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Expedition to the Underground I

(6:30am)

(A soft yellow light illuminates the grass below the camera. The view shakes a little before it's tilted upward, revealing the source of the light to be a small, glowing glass ball floating a few feet above the ground. Looking past it, the top of Mt. Ebott is also illuminated by this light against the dark backdrop of the eternally October sky.)

(The view continues to shake as someone off screen mutters inaudibly under their breath before the camera starts to dive back toward the ground.)

Frisk: Fuck!

(A hand catches it before it hits the ground, and the camera is raised back up, facing the slowly lightening horizon and the top of the mountain again. After a few more moments of shaking, the view is stilled. Frisk, still off camera, breathes an audible sigh of relief.)

Frisk: Finally.

(A hand reaches out and grabs the orb before the camera starts to move forward as Frisk begins to walk toward the summit, and they stop just as they crest the peak. There is an entrance to a large cavern a bit of a distance away from them with the path into it sloping down at a steep angle into the depths of the mountain. More rocks forming the outside of it stretch further beyond where the eye can see. The camera view turns to look toward the left and right, but there's nothing more than the rocks and grass.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(Their shout carries across the still morning air, but they don't get a response.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(They wait a few moments, but all is still.)

Frisk: Asriel Dreemurr!

(Movement disturbs the earth near the entrance to the cave and rapidly approaches the camera. In a flash, a couple of small rocks get flung toward it, but it moves deftly out of the way before they can make contact.)

(Flowey appears out of the earth with a scowl and crosses his vines.)

Flowey: Would you keep that quiet! What if someone heard you?

Frisk: Is there anyone up here at six o'clock in the Angel damn morning to hear me yell that?

Flowey: Well, no, but you didn't know that!

Frisk: Flowey. It's so early in the morning that most people aren't awake, and almost no one climbs all the way up here anyway.

(Flowey rolls his eyes and eyes the camera directly.)

Flowey: You look ridiculous with that thing on your head.

Frisk: Well I needed to put it somewhere, so I could keep my hands free.

Flowey: I don't see why you need it at all.

Frisk: So that we can record what we find on Tumblr, and the Players can help us remember what we saw? Remember?

Flowey: Yeah, sure, but what makes you trust the Players in the first place? I thought you hated them. And it could be that this is their fault in the first place. Why would they tell you anything helpful?

Frisk: I– I don't hate all of them. The ones I've talked to are pretty kind, and they weren't even the ones who possessed me in the Underground.

Flowey: And how do you know that? Wait, let me guess. They told you they didn't do it, and you just believed them.

Frisk: …

Flowey: Oh my Angel, you are so stupid.

Frisk: They seemed genuine!

Flowey: You need to stop hanging out with Papyrus as much as you do and hang out with Undyne more instead. Having a bit more mistrust would do you some good.

Frisk: And having a bit more trust would do you some good! Besides, Papyrus' method of interacting with people is really effective and leads to a lot more good things happening for everyone. By showing kindness and trust, he's gotten world leaders to listen to him a lot more and be more willing to get things done that would help monsterkind!

Flowey: I think you have done more to make people listen to us than Papyrus ever has by being the ambassador first when you were younger and cooler. I mean, the very first thing you did when you met the Chief Executor for the first time to talk about monster rights, you threatened to pee in his coffee if he didn't start listening to you when he tried to have you, Asgore, and Toriel thrown out of his office, and when he insisted, you actually pulled down your pants and started running for his desk. What happened to that Frisk?

Frisk: Flowey, I was seven! Why would you say that on camera?

Flowey: Because everyone deserves to know how cool you used to be.

Flowey: Also because you used my name that no one else is supposed to know on camera.

Frisk: They're the Players. They already know you're Asriel.

Flowey: Yeah, whatever.

Flowey: By the way, did you give a cover story to Toriel and Sans about where you were going?

Frisk: Yeah, I wrote them a note saying I'm going to study in the library with MK and afterward, I'm hanging out with you, and I don't know when I'm going to be back.

(Flowey snorts.)

Flowey: What if they call MK to confirm that?

Frisk: They won't, but if they did, MK wouldn't rat me out. They sneak out of their house all of the time to go do whatever they want whenever they want, so they get it. I've covered for them before too, no questions asked, and I know they would do the same for me.

Flowey: If you say so.

(Flowey turns and moves a little closer to the entrance to the cave.)

Flowey: What was the other thing we were supposed to look for besides the save points?

