent people whether they are monster or human.
She also has been taking anger management class.
Alphys became a scientist again, but this time is using science to find ways to benefit both monsterkind and humanity.
Mettaton lost his popularity after it was revealed that he planned to steal Frisk's soul for himself and leave the monsters behind to be famous on the surface.
The calculator shaped robot was forced to return to his original home in Waterfall.
He remembered leaving his poor depressed cousin, Napstablook all alone to become a star.
Now, the former ghost has lost everything and he is the one all alone.
There was nothing left for him to do, except listen to Blooky's music.
Maybe he can post some new songs under a different name, to give hope and uplift the spirits of the other monsters.
Muffet lost all her money, after a mob of angry monsters that she scammed money out of in the past have all decided to team up against her and her minions.
She lost the fight and was forced to give them all their money back.
That one man she intimidated into buying one of her most expensive doughnuts, stole a whole dozen in front of her with a smug smile on his face.
When she was left alone, Muffet allowed the tears to fall.
She only scammed them so she could use the money to reunite with the rest of her spider family, but a part of her knew that she deserved this.
Eventually, she got a new job at Sans' restaurant.
She makes the desserts and she learned to be nicer to her customers.
After a while, she made enough money to reunite with the rest of her spiders.
All the amalgamates were forced back into the underground with the guilty monsters, due to how aggressive they get when hungry.
Alphys is currently working on a way to cure them.
Even Flowey decided to change.
The soulless flower was smart enough to erase everyone's memories of him in this current timeline while he was still Asriel.
So nobody knows who he is or what he did.
Flowey was honestly surprised when the monsters returned to the underground, but then he learned why they returned and he couldn't help but be darkly satisfied. (Especially when he saw his mom punch Sans in the ribs. He hadn't seen the smiley trashbag in so much pain since Flowey killed him after murdering everyone else that one time.)
Now all the monsters know how horrible they really were.
Their original desire to kill all humans was one of the things that made him such a psychopath.
Well that and losing his soul.
However, the part of him that was still Asriel felt sorry for them and wanted to make their lives better somehow.
So he came to the castle one day to give Asgore and Toriel advice on some things.
When his advice worked, Asgore asked the flower if he wanted to stay with him and Toriel for a while.
Flowey said yes.
Soon he was living with them, just like he used to as a goat boy.
For the moment, Flowey felt content.
For a while, the underground was at peace.
Although, the monsters trapped underground couldn't help but wonder what is happening to the monsters on the surface.
And what happened to Frisk?
Meanwhile on the surface, Frisk was sleeping peacefully after spending the day playing with Monster Kid and Napstablook while Grillby tucked them in.
Their adopted father's magical flames did not cause them any harm.
A year ago Frisk had a dream about monsters being trapped underground and a kid that looked similar to them begged Frisk to free them.
But then the next night, Frisk had another dream 6 kids getting killed by a giant goat monster and these kids were begging Frisk to avenge them by killing all the beasts.
So Frisk made a compromise with all the ghosts.
They'll spare and free the monsters, but the 6 murdered souls are allowed to show the evidence of their deaths to the police.
The first ghost wasn't somewhat displeased, but believed this to be fair.
So that's what Frisk did.
It was hard work, but it was worth it.
Humans and monsters were reunited and justice was served all at the same time.
I hope all of you enjoyed this story and it gave you some things to think about! :)