It Was A Wonderful Life
Woona stared down the barrier as she felt her magic swell within her. "You will break," she said firmly as she focused all the energy she could into her horn, lifting her head as she prepared to hurl it at the barrier. With a half lunge, she spread her wings and leveled her horn at the barrier, her eyes, horn, Cutie Mark, and the Soulstone all blazing white as the blast of magic shot forward to impact against the barrier, minor cracks appearing around the impact point. Woona grinned widely as she saw this, thinking the cracks would spread slowly and the barrier would break...but that's not what happened.
Instead, as her magic tried to force its way into and through the barrier, the barrier struck back. A pulse of dark green magic pulsed down the connection she'd forged, slamming down her horn, making her flinch back. But even as she felt her HP starting to drop, she held on. After all, she had the Soulstone, with more magical energy than any human or monster could contain. Surely she'd be able to break through the barrier?
However, for all she'd accomplished and learned, she'd overlooked two things. While the Soulstone provided near limitless magical energy, it channeled that magic through her body at her physical limits, which was well below what seven human souls would provide a monster if they absorbed them. The barrier, however, was designed to be constantly self-cycling with its magical energy to sustain itself...so unless a single burst of power struck it strongly enough to break it in one blow, it would fight back. The backlash was the barrier cycling and self repairing even as Woona struggled to break through.
As her HP continued to drop, Woona let out a scream of frustration. She would not stop now. She could not. She would have to succeed...somehow!
Her HP hit zero, and the world went black.
She felt her soul tearing itself apart.
...but she refused.
The world returned. She was still holding her magic on the barrier, trying to break through. Her HP was dropping again, just as rapidly as before. But...something was wrong.
Woona
LV 2/2 HP 43/49 MP X/Y
Her eyes widened as she realized her max HP had gone down. She wondered what could have caused that.
When your soul started to break, you managed to pull yourself back together through Determination, Chara explained to her. But not completely. Because of the amount of magic flaring around you, you were unable to completely stitch your soul back together. Each time your soul breaks...you'll lose one max HP.
Woona stared up at the barrier, noticing that the cracks had widened somewhat. Then I have 48 more tries to pump out enough magic to punch through, she groaned in her head as her HP once more emptied.
The world went black.
Her soul began to tear apart.
...but she refused.
Not entirely, Chara informed her as she continued to pour magic into the spell. As your soul weakens, it'll be harder and harder to stitch back together. If it gets to half strength or less...I don't think you'll be able to pull yourself back together.
Woona whined deep in her throat, doing the only thing she could...pouring her all into the struggle to try and break the barrier. Again, she poured all her power, all her HP, into pushing past the vortex of magic that sought to tear her apart. Once again, her soul began to tear itself apart.
...once again, she refused.
Flowey continued to watch as Woona and Chara poured their all into breaking the barrier, the cracks widening only slightly each time her soul broke apart. Each time she had to struggle to pull her soul back together, a tear fell from his eye, trailing down his face and off a petal to drop to his roots. While to Woona and the other monsters it seemed like the fracture of her soul lasted only a moment, he could see the effort it took Woona in the frozen moment of time to pull herself back together. Each time...it took longer. Each time...less was recovered.
"Why...?" he mumbled to himself as he watched. "Why is she doing this? Why does this matter so much to her?" He stared down at his tears. "...and why do I care so much?" Looking back up, he watched as her max HP drop to 38. Tensing himself, he pulled back into the ground...popping out in the center of the whirling vortex of magic surrounding her.
"You know your soul's lost power equivalent to an entire human soul now," he pointed out calmly. "If you keep this up, before long there won't be anything left of you."
"I...I know..." Woona whimpered.
"This won't work," Flowey continued relentlessly, glaring at her, a frown upon his botanical face. "The barrier's going to outlast you at this rate."
"I...know..." Woona replied, eyes clenched tight and teeth gritted.