Frisk: The Core. Razoolio suggested that something might be wrong with it, and that's what's causing the time loops. And this might also have something to do with Gaster and a December Holiday from a different world disappearing and ending up somewhere called the Void? I'm not entirely sure how that's connected to be honest, if it is at all, but I guess that's something we should keep in mind.

Flowey: I don't see how any of that is connected either. Even if it does have something to do with the Core, Gaster fell in decades ago, and you just said December isn't even from this world. How could any of that be connected?

Frisk: I don't know, but I know it just is! Probably. Along with... shorebirds?

(Flowey turns back to face them and gives them an exasperated look.)

Frisk: Okay, maybe that's not important to what we're doing here right this second, but I remember it is supposed to be important. And I just have a feeling that there could be a connection! And even if there isn't, I think we should keep that on the back burner because we should still try to save Gaster and December too, don't you think?

Flowey: I'm only helping with this because I'm sick of looping. Don't drag me into doing things for people I don't know or barely remember.

(Frisk sighs.)

Frisk: Fine, I'll worry about that, but later.

(The camera starts moving forward, following Flowey as he and Frisk continue walking toward the entrance of the cave.)

Frisk: Razoolio also said that, um, I should also try saving if we do come across a save point. They said they had an idea, but they didn't really elaborate on it.

Flowey: Well, I hope your trusting in random strangers on the internet pays off for you.

Frisk: I think it wi–

(Frisk stops moving suddenly as they fall silent. Flowey stops too and looks back at them with confusion.)

Flowey: Frisk?

Frisk: Do you hear that?

(From within the entrance of the cave, Small Shock plays quietly.)

Flowey: Hear what?

Frisk: The– The music.

Flowey: What music?

Frisk: The music coming from the cave?

(Frisk turns in a circle to look around their immediate vicinity, but all they can see are the same grass, rocks, and clear skies growing steadily lighter with the coming day.)

Flowey: Frisk, there's no music coming from the cave. Are you alright?

Frisk: No! There– There is, Flowey! It's the same music that played when– when I was about to fight Asgore or– or–

(Frisk's breathing quickens, and they look around the area again.)

Frisk: I thought you were going to scout out the area before I got here! That's why you decided to leave before me!

Flowey: Frisk, I did! There's nothing here! And what are you talking about the music that played when you were about to fight Asgore?

Frisk: Weren't you there? You were following me all the way through the Underground multiple times, you have to have heard it before!

Flowey: Yeah, of course I followed you every time you fought Asgore, but there wasn't any music! There wasn't anything to play music from in the room with the Barrier.

Frisk: No, before the– wait. You... You didn't hear the music that just kind of... existed in the atmosphere?

Flowey: ...No?

Frisk: …

Frisk: I think we should go home.

(Flowey rolls his eyes and continues heading for the entrance.)

Flowey: You can go home and be weird if you want, but I'm going to figure out how to stop this mess.

Frisk: No! Flowey, wait–!

(Flowey burrows under the ground at the cave's entrance and disappears.)

(The camera stays trained on the spot where he disappeared for a few moments before Frisk quickly looks around at the mound of rocks on either side of the entrance and making up the cave itself. They run to the side, leave their glowing orb floating in the air beside them, and pick up a couple of medium sized rocks. Then they grab their orb again, and they run into the cave.)

(The music gets louder the further down the path they go, and they have to slow down to keep themself from falling on the steep slope. When they eventually make it to the flat floor of the Underground, the music starts to get quieter again, and they find Flowey a little further inward, waiting for them and smirking.)

Flowey: I knew you had it in you.

Frisk: Flowey, I'm not kidding, we need to go. Right now.

(Flowey frowns.)

Flowey: Jeff Angel, Frisk, I haven't seen you this freaked out in a long time. It's just an empty cave now. You know that.

Frisk: It's– It's– It can't be empty right now. There has to be something here, and– and it's not safe for us to be here.

Flowey: If there is something down here, then aren't we supposed to find it anyway? What if whatever it is you think is down here is what's causing the loops?

Frisk: …

Frisk: Then– then I– I need to find a save point and use it before whatever is down here finds us because I can't– I can't–

Flowey: Okay, how about I give you a minute while I go scout out the next room. Eat something, drink some water, do whatever it is you need to do to calm the hell down.

Frisk: But I don't want you getting hurt!

Flowey: I'll just be in the next room, Jeff Angel! Besides, I'm very capable of defending myself. Just stay here for a minute.

(The camera moves up and down as Frisk nods, and Flowey moves through the doorway leading deeper into the Underground and out of sight.)

