Listen everyone, The Author here, I don't got a whole lot of time right now, I'm kinda fighting for my life alongside a small grey kid against a certain insane messed up spooky scary skeleton that doesn't like either of us. I hope you all don't mind if I do not talk about the monochrome exposition part leading up to the judgement hall. There's not a lot to it, just some monsters talking instead of fighting and a house that is identical to the house in the RUINS, so I'll just simplify it all here now for you. Chara grabbed the locket and the dagger. Ib was confused why the monsters were talking and not fighting, and still nobody knew why everything was grey, dark grey, and slightly less grey with that aside… shit, c'mon Core!
"I'm trying!"
Gotta go!
Chapter 12
The Judgement hall. Orange walls, multiple massive pillars lining the sides of the room, checkered floor of orange and dark orange. To the left there were multiple large glass windows each with the Deltic Rune etched into them. Whoever built it must have had some weird thing for orange. The strangest part, was that there was light seeping through the windows. They were underground, so why would light be anywhere near? Maybe because they were near the barrier, who knows? On top of all of that, the four young humans of the underground were completely covered in shadow. They were practically silhouettes. There was also a SAVE point to the side. Frisk walked to it and SAVEd their progress up to then.
The four walked into the corridor which was as tall as at least five of Frisk. In between the fourth and fifth pillars, the four were frozen in place, as they stared down a piece of paper.
"Where… is he?" Chara asked themself. Usually, every time, Sans would stand there waiting. It looked like he left a note. Picking up the paper to read it for the others, Chara started,
"I'm a bit busy, so this is the best I can afford. So you finally made it." the Chara read aloud. "The end of your journey is at hand. In a few moments, you will meet the king. All together, you will determine the future of this world. That's then. Now, you will be judged. You will be judged for every action. You will be judged for every EXP you've earned. What's EXP? An acronym; it stands for 'EXecution Points' a way of quantifying the amount of pain you have inflicted on others. When you kill someone, your EXP increases. When you have enough EXP. your LOVE increases. Love is an acronym to. It stands for 'Level Of ViolencE'. The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. The more love you have, the less you will hurt. The more easy it becomes to hurt others... But you, you all haven't gained any LOVE. of course, that doesn't mean you're completely innocent or naive. Just means you've kept a certain tenderness in your heart. No matter the struggles or hardships you faced… you strived to do the right thing. You refused to hurt anyone. Even when you ran away. You did it with a smile. You never gained LOVE, but you gained love. Does that make sense? Maybe not. Now, you're about to face the greatest challenge of your entire journey. Your actions here, will determine the fate of the entire world. If you refuse to fight, asgore will take your soul and destroy humanity. But if you kill him, monsters will remain trapped underground. If I were any of you, I would have thrown in the towel by now. But you didn't get this far by giving up. You have something called 'determination'. So as long as you hold on… you can do the right thing. We're all counting on you kids. Good luck." and the letter ended.
A moment of silence, that was then followed by
"Where did Mary go?" Ib said looking around worried.
Frisk was looking behind the pillars and outside of the judgement hall. The windows were still intact so she didn't jump out, not that there'd be any reason to.
"We should find her first." Ib said. "Where could she have gone?"
"Beats us" Chara replied. "She's probably doing her business or something"
"She's not human remember."
"Well then she's doing whatever monsters from other worlds do. It doesn't matter, right now we have something important to do, once we complete it she'll be back with us okay?"
("p-please stop!")
"A… alright"
The three walked down the hall and down a grey corridor. To the side there was a room. Peeking into it they saw a number of large coffins, each with a different colored heart on them; red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, blue, violet.
"Actually…" Chara said to themself. Chara walked to the coffin and pushed open the lid. Of course, their own body wasn't inside. "Dang it"
(oh. Howdy young one. Who might you be?)
("hurry mister! Get away from me!")
(sorry, I don't understand)
"Were you hoping to see a dead body?" Ib asked
"It's supposed to be my coffin after all."
"What?"
"Long story, but there's a reason I was a ghost when we first met. Anyway, let's keep moving"
("Stop Flowey!")
The three left the room of coffins and entered the large door in the center of the room. Not before Frisk SAVEd of course. Green leaves covered the floor for everywhere except the center. The center was filled by a large number of yellow flowers. The same yellow flowers that seemed to be literally everywhere in the underground. In front of the young humans, was a throne in the very center of the room, and a large caped man with horns and orange blonde hair. The king of monsters, the one who brought back hope to the underground. The king, Asgore Dreemurr. However, he was not the only one present, to the side was someone, impaling the good king through the chest with a long green tendril. Slowly, Asgore crumbled into dust and his SOUL was destroyed by a number of small pellets. The three were in shock and confused as to what they were seeing. Mary was standing, the tendril rooting from her arm. Small drops of paint were dripping from her face. Her head slightly turned, her left eye was completely different. The right side of her face was normal, a blue eye with blue paint streaming down, and a horrid shaking frown. The left side, straight down the center split. Her eye was a vertical slit with red and a green rectangular pupil, and white jagged teeth against a red inner mouth, in a crooked twisted smile. Mary's body was lined with multiple green vines with thorns sticking into her and out of her.