Flowey ground his teeth together. "Then why do you keep going?" he demanded angrily. "Break it off! Find another way! Let your soul recover enough to try again at full strength, or let yourself Reset!"
"I...I can't..." Woona whimpered, tears falling from her closed eyes.
"W...what?" Flowey demanded, confused.
"Her last Save Point was right before she tried to break the barrier," Chara told Flowey. "Every time her soul breaks, it hooks back into the Save Point. Unless she breaks the barrier...she'll be trapped forever in this moment of time, trying to break through the barrier...and never succeeding, as she feels the magic maelstrom endlessly tearing her soul apart."
Flowey's jaw dropped. "N...no!" he screamed out. "There has to be another way!" Reaching out, he grabbed hold of Woona and tried to pull her free, to no avail. "I'm not letting you die for nothing! I...I thought you'd just be like the others, just like everyone else! But...but for the first time since I wound up like this...when you held me, I cared! All I ever wanted to do was find someone I could care about, to feel something, and I care about you! Maybe it's Chara inside you, or the strength of your magic, or your soul...but whatever it is, I can't lose you! I can't be all alone again unable to connect! You have to live!"
"heh, sounds like we've got a budding romance here."
Flowey lifted his head in shock, turning to see Sans watching from the edge of the maelstrom. "Smiley trashbag!" Flowey snarled out. "Is that all you're going to do, just make bad jokes about the situation? I thought you promised to take care of her! Some super special promise, too!"
"can't really do much just now," Sans countered. His eye glowed, and he threw some of his magic at the maelstrom, only for it to be torn asunder. "but none of us can even get close to Woona, let alone help her. magic can't cross this maelstrom, and any soul that tries to enter will be torn apart."
"But...but I could get in here," Flowey pointed out, confused.
"like I said...any soul that approaches..."
"But I don't have enough magic to help!" Flowey wailed. "I...I can't help her!"
"not alone..."
"...what?"
"not all nightmares are warnings, or mistakes, kid. some can be the key...to salvation. you just need to know who to...call."
"...call?" Flowey mused over the last word, certain it was the key somehow. His eyes widened as he realized the real key. "...Nightmare..." He turned to where Asgore watched in fear. "Dad! I need the human souls, now!"
Asgore gasped at being called 'Dad'. "A...Asriel?" He shook his head, trying to focus. "But, the souls...if you absorb them-"
"There's no time to argue!" Flowey shrieked out as Woona's soul broke once more, her max HP dropping to 37. "If I don't stabilize Woona's soul now, she's going to die! Please, Dad, trust me!"
Swallowing convulsively, Asgore lifted his Battle Fork. The six soul capsules raised out of the ground in a half circle around the maelstrom, some still wrapped with blankets or with small plush animals resting beside them.
Plunging his roots deep, Flowey brought his vines up around each capsule. Turning to the souls inside, he cried out, "HELP ME!"
The capsules shattered, as the children of Asgore and Toriel gave their power to aid their siblings.
Flowey felt himself expand into immensity, his power skyrocketing as he wrapped his vines tightly around Woona, doing his best to shield her against the maelstrom tearing up the world around her. Her HP stopped dropping even as his bulk slammed up against the edges of the barrier, his body phasing easily through the rock as his form became half-physical and half-magical. He knew his shape, the shape he took from absorbing six human souls, or just from his LV reaching 19. He didn't give it much thought, instead focusing his magic on trying to help Woona.
"With so much Soul power...you can break the barrier now, right?" Asgore called out.
"No!" Flowey snapped back, his face now on a screen that had taken its place at the center of his six petals. "It's taking half my magic just to stabilize Woona so she doesn't fade out, and the backlash from the barrier's growing stronger! I-" He winced as he felt magic flowing through him. "...even if the Soulstone can channel magic through me, it still has to funnel through Woona! It's not enough! I need more help! Come on, Smiley Trashbag! You had the answer before...what am I supposed to do now?"
