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She had seen the sunset with the monsters many times. But it was always wonderful watching it with her friends.

One by one, everyone left, leaving Frisk and Toriel alone.

"Frisk..."

"Yeah?"

"You came from this world, right..?"

"Yeah."

"So you must have a place to return to, do you not?"

"..."

"So what will you do now?"

She had heard this question many times. In reality, she did not have anywhere to return to on the surface. That was part of the reason that she climbed the mountain in the first place. But, she was going to reset the ending either way, so she answered-

"I have places to go."

It hurt every damn time she said that. The painful memories of her old life resurfaced every time she said that. In reality, she just wanted to embrace her and beg to stay with her, but she had to reset the ending.

Just one more time.

Just one more true RESET.

She had got it. The answers she had been seeking since her second RESET. How to save everyone. She knew she was missing something. She had finally gotten all the answers this past RESET.

She will SAVE everyone. She will get her perfect ending.

She had planned to ask to stay with her for the final timeline, the perfect ending to her wonderful adventure. But that will have to wait.

"Ah."

"...I see."

"..."

"Well, I hope I am not keeping you."

"Ah, I am really not in a hurry..."

She really wasn't. She wanted to be with her until the time came to reset the timeline. Toriel took a step away from Frisk.

"Wait!"

"Yes, my child?"

"Ummm...one last hug?" Toriel snickered.

"Of course, come here!"

The hug lasted a little longer than necessary, but to Frisk it only felt like a few seconds. She was going to RESET now. One last RESET, one last chance.
And she WILL SAVE them.

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[TRUE RESET]    [CONTINUE]

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She was done. She was done with this. She was done being a freak to everyone. She was done with the orphanage. She was going to dissapear. She was supposed to be disposed of either way, so why not do it herself? She knew where to go. She had seen that place with her own eyes. The place where they were all thrown in.

MT. Ebbot.

The hole.

She found it. She had decided. This was going to be the end for her.

She  j u m p e d . 

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She was back at the golden flowers. Back at where it all began. Back again for the last time. And so, her journey began, for the last time.

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"Don't you have literally ANYTHING BETTER TO DO!?" He yelled.

"Hey hey, calm down Flowey!" She put her hands in front of her in a defensive gesture.

"Why don't you just give me back control of this world? I am the prince of this world's future."

"..."

"No answer? Guess I'll j u s t K I L L Y O U A N D T A K E W H A T I S M I N E . "

A ring of bullets formed around Frisk.

And there comes the well-timed fireball from goat mom!

The rest of the ruins went just like the other times, Frisk sparing all monsters she came across and solving the puzzles she had learnt by heart, with the exception of Frisk using new flirts on Toriel. Even though she had seen the ruins so many times, she still felt at peace here. But, eventually she had to leave. The fight went as it always went, Frisk sparing Toriel over and over again until she gave in.

The door of the ruins opened to a snowy atmosphere. Which meant she would meet Sans soon. Sans the skeleton. That was one person whose help she needed to bring her plan to fruitition. She expected him to act the same as every time...the whoopie cushion in the hand trick, of course she took his hand every time! It was hilarious!

But she definitely did not expect him to straight up attack her when meeting at the bridge.

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"Okay...this is new!" Frisk whispered to herself,

"BUT DEFINITELY IN A BAD WAY!" she whisper-yelled to herself while a bone flew past her.

"heh, d'ya really like to make us suffer again and again for your own amusement?" He threw another bone.

"What!?" She barely dodged the unexpected bone while yelling.

"don't play coy with me A N O M A L Y . i know about the resets. i know you know that. heh, even that damned flower was better than this, at least it didn't show us the surface just to rip it away from us again and a g a i n ." This time he summoned a skull which looked vaguely like a dragon's.

Yep, she definitely deserved that. She knew that Sans knew about the resets, she had been to his private lab after all. It was kinda justified for him to think that she was just playing with their lives.

"It's not what you think sans!" The skull threw a pulse of magic towards her, It barely hit her right leg.

"THEN WHY!? WHY DO YOU FREE US AGAIN AND AGAIN JUST TO TAKE IT ALL AWAY!?" A barrage of blue and normal bones flew towards Frisk.

"I am not playing with your lives! I have my reasons! Just let me explain Sans! Please!" She tried to dodge the bones but the last one hit her square in the jaw and sent her to the ground.

"..." He put his hand back in his hoodie pocket and stepped in front of Frisk. 'maybe i should give her a chance to explain herself.'

"Gee, that hurt." She said while rubbing the spot where the bone hit her.

"what didja expect? didja think this was a friendly sparring match with no intent behind the magic?" He said while giving her a hand to help her get up.

"...Papyrus should be here soon, we should do our usual act." Frisk said as she took sans' hand.

"yeah, let's go. we can meet up at grillby's later and you can explain about your 'reasons'." He said the last word harshly.

"Okay, let's go."

The rest of snowdin went as the usual. She completed paps' puzzles, laughed at the skelebros' usual antics, and made her way to Snowdin. Sans didn't talk to her whenever she approached him. Well, he would (hopefully) understand when she told him her reasons.

Sans invited her to Grillby's before she met up with Papyrus for their 'fight' at the end of Snowdin. She sat at her usual stool, but there were no whoopie cushions this time. She suddenly felt nervous. She tried to think of a pun to lighten the mood but the tone at which Sans spoke made her pun die in her throat.

"'kay kid, let's talk."

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The bar was empty, adding even more to the menacing aura that Sans gave off.

'This was a huge mistake, y'know that?' Chara commented in her mind.

'Hey, you've been silent for a while. Also, yeah, I know.' Frisk replied internally.

"Alright. I know that all of this is gonna sound at least a bit weird, but you gotta hear me out Sans." She started the conversation.

"i'll try."

"Okay, so you want to know why I have been RESETing repeatedly right?"

"I have been trying to save Asriel."

Sans tilted his head. "asriel has been dead for a long time. he was dead before you even fell into the underground, kid."

“I know Sans. I know a lot more than you think I do. Probably more than you do. Like why he took Chara’s soul and went to the surface in the first place. And how Chara got sick, the whole messed up thing he was planning and what Asriel stopped.” She paused, allowing her words to sink in for Sans. She knew what she was going to say would cause issues for Alphys.

“Thing is, monsters are dust and magic. And Alphys made a mistake during her tests on determination.”

"what mistake?"

"Flowey." Sans immediately looked like he was hit with a brick.

"wha-"

"Flowey is Asriel. But not exactly. 'Flowey' himself is a conciousness seperate from Asriel, and Asriel is trapped in that flower with Flowey. The best way to explain this is that Asriel's dust fell on the flowers in Asgore's garden, and imbued with them. Flowey the Flower is the result of the determination experiments that Alphys carried out on a flower she plucked from Asgore's garden which was co-incidentally one of the flowers that Asriel's dust fell on."

"Now, as monster dust is part of their magic and soul, which means it's kind of their conciousness. The determination that Alphys injected into the flower, I think it was infected by LV. LV from one of the humans. You know what LV does. It starts controlling you if you have too much of it. It gets a mind of its own. That's what Flowey is. And without a soul to fight it off, Asriel was trapped inside, being controlled by Flowey."

"how do you know this?"

"Do you know what happens when Flowey traps you all after my aborted fight with Asgore?"

"no. my memories just go blank there. a bright light and then there is nothing."

"Alright. Here's what happens. Flowey absorbs all of your souls, along with the human souls, which turn him into its real form. Asriel. But Asriel is still being controlled by Flowey. He becomes a self-proclaimed 'God of Hyperdeath'. Eventually, I save all of your souls from him, and then I save Asriel from the LV controlling him. He gets back control after that, but only for a little while. That's when he told me about all of this."

"so let me get this straight, the weed is just LV controlling the dead prince? and you apparently want to save him from that, but permanently?"

"Yeah."

"and how do you plan to do that?"

"I have been trying to gather information throughout the RESETs. And I've been getting Asriel to open up about himself. So, basically, he lacks a real soul. The only time he is his own self without Flowey controlling him is when we free all the monsters and he goes to the beginning of the underground, in the ruins."

'I am inside your goddamn mind, and I do not know about your meetings with Asriel?' Chara commented.

'I blocked your conciousness. It's probably a breach of privacy to listen in to other people's conversations' She replied in her head. That was actually a lie. She actually didn't want him to hear what Asriel thought about him.

'That's bullshit! He's my fucking brother, you hear me!?' He yelled.

'Fine, fine. Alright, stop yelling.' She ended the conversation.

"Asriel is soulless again after our fight, he exists as Asriel and not Flowey only because of the leftover energy of the souls. After a while he returns to being Flowey. He needs a soul to come back completely."

"and what does this have to do with you resetting?"

