Whaaaaat is up FanFiction nation!
Sorry about that, the keemstar within escaped, anyway, today we got a story about Asriel! Or more specifically a story about Flowey becoming Asriel. I can feel the hype leaking through my screen already.
Anyway, onto the story!
Today was a slow day... well, I wish I could say that. Instead it was a uncomfortable day for our friend Josho, who as I recall was arrested and placed in a private cell in the local police station for a night after threatening to kill an 'innocent' monster. Thankfully it was only a night, this gave Josho a chance to write a little, despite it mostly ending up horribly.
We start about an hour after last chapter, the small rubbish bin in the corner of the cell was already filled with discarded paper, whilst our frustrated human continued to scribble on another piece of paper, trying for inspiration, to no avail.
"Let's see, maybe if... nope" Josho threw another piece of paper at the wall above the rubbish bin, "Now, what if I were to... eh, could be better... wait, that won't work... sigh..." Josho placed down the pen and paper and laid back on the musty bed, his hoodie providing little warmth from the slightly damp mattress. Josho looked at the wall clock opposite of a small barred window, "Let's see... it's six-o-clock now, meaning I got to endure 12 more hours of this shit-hole, no inspiration to make it bearable either... I wonder if the guys back at home are..."
CLANG!
One of the rusty window bars disconnected from the window and crashed onto the floor, before presuming it was due to lack of upkeep, Josho looked at the window to see what happened.
Lo and behold, his friends were there, more specifically, Undyne, Papyrus and Frisk.
"Hey punk, we're bustin' you outta here!" Undyne whisper-shouted into the cell,
"Guys, you know I'm only here for the night, you can survive without me" Josho retorted,
"IT IS NOT ABOUT THAT HUMAN #2, WE HAVE A PROBLEM BACK AT THE HOUSE AND I THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO FIX IT!" Papyrus explained, although this explanation only gave Josho more questions,
"Wait, what? Is this about the damn TV again? I said you have to press menu, then resolution, then 'default resolution' then wait a few seconds, THEN you press ok"
"No, it's not about that" Frisk began clarifying, "It's about Flowey... and that ERROR"
"Oh you've got to be kidding me... I go one evening and that dumb flower is already screwing things up..."
"C'mon, we don't have much time!" Undyne began kicking the middle bar, the piece of metal already becoming loose.
"LET ME HELP UNDYNE, JUST STAND BACK..." Undyne and Frisk backed away from the window and Papyru held up his hand... a few seconds later a huge bone summoned, floating just above his hand. The skeleton then psychokinetically threw the bone, the huge object decimating the window and half the wall in the process.
"Damn Papyrus, isn't that a little overkill?" Undyne questioned,
"IT WAS NECESSARY, NOW HURRY!" Papyrus and Undyne began running, followed by Frisk and eventually Josho, who was still surprised after seeing what Papyrus had within him.
Josho Residence, 5 minutes later.
The group of beings eventually reached the house, to hear the sound of portals, metal clashing against each other and the cries of boss monsters echoed from the house. This was not your average argument, especially if there was an ERROR involved,
"So, what's this about again?" Josho asked Frisk as they neared the house,
"Long story short, Flowey knows information he 'isn't supposed to know' and the ERROR is trying to interrogate him as to how" Frisk looked at the house, "As for the fighting... I'd imagine mom and dad are standing up for the little guy" Obviously that attempt didn't work, because the sounds of fighting died down from within.
Undyne smashed the door open, spear in hand, determination in eye. See threw the magical spear with all her might into the house, trying to hit whatever was attacking the poor flower. She missed.
Josho ran in to see the discourse that has occurred when he left. What he saw was Toriel and Asgore lying down on the ground, temporarily knocked out. Alphys, Sans, Chara and Mettaton were cowering behind a wall to avoid the boss monster's fate. Against the living room wall was the form of Asriel, better known as Flowey, he was trying to look tough despite the fact that the trench-coat-clad ERROR was holding a combat shotgun to his chest. Josho and co dived behind a knocked-over table to observe,
"This isn't the first time I've had a gun held at me, at least be creative" Flowey taunted, making the ERROR burst with fury,
"Ḙ͓̯̩̳̦̠̠̀ͮ͢N̪͙̘̭͙̋̋̔Ǒ̢͉̻̰̖̜̘̪̗̆ͯ͜Ů͚̲̻͉̖̚͠͞G̢̛̟̦̙̭̣͕͓̑̇̿͗̐̅̋ͧ͐͝H̥͇̹͙͍͗̾͘!.. all I want is answers, where did you get that information?"
"Pfft, that? It's called simple curiosity, I can ask whatever I want"
"But you shouldn't know it, in this timeline it is impossible for you to know to ask that question" the ERROR jabbed the firearm into the form of Asriel's chest,
"Wait!" Josho stepped forward, "Is this about my... my parents?"
"Yes"
"What's wrong with them knowing about that?"
"You don't get it, it's not about them wanting to know it, it's if they know about it, if you know what I mean"
"...I don't"
"It doesn't matter, I'm wasting my time..." The ERROR turned back to 'Asriel', "Now, tell me, who. Told. You."
