PATCHWORK SOUL

Flower Finder Arc Chapter 27

Mettaton struck quite a smug, proud pose and tossed his hair.

"Wh... What?" Frisk's voice went shrill and the look of shock on her face gave everyone in the room pause. "Wh-What do you mean, took care of?"

"Don't worry, you said no blowing up, and I promise you, he's very much intact!" Mettaton said. "I had him moved faaaarr away from your planning. Good, yes? Yes, of course!"

Frisk almost looked like she was going to be sick. It was like the ground had been taken from beneath her feet. "Oh... Oh n-no, that's bad," she said, eyes wide, and she grabbed Papyrus's hand. "That's r-really bad."

"It is?! What?! But I thought if he was out of your way, then—!" Mettaton began, but he stopped himself when Frisk put her face in her hands. "Oh, my, I bungled it, didn't I?"

"We need him," Frisk said. "We need him out to help break the barrier."

"Huh? I thought he was the bad guy?" Undyne asked.

"Wait, do you guys not remember this?" Frisk asked, eyes wide. "Sans?"

"Uh..." He shrugged. "Actually. They might not. I have it from you."

"Crap." Frisk rubbed her forehead. "I'm sorry. Really, actually, I thought...! Crap."

"Chill out," Sans said. "Just talk."

"Right. Right, right. Okay." She took a deep breath. "I'm really sorry, I wouldda said this sooner if I knew you guys didn't know. Here's how the barrier broke the last two times. I went to talk to Asgore where all the souls are and he lifted them out of their holding place. Mom interrupted before Asgore tried to fight me. Then, everyone showed up. All you guys. Az stole the human souls, and then... then all your souls, too."

Undyne looked like she was about to interrupt, but Alphys held her arm tight.

"All the monsters. He started getting feelings back because of that but he also became a huge chaos god or something. I had to outlast him, basically. And... save you guys. See, he..." She sighed— it hurt her heart just to think about it. "He tried to erase everyone's memories of me. So you wouldn't fight, I guess? S-So it feels hopeless for all of us. But I found all you guys, and my mom, and Asgore, and I was able to make you remember me. It made him unstable. After that, I used some memories his sister left with me to save him. Gave him his real feelings back. And he went back to how he's supposed to be. All the monster souls together are strong enough to be the seventh soul, so Az broke the barrier and then the human souls left and all the monsters went back to normal."

"Waaaait. Wait wait wait," Undyne said. "You're saying. If we used all the monster souls. All of us. We could have been out way before now?!"

"I don't know," Frisk said, shaking her head, "the thing is, what Asriel is right now, he has a mind, but no soul. All the souls need to go into something without one. But having no soul makes him a huge jerk." She took a deep breath. "If he just does everything like he normally does, everything should be fine and then w-we just do the thing to give him a new soul as fast as we can right after all that."

Mettaton flinched. "Sweetie, I'm sorry," he said. "I thought he was bad bad. I just didn't want him to get in your way!"

Frisk rubbed her head, but she smiled nonetheless. "I know, I know, it's okay. So where is he?"