"I wanted to bring Asriel back to the surface. I thought of bringing him to the surface as Flowey, since he had some semblance of control over Flowey after our fight, but then thought that would be cruel to him, not to mention Mom and Dad if they figured out who he is. So, after the first true RESET, I started coming up with various ideas on how I could bring him back. So far none have worked. But after a bunch of RESETS, I finally came up with a plan that has the most chance of working on a theoretical basis."

"and what is that?"

"I can bring him back with a soul. Just need to shove one into him."

"..."

"kid, you do know that souls don't just drop from the fucking sky, right? where the hell are you thinking of getting a soul for the prince!?" He was already thinking that she was going to kill someone, and was getting ready to kill her if she dared to try and say that.

"Artificial souls. Alphys has been researching on them. And I have knowledge of souls from the Surface too. We can help her make one."

"from the surface, huh? you do know that humankind has forgotten about souls, right? i don't think there's reliable sources up there for anything regarding souls."

"Not monsters though."

"what do you mean?"

"Not every monster was trapped down here. There are monsters living in hiding aboveground."

"...you really think i am gonna believe that?"

"It's true. I have...uh...'met' a monster scientist aboveground." She winced at the not-so-great memories resurfacing.

"..." He took some time studying her. He had known her long enough to know when she was lying and when she was telling the truth.

"alright, i believe you." Frisk breathed out a sigh of relief.

"but, i really don't think that you need to RESET this many times for a single soul. you're hiding something else, too."

"Shit." She whispered at being found out.

"Alright, yes, I didn't tell you about all the reasons." She blocked Chara's conciousness again before continuing.

"You know that the king had an adopted human child, right? Chara Dreemurr?"

"...yeah." Sans replied after a while.

"He's latched onto my soul. A part of his soul remained inside him when he died, and when I fell, that part latched onto me. I don't know why, but probably because we have the same soul trait."

He checked her soul. He could sense a second conciousness inside her. "alright."

"I have made a plan to save him too, but it requires us to save yet another person."

"kid, how many people are you trying to save here now?"

"I swear this is the last person."

"fine. who the hell is this guy?"

"Ever heard about W. D. Gaster?"

Sans froze and slammed his fist on the table. "that's... that's my dad. how do you know about him!? he was erased from existence and nobody except me remembers him! what the fuck are you getting at here!?"

"I want to save him too. I have to try, at least. I don't know how hard it will be, but I need to. I know where he is. I know how to save him. Also, it was the riverperson that told me about him. Well, not directly, they just said 'Beware of the man who speaks in hands'. I researched about him, and found out about Gaster."

"Anyways, that's all, I guess."

He thought for a moment. "alright, kid. got it. i don't think i'll be interfering with your plans right now. that's all i need to know."

"Thanks for understanding Sans. Well, I was going to tell you about this on our pseudo-date at waterfall, but yeah."

He immediately looked guilty. "ah, i'm sorry about the 'trying to killing you on sight' part. sorry, kid. maybe it's the fact that the heat got cut off suddenly and i immediately got thrown face first into the snow, heh." He said, completely missing the part where she called their meeting a pseudo-date. Frisk giggled at the joke. He turned around and started to walk out of the bar. Frisk suddenly grabbed his sleeve.

"Sans... I also need your help in this."

"...i'm too lazy for that. nah." He freed his hand and started to walk away.

"Please!!" She yelled behind him and used her puppy-dog eyes.

"...fine." He succumbed to the power of puppy-dog eyes. Plus, he was concerned about what the kid would do.

"Okay...so, um, this timeline is gonna go the same as usual till my first fight with Asgore, the plan starts after the LOAD. Till then, we'll just have to do our usual roles."

"okay, i guess." He said after a while.

"Thank you so much!" Frisk ran forward and hugged him.

"h-hey, 's okay kid." That hug caught him off-guard.

"Well, let's get going!" She smiled at him being all flustered by the sudden hug.

"..yeah."

They walked out of the bar together, chatting and joking along the way till Sans had to go do his sentry duty.

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Frisk unblocked Chara's conciousness.

'Why the hell was I blocked from your mind AGAIN!?'

'I didn't want you to hear what I was saying that time.' She replied.

'Oh, so you were finally confessing your undying love for him, huh?'

'N-NO! SHUT UP CHARA! I-I DON'T-' She was blushing madly now.

'Hehe, Just kidding Frisk. Damn, for being the legendary flirt master you sure get flustered easily. Suffer.'

'...Whatever. Let's get to Waterfall now.' Frisk said dismissing the conversation.

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* The thought of saving your friends fills you with DETERMINATION.

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She walked forward to Waterfall after her 'fight' and the following 'date' with Papyrus. It was hilarious every time seeing him like that. She met up with Sans.

"heya."

"Hey, Sans, wanna stroll around Waterfall instead of a visit to Grillby's?"

"sure. it's my break right now."

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After a while, she finally found the thing she was looking for, the grey door in waterfall. She had literally spent an entire RESET learning wingdings for this. It looked like it was made of steel, but on closer inspection it was just coloured wood.

"huh? was this door always there? i've never seen this door before." He was confused as fuck right now.

"No, it isn't always here, it appears sometimes, but I have figured out the pattern of its appearance." She answered while turning the doorknob.

She slowly pushed it open. Sans followed her inside.

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'Fucking hell. Why the hell am I not blocked? Did you forget that I get freaked out by that talking piece of goop?' Chara said.

'That's rude, but alright.' Frisk chided him.

She walked into the room. In the middle of it was the person she needed to talk to. She blocked Chara's conciousness and proceeded.

"where the hell have you brought me kid?" He could feel a vaguely familiar presence in the room, but he was unable to pinpoint who it was.

"Hello again, child. I am truly sorry for last time-Sans!?"

"...dad? i-is that r-really you..?" Tears fell from his eyesockets.

"Yes sans! It's me! y-your dad!" Black drops of...something fell from Gaster's eyesockets.

Sans ran forward and enveloped his goopy mess of a father with a hug. Gaster tried to hug him back the best he could.

"i've missed you so much dad... i tried to bring you back, i really did!" He was sobbing openly now.

"I know son, I have been watching you from the VOID all these years. Although I am quite dissapointed you risked your life trying to repair the same machine that sent me to the VOID."

"sorry dad, i- i just thought if i could repair the machine i would be able to bring you back."

"It's alright son." They kept embracing each other until an "Awww" interupted them.

"Sorry, couldn't help it." Frisk said bashfully.

"you just ruined the moment."

"Sorry.."

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"So, your soul is shattered and the pieces are floating around in the VOID?"

"Yes."

"Alright, Sans, I know it's not completely appropriate of me to ask this, but can I take a look at your soul?"

"what the hell? why?"

"I figured that since you are Dr. Goop's son there would be some amount of identical magic in you which I can use to pinpoint the other pieces."

"dr. goop?"

"Your dad here."

"...does she seriously call you that?" Sans deadpanned looking at his father. Gaster just shrugged...as best as he can.

"alright, fine, here." He brought out his soul, a white upside-down heart with a tint of yellow. It had a few cracks here and there. Frisk acknowledged them briefly before she hovered her hand in front of it and then her hand started glowing red while a thin strand of white came out from Sans' soul.

"holy shit, you can use magic!?" Sans was...shocked, to say the least.

"A little." She said as she examined the strand in her hand.

"Hey, Doctor, I am gonna need you to open a doorway to where your soul pieces are. The VOID, yeah?" She asked.

"Of course. Please be careful, though. Wishing to save everyone is admirable, but the VOID is dangerous. Staying in there for too long might cause you to get erased. Like me."

"Alright, I'll be careful. Wouldn't want Sans turning into a widower before marriage would you?" She winked.

Gaster looked shocked. Sans sighed.

"it's her thing dad. don't question it."

A small hole came to existence on the far side of the room. Frisk opened up her dimensional box and retrieved a tether from it. She tied one end around herself and gave the other end to Sans.

"Hey, hold this for me, would you?"

"sure."

With that she floated out to the VOID.

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It had been a few minutes since she had floated out into the VOID.

"how long exactly can she stay in the void before i forget why i am holding this tether?"

"A few more minutes." Sans stayed silent for a while and then spoke up.

"it's been a while since we last talked, huh?"

"That is true." There was silence for a while.

"Say, why was that girl talking about marriage with you?" Sans immediately blushed.

"uh, it's her thing? she just flirts with everyone and everything that has the fortune of coming into her peripheral vision."

"I see. Well, I must say, she is quite intelligent too. She came up with multiple plans to save all of us. I have been observing her from the VOID. She also is more merciful than any of the humans that fell down here before."

"yeah, she is full of surprises. down here, i never met a person more peaceful and sweet. she went through the entire underground, never hurting a single monster, and only fighting asgore as she had no choice. and it was glorious to see undyne's face when she dodged every single one of her attacks flawlessly." He snickered at some of the memories.

"You are quite fond of her, aren't you?"

"yeah."