"and why should i help you with you calling me that?" Sans countered, grinning widely.
Flowey clenched himself up as he was ready to rage...only to realize what Sans was saying. "...I can still survive the Maelstrom..." he whispered. "I...my body's designed for this! I can channel your magic in here to help!" A vine lashed out of the maelstrom. "Sans! Help me hold Woona together!"
Smiling, Sans gripped the vine. "kid...all you had to do was ask."
Magic flowed from Sans along the thorny vine as he poured his everything out. Every joke he ever told, every laugh he'd shared with everyone he cared about, his delight in discovering Woona loved jokes too...even his memories of Chara's more adult jokes, made all the worse by Woona's innocence. All this resonated strongly with the light blue human soul, sending the energy strongly into Woona, shoring her defenses against the maelstrom.
Asgore reached out and grabbed hold of the vine. "Woona, Chara, Asriel...you all must live! You are our hope, the hope for everyone!" He poured his magic, along with his every happy memory of his children, down the vine, giving it his all. To his surprise, another fuzzy hand wrapped around the vine just over his. "T...Tori?"
"Don't you Tori me, Asgore," Toriel growled out, glaring at him. "You created this situation when you let my daughter try to break the barrier on her own! We're going to have words when this is done!"
Asgore withered under her gaze, but he did not flinch back from giving his magical energy. He could feel Toriel's happy memories with Woona pouring into the vine along with her magic, trying to sustain her.
"Why isn't it working?" Flowey demanded. "Why isn't she stabilizing?"
"duh," Sans offered. "you only got us three. we don't even make a whole human soul between us."
Flowey's eyes widened. "Of course! But...how do I get them to help? How can I...ask everyone at...once..."
More vines rose, aiming towards the ground...and at the edge of each one, an Echo Flower took shape, a single message through each and every single one.
"Help Woona!"
Papyrus was stunned as an Echo Flower erupted out of the floor of his house, nearly smacking him in the face. Its petals reached out to him imploringly. "Help Woona!" it begged.
"WOONA IS IN TROUBLE?" Papyrus gasped out, shocked. "THEN THE GREAT PAPYRUS SHALL LEND HER HIS ALL!" He grasped the proffered vines and poured his magic through them even as they wrapped around his bones, channeling all his memories of Woona into the vines. How kind she was with his puzzles, how she responded to his own kindness, how gently she'd 'let him down' after the 'play date'...and the simple kind joy they'd shared playing together.
Flowey felt those memories resonate strongly with the green soul as it let off a pink glow, another wall of Woona's being shielded against the maelstrom.
Alphys and Mettaton had been escorting the Amalgamates back into the rest of the Underground, guiding them to their families, when the Echo Flower erupted out of the ground in front of them. "W-w-w-wha?!" Alphys screamed out, staggering back. "The heck?"
"ARE YOU ALRIGHT, ALPHYS?" Mettaton asked, back in his box form to conserve power, as he bent over to help Alphys back to her feet.
"Help Woona!" the Echo Flower proclaimed, reaching imploringly towards them.
Alphys stared at it curiously. "Why isn't it repeating what we say?" she asked, confused.
"Help Woona!" the flower insisted again.
"I BELIEVE ITS MESSAGE IS MORE IMPORTANT, DARLING," Mettaton pointed out. "MAGIC IS FLOWING THROUGH THE FLOWERS ROOTS. SOMEONE IS USING THE FLOWER - AND OTHERS - TO GATHER MAGIC."
"To help Woona!" Alphys gasped out, stunned. Lunging forward, she gripped the proffered leaves, Mettaton's hands closing around hers. Together, they funneled their magic into the flower, adding in their memories of their time with Woona. For Alphys, the most prominent was her realization that she didn't have to present a false face...to Woona or anyone else. Woona had helped her embrace her feelings for Undyne, and face down the mistakes of her past. For Mettaton, Woona had met him on his own ground and helped him discover what was really important...that as great a star as he could be, it was best when he did not shine alone.