"No one told me dumbass"
"You lie! What contact have you had with the outer dimensions? Did they tell you?" The ERROR pointed at you, the reviewers, did you tell Flowey?
'Asriel' retorted, "What? What are you talking about? Who are 'they'?"
"So it wasn't them... Then it must have been that damn time traveler again... Never mind, I cannot blame others for what has already been down, there's only one option" the ERROR flicked the safety switch off on his shotgun,
"You will have to die"
CRACK!
...
The figure of Asriel wasn't hurt, rather the pellets connected with a wall and disappeared,
"...W̵h̀at? W̛h̀at'͞s ha̧p̶p͢e͏nin͞g̷?͡ ҉W͘hy̨ aren'̵t yo҉u͝ gon͟ȩ?" The ERROR fired again, the shotgun pellets simply passed through the shape-shifting flower again,
"Hah! I don't know why but I am invincible to your attacks!" The devilish flower cross shape-shifter stood triumphantly, the group of Josho and co baffled as to why.
"...could it be?" The ERROR blinked, shifting to a different view mode, and looked around the room. Everything was dark and silhouetted, dark figures replaced the beings in the room, and in the middle of the figures were the cumulation of there beings, there SOULS.
All of the monsters in the room had an upside-down white soul, Toriel and Asgore's souls had small cracks in them, maybe he hit them a little too hard...
The ERROR looked at his target, the shape-shifting boss monster known as Flowey. As expected, it didn't have a SOUL. But, it had something else, where the soul was meant to be was a tiny dot, it was nowhere near the size of a SOUL, but it was something a little more important, it was a SOUL seed. If enough energy was pumped into that little seed, it could blossom into a brand new SOUL, what this would do the flower he hadn't the fainted idea, but the ERROR had to do it to fulfill his plan.
"Stand still" the ERROR dispersed his weapon and pulled a black leather glove off his right hand, revealing bloody, corrupted skin,
"What? What are you doing?" Undyne stepped forward, protecting the figure of Asriel, "You can't just go bossing everyone around! Whatever your going to try, I won't let you!" Undyne summoned a magical spear in her hand, ready to throw, the ERROR didn't have time for this, so he made his assault simple,
"Your death will be on August the 24th, you will die in a shopping mall when a steel girder falls on your head, however, I will leave the year of death up to you"
Undyne's will of steel wavered for a few seconds, before she let go of the spear and fell to the ground, head in hands,
"Now, wh͜er͞e̵ we͝re ͏we?͟" the ERROR forcefully plunged his hand into 'Asriel's body, as predicted, it's hand passed directly through, connecting with the tiny SOUL seed. The ERROR grasped the seed and squeezed it, pushing energy from his own corrupted soul into the monster.
"Wha... what are you doing!? I... aaaauuugh!" 'Asriel' panicked, trying to wriggle out of it's tough grasp, to no avail. Energy ran from the ERROR's arm into the flowers tiny SOUL seed, the seed growing larger and larger with every second passing. As the soul grew stronger, the ERROR grew weaker, only barely holding on. Frisk took the opportunity to run towards Toriel and Asgore to assist them, Josho and Papyrus stayed behind the table praying that nothing would explode.
The ERROR, with the last of his strength, flung the figure of Asriel across the room, nearly hitting the television. The limp shape-shifters body hit the wall hard, reverting back to his flower form, unconscious. The ERROR fell to the ground, weak and faint. With the remaining strength he had, the ERROR summoned his shotgun and held it, single-handedly, at the flower. He fired... and hit the roof due to recoil. The corrupted human fell to the ground, also unconscious.
8:00 pm - Alphys' Lab
"I swear if that dumb lizard doesn't fix him I'll... I'll see you all to hell!" Chara yelled at Undyne, who was standing at the entrance to the lab. It had been several hours since the assault, Flowey and the ERROR were escorted to the lab by Alphys to see him awake. As well as to test if whatever the ERROR did didn't have any ill side-effects. Of course, only Alphys was allowed in the lab, which was why Chara was fighting to get in.
"Why can't I see him huh? Of all people the only one he would want to see is me!" Chara argued,
"I don't know, if I had my way I'd want to be in there helping Alph, but it's best for the dumb flowers health, now shut up and go home, they'll be a while" Undyne meticulously explained for the quintillionth time. Chara huffed and started walking back to the Josho residence.
The moment Chara left, Alphys opened the door, "Hey Undyne, w-was anyone out here?"
"Oh, uhhh..." Undyne looked down the street to see if Chara had walked out of earshot, she had, "Nope".
"Good, y-you should come in, I-It's a miracle!"
Alphys gingerly walked down the stairs, Undyne in hot pursuit. The lab was set up to host two operating tables along with several pieces of electronic equipment, including 1 shared monitor. On the operating tables rest the figure of a young male boss monster, the other rest a human that had similar bodily proportions to Josho, except that almost all of the flesh on its body was corrupted and burnt, held together by ERROR text. Both figures were comatose. Undyne knew who these beings were. They were Asriel and ERROR Josho.