"I wonder what Alphys has to say to that." Sans immediately froze as Gaster let out a small laugh.

"nope."

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"Okay, this is all I was able to get. Though the soul should start regenerating over time once it's pieces are joined back together."

"and how do you plan to do that?"

"Simple." A bit of determination flowed from her fingertips and bound the soul pieces perfectly. It looked like half a soul with thin red streaks joining the broken parts. The monster part had a slight tint of magenta. "Once the pieces join back together completely, my magic will come off your soul and allow the rest of your soul to be regenerated."

"what kind of magic is this..? how are you even using magic?"

"Humans were the ones who made the barrier. Of course they have magic, Sans."

"but they've forgotten magic over time! it's just a myth aboveground now! Frisk told me this herself!"

"Can we drop this conversation? Please?" Frisk said growing a little uncomfortable.

Sans heard the discomfort in her voice and shut up.

Frisk went over to Gaster and offered the soul to him. Gaster absorbed it and there was a bright flash of light which blinded all of them. Gaster felt a little weird having a soul again. But above that, he felt overjoyed.

After the light subsided and their eyesight came back to them, they all stood in awe.

Gaster was no longer a literal talking peice of goop! He had his physical body now! Though there was a bit of goop here and there where the bones were broken, but that would repair over time. That doubled Gaster's joy.

"holy shit. dad's no longer goop."

"Holy shit indeed, Sans."

Gaster was a skeleton monster, he was almost the height of Papyrus. His face was no longer a mask, it looked like Sans' head but he had small cracks running from the eyesockets, nowhere as large as before though, and his skull was a little longer than Sans'. Clothing wise, he wore a gray turtleneck with a black coat and khaki pants. he also wore black shoes.

"I...I have a soul again! And my body is back to normal! Thank you child!" Gaster patted Frisk's head.

"Alright...Ahem, I have returned to being alive again, any first words you wish to tell me?"

Frisk looked at Sans confused.

"just play along." He whispered.

"just this," He turned back to Gaster and an ice-cream hat materialized on top of Sans' skull. "G o o ." He said while making his eyelights disappear and making his voice sound threatening.

"...of all things- you could have- why!?" He said remembering the particular incident when Sans did that as a babybones.

"hehe, just 'cause." Sans snickered while Frisk failed to process the supposed inside joke.

"I'm still calling you Dr. Goop even if you have a sexy new body now." Frisk said with a wink.

"Wh-Wha-!!??" He was getting completely flustered. Meanwhile Sans just chuckled at his dad.

"hehe, don't take it to heart dad, it's just her thing." He explained. "after all, she's the self-proclaimed 'the legendary flirt master'." Gaster deadpanned.

"Alright, now why don't you take Dr. Goop to Paps? I think he'll be overjoyed to meet his dad again. I'll go to the True Lab now."

"yeah." Gaster went outside the door to explore Waterfall sensing that Sans needed some private time with Frisk.

Sans was scratching the back of his skull. He did that when he was nervous.

"um..frisk...uh, i'm sorry about not trusting you earlier, y'know, attacking you and stuff. i didn't believe you completely even after you explained your motives to me..and now you gave me my dad back. how am i ever supposed to pay you back for this?" He said with gratefulness in his voice.

"Hey, it's alright Sans! I mean I did get hurt but I understand. You were going through a lot...remembering...it isn't really the best experience, is it?" Frisk asked.

"nah, it sucks." Frisk giggled.

"Alright, and about paying me back..." She spoke in a low tone. She leaned forward till she was just an inch away from Sans' face. "I think.." He was blushing hard now. Her mouth was directly in front of his teeth but then she changed her position and pressed a quick kiss on Sans' cheekbone, "..that's gonna be good enough for me." She said while walking away and leaving a very flustered Sans behind while blushing a little herself.

"...that girl is definitely gonna be the end of me someday." Sans whispered to himself while caressing the spot where Frisk had kissed him.

~

She headed back towards Hotland waving a goodbye back to the father-son duo.

'One saved, one to go!' Chara commented after being unblocked.

'...Yeah. By the way, Dr. Gaster has a body now. I hope you won't be creeped out next time you see him 'cause your only excuse is gone.'

'...I'll try.'

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She was on her 'friendship date' with Undyne now. Or actually, it's already over. The house was already on fire and Undyne was overly excited about the fact that this was the 100th time her house had caught fire.

Anyways, now Frisk had to move forward to hotland, 'GODDAMMIT WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO HOT!?' she thought to herself. She almost fell from relief when she entered Alphys' air-conditioned lab. 'Now to help Alphys regain her self confidence through her half-baked plan!' She thought as Mettaton broke the fucking wall, once again. Dramatic entrance indeed.

~

Shit, she forgot to buy a spider donut in the ruins. SHIT. Now she has to fight Muffet and her spider pet. She can confirm Muffet and her pet are on the 'Top 10 scariest things in the underground' list.

The fight went normally with Frisk almost pissing herself in the middle of the fight. Eventually she was spared.

~

She met Sans outside of the MTT hotel.

"heya."

"'Sup, Sans?"

"the ceiling"

Frisk giggled.

"Yeah, obviously."

"hehe, glad to see i can still tickle your funny bone." More giggling.

"hey, don't laugh too much, you might bust a rib!" Now it was a series of snorts and giggles.

"Yeah let's stop before we are six feet under!" The laughter stopped.

"Um...get it? We are in the underground...?" She tried to explain.

"that was even worse than my jokes." Sans deadpanned.

"Hey, I'm trying!" She said with a pout.

'He's right y'know, that pun was absolute shit.' Chara commented.

"welp, anyways, you should get going now. cya." He walked away into a shortcut.

"Yeah..." Frisk said after a while.

She was close now, she would soon fight Asgore and Flowey. And then she'll SAVE everyone.

She was DETERMINED to SAVE them.

~

"STOOOPPP!" Flowey screamed as the souls retaliated.

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"...What are you doing?"

"Do you really think I've learned anything from this? Have you not learnt anything throughout the RESETs?" Flowey said.

"No. And I am not trying to teach you anything either, Flowey."

"Good, because it'll be useless."

"I know. You don't deserve mercy. But HE does." He took a moment to understand who was 'HE' and then laughed maniacally.

"You're still trying to SAVE that crybaby? What a joke. That's impossible as long as I'm here, you IDIOT!"

She just laughed at him lightly, internally saying 'Not for long'.

~

She LOADed.

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"As you probably know, Asgore asked me to study the nature of souls..."

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"Um, Alphys?" Frisk asked when they reached the upper Lab.

"Y-yeah?"

"Is it alright if we talk about your soul experiments?"

She whipped her head around so hard that it's surprising she didn't get whiplash, a little color left Alphys' face. "W-wh-what a-about them..?" She was sweating nervously.

"Specifically, what they are made of and if they can be created artificially." Alphys visibly relaxed.

"Ah, a-alright."

"Well, souls are the living essence of a being. Every sentient being has them. However, there is a difference between souls of different creatures. Monsters souls are notably weaker in willpower, often disappearing quickly after death. Boss Monsters have more willpower, allowing them to persist longer, and humans have even more, making them able to last at least 15 minutes or so after death."

"Each soul does hold determination. I don't really know what other things make up a soul, but it's obvious that Monster souls hold magic. Why do you exactly ask though?"

Frisk explained to Alphys about Asriel and Flowey, leaving out the resets and the part where she fights him.

"...Okay, th-that's a lot to take in...so let me get this straight- The d-determination I injected into the f- flower was L-LV, and the dead prince is being controlled by it? And you need a soul to bring the prince back?" Frisk nodded.

"H-how do you even know about th-this..?" Alphys was nervously sweating.

"I've met him." Frisk answered.

"A-ah, alright...oh god, I- I trapped the p-prince inside a f-f-flower due to my s-stupid e-experiments..." Alphys was visibly breaking down.

"H-hey, calm down Alphys! You didn't know about it! It's alright! And we can save him now!" Frisk tried to help.

"Y-yeah, we have to s-save him.."

"S-so...you...need my h-help to bring him back..?"

"Yes! And Sans is gonna help me too!"

"W-wait, S-sans? He's coming here..? I h-haven't seen him in a long time..."

"O-okay, I'll try to help...but a lot of my soul research was l-lost..those Amalgamates..."

"Do you remember Dr. Gaster?"

"H-how d-do y-you know a-a-about him!?"

"I've met him too."

"B-but he's dead! H-he fell i-into the VOID!"

"Well, he's alive now. Sans and me found his soul pieces in the VOID."

"W-well, he must've r-remembered some of the r-research we did..he had a g-good memory..."

~

'Ring... Ring...'

"heya."

"Hey Sans! Come over at the True Lab with your dad! I've convinced Alphys to help us!"

"wait, what? alright."

~

"heya." Sans popped up in the middle of the lab.