"I-iB…" Mary stuttered. "R-rUn. p-PlEaSe."
"Hahaha! It's too late" another voice said. The left side of her face spoke on it's own. "Hello everyone! It's the good 'ol Flowey the Flower. With a new and improved body."
"W-what have you done!?" Ib shrieked.
"Oh? Me? It was really easy actually, here's a little funfact, Mary here is even less human or monster than you thought. She doesn't even HAVE A SOUL!"
For a moment, a few flashbacks slid into the three minds of Frisk, Chara, and Ib. starting with the first battle against Flowey. They never noticed it before, but there were only three SOULs. Mary's SOUL was nowhere to be found. In fact, that was the same in every battle they ever had. Mary never had a SOUL, she was living art with the DETERMINATION of her father infused within her. The DETERMINATION that gave her life, just like Flowey.
"But that's not all little Ib!" Flowey saide.
"fLoWeY…" Mary quietly started. "pL...ease no… don't.. I'm begging you…"
"Hm… nope! Anyway, Mary has done something very naughty. Let me ask you Ib." Flowey pointed with Mary's left arm.
"Do you remember a certain person? A shady blurry memory of a person you met before in that 'Gallery'? By the name of… Gary?"
Ib was completely confused. She never met anyone named "Gary" before. Then a sudden flash in her mind opened up. Static plastered over a face. A face with pale purple hair, a green shirt, tan pants, and a long dark blue coat holding a blue rose.
"g...Gary?" Ib said to herself.
"Yep! Guess what this girl here did! I dug through her memories for a little and learned quite a lot. Mary can RESET, she can do over time. I also learned why, You did quite a mean thing to poor little her. You tortured her, burned her, abandoned her, cut her to pieces, destroyed everything she had, her friends and even her sisters. Whether you know it or not, you've done so much to her, you killed her many times over and left with Gary. Mary kept RESETting in the hopes of a good ending. That was pointless… pointless until something happened. When Frisk and Chara joined the picture." Flowey then pointed to the two bystanders.
"You two, I don't know at all how you happened to fall into another multiverse but you did. You stopped at the end then an error arose, something or someone pulled things together. But that means nothing. Now, I can rule twice as many worlds! And Chara, you will be at my side."
"...yeah~ no. what makes you think I'd do that as you are now?" Chara rebuttaled.
"Because there will be NOTHING ELSE!"
The six SOULs that had been collected appeared behind Mary/Flowey, circling. The SOULs were absorbed by the SOULless body of a flower and art. They started glowing a rainbow of colors, all except for RED.
"I just need Frisk's SOUL, then we can share the world. Hyahyahahahahahaha" Flowey's right arm stretched into six tendrils that barreled towards Frisk, two knocking Chara and Ib out of the way before, the tendrils aimed right for the center of Frisk's chest.
And then.
*vvmbsshwmh
The tendrils were vaporized before they could make contact. The three looked up to see where the pillar of light originated from. It was a white head, shaped unlike any monster, it was a Gaster Blaster. And only one person uses that.
"Heya kiddos, sorry I'm late." Sans stood atop another GB with his everlasting smile and a blue eye.
"Huh!? Trashbag! Where did you come from!?" Flowey screamed.
"Outside." he joked.
"Off with the puns lazy bones!.. You know what? It doesn't matter, with six SOULs I will have no problem winning.
*Game Saved
"I'm a god you idiot. You're all idiots."
"Heh, maybe, but we idiots can be pretty good at our jobs." Sans left hand glew a blue fiery aura, the three SOULs of Ib, Chara, and Frisk popped out of their bodies suddenly, the bodies went limp and their consciousnesses transferred to the SOULs.
"H-hey! What's going on!" Chara shouted telepathically.
"Sorry about this kids, but this is the only way we can win right now, the flower has six SOULs and double the DT, I'm gonna need a pick me up for this one." the three red SOULs flew to Sans' hand and circled atop his palm. Flowey tried as best he could and as fast he could to steal at least one of the SOULs, but wasn't fast enough. Sans absorbed the three souls, glowing red himself. A bright flash prevented the demonic flower from seeing what happened, but when the flash subsided, Sans was alone, no SOULs and no bodies. His eyes were closed, but soon opened. His left eye was half blue and half red, with a tiny trace of purple in the center. His RIGHT eye was pure red.
"Y'know flower, you can give up at any time." Sans said.
"What?!"
"It'd be a crime, if I had to go back on the promise I made for Mary, so don't step over this line. Or else bud you're gonna have a bad time" Sans summoned a GB that fired into the ground, creating a line right in front of Flowey/Mary's feet. Flowey took it as a taunt and stepped over accordingly.
"You're bluffin brainless bonehead, I have six SOULs you only have three. You don't even have DT yourself!
"But there's a big difference between me, the kids and you. Cause guys like Me and these kids, it ain't easy to be played for a bunch of fools."
Wind started to blow then stop, then blow again and stop
"So let's go, as the wind gets bitter, you're gonna face, some REAL killers"
END
Um yeah, sorry there's not as much, still being wailed on by a skeleton with a bad case of pixelexia.
"Hurry Author! I can get us out now!"
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"Sorry E, but we'll be leaving for now"
N0!