(6:55am)

(Frisk takes a few deep breaths. They turn to grab their water bottle from within the side bottle pocket of their backpack, and they open it and take a long drink. After they put it back, they bring their hands up which covers the camera view slightly as they press the heals of their hands to their eyes. After a few minutes, they bring their hands down again and sniffle.)

Frisk: Flowey? Are you okay?

Flowey: Yeah, this room is clear! But you should come look at this.

(Frisk takes another shaky breath before they start moving forward toward the end of the room.)

(As they move forward, Small Shock fades out completely, and a new song, a slowed down and distorted version of Memory, begins to fade in, coming from the room beyond.)

Frisk: What the hell?

(Frisk moves through the doorway and into the hallway leading into the next room. Flowey waves them over and points at the ground right next to the doorway where the last save point Frisk ever used floats a few inches above the ground though it's much different now than it was eight years ago.)

(The save point is glowing much more faintly, and it's sort of blurry, like a layer of static is surrounding it. It flickers erratically like a flame in the wind even though the air is completely still, and as Frisk takes a few hesitant steps toward it, it becomes clear that the music is coming from it.)

Frisk: I... I don't think it's supposed to do that.

Flowey: I don't think so either.

(The camera view gets lower to the ground as Frisk crouches down.)

Frisk: Can... Can you at least hear the music coming from this?

Flowey: There's music coming from it?

(Frisk sighs.)

Frisk: Never mind.

(Their hand reaches out to touch it, but they stop themself just inches away from making contact.)

Frisk: I– I don't...

(They turn to look at Flowey who is looking at them uncertainly.)

Frisk: Do you think I should save here? I'm just... It doesn't look normal, and I'm afraid of messing something up. I haven't done this in years, and honestly, I didn't even think these still existed until time started looping.

(Flowey looks past them and back at the save point.)

Flowey: Yeah, maybe we should find a different save point.

Flowey: It's weird though... The way it's flickering.

(Frisk turns to look back at the save point.)

Flowey: It doesn't look like it has any sort of pattern to it, but it kind of looks like it might be repeating?

(They both stare at the save point in silence. On observing it closer and for a longer period of time, it does look like the save point is flickering a certain way for about a minute and a half, the same length of time for the full song to play, before it pauses for just barely a second, and then it flickers the exact same way as before, repeating the cycle and song over and over again.)

Frisk: Do you think that confirms it that this is what's causing the loops?

Flowey: I think so? It is at least strange. We should still go check out the Core and maybe the other save points too on the way there. You still need to save, and even if this is the cause of it, we still don't know why it's doing it. Maybe the Core or something somewhere near here will have the–

(Flowey goes quiet, and Frisk snaps their head in his direction.)

Frisk: Flowey?

Flowey: Is... is that the song you are hearing coming from it?

(His voice is quiet, and his gaze is far away.)

Frisk: The song that plays from your music box except slower and... weird? Like it's somehow distorted?

(Flowey nods slowly.)

Flowey: Why is...

(He shakes his head and looks down at the ground.)

Flowey: I just remembered... My sibling, back when we were both alive... they used to make fun of me for having that old thing all of the time. They thought it was dumb that I still had it and said it was for babies.

Frisk: Your– your sibling. I think I... No, I know I know them! I think they told me one time that they only made fun of you for it because they were jealous about the fact that it was a gift from your parents that you had since you were a baby. They never actually thought it was dumb.

(Flowey looks back up at Frisk sharply.)

Flowey: Frisk, what the hell. That's not cool.

Frisk: What's not cool?

Flowey: You pretending to know them? They died a century before you came to the Underground.

Frisk: Y– yeah, but they're a ghost now. I... I met them when I first fell. I think?

Flowey: They're not a ghost, Frisk; I watched their soul leave my body as we were dying. They're gone.

Frisk: But they're not! They're...

Frisk: …

Frisk: Oh my Angel, they're missing. How could I have forgotten that?

Flowey: Frisk, stop this, this isn't funny! They can't be missing because they're dead, and you never knew them.

Frisk: Flowey, why would I be joking about this? And more importantly, why do you not know they're alive? Or, well, a ghost.

Flowey: I don't know why you're lying about this, but if they came back and were a ghost, they would have told me!