"Your shortcuts still make me dizzy..." Gaster was trying to stand straight.

"Dr. Gaster! You're really alive!"

"Yes? Did Frisk not tell you that?"

"S-she did, b-but I wanted to see you with my own eyes."

"I see." Alphys catches the subtle pun and glares at him. Sans just looks proud of his dad.

~

"All these notes are outdated... There isn’t anything really useful besides the fact determination plays a key component...I wish we had a soul to examine right now.." Her eyes lit up.

Everyone turned to look at Sans.

"w-why are you looking at me like that?"

"Dr. Gaster's soul is incomplete, Alphys is the one examining the soul, and my soul is a human one. That leaves you."

"...i don't get a choice, do i?"

"No."

"ugh, fine."

"Y-you can l-lay down on that bed there..." Alphys pointed to a bed in the corner of the lab.

"Alright, so Alphys, aboveground the scientists have already found two other components of a soul: Perserverance, it's basically paired with determination, and Hope, known as HP. And also the Soul Trait, but there is no information about it except the fact that it is abundant in a human soul."

"Th-that information w-will certainly h-help us.. how d-did you get th-this information..? F-from what I s-see you look l-like a ch-child..."

"I don't wanna talk about it." Frisk said with a tone of finality.

~

"You ready, Sans?"

"no, but do it anyway."

Sans' soul started floating out of his body. Frisk cupped it gently and brought it to the examination table where Gaster and Alphys were standing with examination tools laid out.

Alphys began to do...something. She seemed to be scanning the soul, and poking at it occasionally. Sans winced in discomfort whenever the soul was touched, though when Frisk tried to help him he raised his hand in a gesture of 'don't'. Alphys and Gaster kept doing what they were doing.

Gaster then put him to sleep before taking out a small piece of his soul carefully. They started examining it while telling Frisk to keep an eye on Sans' vitals. They were normal so far, the levels had only dipped low when they took out the soul piece, but then came back up.

~

Sans' woke up after a few hours after the soul piece was returned to Sans after examining it.

"ugh..what happened..?" He sat up slowly on the bed.

"W-we took out a piece of y-your s-soul for a- a while."

"what!?" He stood upright at that.

"We put it back, don't worry." Sans visibly relaxed.

"Sans, are you feeling alright now...?" Frisk was still concerned.

"other than the fact i feel that i got hit by a tsundreplane, i feel fine."

~

"O-okay, so according to these tests here.. Monster souls have Magic, obviously, and a normal Monster soul has four key components: Determination, as we already know, Perseverance and Hope, as Frisk said, and Kindness, the ability to feel emotions. But there is another substance in Boss Monster and human souls, the Soul Trait, which, in Sans' case, is Justice. Since I'm not a Boss Monster, I don't have a soul trait, the percentage of it being occupied by an extra amount of magic."

"We've theorized that each soul has all these components, but in different amounts. Sans' soul here is made up of 21% Determination, 18% Perserverance, 1% Hope, 20% Kindness, 10% Justice and 30% Magic. And my soul is made up of 16% Determination, 21% Perserverance, 33% Hope, 17% Kindness and 13% Magic. And about Soul Traits, we have theorized that since Determination, Perserverance, and Kindness are also Soul Traits, If a soul has those Soul Traits, they add onto those components."

Frisk and Gaster looked at Sans with concern when they heard about the miniscule amount of Hope Sans had. He just shrugged.

"So if we get the right amounts of each component, we can make an artificial soul, yeah?" Frisk asked.

"In theory, yes. But then a new problem arises, where do we get these components? We already have Determination, sure, and we can't just kill monsters for their soul components. And we're going to need a large amount of them. That's what we're researching now." Alphys answered.

"I have an idea for that. What if we grow these natural components? We can ask some of our friends for parts of their soul's dominant components, because if it is already more abundant than their other soul components it would not damage their souls very much. Since soul components can multiply themselves, we can take small percentages and use them to grow as much as we need."

"Th-that's a brilliant idea! Now we just need to find willing participants!"

"i can give part of my magic." Sans offered.

"I can give part of my determination, it's my soul trait so it is abundant."

"I-I have e-enough Hope..."

~

Alphys extracted a bit of Hope from her soul. Sans donated some amount of Magic. Frisk strangely wanted to do the extraction process of her soul herself in private, so Alphys let her see how to extract the component correctly. Frisk donated a decent amount of Determination. Gaster just stood in the corner observing his mending soul. He wanted to give part of his Perserverance but Frisk didn't let him. Undyne very excitedly came rushing into the lab when she was called by Alphys. She gave part of her Perserverance as it was abundant in her.

Now they just needed Kindness to make a normal monster soul. Frisk compromised by giving part of her kindness, leaving her feeling extremely weak.

"hey, ya okay kid?"

"Y-yeah...never been bette-" Her knees gave up and she fell onto the ground.

"...A-actually, I wouldn't mind a little help." Sans chuckled and helped her up.

"hey, you can stay at my place if you want, you don't really look in any shape to go to the castle."

"No, really...it's...fine...." Her vision started to waver.

"kid?" Sans was getting worried now.

"Ugh...I feel...tired..."

"alright, you are resting now and you don't get a say in it. you are way too weak right now." Sans pulled her into a shortcut to his house and laid her on the couch. She fell asleep almost immediately.

~

"SANS? WHERE WERE YOU? I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AROUND TOWN- WHY IS THE HUMAN ON THE COUCH!?" Papyrus said throwing the door open.

"sorry paps, i was just napping at my sentry station. the kid was bone-tired so i brought her home."

"...IS THE HUMAN SICK?" Papyrus asked, concerned.

"uh. kind of."

"THEN THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL MAKE THE BEST DISH EVER AND MAKE THE HUMAN FEEL BETTER IN NO TIME!" With that he ran off to the kitchen.

"yeah, you are so cool bro."

"I KNOW!"

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"Urgh...wh- where am I..?" Frisk woke up groggily.

"mornin'." Sans said from across the couch.

"EEEK-" And she fell off the couch.

"pfft- god you're so adorable.." He didn't realize he had said that part out loud until Frisk started stuttering.

"Wh- wha?"

'shit.' "i- i mean th-that your r-reaction was a-adorable!" He was the one getting flustered now.

~

"I have been asleep FOR FOUR DAYS!!??"

"considering you gave two components of your soul simultaneusly, it's reasonable."

"Now that I think about it, that was pretty dumb of me."

"yup. that was pretty dumb. it's on my top 10 dumbest things i've seen list."

"Pfft. Anyways, I should get going now, yeah?"

"eh, probably."

~

'Gee, your mind is extremely boring when you're sleeping.' Chara said after they had breakfast with Papyrus.

'What?'

'I swear the only thing inside your head is goddamn Sans.'

'Shut up.'

'Also, I have to ask, how could you be so fucking DUMB!!? Why did you give THAT much of your soul!?'

'Well, there was nobody else who could've so I just did..?'

'You can be so dumb sometimes, I swear.'

~

"LET'S JUST SAY... A TINY FLOWER HELPED ME."

"A tiny...flower?"

'Well here we fucking go!' Chara quipped.

Sans' eyes went pitch black. "i can't believe i forgot about this part."

"SANS, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOU-"

A thick vine wrapped around everyone.

"you IDIOTS."

~

"ALL OF YOUR SOULS ARE MINE!!!"

~

"Finally."

"I was so tired of being trapped inside a flower."

"Howdy!"

"Chara, are you there?"

'Yes I'm here and I'm really fucking dissapointed in you, Azzy.' Chara tried to berate him in vain. 'Damn, It's annoying being stuck inside someone's mind.'

"It's me, your best friend..."

" A  S  R  I  E  L   D  R  E  E  M  U  R  R "

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T h e  B a r r i e r  w a s  d e s t r o y e d .

"Frisk..."

"I have to go now."

"Without the power of everyone's souls..."

"I can't keep maintaining this form."

"In a little while..."

"I'll turn back into a flower."

'No you fucking won't. Frisk here is going to save you and then you are at my mercy.' Chara quipped.

"Stop saying that right now." Frisk interrupted him.

"W- wha?"

"You won't turn back into a flower. I won't let you."

"...That's a nice dream... But... I don't think it's possible, Frisk." Tears started to drip down his face.

Frisk enveloped him in a hug.

"It's not just a dream. I will save you. I need you to hold onto this form for me, please." She rubbed comforting circles on his back.

"I- I'll try, Frisk." Asriel said after a while.

"Ha... Ha... I don't want to let go..."

"I'm not in a hurry."

They kept embracing like that for a few minutes, then Asriel reluctantly let go.

"...See you soon, Asriel." She said before the world faded to white.

~

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"Frisk!"

"This is all just a bad dream...!"

"Please, wake up...!"

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~

Frisk called Alphys, Sans and Gaster away from the rest to talk about Asriel's soul.

"Is the soul finished?"