"So, what's the analysis doc?" Undyne joked,
"Oh y-you won't believe what happened..." Alphys walked over to the monitor, bringing up a screen showing a monster SOUL. The soul had a white center like any other monster soul, however the outer edges of the soul were black and corrupted, ERROR text floating around it,
"T-this was the soul o-one hour ago..." Alphys flicked up a new screen, "t-this was the soul 5 minutes ago" the new soul was completely white, bar one ERROR, which floated around the outside.
"What are you trying to show me Alph, I'm lost" Undyne asked,
"Oh, r-right... so basically, Flowey has a soul, how this happened was that he..." Alphys pointed towards the ERROR, "...somehow pumped his life force into a SOUL seed that Flowey bore, why he did this I've been looking at..." Alphys waddled to another table, where two objects sat, one was a shotgun shell, another was a glass container containing a piece of the ERROR's portal.
"...a-after looking at these objects as well as the ERROR himself, I am able to clarify what ERROR beings are exactly..." Alphys picked up the shotgun shell, "You see, ERROR's don't possess a physical form, rather they manifest themselves from surrounding energy, t-that means that rather than attacking our physical forms, they rely on attacking the SOUL... however, Flowey d-didn't possess a SOUL, because he was made from physical matter and DETERMINATION..." Alphys threw the shotgun shell at a wall, instead of the shell bouncing off the wall it simply dispersed into an ERROR cloud, the cloud floated down to the ground and reformed back into the same shotgun shell.
"...so the ERROR made Flowey a SOUL just so he could kill him... is that right?" Undyne guessed,
"Y-yes, that is correct, t-that also means that when he..." Alphys motioned towards to the ERROR again, "...wakes up his first action will be to try to kill Flowey, so we need a way to protect him..." Alphys picked up the container containing a piece of portal, "...thankfully, I-I have a solution to that, I messed around with t-this portal for a long time now a-and have found it to mostly compose of anti-energy, this energy is powerful enough to allow for multi-dimensional travel, h-however, if utilized correctly, it can repel regular energy, w-which is was the ERROR is made of..." Alphys picked up a different machine, this one was hand-held and resembled a portal gun from Rick and Morty. Alphys slotted the container into the device and walked over to Asriel's operating table, Alphys pressed a button and held the machine over Asriel's body. Alphys then proceeded to hold a trigger and wave the machine over the body. A red and black shield morphed over the boss monsters body, becoming invisible over time. Alphys turned off the machine and stood back.
"N-now, only time will tell if this'll..."
"AHA! I knew you'd leave the door open!" Undyne and Alphys looked up at the staircase to see Chara, standing triumphantly over the lab,
"Wh... kid! I told you to leave! This is important!" Undyne barked at Chara, who did nothing but walk down the staircase,
"Nothing is more important that knowing my brother is... ahem, I just really want to see my brother alive, alright?"
"Well, y-yes, he is alive, b-but he is more than alive..."
"What are you talking about?" Chara had reached the operating table,
"H-he, Asriel, has a SOUL"
"What? Wait, you mean... oh my god... can you wake him up?"
"W-we've been trying, b-but he's s-still comatose..."
Chara walked up to where Asriel's head was and leaned in close, he could hear his breathing, slow and shallow breathing,
"C'mon goat-bro wake up! Remember the good old days? Remember when we would play together? Asriel, you cannot give up now, stay DETERMINED..."
Stay determined...
Asriel woke up, but he wasn't awake, all around him was darkness. He walked around the empty space that was his mindscape, finding nothing but rotten memories of him as a flower.
Until he heard the voice...
It was a calm and cherry voice, it was a voice that reminded him of his childhood, it was one voice that recognized him, and was willing to be friends with him.
Asriel wandered towards the voice, passing memory after memory, passing them like they were nothing, leaving the past behind.
What he saw before him was brilliant.
It was a SOUL, a little rough around the edges but it was still a soul. The fist-sized upside down heart floated before him, beckoning him to touch it, to leave the past behind and live a new life.
Asriel touched the SOUL, and Asriel jolted back into the real world.
Ariel was SAVED.
"Wha..! What... oh my head..." Asriel jolted up, scaring the three beings around him, before lying back down again, the three beings, Alphys, Undyne and Chara marveled at the boss monster, who was still adjusting to the bright lights of the lab,
"I-I think it worked"
"Wow, you really did it! He's alive!"
"I-I'll need to run a few t-tests, just d-don't move ok?" Alphys walked over to a table to pick up some equipment. Chara took a step towards the furry boss monster, cleared her eyes, and looked closer.
"Oh, hello Chara, it's been a while since you have seen the real me, hasn't it?" Chara was bewildered, she had seen his form so many times, but it was only now that she saw the real Asriel.
"Yeah... well..." Chara suddenly there herself into a hug, surprising Asriel, "I've missed you, the real you"
"Golly, I missed you too... it feels good to be friends with someone you can care about..."
I know how badly you guys wanted the real Asriel back, so I brought him back for you, but there are so many unanswered questions too. What became of ERROR Josho? Is this SOUL permanent? Can Asriel handle the guilt?
Anyway, unanswered questions OUT!