Frisk: I'm not lying! Look, I– I know–

Frisk: …

Frisk: Chara. Chara is their name. And Chara told me one time that once when they were still new to living with you, and Mom, and Asgore, they had a nightmare so bad that they couldn't sleep for days afterward, and you decided to stay up with them one night. They were really grateful and touched because no one had ever done that for them before and kept them company after a bad dream. And after that night, their nightmares didn't affect them as badly as they did before.

(Flowey's voice is quiet and shaking.)

Flowey: How do you know that?

Frisk: Because Chara told me!

(Flowey raises his voice.)

Flowey: Frisk, just stop it! I don't know how you know that, but you don't know them! You can't know them! They're gone!

(Flowey burrows into the ground and disappears.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(There's no response.)

(Frisk sighs and backs up against the wall before sitting down on the ground.)

Frisk: I wasn't lying though, why didn't he– oh.

Frisk: Shit, I wasn't supposed to tell him that they were around.

(The camera tilts slightly upward as Frisk leans their head against the wall.)

Frisk: Where are they though? Why aren't they with me?

(The air is still and quiet for a while save for Memory playing on repeat from the save point.)

–

(7:15am)

Frisk: They're in the Void too. I remember now, and they disappeared around the time the loops started happening. That's why the loops are probably connected to the Void thing. And the Lurkers...

Frisk: …

Frisk: I need to get them out of there. I need to stop the loops from happening. I need to find Flowey. I need... Fuck!

(Frisk bolts upright and sprints down the hallway, deeper into the Underground.)

Frisk: I need to save! Before anything bad happens, I need to save!

(They enter the next room and slow to a walk, panting slightly. They look around the room, holding the glowing orb out in front of them, and when they see there's nothing in here, they quickly make their way to the hallway connecting this room to Asgore's old throne room. They stop just inside the doorway and try to peer inside.)

(The room is so big and so dark that even with the help of the orb, only the first forty feet into the room are visible. The ground is covered in a thick layer of dirt and fungus, the flowers that once resided in this room long since decayed. Frisk looks to their left by the door and down at the ground, and the second save point is just barely visible. It's so much more faint than the first save point, and there's no music coming from it. It is flickering in the same pattern, however, and the blurry static surrounding it mutes its yellow color almost to nonexistence.)

Frisk: I– I can't use that one either. Shit.

(They start to run again before they stop suddenly and shake their head.)

Frisk: Wait, why am I running? I brought my scooter for a reason.

(They twist to take their backpack off and put it down on the ground. They unzip it, and they pull out a fairly wide, thick piece of metal with some hinges. They place it on the ground and unfold it, snapping all of the parts into place to make it a full sized scooter without wheels. They put their backpack back on, snap their orb into some sort of thin harness on the front center of their handlebars, stand on top of it, and press a button on the handlebars before gripping them tightly. They rise off the ground, the blue glow of the underside of their scooter just visible on the ground in the camera's point of view. They twist the right handle of their scooter a little bit, and they start moving at a brisk pace out of the room.)

(Frisk slows a bit when they exit the throne room to look for the save point outside of it, but it looks just the same as the second one. They shake their head, twist their handle again, and zoom even faster down the hallway toward the Judgment Hall.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(Their call as they fly by goes unanswered.)

(They make it to the end of the Judgment Hall, and once again, the save point that resides there is little more than a slight discoloration of air.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(Their voice echoes down the hallway, but there's no response.)

(Frisk zooms out of the room and pauses just for a moment outside of the elevator that would take them to the entrance back to the Core, but they shake their head before flying down the hallway back toward Asgore's old house.)

Frisk: Flowey!

(There's still no response.)

(Frisk comes to a stop at the foot of the stairs up into the house. They dismount their scooter and drag it with them up the stairs.)

Frisk: Flowey? Are you in here?

(Nothing.)

Frisk: Look, I'm sorry! I– I forgot you didn't know. I forgot Chara told me they didn't want you or anyone to know that they were back. I tried to reason with them a few times to let me at least tell you I think, but I don't remember why they didn't want you to know, and I'm so sorry I didn't tell you before.

(The only response they get is the silence of the dark house.)

(Frisk's breath catches in their throat, and they bring their hands up to their face, temporarily blocking some of the camera's view again as they press their hands against their eyes.)

Frisk: One crisis at a time, Frisk. You have to find a viable save point.

(They take a deep breath before they grab onto their scooter again and take it with them as they make their way out of the house.)

(The save point outside of the house looks just the same as the others, so Frisk mounts their scooter and takes off again, racing through New Home as fast as they can.)