"Y- yes! I- It's i-in a flask on m-my desk!"

"We should go before time runs out."

Frisk nodded and they were shortcutted by Sans to the lab. Frisk picked up the soul and they got a ride from the Riverperson to Snowdin. The Ruins' door was ajar. They crossed the Ruins and came to the room where Frisk had first met Flowey.

"You guys should wait here. He would probably get scared if all of us rushed in."

"what if the weed is back?"

"I don't think he'll be back that quickly."

"fine, we'll wait here."

With that, she stepped into the room, Asriel's new soul in hand. She walked up to him.

"Hey."

"F-frisk? Y-you actually came..."

"'Course I did! Did you think I wouldn't?"

"No...but.. I didn't think you would actually find a way to...save me.."

"After what I did as a flower...I- I don't think I deserve a second chance."

"That wasn't you, Asriel. Now, before you continue to berate yourself let's skip to the part where I shove this soul into your face." And she did just that.

"Wha-" He didn't even get to finish his sentence before the bright light blinded them.

As the bright light subsided, he felt....different. He felt complete, like a part of him was missing until now, well obviously it was but the feeling was great either way. He pulled his soul out of his chest to look at it once again, tears of happiness forming in his eyes. He turned to face Frisk who was still trying to regain her eyesight, and tackled her to the ground embracing her.

"Th- thank you! Thank you! I- I can't thank you enough for this Frisk!" He was openly crying now.

'Always the emotional type, wasn't he? I really wanna possess you right now to embrace that crybaby but I don't think that's on my list of abilities.' Chara said inside Frisk's mind.

'You'll be able to do that soon enough.'

'What was that?'

'Nothing.'

"Hey, I get your happiness, but you're really crushing me here..."

"O- oh, sorry!" Asriel blushed instantly.

~

"O-OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO ADORABLE!!" Thankfully, Alphys' squak wasn't heard by the two children.

"hey, they've known each other for a maximum of 10 minutes, keep your ship at the doc, will ya?"

"Please refrain from speaking so loudly like that without prior notice.." Gaster rubbed the place where his ears would have been, if he had them.

"S- sorry.." Alphys' face was practically a tomato.

~

"I- I really don't know how to thank you enough for this, Frisk..."

"Eh, it wasn't just me. Alphys, Sans and Dr. Gaster helped to make the soul. They did most of the work."

"But still. Thank you." He looked at her like she was the moon. She blushed a little under his gaze.

"Let's go meet up with the others now, shall we?"

"Yeah, I can't wait to meet Mom and Dad again!" He practically skipped ahead of her. She giggled at his enthusiasm and followed behind. He suddenly stopped.

"F-frisk?"

"Yeah?"

"W-would they still w-want to see me a-again? I-I caused them so much p-pain a-a-an-" Frisk shut him up with a hug.

"Don't say that. They still miss you Asriel. They never blamed any of this on you." She realeased him after a bit.

"Let's go, yeah?"

"...Yeah. Let's go."

~

Asgore and Toriel's reactions have been absolutely ecstatic. They didn't believe their eyes at first and looked at Frisk for confirmation. When she nodded, they ran ahead and embraced their son in a family hug. they had thanked Frisk and the other three for bringing their son back. And then, they all marched out through the tunnels, to the surface. A journey had ended. And a new one was starting.

~

Frisk had agreed to be ambassador to the monsters. She wanted to help the monsters established peace between the two species. She was DETERMINED to do so.

"Frisk..."

"You came from this world, right..?"

The question she was waiting for. She was feeling like Toriel wouldn't ask her, now that Asriel was alive.

"Yeah."

"So you must have a place to return to, do you not?"

"..."

"So what will you do now?"

Her answer was quick, she had wanted this from the very beginning.

"I want to stay with you."

"What?" She said in a shocked tone.

'Shit.' Now she had a new fear in her mind. The fear of rejection. She didn't want to be turned away by the only people she had grown to be close to. Her past before the surface flashed before her eyes, her memory conjuring up her previous experiences of being returned to the orphanage by families who had adopted her, like her mind was intentionally tormenting her with her fears-

"Frisk..."

"You really are a funny child."

Now she was sure she was going to be turned away, she braced herself for the emotional pain.

"If you had said that earlier... none of this would've happened."

"It's a good thing you took so long to change your mind."

'What?' That wasn't the response she was expecting. She allowed a bit of hope to blossom in her chest. 'Maybe...?'

"Hee hee hee."

"Well... I suppose."

"If you really do not have any other place to go..."

"I will do my best to take care of you, for as long as you need-"

That was all she needed to hear. The dams broke and she wrapped Toriel's torso in a tight hug, as that was the highest she could reach, repeating 'Thank you!' over and over again as tears of happiness flowed freely from her eyes. Toriel embraced her back.

"So I get a sister now...? YAY!!" Asriel joined in.

"Yes, I suppose so." Toriel answered her over-excited son's question.

Frisk was the happiest she had ever been in her life at this moment. She felt hope again. It was a foreign feeling for her. She had only felt determination like this before. But now, she felt hope. Hope for a future.

~

Frisk had suggested that they camp the night in the forest and go to the human settlement in the morning. She had explained humanity's expression of monsters as 'bloodthirsty creatures that come out at night'. The monsters understood and set up camp. Currently, only a few monsters were out of the mountain, the others waiting for their king to establish peace before moving out. She had gone out in the forest to explore before turning in for the night, when Sans suddenly appeared behind her.

"heya."

"EEEK-" She stumbled and fell flat on her face from the shock.

'You really need to NOT get scared by his stupid antics.' Chara supplied unhelpfully. Frisk got up and patted down her clothes and turned to glare at Sans. She dropped the glare when she noticed Sans' serious expression.

"What's the matter Sans?"

'i swear she reads me like a book.' He put on his usual grin, "oh, nothing, everything's fine, ya don't need to worry about anything." Frisk just glared at him.

"fine. i'll get to the point."

"when are you goin' to RESET kid? this is the longest you've let a timeline go before. i don't want to get my hopes up just to have it crushed again."

She stared at him in bewilderment. Hadn't she told him that this was going to be the last timeline? Maybe not. She would just remind him then.

"I am not going to RESET Sans. Not again. I have saved everyone, now I just want to move on with life."

"...alright." Sans didn't believe her. She had already RESET so many times, she would probably do it again.

"...You don't believe me, do you?"

'god fucking dammit how does she read my thoughts like that!?'

"...no."

Frisk expression was that of hurt, but she changed to her neutral face before Sans could see it. 'It's fair, I've RESET so many times. It was natural he doesn't believe me.'

"...I really don't want to RESET..."

Sans decided to give her a chance. He owed her that much after all. Though he would never forgive her if she RESET and took it away from him.

"promise me. promise me you won't RESET."

"I promise, I won't RESET. Not again."

He smiled. A real smile this time, filled with hope. He still had doubt creeping around in his mind, but he ignored it. Frisk had promised him she wouldn't RESET. And he would be sure to hold her to it.

"thanks, kid."

With that, he was getting ready to teleport away, but Frisk interrupted him.

~

"Wait!!"

"huh?"

"U-um, uh, can we uh stay like this for a bit? Y'know, we can stargaze or something. This is a good place." She pointed upwards. Sans looked up and his eyes lit up like an excited child.

"sure." He sat down on the velvety grass in a cross-legged position, his gaze not turning away from the starry sky. Frisk sat down beside him, with her knees pulled up against her chest.

He was sitting watching the wonderful starry night, like he had dreamed. He had always been an enthusiast about space, reading books he found in the dumps about stars and galaxies. He had dreamed of seeing the real sky, not the crystals in waterfall that did a very poor imitation of the real thing. He had never thought the dream would come true; he had lost hope of seeing the surface after the RESETs started. He had never gotten time to daydream when he was taking care of Papyrus and looking out for him. Now he was here, watching the starry sky with his best friend and savior.

He suddenly felt a hand on his own. He looked down beside him in surprise. Frisk had put her hand on his. A blush was across her face as she looked up at the sky with him. Her eyes were sparkling like the stars above them.

'Oh god I have never been so bold before what will he do-'

He freed his hand from her grip. Frisk looked sad for a second before her face turned all shades of red when he caught her hand in his own, intertwining their fingers together.

'heh. she's so cute when she is like this.'

Her stomach fluttered. 'Sans held my hand back! Maybe I have a chance!'. She thought for a second before she quickly squashed that hope.

'No. He can't ever like someone like me.' She shook the hopeful thoughts away. Her grip on his hand loosened. 'I am just a kid to him. Or even worse, an anomaly.' Her thoughts took a darker turn at that. Her mind reminding her of her past life before the underground.

'No one can like a demon like me. I am just a broken human, a failure. I don't deserve anybody's love.' Tears stinged the back of her eyes, but she kept on smiling, not letting the tears fall. After all, she can enjoy this as long as she can, right?