As the Amalgamates wrapped their various psuedopods around the vines, adding their own magic, the combined energies resonated with the orange soul, blazing brightly as another shield arose around Woona's soul, protecting her.
As Undyne raced towards the Barrier, somehow knowing that Woona had gotten herself in over her tiny head again, she tripped and slammed face first into the ground as an Echo Flower erupted between her feet. "The heck?" she growled out angrily.
"Help Woona!" the flower insisted, reaching for her.
"What do you think I'm trying to do?" she demanded angrily as she struck out at it with one of her spears.
The flower swayed out of the way, wrapping around her wrist. "Help Woona!" it insisted again.
Undyne drew back her other fist to smash it away...only to feel the flow of magic within the flower. "Be more specific!" she snapped out angrily as she poured all of her heart and soul into the flower, determined to help the little pony that had showed her how wrong she had been, had awoken her heart again to compassion...and helped her realize that in a choice between duty and friendship, even as Captain of the Royal Guard her first duty was to her friends.
The Yellow Soul resonated strongly with the force of her magic, giving off a strong crimson glow as it wrapped its magic protectively around Woona.
As Muffet tended to her spider brethren and helped those who had been displaced settle in, she was startled to see an Echo Flower spring up out of the middle of her table. "Afufufu, how intriguing," she murmured as her spiders continued to pour energy into her, ensuring she didn't give so much of herself that she collapsed.
"Help Woona!" the flower begged, reaching out towards Muffet.
"The little deary?" Muffet asked, surprised. "But of course I'll help her." Reaching out, she took hold of the flower, pouring in her magic and that of all her spiders as they joined with her. "She set out so far from home, just to bring our tribes back together, and didn't ask anything in return...how can I do any less?"
The purple soul responded to her magic, completing the shield around Woona's soul and stabilizing it as the power flowed in.
Throughout the Underground, the Echo Flowers sprouted up wherever monsters congregated. Every Echo Flower across the Underground delivered the same message: "Help Woona!"
Flowey had called for help...
...and from the darkness, everyone came.
The magic of every monster, the power of their souls, poured freely into Flowey's body to lend aid to Woona in her hour of need. He grew, and grew, and grew, shouldering his way through the earth around him until he found himself blocked by the barrier itself. But even that could not hold him, as in an instant his plant body converted to crystal and phased right through, driving towards the surface.
In vegetative ecstasy, he broke through to the surface inside a cave, his crystalline body taking shape as he stretched towards the surface. The sun was almost in reach...but he felt his roots unwrapping from around Woona, felt her soul start to weaken.
He froze, realizing what was happening. He could keep going, take the magic he'd been given and reach the surface, and gaze upon the sun again...but doing so would leave Woona to die. Or he could turn around, expend all the magic inside him to help break the barrier and save her...only to be trapped underground forever as the magic was fully expended and he burned out, never to be free. He held there as the weight of his choice bowed his crystal branches.
Reaching upward, he threw his curses at the heavens as he denounced humans, ponies, monsters, Gods, Makers, and Watchers alike...then turned his back on the sun forever, diving back into the ground, his crystal roots stretching down around the outside of the barrier, seeking the source of its power.
And there they were. Seven dark green human souls embedded into the weave of the magic, sustaining it. The souls of the sages who had crafted the barrier, bound up in it, as they sacrificed their very lives in their fearful desire to keep monsters caged indefinitely. Angrily, Flowey struck out at the nearest soul he could reach...
And the souls struck back. Each floated up, projecting a featureless human body with which to fight back, banding together against Flowey.
Once more, Flowey screamed his curses. "How am I supposed to fight them all at once?" he screamed out. "It's taking all my focus just to balance keeping Woona alive and being out here! I can't do this alone!" His cry for help echoed...