Frisk: I just need to make it to the Core entrance. If the save point there still looks weird, I'm just going to try to save there anyway. And hopefully– hopefully Flowey isn't in trouble. And maybe I'll– I'll find him there.

(They race down the extremely long walkway until they reach the turn, and they whip around it so fast, they almost fall off their scooter. The silence stretches on down the next walkway, eerie and still. The houses and city layout below and beyond this walkway aren't visible anymore because the lights that once lit up the Underground have long since gone out, along with the rocks plugging up the holes in the ceiling here and there.)

(7:50am)

(After a long while, the monotony of seeing only the road ahead of them with the help of their orb is broken by a strange fog gathering in front of them. They slow down uncertainly for a moment before they speed up again and push through. The further they go into it, the thicker it gets until they can barely see a foot in front of them, and then the fog begins to dissipate.)

(Soon the fog is completely gone, and Frisk stops their scooter and looks around and behind them.)

(The fog is no longer there either.)

Frisk: What the hell was that?

(They stare behind them a little longer, and then they get back on their scooter and move away.)

–

(8:00am)

Frisk: Okay, it should not have taken this long, I should be at the Core by now. Right?

(No sooner than they say that, the orb lights up a turn in the path.)

Frisk: Finally!

(They turn down it and speed along for a good distance before they slow down again.)

Frisk: Wait, where's the other turn? I should have gotten to it by now; it wasn't that far of a walk to get to the elevator. Was it?

Frisk: Hey, and wasn't I supposed to pass the other elevator that would take me back to the Judgment Hall again by now?

(They stop for a moment and turn to look behind them. All they see is an empty expanse of road leading back into the darkness.)

Frisk: Whatever, maybe I'm misremembering it.

(They continue forward.)

–

(8:05am)

(Frisk finally makes it through the rest of that walkway, but they skid to a halt and curse loudly when they see where they are.)

(They've stopped right back in front of Asgore's house.)

Frisk: What the fuck? How am I back here again?!

(They dismount their scooter, stomp over to the left wall, and lean it against it. They take their orb back out of its harness, and walk briskly back into the house.)

(It's just the same as before. Empty, dark, and quiet.)

(Frisk inhales deeply as if they're about to shout again, but they pause and let their breath out quietly.)

(Down the hall toward the bedrooms, they can hear crying.)

(Frisk quietly makes their way down the hall and sees that the door to Chara and Asriel's old room is slightly ajar, and the crying is coming from inside. They push the door open slightly and peer into the room.)

Frisk: Flowey?

(Flowey looks up at them from the foot of Chara's old bed, and he scowls.)

Flowey: Go away, Frisk! I don't want to talk to you!

(Frisk takes the tiniest step back.)

Frisk: I– I'm so sorry, Flowey, honest. I remember what happened now, and Chara... I tried to convince them to let me tell you or for them to tell you themself, but they didn't think they deserved for you to know them anymore, and they were too afraid of hurting you again.

(Flowey gives a short, deep, and guttural laugh, and his eyes go dark. Frisk takes another small step backward.)

Flowey: They were too afraid of hurting me again? That's the excuse you're going to give me?

(His voice is deeper and scratchier than normal, and the camera tilts slightly as Frisk winces.)

Frisk: W– well, more specifically, they knew they didn't treat you the best when you were both alive, but you still thought the world of them, and they didn't feel like they deserved for you to think of them so highly. And they also didn't want to be the same kind of person to you anymore. So I guess that meant... they didn't want to be anything to you anymore at all. They– they just wanted for you to move on.

(Flowey grows some longer vines to raise himself higher on the bed.)

Flowey: They were my best friend!

(His shout echoes throughout the entire house.)

Flowey: How am I supposed to move on from that? Why do they get to make the decision about whether or not they get to be anything to me anymore? That should have been my decision! Mine!

Frisk: I tried to reason with them, Flowey, I swear! But I couldn't get through to them!

Flowey: So you lied. You lied to me. You lied to everyone. And didn't you just tell me an hour and a half ago that I needed to trust people more?

Frisk: …

Flowey: Exactly.

(Flowey crosses his vines and turns his back to them.)

Flowey: Is there anything else you've been lying about that I should know about? Like, where is Chara, or maybe even why the loops are happening in the first place? Because who knows what you actually do or don't know!

Frisk: I– I don't know why the loops are happening, and... I heard that... that Chara is stuck in the Void too. With Gaster and December.

(Flowey snorts but doesn't say anything else.)

(Frisk takes a shaky breath and walks into the room, and they sit down on Asriel's bed, the old springs creaking and groaning under their weight.)