~

Frisk and Sans came back to the camp after a few hours. She had collected some fresh fruits from the forest to share with her family. The entire family had dinner under the stars, out in the open. After dinner they went back inside their tents. She slept peacefully, hoping to wake up ready to face the humans the next morning.

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Frisk woke up, biting her lip to stifle her scream. It was THAT nightmare again. She hadn't had that nightmare ever since she had first fell into the underground. She groaned into her makeshift matress and stood up. She went outside to get a breath of fresh morning air. She wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon, so she stretched and looked at the sky.

The sky was still dark, but it was more greyish than black. 'It's probably around 4 am. The sun should be rising soon. The others will probably wake up after the sun is actually visible.'

They had found a big enough clearing on the edge of the mountain, looking out onto the forest below. It was a beautiful place, especially in early mornings like these. Frisk had found this place when she had been climbing the mountain to find the cave.

She waited outside for half an hour, the sun was now peeking from the horizon. She witnessed the sunrise in awe. Sure, she had come from the surface, but it had been a while since she had seen a real sunrise, almost everytime the barrier broke, the sun was setting rather than rising.

After about an hour, Papyrus came out of his tent. He was an early riser, probably the earliest to wake up in the entire underground.

"GOOD MORNING HUMAN! WOWIE! I SEE THAT YOU HAVE WOKEN UP EVEN BEFORE ME!" He congratulated her feat enthusiastically. Frisk didn't look too proud, she had barely gotten 6 hours of sleep, at most.

"Ugh...What's with all the yelling!? It's early dammit!" Undyne woke up next, courtesy of Papyrus' overly loud voice. She sounded tired. Alphys was behind her trying to rub off the sleep from her eyes.

"Good morning!" Frisk greeted everyone.

"mornin' kid." Sans appeared behind her.

"That won't work on me twice Sans." Frisk turned around and glared at him. Sans raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

Eventually, everybody else woke up. Asriel was first, followed by Asgore and Toriel. Asriel gave Frisk a 'good morning hug' as he called it (Alphys was internally screaming). Asgore didn't say much other than a 'good morning'. Asgore was standing quietly, watching everyone with an unsure expression on his face. Toriel was standing directly between him and Frisk.

"Did you sleep well, my child?"

"Yeah." Frisk lied.

"Hee hee," Toriel looked around at the others. "you have a lot of friends now, don't you?"

"...Yeah..." Frisk looked genuinely happy. Toriel smiled at her adoptive daughter's happiness.

~

Frisk noticed Asgore and walked up to him. He was looking at the wild flowers in a corner of the clearing.

"Hey."

Asgore jumped when he heard Frisk from behind him.

"Howdy, Frisk!" He said awkwardly.

The silence that followed was awkward as all hell. Toriel was watching them both intently.

"Y'know, you should try to get your goat back." With that she backtracked to Toriel as fast as she could.

"What were you two talking about, my child?"

"Uh, nothing!" Frisk was quick to reply. Toriel looked suspicious but she quickly dropped it. Meanwhile, Sans was laughing beside Papyrus, having heard everything. 'good one kid..'

"I SHALL GREET THE HUMANS! I WILL MAKE AN EXCELLENT FIRST IMPRESSION!" Frisk heard Papyrus yell and every alarm in Frisk's head started blaring. Papyrus rushed down the mountain.

'This cannot end well. Nope. No way.' Chara commented.

Undyne grumbled. "PAPYRUS! WAIT!" With that, she ran after him.

"Y'know, we all should go after him before he runs into any humans." Frisk said calmly.

They all followed Papyrus' and Undyne's sounds. They were walking slowly until they heard screams.

"shit." Sans started running towards the noise, followed by Frisk. The others took a second to catch up and started running.

They came to a clearing and saw Undyne and Papyrus standing there. Undyne was shielding Papyrus from the humans.

"What the hell were you thinking, Papyrus!? Humans haven't seen us in centuries! What the hell did you expect to happen!?" Papyrus looked down in shame. Frisk walked over to him and squeezed his hand.

"It's gonna be okay. They are just scared. It's not everyday they get to see a living skeleton. Once they get to know you they will like you too!" She gave him an encouraging smile.

"YOU ARE RIGHT HUMAN! I SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISED THEY WERE INTIMIDATED BY MY GREATNESS!" Frisk giggled.

"This is going to be troublesome." Toriel mumbled.

"Let's go back and wait. The humans must have gone to report their sighting. More humans will probably be coming soon." Frisk told the others.

"Yes, you're right. Come along, my child." With that, they returned to their camp and waited.

~

The sun was setting when the monsters heard humans coming up the path, following their footprints. They stood in front of the path and waited for the humans to reach them. Asgore and Toriel stepped forward when they reached. Undyne and Alphys stood to one side of them and Frisk, Asriel and Sans were standing behind. Papyrus stood in the back.

The humans were brandishing their weapons. Frisk saw them and stepped forward, but Sans pulled her back and shook his head. The humans stopped, putting a decent amount of distance between them and the monsters.

"We do not mean harm, we simply wish to talk about peace." Asgore broke the tense silence. Toriel nodded. The humans appeared scared. They flicked their gaze towards the rest of the monsters. When their eyes settled on Frisk the one in the front gasped in horror.

"They have a child with them!" He screamed angrily to the rest of the humans. They drew their swords in a blink and pointed them towards the monsters. "Release the child right now, you vile creatures!"

"This is a misunderstanding. We are not holding her hostage." Toriel said gently, trying to calm the angry humans.

"Now who the hell are you calling 'vile creatures'?" Frisk said darkly the moment she heard the humans insult the monsters. Sans' grip loosened momentarily and she wrestled her hand back. She walked in between the humans and monsters before violence ensued.

"They are my family. I am not their hostage."

The humans looked at each other uneasily. The one in the front then calmly spoke.

"You don't have to be afraid child, if they are forcing you to say these things-"

"No." Frisk interrupted the man calmly.

"We will protect you child, you do not have to be afraid of these creat-"

"N O ." She was getting mad at the man. How dare they call her family 'vile creatures'?

'Holy shit Frisk calm down.' Chara was getting scared that Frisk might do something rash. Frisk stepped back and stood beside Asgore.

"We only wish to speak of a peaceful solution to monsters coming to the surface, we do not wish to scare anyone." Asgore said calmly. Frisk offered him an encouraging smile.

"You can't honestly expect us to let a bunch of vile creatures to roam around-" Frisk stomped, absolutely livid now. No one was allowed to insult her family.

" H o w  d a r e  y o u . "

Everyone was taken aback at Frisk's tone. The humans took a step back too. Frisk walked forward till she was in front of the man, pulling on her neutral face as to not scare the humans with her anger.

'Okay Frisk, calm the fuck down! I would love for you to slaughter all of these dumbasses but it might start a war!' Chara was frantically trying to stop Frisk from doing anything rash.
'Calm down, Chara. I am not gonna hurt them.' Frisk reassured him.

"You cannot judge what you do not know. These monsters deserve to live on surface as much as humans and every other creature on this planet. I have been in the Underground for a while now, and none of the monsters wish me harm, and none of them want to hurt anyone, and I do not plan on letting you harm them." Frisk said as calmly as possible, but she poured all of her anger and protectiveness into the last part.

"You will talk peace, or else..." She looked at the man with a dangerous expression. The man seemed unfazed.

"Or else what?" The man asked, thinking 'What can a little child do?'

'Wow, this guy really has a death wish huh?' Chara was wishing for popcorn now.

~

Frisk delivered a swift kick to the back of his knees, disbalancing him. While the man was trying to regain his balance, she kneed his abdomen, effectively making him fall on his back. She grabbed the blade of his sword and flipped it in the air. She grabbed the handle of the sword and thurst it into the ground next to the man's head, only centimetres away from his ear.

"Or else." The man was shaking in fear, his eyes wide and staring into Frisk's face. The monsters were staring at Frisk's hostility towards the human. They had never seen this side of Frisk. They couldn't believe that the kind human that hadn't hurt even a single monster was resorting to violence.

"Huh? Why are you scared?" Frisk asked, genuinely confused. The man started stuttering uncontrollably. Then realization struck her.

"Oh, you thought I was going to kill you?" The man just stared at her.

"I won't do that! What do you think I am, a murderer!?" The confusion on the man's face almost made her laugh. The monsters let out relieved sighs.

"Jeez, I am simply humiliating you!" The man still looked confused. She was honestly amused by this human. 'Oh my god this guy is so stupid!'

"Well, judging by your authority over these humans, I am willing to bet that you are the leader of this group. Aren't you?" The human nodded.

"Alright. Now, let's be honest, what kind of human group wants a leader who got brought to the ground by a goddamn kid?"

Realization struck the man and he looked around to see his comrades' faces. They all had faces ranging from amusement to dissapointment. The man was incredibly flustered. Frisk was openly laughing now.

