Flowery looked at you. "Now do you understand why we need to kill Mom? I'll be honest, I didn't want to kill her, because, well, she is my mom. But I'll do it to keep you safe," he said.

"No!" You say. "Now I know more about her motivation for trying to kill me! A couple more resets and I'll be able to figure out how to spare her!"

Flowery looks at you in horror. "I don't want to watch you die again! It was awful!"

"Yeah, it felt awful." You wince at the memory of the pain. "But if you don't want to see me die again, help me figure out how to spare Toriel!"

"NO!" Flowery's face morphed into one of a skull. Your heart began to race, your hands got sweaty, you screamed. Had Flowery really been evil this whole time? Trying to convince you to be as evil as Toriel seemed to be? No! It couldn't be! ... Could it?

"Sorry!" Flowery squeaked. "I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to frighten you! I wouldn't betray you! It was all just a trick to convince you to let me kill Toriel! After all, we are friends, right? I'll help you! I won't get in the way of sparing monsters! I can help... I can... I can..." Flowery voice lowered to a whisper, "Please don't leave me."

Flowery closed his eyes and began to cry.

You scoot close to Flowery and pick him up by the dirt under him before hugging him.

"It's ok," you comfort the flower.

"I should tell you something," Flowery says.

"What?" You ask.

"You're not the first human to fall down here,"

"Really?"

"You're the eighth. I couldn't save the first five from the skeleton brothers. Then I died."

"You died?"

"I used to look a lot more like Mom and Dad. Dad is... Asgore"

"You mean the king I have to kill to get out of here."

"Yes. Anyway, the sixth human, Chara, was poisoned by the skelebros. Asgore had developed a soft spot for the kid, and the skelebros didn't think that was a good thing. I had become best friends with Chara. She told before dying that she wanted me to absorb her soul so that I could cross the barrier and kill two more humans to break the barrier for good. So, I did. I crossed the barrier, only to find that I didn't want to kill two more humans. I crossed the barrier back into the underground, only to be confronted by the skelebros. They… were not happy with my choice, and ended up killing me. But Asgore was so upset that I died, he got the Royal Scientist, Alphys, to do experiments on determination, even though the skelebros could have killed him for it. At first, determination was injected into the bodies of other dead monsters. However, the determination was too much for the monster's bodies, making them to some wacky things. Alphys next tried bringing souls close to objects and injecting the objects with determination. The objects absorbed the would and determination. This worked better, but the objects would end up melting. After some more experiments, Alphys discovered that this was because the object was from the underground. I had brought some seeds from the surface when I had gone up to kill the two humans, so they brought my soul near a flower from the surface and it worked."

"Oh." you say. It was a lot to take in. "So you used to be a goat, like Toriel?"

"Yeah." Flowery says.

"But then what about the seventh human?"

"I was the one who could reset because I had the most determination then, but no matter what I did, they always left me. I'd find their body laying somewhere. Sometimes I wonder if I reset just one more time, would they have lived in that timeline?"

You hugged Flowery again, and then put him back in the ground.

"So how should we spare Toriel?" You ask.

Flowery smiled. "I've got a few ideas."

You were glad Flowery was going to help you. It filled you with determination.