Frisk: I didn't remember that they were stuck in the Void until about an hour ago? And I found that out from the Players on tumblr. At least, they're convinced that they're in contact with our Chara. Like I said, tumblr is somehow connected to a lot of different universes and timelines. I don't know how they got there, and I– I can't talk to them. Razoolio tried to link their page for me, but it just glitched out on my phone. And they might have– have tried to reach me once I think. But I couldn't see who actually sent in that one ask, and it was just gibberish.

Frisk: Um... But I'm pretty sure that they disappeared around the time that the first loop happened, and every time the loop resets, I forget about them again, so they might be connected to it?

Flowey: …

Flowey: Do you happen to remember anything else about what happened before the loops started?

(He doesn't turn to look at them, and his words are like venom.)

(Frisk looks down at the ground.)

Frisk: …

Frisk: We got into a fight.

Flowey: Do you know what about?

Frisk: …

Frisk: No.

Flowey: Is that the truth?

Frisk: …

(Flowey sighs.)

Flowey: Let me guess, they swore you to secrecy on that too.

Frisk: Kind of, but not really. I... I just don't want to talk about it. Not right now. It's– it's not relevant.

Flowey: How do you know it's not relevant?

Frisk: Because it's just not!

Flowey: Okay, then how do I know it's not relevant? Is it some other big secret you're keeping?

Frisk: …

Frisk: Something weird happened when I tried to get to the elevator that goes down to Core. The save point just outside of that elevator was the next one I was going to check out because all of the other save points I've seen are weird and faded too, but not as weird as the first one at least. But as I was going down the walkway, I ran into some weird fog, and then a long time after that, I somehow got turned around and ended up back here again.

Frisk: I want to try and save at the save point outside, but then I think we should figure out what happened and what the fog stuff was.

Flowey: So you're just going to ignore my question?

Frisk: …

Frisk: We only have so much daylight, Flowey.

(Their voice is quiet, and Flowey sighs.)

Flowey: Fine. Let's get this over with, so that I don't have to talk to you or even look at you anymore.

(Flowey's voice is back to normal, and Frisk looks up to see his face is normal again too though he's clearly still pissed off. He hops off the bed and moves out of the room, and Frisk follows suit.)

(8:25am)

(Frisk and Flowey make it back out front of Asgore's house, and Flowey moves to hang back a little ways away from the save point while Frisk places their orb to hover in the air near it. They move to crouch down next to the save point, and they look up at Flowey uncertainly.)

(Flowey moves his vines in a go ahead motion.)

(Frisk takes a deep breath, and they slowly stretch their hand toward the save point. They pass their had through it and make a fist.)

(Then they gasp in shock and panic as they rip their hand away from it, falling backward in the process.)

Frisk: Shit, what the fuck?!

(They groan and bring their hands up, covering the camera completely for a moment before they move their hands away, still jostling the camera a bit as they try to press their hands against their forehead.)

Flowey: Frisk? What happened?

(Frisk takes a few deep breaths before they respond.)

Frisk: It was so weird, I– Well, first of all, it shocked me, which it has never done before, but the shock wasn't that bad. It mostly just surprised me. But then I got like... sensory overload? I just got really really dizzy and faint, and it was like my brain was being overloaded with information. I– I can't tell what information, but it was just a lot and really really intense.

Frisk: The even weirder thing though... usually when I use a save point, it almost feels like... a question is being asked? Like, I'm making some sort of connection with something, and that something feels like the embodiment of a question, and then if I feel like, a sort of positive feeling, I know I saved, but if I feel a kind of negative feeling, I know I didn't.

Frisk: But with this... even though I felt like I was being overloaded with information, I didn't feel any sort of connection at all! I– I couldn't reach anything. At least, not anything I could control.

Flowey: That is strange.

(Frisk looks back over at him, and his frown looks just a touch shy from unbothered.)

Flowey: Do you want to try to save at any other save point? Or are we just going to go try and find the fog cloud or whatever?

(Frisk sighs.)

Frisk: Well, I definitely don't want to experience that again.

Frisk: But I guess... Maybe it would be worth it to try and save at the first save point. The one with the music. Because that one is different from all of the others, so maybe something new will happen.

Flowey: Alright. Are we going there now, or back to Core?

Frisk: I know it would make more sense to try and reach the Core now since we'd be closer to it now than if we went back to the entrance first, but I think I should try to give saving another shot before we find ourselves in a situation we can't get out of.