"Here, get up." She extended a hand towards the man to help him up. The man grumbled and took her hand.

"So, ready to talk about peace now?"

~

The peace negotiations began. After a lot of convincing, the man agreed to come into the underground, where Asgore and Toriel were more comfortable speaking. A few guards came with him, leaving the rest outside. Most of them were mumbling between themselves about the earlier scene. The monsters were walking back to the camp, leaving the royals to talk with the humans. Papyrus had zoomed ahead and already reached the camp. The others were walking slowly, enjoying the night air.

"That...was...awesome! Holy shit punk, how did you do that!?" Undyne exclaimed, refering to the earlier event.

"Y-yeah Frisk, w- we haven't s-seen you f-fight before..." Alphys said.

"I just disarmed him. Just because I choose not to fight doesn't mean I can't fight at all." Frisk shrugged.

"damn kid, for a second there i thought the guy was done for." Sans chuckled.

"Jeez, I went through the entire underground without resorting to violence, and you think that I'll kill a man for not talking peace??"

"well, considering how you were absolutely livid when you walked up to him, i thought for sure that a war could've started."

"Well, he called you 'vile creatures'. Like, who the hell gave him permission to call my family that? If anything, the humans are the 'vile creatures'! They drew out weapons without even trying to find out what was actually going on!" She was getting angry just thinking about it.

"calm down kid. we don't want to start a fire." He winked.

"Y-yeah, calm d-down Frisk."

"Yeah, alright." Frisk pouted.

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Frisk and the other monsters stayed at the camp, occasionally going to the underground to check (eavesdrop) on the talk. It had been two days since the negotiation began. Asgore and Toriel finally returned to the camp at the third day. Frisk was the first one to greet them, with a hopeful expression.

"Well? How did the negotiations go?" She asked.

"They went...better than we expected, honestly. The man we spoke with had called the higher ups for negotiations. It has been decided that we will be welcome within this country. They have promised monsters will be safe in this country, we will be welcome in the city once the citizens have been informed of this development, so as not to cause an uproar between the human citizens from our sudden appearance." Toriel answered.

"Well, that's actually better than I imagined. Humans are way too finicky. So, the monsters are welcome?" She wanted to be sure.

"Yes, though it may be some time before the monsters have somewhere to stay on the surface. For now, monsters are allowed to exit the mountain as long as they remain close. We do not know how welcoming the human citizens may be." Asgore said.

"And what about laws regarding monsters?" Frisk asked, curious.

"We get almost all the rights just like the humans, except a few. We can try to get those rights sometime in the future. But as of now, we do get rights to live peacefully in this country." Frisk sighed in relief.

~

Everybody was told the good news, even though they were unhappy at going back to the underground, they were overjoyed that they were welcome on the surface. Everybody returned to their old homes in the underground, and life resumed there, but this time they were filled with HOPE.

Frisk and Asriel were in Toriel's house in the ruins. They were sleeping when Frisk heard voices in the house. She crept out of the room to find Asgore and Toriel arguing. Frisk went back to the room to wake up Asriel, but then decided against it. By the time she went back out of the room Asgore had left. Toriel was sitting in her usual chair, hunched over and looking at her book, but not quite reading it. Her expression was somber. Frisk went up to her.

"Mom? You alright?"

Toriel jumped when she heard Frisk's voice.

"Oh, my child, I did not see you there." She put on a forced smile.

"I am sorry, I did not mean to wake you. Is Asriel up too? Would you like some pie? There are some leftovers from dinner.." She stood up, but Frisk stopped and hugged her.

"Oh, I am alright child. Do not worry." Toriel hugged her back.

"You can't be angry at him forever." Frisk released her and stepped back. Toriel stood upright in surprise.

"Everyone makes mistakes. He felt the loss just as much as you did. He was not as strong willed as you, and gave in to his rage." Toriel's face fell.

"I mean, anyone will hate someone who killed their children. He did what he thought he had to at the time, he did not want to cause suffering. He was just trying to give everyone hope for a future on the surface." Toriel was listening attentively.

"If he had gone to the surface after he got one soul, and taken the rest, it might have started a war, or he might have met the same fate as Asriel, effectively demolishing everyone's hopes and dreams. He did not want war, he just wanted to help his people. So he did the only thing he thought he could." Tears were freely rolling down Toriel's face.

"People make mistakes, especially during the worst times of their lives. And everyone can change. He regrets his misdeeds, and he still cares about you deeply. It would not be right to punish him for his mistakes forever."

Toriel leaned forward, wrapping Frisk in a tight hug. She hugged her back, trying to offer comfort.

"Thank you, my child," she whispered to her. Eventually she pulled back.

"You sure are grown up, aren't you?" she said with a smile. "Just don't grow up too quickly, alright?" Frisk giggled. "Sure, mom." She hugged her and went back to her room, wishing her goodnight on the way.

"Golly, Frisk. Dad sure chose a great ambassador huh? You actually convinced mom to give dad another chance!" Asriel was sitting up in his bed. Frisk giggled and ducked under the covers to go back to sleep.

'Hey, thanks, Frisk. For trying to bring mom and dad back together. Though, I am still mad at you for that stupid pun you said to Asgore.' Chara commented before Frisk fell asleep.

~

The doorbell rang, waking Sans from his slumber on the couch.

"ugh...who the hell is at the door at..." He looked at the clock on the desk. "..five fifty-friggin'-three am!?" He went back to his sleeping spot on the couch, not wanting to bother with anybody who dared wake him up at such an unholy hour.

"SANS, OPEN THE DOOR!" Papyrus screamed from the kitchen.

"sorry paps, my bones are still sleeping. i can't move."

"EVEN YOUR BONES ARE JUST LIKE YOU! THOUGH THAT'S NOT A SURPRISE. EVEN THE PET ROCK HAS BECOME LAZY SIMPLY BY BEING IN YOUR PRESENCE TOO LONG!" Papyrus came out of the kitchen to answer the door.

"HUMAN! GOOD MORNING! WHAT BRINGS YOU TO MY HUMBLE ABODE THIS EARLY?"

'huh? frisk is here?' Sans thought as he sat upright on the couch.

"Good morning to you too, Papyrus. Say, is your dad home?" Frisk asked.

"OH, FATHER WENT TO THE LAB TO HELP ALPHYS WITH SOMETHING! HE WAS TALKING ABOUT CHECKING ON THE CORE!"

"Ah, thanks Papyrus. Bye!" She turned around to leave but Sans teleported in front of her.

"heya."

"You actually woke up before 10 am!?" Frisk was shocked as all hell.

"yeah. and the doorbell didn't help."

"Ah, sorry for disturbing your beauty sleep." She giggled.

"eh, whatever. anyways, why are you looking for dad this early in the morning?"

"Chara."

"oh. you were going to save that random spirit inside you, yeah, forgot about that. well, i'll be returning to sleep, pretty sure dad and alphys will be enough for this one." With that he teleported himself back to the couch. Frisk went on her way to the CORE.

~

"Restoring human bodies... Yes, we did study that. We had figured out how to restore a human body to its living state. Though, we will need the human body in question, or at least a part of it. Why do you ask?"

"You know about Chara Dreemurr, right?" Frisk asked.

"Y-yes, h-he was the f-first human to f-fall.."

"Okay, this might sound weird, but part of his soul is-" Frisk began to explain.

"Sans already told us about that."

"Oh, good, then I don't have to explain. Well, so I have a plan to bring him back. Though, uh, first we need to do some gravedigging."

"W-well..alright, w-where i-is this grave..?"

~

'ARE YOU REALLY DEFILING MY FUCKING GRAVE FRISK!?' They had reached the start of the underground, where Chara's body was buried under the bed of golden flowers. Chara was, to say the least, unhappy.

'H-hey, calm down Chara! I'm trying to bring you back!' 

'For the last fucking time, YOU. CANNOT. SAVE. ME. I have already told you a hundred times!'

'But I can sure as hell try!'

'Fuck you.'

'I'll take that as a thank you.'

~

They had found a complete skeleton which wasn't too damaged. They brought it back to the True Lab. Alphys and Gaster had started working on it a few hours ago. The clock showed 2:34 AM. 'Who knew digging can take so much time and energy?' Frisk stifled a yawn as she watched the other two work, occasionally supplying information about the human body.

"Y-you should g-go home, Frisk. T-this wouldn't b-be completed t-till tomorrow at l-least.." Alphys noticed Frisk's tiredness.

"Huh? Oh. Alright, I'll go home for now then..." Frisk turned around to leave but then stopped.

"Uh, I don't think I can reach the ruins in this state... can I stay for the night? I can take the couch if you want." Sure enough, her legs were wobbling from the lack of sleep.

"S-sure Frisk, y-you can use m-my room though.."

