After saving, I walked through the gray stoned, empty city before me. It just didn't seem natural, it seemed... lonely, unloved. I didn't pick up a single power level on my walk, which seemed odd since throughout the underground, the scouter was going crazy. I walked until I reached a house that looked extremely similar to Toriel's, but with everything being white. There was a chain that led to the basement, I decided to ignore it and look around for a bit. I entered a room that looked like the one Toriel placed me in, but there were two boxes, one contained a worn, rusted dagger, and the other one had a heart shaped locket. I picked up the locket and opened it to reveal a picture of a human child and a small goat kid, for some reason, I knew they were important, but didn't know how, so I pocketed the locket and saved it for later.

I walked over to the chain and flew over it into the basement. As I walked, I saw there were inscriptions on the wall telling a story, so I read them.

"Long ago, a human child fell down into the ruins. Hurt and afraid, the child called for help. Asriel, the king's son, heard the human's call and took them back to the castle." I looked at the locket and realized something; the goat kid had to be Asriel, and if he was Asgore's son and he had goatlike features, and Toriel is the only other powerful goat monster I've seen in the underground, I put 2 and 2 together.

"So, Toriel and Asgore used to be married and they took in a human child. What happened? Gotta keep reading.

"Over time, Asriel and the human became like siblings. The king and queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was full of hope.

Then, one day, the human became very I'll. The human had only one request, to see the flowers from their village, but there was nothing we could do. We? Oh right, monsters wrote this.

The next day, the human died. Asriel, wracked with grief, absorbed the human's soul. He transformed into a being with incredible power. With the human soul, Asriel crossed through the barrier; he carried the human's body into the sunset, back to the village of the humans.

Asriel reached the center of the village; there, he found a bed of golden flowers, he carried the human onto it. Suddenly, screams rang out, the villagers saw Asriel holding the human's body and they thought he had killed the child. The humans attacked him with everything they had. He was struck with blow after blow, even though Asriel had the power to destroy them all, he did nothing, he just clutched the child's body close, smiled and walked away. Wounded, Asriel tumbled home, he entered the castle and collapsed, his dust spreading across the garden.

The kingdom fell into despair, the king and queen lost two children in one night. The humans had once again taken everything from us.

The king decided it was time to end our suffering. Every human who falls down here must die. With enough souls, we can shatter the barrier." I finished reading and clenched my fist around the locket, I managed to generate so much determination, I accidentally made a save point. Returning from the pocket save dimension, I looked at the text, then at the opened locket in my hand.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure you sacrifices weren't in vain."

I walked out and through another long path overlooking the city and turned to the right into a hallway with sunlight shining through. Suddenly, my scouter went off with a power level of 10, the first level since I arrived here. I looked to the end and saw the silhouette of Sans. I smiled and walked to him, and sure enough, it was the smiling skeleton.

"Heya kid, how ya been?"

"I've been fine. Beat Mettaton in an entertainment challenge."

"Dang, that's hard to do. Anyway, the reason I'm here is to judge you before you face Asgore, now I would usually do a speech about love and stuff, but I know you're a good person only trying to do the right thing and everyone here loves you."

"Hey, speaking of love, when I got down here, flowey said something about love, before attacking me with bullets that is."

"Flowey, I know that weed, but anyway, he was probably talking about the love that's spelled LoV, it's an acronym, it stands for Level of Violence, the more of it you have, the easier it is for you to hurt someone. You though, even with your immense strength, you never gained any levels, but instead you gained true love from the friends you made on this journey."

"Sans, I thought you weren't going to make a speech about love?"

"Sorry kid, you forced me into it. Anyway, go do what you have to do, we're all rooting for you." I walked by him and stopped to say one more thing.

"Sans?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

"Heh, no problem." I walked on and came face to face with a doorway, I took a deep,breath and walked inside. Within I saw a tall, cloaked figure and heard the sounds of water.

"Just a moment, let me finish watering these flowers." His voice was loud, yet controlled, soothing, yet commanding and it was deep. He placed a small green watering can on the chair in front of him and turned towards me. He looked like a male Toriel essentially, with a golden beard, hair and those parental eyes Toriel had.

"So, you must be king Asgore?"

"Yes, and you must be Stryker, you're the one Undyne told me about. How did she call you? The most badass human in the history of ever?"

"Heheh, that sure sounds like me. Guess you know why I'm here. And I know we both don't want to do this."

"Yes, but I'm afraid there is no other way. Come, allow me to show you something." We walked to a room where there was a wall that seemed to have waves of light flashing through it. I scouted it and sure enough, it was the power level of the barrier. But something else was being picked up, or rather 6 other somethings.

"This is the core of the barrier, this is what must be broken to destroy the entire barrier."

"I see, but what are the other levels I'm picking up?"

"You must be referring to these." The floor opened in 7 slots and out popped 7 glass cylinders, 6 of which were filled with human souls of different colors.

"The other human souls."

"Yes, and now with yours we will have 7 and break the barrier for good. Stryker, it was nice to have met you. I'm sorry for this, goodbye." He brought out a red trident and his power shot up to 5000 just like Toriel. I got into a battle stance and got ready for a fight, but wanted to try all I could not to. He began by sending streams of fireballs my way, I dodged and blasted most of them away, beginning my strategy.

"Asgore, please. I don't want to fight, I want to find a way to make you understand." It seemed he heard, but didn't listen, he just kept firing at me. I kept up the dodging, but at one point I got sloppy and got hit by a few fireballs. In between, I brought out the pie, expanded it and ate it, returning me to full strength. For some reason he seemed to look at the pie and remember, but snapped out of it and got back to attacking me.

"What do I have to do to get you to understand I don't want to fight?!" Again, he seemed to go into a trance, but snapped out of it once more, it was clear talking wasn't gonna go anywhere. "Fine, if you won't accept mercy, I'll finish this." He formed a giant fireball, I charged my ki and flew right towards it as he fired. I tore through the fireball, not receiving much damage, charged an energy gauntlet and punched him right in the chest, sending him flying towards a wall, cracking it and making him weakly stand on one knee. I walked in front of him and kicked the trident away.

"Well done. Now, take my soul and cross the barrier, back to the surface." I held out my hand to him so he could stand up.

"But, why? Why help me?"

"Because, we can find a way out of this place. I'll make sure of it."

"Thank you. Stryker, I'm glad we met." Suddenly, my scouter flashed with a power level of 50 and bullets surrounded Asgore. I reacted quickly by taking his hand, throwing him out of the way and taking the bullets for him.

"Asgore, take this and run. I'll handle this mess." I threw him a senzu. He didn't question, just took the bean and ran. As if on cue, Flowey sprung from the ground with the souls surrounding him.

"Nice job moron. You gave me the perfect cover to steal the souls. Now time to show you that in this world, it's killed or be killed!!" I powered up and charged at him.

"This time I won't let you escape you damn weed!" As I was about to punch him, it seems like I hit a force field that shot me back with twice the force of my punch and slammed me into the adjacent wall. The last thing I saw before I passed out was Flowey laughing maniacally and absorbing the souls. Then, everything went black.

A/N: I know right? This is the first time Stryker has had someone best him in the underground. Anyway, the final chapter is coming soon and I'm so glad for all your support through this. As always, follow, fav review if you want. Till next time. Peace.