Flowey: There's also the elevator by the Judgment Hall. Maybe if we go in the elevator and then back track, we'll run into the fog again, but on the side where we can still keep going to the Core when we need to.

Frisk: That's a good point.

(Frisk stands up and grabs their orb before walking over to their scooter. They snap the orb back in its harness, and then they look at Flowey.)

Frisk: I uh, brought a small basket I could attach to the scooter, so you can catch a ride too if you want.

(Flowey gives them a withering look.)

Flowey: I'd rather die.

(He burrows back under the ground and disappears again.)

(Frisk looks down at the ground and sighs. They take a few moments to take a few shaky breaths before they look up at the ceiling and shake their head slightly. Then they drag their scooter into the house and down the stairs before they mount it and zoom back toward the entrance to the Underground.)

–

(8:50am)

(Frisk slows to a stop in the room with the last save point. Memory is still playing in the same distorted and glitched fashion as it was before, and the save point's muted glow looks so much brighter and more defined compared to the save points elsewhere.)

(Frisk dismounts their scooter and leans it against the wall before they take out the orb and suspend it in the air again. They go over and sit down next to the save point, and they wait in silence.)

(A few minutes later, Flowey pops up out of the ground by the scooter, panting slightly. He shoots another glare at Frisk, but this time it has less heat in it.)

Flowey: Do you... happen to... have an extra... water bottle?

(Frisk nods and takes their backpack off, setting it in their lap. They dig through it until they find a miniature water bottle, complete with straw, and they hand it over to him.)

Frisk: You left this on the counter, so I thought I'd fill it up for you and bring it with me.

Flowey: That makes it sound like... I live with you... This isn't even mine.

(Flowey grows a bit and starts drinking as Frisk responds to him.)

Frisk: Right. I just like keeping things around that I know could be helpful for my friends. So does Mom and Sans.

Frisk: That said, you know you can take it with you when you go back to... wherever you keep your things. Right?

(Flowey closes the lid around the straw and hands the bottle back to Frisk.)

Flowey: Friends is a bit of a stretch as of right now. And what's the point in taking it if it's not mine?

(Frisk looks slightly away from him.)

Frisk: Well, I guess I can't argue with that.

(Flowey glares at them suspiciously before looking back at the save point.)

Flowey: Have you tried to save yet?

Frisk: No, I was waiting for you.

Flowey: Why?

Frisk: In case something bad happens? This save point is weirder than the others, and the other one overwhelmed me really badly.

(Flowey snorts.)

Flowey: I guess you have a point.

(Frisk puts the bottle away and puts their backpack back on.)

Frisk: Well, here goes nothing.

(They stretch their hand out toward the save point and make a fist inside of it.)

(The music suddenly gets really really loud, and the save point flashes with bright light. Flowey scrambles backward closer to the wall, and Frisk shrieks and jerks their hand back out before they fall backward again and try to scramble away from it as fast as they can.)

(As soon as their hand is out of the save point, the music gets quieter again, and the save point's light goes back down to it's semi-visible, muted state.)

(Frisk breathes hard for a minute before they sit up again and look down at their hand.)

(It's bright red like they got burned badly, but the color is already starting to drain away and go back to their normal skin tone.)

Flowey: What the hell was that?

(Frisk takes a couple more deep breaths as they try to regulate their breathing.)

Frisk: I have no idea. I can tell you one thing though, and it's that I definitely was not able to save.

(Frisk and Flowey continue to stare at the save point a little longer.)

Flowey: I think we should go now.

Frisk: I agree. To the elevator?

Flowey: Yeah. And this time I'm going in the basket, but don't talk to me.

(Frisk nods, and when their hand returns to normal, they give it a couple of shakes before they open their backpack again and take out a little basket. They stand up and attach it to the center of the handlebars on their side of the scooter. Flowey climbs in as Frisk grabs their orb and attaches it to the harness again, and then they mount the scooter themself before they drive off back deeper into the Underground.)

–

(9:10am)

(Frisk stops the scooter right outside of the elevator outside the Judgment Hall. They dismount it and bring it with them as they move toward the button, and they press the button to call for the elevator.)

(The doors don't open.)

(Frisk presses the button again and taps their foot impatiently.)

(The doors still don't open.)

Flowey: Well, either the Core is still shut down, or if someone did reactivate it, they didn't divert power to this elevator at the very least.

(Frisk sighs.)

Frisk: I doubt anyone would go there and not activate these elevators because walking or riding a scooter between the entrance to the Underground and the Core takes an annoying amount of time.