...and they came.
"move over, kid," Sans told him, as the seven strongest Monsters in the underground prepared for the greatest fights of their lives...the battles that would determine the fate of all. "we'll take it from here."
Stats
Page generated in 0.04 seconds
Total duration
932 users online
1,426,392 hits today, 2,280,440 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Her we go
...
First. The chapter is a hour later than it is suppose to be.
WHO WANTS POPCORN?! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!
Wait what. What happened at the end? Also knight knight
As the hypest youtuber in history once said "Heart of the cards, Shoulder at the start, I believe."
Heh. So, this is where it ends.
Sorry, sages, but the Age of Humanity ended long ago. It's time for you to join the rest of them.
"And out of the darkness, Everyone came."
7356117
No it's not. It's not even ten o'clock my time. As long as it's still Friday my time, the chapter's on time. The chapters don't have a specific time of updating, just day of the week.
And so the Finale is finally here
...Bring it on bitches!
7356148 Sorry, it's just over here it states the chapter was posted on the second. Plus it's 1 o clock AM over here.
So... here we go...
EDIT: this would be the Narration she could use if this game was in UNDERTALE itself (You=Woona, and if she was the Narrator):
*You tried to break the Barrier but it struck back.
*You refused to die.
*Minus 1 Max HP!
*You tried to break the Barrier.
*Hey, are you still going to do this?
*Minus 1 Max HP.
*Minus 1 Max HP...
*Flowey came and he... he cared for you?
*Minus 1 Max HP. You need help.
*Flowey called for help.
*The SOULS resonate with your SOULSTONE as everyone came to help.
*The SOULS of the sages appeared!
*sans answered your call of help.
And then a FIGHT.
OH SNAP
WELP. Was not expecting that. This is going to be fun.
Happy endings don't exist for some of us
The greatest of sacrifices can mean nothing
True suffering is all that awaits some of us
Not for any reason
Cruelty doesn't need a reason to exist
Mercy is Selfless
Sacrifice is Divine
But Redemption is truly a gift no one can take from you
Wow! Out of all of the characters, I didn't expect Flowey to actually help out Woona!
I guess he does care about that little pony after all. The part where he reached out to all of the Monsters to help Woona break the barrier was amazing, emotional, and intense.
Flowey's doing a great job, but it looks like the battle's not over yet. It's time for the others to step up and battle the seven human Souls inside the barrier. Go get 'em, guys!
So... this should be interesting. Everyone, grab your bisicles and Glamburgers(TM), and lets wait to see where this goes.
By the way, it looked like Flowey cracked.
Bravery Justice kindness Patience Integrity perserverance
along with every monster filled the Underground with the
HOPES and DREAMS to shatter the barrier
Well, I certainly didn't expect this!
...*grins* I'mma just leave this here.
#HelpWoona
7356120 you have the cheddar cheese popcorn salt?
Dark green? What is the meaning behind this color?
i think Flowey just became the tree of harmony.
six human souls, six Elements of harmony, flowey taking the souls within himself, him Crystallizing. coincidence?
the fight is waging on two fronts, one to stabilize woona and the other to destroy the barrier.
7356305
Dark Green is fear.
Now imagine a Dark Green, featureless humanoid battle form based in fear.
7356309 Holy crap, I hadn't noticed that!
This shit's gonna be epic!
*Flowey called for help
*Ultimate Bromaeda Lent his power!
7356117 You were third.
7356341
Supposition: It will not be magical might that wins the day. Paralleling the Asriel fight in canon, the spirits will gain faces as they cease to fear (reference chance?) And the Spare command will see some use, sending them into the light peacefully. Except perhaps a ringleader that turns into a real boss fight... origin of an Equestrian villain perhaps?
Random edit: Also, isn't yellow the color of fear?
too many feels to pun sans??
