Previously: Deos the Determined (with the help of Toriel) were able to convince Undyne to leave them alone and meet them at her house. Meanwhile Dr. Alphys was freaked out by the discovery of Toriel coming out of hiding, while Cali worked to calm her down...

(Deos' Apartment)

While Deos, Frisk, Flowey and Toriel were continuing their journey through Waterfall (made easier by Undyne not trying to kill Deos and Frisk) Simone was let into the apartment, she was a physically fit black woman, wearing an orange jacket with matching pants and trainers and white tanktop, she's been filled in on what is happening by Cali and is relieved to find out that neither Deos and Frisk are dead.

"Phew...I gotta admit to 'ya, that psycho sashimi mess wit' da wrong human, he preferred 'ta talk his way through things, but she didn't wanna listen, so he had 'ta beat it into her." Simone said.

"Y-yeah, it's a m-miracle that she hasn't tried to k-kill Sans yet." Dr. Alphys said, both the humans can hear her hyper-ventilating, due to the excitement of thinking about Undyne.

"Alphys! We know how you feel about her, but this is not the time for that, I'm glad that she'll be leaving Deos and Frisk alone, but there's something that you need to tell her before you can even think about that." Cali said, angrily at first, but calmer towards the end.

"S-Sorry, Cali...I got a little c-carried away." Dr Alphys said, embarrassingly.

Then Paula walked out of the bedroom, she was still in uniform "Well, at least we know where Frisk is, although I can't tell my superiors the exact details, they'll have me committed. I hope Deos doesn't mind us using his bathroom"

"He knows 'dat we gotta go at some point, but I wish he cleaned up before he left." Simone said.

"I guess he didn't have time to do that before he left, although I'll ask him about why he left so quickly after I did and he'd BETTER have a good reason..." Said Cali, as the trio of mages listen in on the progress of one of their own and the human child that fell down into the underground, the other two knew that she's angry at Deos for this, they just don't want to talk about it.

(Waterfall)

Frisk was using a telescope that Sans let them use, it was revealed that they had some red dye over one of their eyes, this made Toriel giggle. Deos was unsurprised by this and Flowey laughed at their idiocy. "Huh? You aren't satisfied? Don't worry" he winked...somehow "I'll give you a full refund." Sans said.

"Yeah, whatever! Let's find some normal monsters!" Flower said with undisguised snideness.

"Flowey!" Toriel in her astral form said with caution, Flowey rolled his eyes at this. They entered a small room and found the Nice Cream Vendor has set up shop in it, he looked despondent.

"I relocated my store, but there are still no customers..." said the Nice Cream Vendor.

"Right...here are a couple of suggestions to help you to get customers: 1 - go somewhere where there's bound to be traffic to and from it and 2 - go somewhere hot, when potential customers heat up, they want something frozen to cool off. When I said to go somewhere warmer, I was thinking of somewhere like Hotland, we're going there ourselves." Deos said, as he handed over 50G as both he and Frisk could use one.

"Super! Here you go! I'll be sure to take your advice!" said the Nice Cream Vendor.

They then continued their journey and found a marsh where there were Echo Flowers scattered around, they navigated the paths that were solid and found a patch of seagrass, where Frisk found a pair of ballet shoes, Deos knew that they went with the Dusty Tutu. "Frisk, it's time we found out how another human died." Frisk nodded and stood still with the ballet shoes in their hand, Deos then touches both and receives a vision of what happened with this child...

The Blue Soul child was learning how to ballet dance and she had one of those pushy parents that would not tolerate any mistakes as that would mean that she was doing less than her best, the event that lead to her climbing Mt. Ebott was a dancing competition that she did quite well in, she got 3rd place, but this wasn't good enough for her parents...she met Toriel, who found her to be quite a handful, doing all that she could to prevent her from killing any monster she came across, but once she ran away she killed those monsters unfortunate enough to try and take her soul, she got through Snowdin and decided to discard her tutu as it was dusty, due to the monsters that she had slain, she slew one or two more in Waterfall, but then she was cornered by a fish-like monster, one that doesn't look like she was related to Undyne in any way, she was terrified, but tried to fight back...but she died in that patch of seagrass.

As Deos came out of his psychometry vision, Toriel was eager to learn how this one died "The Blue Soul child was killed by some kind of fish-like monster, she didn't look like she was any relation of Undyne, she died in that spot" Deos said as he pointed at the patch of seagrass that the ballet shoes were found, Frisk decided to put them on, asking Deos to keep their shoes safe, they then die some ballet poses...surprising well. Toriel was giggling, Flowey was laughing at what he saw as idiocy. "Either you're a girl or you're a boy who's pretty secure with who you are, then again...I think that they've made a movie and a musical about a boy who did ballet..." Deos said.

"So at least half of them did not die by his hand...Deos, you know what is coming...does he miss me?" Toriel said, Deos knew she meant Asgore.

"Immensely, Toriel, he wants his family back together, even though he suspects that's not possible, he's..." he narrows the space between his finger and thumb to make sure the point is gotten across "THAT close to stabbing himself with his trident, although he'll wait until Frisk gets there and defeats him, before he does that as he can't just end his life when he wanted as he's the King...unless SOMEONE does that first." He looks at Flowey, Toriel looks at him with distrust after hearing this.

"W-What?! Okay, that WAS my original plan, but Deos gave me one that made me think that his was better, no-one has to die and I get what I want." Flowey said with fear, one of the few things that he can feel, Toriel looked at Deos with a look of suspicion.

"What deal was this, Deos?", Toriel looks like she's about to do what she was willing to do to Undyne for threatening Frisk, Deos was calm during this...certainly compared to Flowey.

"I offered him a less violent alternative, he helps us to get to the Throne Room, where I'll use my magic to restore him to what he was before he became Flowey, if that fails, when I'm done with breaking the barrier, the main component of how I intend to break it will be his, which will achieve the same effect...more or less...either way, he gets what he wants, Asgore will have no reason to fight Frisk and Flowey won't stab anyone in the back...hopefully." Deos explained, the look of suspicion she had on her face died down and she was now in a state of calm.

"What are you carrying with you that could free us?" Toriel asked.

"It's complicated...The only ones who know are Dr. Alphys and others of my order, I'll tell you and Undyne when we get to her house, but for now, we need to get there." Deos said.

"Very well, I can wait until then." Toriel said, Frisk looked confused, they want to know what Deos has planned as much as Toriel does, Flowey appeared to know, but he's keeping silent about it, they continued across the marsh and closer to the home of Undyne.

What else will they find in Waterfall? Will more be revealed on the way to Undyne's place? Find out in Chapter 15: A Different Tone