Flowey: Unless they did something wrong when trying to activate the Core, and they never got the chance to get this operating again.

Frisk: That's fair. I guess we're going the long way then. Hopefully this time we'll be able to actually make it to the Core entrance.

(Frisk steps back up onto their scooter, and they zip down the walkway further into the Underground.)

–

(9:35am)

(A light fog gathers in front of Frisk and Flowey, and Frisk brings their scooter to a stop just at the edge of it.)

Frisk: This is it. This is the fog I was talking about. I don't understand why it's here.

(Flowey climbs out of the basket and moves closer to the cloud before waving a vine through it.)

Flowey: There aren't any openings to the surface anywhere near here anymore. How did this even form?

(Frisk gets off their scooter too and walks closer to wave their own hand through it.)

Frisk: I don't think it's supposed to be able to. We're not near any water, so it can't be from that.

Flowey: You said that you went through this, and after a long time you ended up back at Asgore's house?

Frisk: Yeah, and I never saw the Core entrance.

(Flowey backs up a bit, and he looks up at them.)

Flowey: I have an idea. I'm going to go back a little ways down the path, and once you don't see me anymore, go through the fog again.

Frisk: Why? Do you think the fog is here to turn people around?

Flowey: Possibly. I don't know how else you would have skipped the Core elevator and ended up going backward. Unless, you know, you're lying about that too.

Frisk: …

Frisk: Okay, yeah, I deserved that one.

(They get back on their scooter and turn to look at Flowey again.)

Frisk: I'm ready whenever you are.

(Flowey nods, and he moves away back down the path.)

(Once he's out of sight, Frisk takes a deep breath, and they push through the fog.)

(The fog gets thicker again, but they keep going. Soon it gets so thick that only the ground within a foot of the scooter is visible against the light grey surroundings, but after a few moments, the fog slowly dissipates again until it's gone completely. Frisk looks behind them to see that there's nothing there except empty walkway. They sigh then continue moving forward.)

(After a couple of minutes, they stop again right next to Flowey who is crossing his vines.)

Flowey: Guess that settles that.

(Frisk lets out a snort of frustration.)

Frisk: Does that mean something is wrong with the Core and we just can't get to it? Or does this not have anything to do with the Core at all?

(Flowey throws his vines in the air.)

Flowey: How am I supposed to know?!

(Frisk shakes their head.)

Frisk: I don't know what we're supposed to do now. I can't save; we can't get out of New Home. The only things we found here were the weird save points and memories of–

Flowey: I don't want to talk about them right now unless you're willing to tell me what the argument was about.

Frisk: …

Frisk: The only things we know so far is that the save points might be the things causing the loops, but we don't know how unless...

Frisk: …

Frisk: Yeah.

(Flowey glares up at them.)

Flowey: Yeah.

Frisk: …

Frisk: Maybe we should go back to Asgore's house to regroup. I can stop the stream then and open my ask box up for suggestions with the Players to see if they can help us get anywhere with this.

(Flowey snorts.)

Flowey: Yeah, have fun with that. What I'm doing though when we get back there is going to sleep.

Frisk: Fair enough.

(Flowey climbs back in his basket, and they set off back the way they came.)

–

(10:05am)

(Frisk takes their orb out of its harness once they bring the scooter in the house with them. Flowey climbs out of the basket and makes his way over to his and Chara's old room where he turns to give Frisk one last glare.)

Flowey: Wake me up if you find out anything useful.

(Before Frisk has a chance to respond, he slams the door shut.)

(Frisk looks down and sighs. They walk to what used to be the living room, and they suspend the orb in the air to light up the empty room before sitting down on the ground. The camera shakes slightly and moves upward before being brought closer to the floor and then over Frisk's lap.)

Frisk: Oh yeah, I should probably say before I turn off the camera. Um... If any of you can help us figure out what's going on or have other ideas that we should try while we're down here, please send them into my inbox. I know it's been a while since I've been online, and I'll answer the asks that I've gotten between the last time I was online to now next loop after all of this is over.

Frisk: Thank you all for already helping as much as you have, and I'm looking forward to talking to you all again after I turn this thing off. Which I'm going to do right now.

#[time stamps are generalizations to show time passing because I don't actually know how long talking takes lol #let alone movement. I have an idea of how long it would take to get from the entrance to the Underground to the end of New Home #but not really the minute details of places in between]#Dreamer Child #lore from the Frisk #✨#Frisk is Live #Flower Boy

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