7356426 *Gigas lent his power!*
*raises hands*
GOKUWOONA, TAKE MY ENERGY!7356570
...what makes you think Chara is a girl?
7356463 Definitely. I'm not that boneheaded.
the feels are powerful today. Thanks for the great wake up. always wonderful to start your day with happy feels
And the battle begins...
COME ON SANS
COME ON FLOWY
COME ON MONSTERS
SHOW YOUR DETERMINATION
Perfect thing to read right before vacation. Wait what am I saying, i'm stuck on a cliffhanger.
7356440
Different 'verse, my friend.
In Undertale, yellow means JUSTICE.
7356148
7356154
Time zones, gotta love 'em.
7356845
Oh that's neat. I never saw that. I only played the game once, got True Pacifist, (I'm still not sure whether you have to go through the ending where you fight Omega Flowey to access the True Lab or not, but I did,) put the save file on my Derpy flash drive, and uninstalled it. So I only catch this stuff by browsing the wiki and yt vids, neither of which I've looked up in a while.
Edit:
For convenience, a list of the SOULs in this chapter, the color of their glow, and what seems to be their related elements...
Light Blue: Patience/Laughter
Green Soul, Pink Glow: Kindness
Orange: Bravery/Honesty
Yellow Soul, Red Glow: Justice/Loyalty
Purple: Perseverence/Generosity
All we're missing... is the Dark Blue soul... Integrity/Magic.
EDIT: Spoiler tags don't work with color tags apparently... d'oh.
7356882 Yep, you always have to go through a Neutral-style ending first in order to get to the True Pacifist ending, even if you got through without killing anything. Toby set it up that way on purpose, so that someone who chose Mercy everywhere on their first run wouldn't miss out on the Asgore and Omega Flowey fights, and the elements they contribute to the overall story.
A rather nice design decision, I think.
Also, that was sweet of you to backup the happy ending's save file before wiping the game from your machine. I'm guessing you saw post-Pacifist-ending Flowey's comments about you (the player) having the power to ruin this happy ending you'd created, and pleading with you to just let everyone live their lives.
So Flowey is the Tree of Harmony. Did not see that coming.
Do the souls become the Elements of Harmony?
o shit waddup
i.imgur.com/NnoGhN1.gif
hohoo this entire chapter made me tingle~ Hehehehe, nicely done Tat! :D
7356341
Fear... As in the fear of Monsters, but I think it's going to take more than brute strength to stop these wizards. What if there is another way?
STAY DETERMINED!!!
Oh...
It...
Is...
ON!!
Well this is turning out much more epic than expected.
7356593
THERE'S NO TIME TO PUN! WE MUST FIGHT FOR WOONA AND FOR THE SAKE OF THE MONSTERS UNDERGROUND! COME, BROTHER! LET US SHOW THESE HUMAN SOULS WHAT WE MONSTERS ARE MADE OF!
(Oh my. I just went Full Papyrus Mode, didn't I?)
Ah, looks like I'm a biiit late. Whoops.
Was that an observation from Woona or a threat?
{Flowey: Fine, I'll save you guys. But it's not because I like you or anything. I just don't want bronies coming after me is all, idiots.}
Huh, you're disappointed that Pinkie Pie didn't join the fight during the Nightmare, too?
*sigh* You asked for it... What, that's like the only thing that comes to mind!
They're going to have words, EEEEEEEEEE!!
Huh, so they can't defeat an unbeatable foe on their own, so they have to call out for others' help in order to even hope of trumping it... there's only one thing that comes to mind, of course.
Missing a line break, there.
It's just a lifelong obsession, he'll get over it... since there's no links I can really use, I'll just say I was referencing Treasure Planet.
Ah, lore expansion. And you're letting a change be as epic as the change itself would necessitate?... Hes doing it, guys, heese making this hapen!!
Huh... so some people consider fighting a type of "dance", right? And Flowey has "thorns"... eh, I'm too lazy to make a segue.
See you later.