It's been a couple days since me Frisk and Chara had the little… chat where I told them my backstory. Not much had happened in that time, just magic practice and us all hanging out… and me beating Chara at the fighting game.
Right now, we were with Alphys, her having called us down to her lab for something that I had a very good feeling I knew was. "Why'd ya call us down here, Alph?" I asked, just to push the conversation forwards.
"I finished the machine, Ulfin," she said. "A-although it still needs to be tested."
"Well, we'll only really get to test the thing by doing, so how about we go to the king now?" I suggested, grinning at them reassuringly.
The machine was huge. In the center there was what looked like a DETERMINATION extractor modified with a capsule big enough to fit a human body. Surrounding that was six slots for holding the six human souls.
"I'm assuming this will be sent up to the barrier for when we need it?" I asked.
"Yeah, I should be able to take it up the cargo lift to the capital," she said.
"We'll meet you there then," I said, turning to Frisk. "You think you're ready to do this, kid?"
They gave me a thumbs up and a confident smile. "Let's go, then," I said, grinning and going to the elevator that lead straight up to the grey area before the Judgement Hall.
We went into the hall, seeing a familiar shadowed figure there.
"hey kids," Sans said. "i'll skip out on explaining what LOVE and EXP means since you all already know what they mean."
I nodded. "Do you have him?" I asked, referring to the certain Flower I sent him to find a couple days ago.
"found him in waterfall, by the statue, he's waiting up ahead."
"Thanks, see you on the other side, Sans," I said, walking forwards and past him with Frisk. We didn't speak as we made it to Asgores throne room, him talking to a certain flower.
"Hey, Asgore," I said, bringing his attention to us.
"Howdy Ulfin, I was just talking to this flower monster. Who is that you… oh."
"Don't worry, Asgore," I said, recognising the look on his face. "You don't need to do that this time."
"What do you mean?" Asgore asked.
"I figured this human could help us in a… different, way, so I asked Alph to make a machine to help them use their magic to break the barrier," I told him.
"Thank you Ulfin, but you know I can't do that, I have already promised the entirety of the Underground that we would go to war with the humans," he said.
"I'm… not even sure that anyone else in the Underground know's they're here, Asgore, to be honest, I kinda kept them outta view until I brought them here," I told Asgore, shrugging.
"Perhaps… I could apologize for the war then, call it off and say we found an alternate solution to get to the surface?"
"Exactly," I said, nodding. "And nobody has to die,"
Flowey just laughed at that statement. "Of course you would say that, the type of people like you always say that."
"Well, let's go to the barrier now, so we can finally end this," I said, ignoring the flower's comment.
We headed over to the barrier. Alphys unloaded the machine and Asgore summoned the six human souls. "Alright, get in, Frisk," I said, gesturing to the machine.
Frisk had a nervous look on their face and they were apprehensive while approaching the machine. I smiled reassuringly at them, giving them a grin and a thumbs up. They hopped up into the machine, with a nervous smile on their face.
I nodded, reaching over to the SOULs, and putting the containers in their slots one by one.
"Alright, all that's left is to close the command pod and activate the machine," Alphys confidently said.
"Good, this will all be over soon then," I said, grinning. Alphys closed the command pod, turning the machine on.
A hum could be heard coming from the machine. The hum got progressively louder and the SOULs began to glow. Frisk's soul could be seen glowing from their chest. "Frisk, try making that SOUL we talked about first!" I instructed.
The light coming from the SOULs seemed to focus on a single point before the machine. A rainbow colored SOUL began to form at the point. As it finished forming, a blinding light shone through the area.
After the light had finished, I smirked… holding the SOUL in my hand. "Thanks, Frisk, I'll be sure to put it to good use," I stated, a slightly evil grin on my face as I turned to look at the rest of the group.
"What's that for Ulfin?" The King of the Underground asked.
"You'll see, king." I said…absorbing the SOUL.
"This wasn't part of our agreement!"
"Sorry, murder ghost… I'm a bit paranoid, see, don't really trust anyone with power that's not me," I told them, shrugging with a grin. I started to glow as the SOULs power filled me, making my smirk widen.
Another flash filled the room, changing me. When the light cleared, I saw myself in a brown trench-coat that reached my ankles, a burnt red shirt and long red to brown cargo pants, brown steel toed boots and brown leather gloves.
I looked into the reflective surface of the machine Alphys had made, and saw I had dark red hair and auburn eyes… I was me again. "Huh… didn't expect this," I said, looking over my, what could be called, 'swimmers' build. "What do you all think?"
Everyone had armed their magic, and was aiming at me. "kid, what the hell are you doing?"
"I'm still doing what I promised," I assured, smirking. I reached a hand off to the side, a familiar button forming… the RESET button. "First things first… no more of these for you, Frisk." I said, putting what appeared to be a padlock over the button, before dismissing it.
"Next, the barrier," I said, turning away from them. I raised my hands, magic charging in them, my eyes flaring with power as I launched the magic at the barrier, shattering it.
"And finally… the flower and the ghost," I stated, sounding a little tired now. Since I knew neither of them had their own SOUL right now, I reached back, looking for the moment where they both first died. Finding the point, I plucked the SOULs from then. I placed Asriel's soul in Flowey, returning him to his original form. I then created a body for Chara, bound their spirit to it and placed their SOUL in it. For any outside observer it would have all appeared to have occurred in a short flash of light.
"Finally… the SOULs," I said, turning to the six still in their containers. I walked over to them, shattering the containers and absorbing each one, though I didn't tap into the power they'd give me just yet, instead letting the SOULs rest inside of me.
"So… now what?" I asked, turning to the others.