"I can manage on the couch. I can't let you sleep somewhere-that-is-not-a-bed because of me."

"O-oh, I d-don't think I 'll b-be sleeping t-tonight... W-we have to work on t-this.."

"You guys should catch some sleep, y'know? We can work on this tomorrow morning." Frisk asked in concern for her friends.

"Y- you d-don't need t-to worry a-about us Frisk.. W- we can m-manage."

"This is nothing compared to when we were working on the CORE. Go sleep, child. You need it." Gaster said with finality in his voice, not looking away from his work while doing so.

"Alright then. Good night y'all." She took the elevator to the lab above. She found Alphys' bedroom soon enough.

~

Alphys' bedroom was...messy. Not as messy as Sans' though, his was the clear winner, but Alphys' room still messy. Piles of anime and blueprints littering the floor, desk piled with empty bowls and comic books, her laptop paused with some anime on the screen, and WAS THAT A PHOTO OF UNDYNE IN A BIKINI ON HER BEDSIDE CABINET!? Frisk immediately turned her gaze away from the picture frame and crashed face first onto the mattress, trying to hide her flustered face from god-knows-who.

'I am willing to bet that Alphys sees that picture every night before going to bed and having dreams about Mrs. Fishsticks, but without the swimsuit.' Chara quipped.

'Please shut up. I am already flustered enough.' 

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Frisk woke up abruptly. 'Not this shit again...' She was honestly annoyed by the fact that her nightmares had restarted once she returned to the surface. She had thought that the night terrors had finally left her alone. She grumbled and sat up on the bed. She looked at the clock on the bedside cabinet, delibirately avoiding the picture frame '4:56 am. That's way too fucking early.'

'Y'know, you should keep a picture of a shirtless Sans on YOUR bedside cabinet to keep those nightmares away.' Chara was annoyed at being woken up at such an ungodly hour.

'I can't wait to have you out of my mind.' Frisk replied while blushing furiously.

'And I can't wait to see your failure and have new material to annoy you with.' Chara bit back.

~

Frisk walked down the stairs to the elevator, getting in and pressing the button to take her to the True Lab.

"F-frisk? Why a-are you not a-asleep..?" Alphys was startled by the sound of the elevator.

"Eh, I usually wake up at this time. How's the body coming along?"

"A-ah, w-we are s-still working on i-it."

"Alright. I am just gonna go back to the ruins for a shower and breakfast, toodles."

"S-speaking o-of the r-ruins.. there a-are a lot of m-missed calls o-on your phone from t-toriel.." Alphys handed Frisk her cell phone.

'Shit.' "Okay, bye Alphys, I'll see you after lunch!" Frisk broke into a full speed sprint towards the elevator and back to the ruins.

~

Frisk was enbraced in a loving hug the moment she stepped foot inside the of the ruins, and then she got scolded for not informing her that she was staying over at Alphys. She returned to the lab at roughly 1 pm, after lunch. 

"Hey."

Frisk's voice behind her made Alphys jump three feet in the air, mainly because of the fact that she did not hear the elevator coming down.

"O-o-oh h-hello F-f-frisk.."

"You had lunch yet?"

"Y-yeah, a-a-around an hour a-ago." Alphys somewhat recovered from her initial shock.

"Ah, okay. Though, I brought some of mom's pie. I put it in the fridge."

"Th-thanks.."

"Anyways, any progress on the body..?"

"It's completed, and ready to accept the soul." Gaster came in from another room.

"Great! Where is it though..?" Frisk looked around, not seeing any sign of the body.

"Come." Gaster went back into the room from where he entered. Frisk and Alphys followed him.

~

The room contained a huge cylinder filled with green liquid with Chara's body floating inside it.

'Damn, you are pretty cute. Chara.'

'Shut up.'

Chara was roughly 5'5, the same height as Frisk. He had brown hair reaching down almost to his shoulders which made him look ambiguous. His skin was pale and he had sharp eyes.

There were some tubes attached to his body, and a lot of machines hooked up to the cylinder. There was a huge screen showing the statistics of the body written in Gaster's language. Gaster led them to a machine which looked like a miniature version of the DT extractor.

"This is where you have to put the soul."

"Does it only accept complete souls?" Frisk asked.

"No. It can accept fragments of a soul too. Souls can regenerate themselves, so a soul fragment will eventually grow into a full soul if given a body."

"Alright. Let's do this."

'You ready Chara?'

'Meh.'

Frisk pulled out Chara's soul piece from inside her, severing their connection for a second. It was a small shard, barely 1/4th of a soul. She guided the soul to the 'mouth' of the machine. The machine whirred to life, and the screen showed the statistics of the soul and body side by side. A bright flash of red light filled the room, originating from the cylinder.

'Why do I have a feeling that this can actually work.' Chara said through their connection.

The bright flash subsided. Everybody looked towards the cylinder. Chara opened his blood red eyes.

~

Chara was sitting on the examination bed. He had never thought that he would have a body again. Well, he had never thought he would be following an actually nice human as a spirit while they journeyed through the underground, either. He was still trying to get used to having a body, trying to move the sore muscles was a pain though. But that didn't stop him from straight up smooching Frisk when Gaster helped him walk over to her. It was a platonic smooch out of gratefulness as he wasn't sure how to thank her properly, but Alphys, obviously, started screaming, 'OTP!! OTP!!!'. Chara just flipped her off but Frisk never got over the embarassment. And now, he was sitting on the examination bed, while Gaster examined his body for any imperfections.

"You gotta stop hovering over me old man, I feel perfectly fine."

"I will stop once I am sure your body is fine. Also, only Sans is allowed to call me 'old man'."

"Fine." Chara grumbled.

~

The examination results showed that Chara was perfectly fine, so Gaster discharged him. With a quick goodbye and 'Thank you' to the scientists, Frisk and Chara headed back to the ruins.

"What do you think mom's reaction would be?" Frisk tried to make normal conversation with him.

"Knowing mom, we are getting extra butterscotch cinnamon pie. Maybe she'll invite dad too, who knows?"

"I just hope I'll be able to eat all of it." She giggled while patting her stomach.

"I wonder what Asriel's reaction would be, though."

"Waterworks. Lots of waterworks. A fucking flood of waterworks." Chara replied with a grin.

They didn't even realise that they had reached the ruins' gate until they stumbled on the broken branch from their first meeting with Sans.

"We're here."

"Well, uh, shit. I don't think I am ready for this." Chara was getting nervous, Frisk patted him on the back.

"C'mon! It's just your family! Let's just go in already!"

~

Well, Chara was definitely right about the waterworks part. But Toriel and Chara himself donated a generous amount of tears too. Overall, it was heartmelting. Frisk holded back her urge to 'Aww' this time as to not ruin the moment as she did with Sans and Gaster.

"Hello, my child! Welcome back...uh, is he a friend of yours...?" Toriel asked, looking at Chara, but then recognition flashed across her face.

"Hey mom, guess what, Happy Birthday!" Frisk had planned Chara to be a birthday present for Toriel, but she didn't know her actual birthday so she just picked a random day.

"...Hello, m- mother."

"M-my child....is that really you..?" Toriel couldn't believe her eyes.

"Yes, it's me, Chara.." He walked towards Toriel, but she ran towards him and lifted him up in a hug, crying. Chara had tears of his own running down his face.

"O-oh god...you're back my child...Oh, I missed you so much..."

Asriel walked in. He was still in his PJs. Apparently he had been taking a bit of an evening nap.

"Hey mom, what's going on..?" Asriel looked towards the human in Toriel's arms and gasped.

"M-mom...? I-is that...?" Tears were welling up in his eyes.

"Y-yes, my son, It's... it's Chara.." Toriel invited him into the group hug. Asriel ran forward and jumped on them both. Frisk watched the reunion from the door with a smile on her face.

~

"Frisk, I know I already smooched you but I don't know how to thank you properly for this.." They were all having dinner. Even Asgore was invited. Asgore had shed a few tears of his own and shared a loving embrace with both of his sons, and his ex-wife's adopted daughter.

"Hey, I thought we got all the thank you's out of the way already?" Frisk said with a grin and a small blush as she ate her food calmly.

"My child, you saved both of my sons, We really can't thank you enough for this.." Toriel was resisting the urge to embrace her adoptive daughter again.

"Aw, you all are giving me too much credit. Alphys, Sans and Gaster also helped, y'know." Frisk was feeling bad about taking all the credit. After all, she couldn't have done this without the others.

"Yes, we know. We will give them a royal thanks too. But they couldn't have done it without you as well. After all, you saved Dr. Gaster from the void, did you not?" Asgore said.

"Yes, yes, alright, I get it." She had to say, they were persistent as all heck.

"Thank you again, Frisk." Chara put in a last thanks.

~

After dinner was done, they were going back to their rooms, but Frisk's brain didn't like letting her live without anxiety, it seemed. She had new doubts surfacing in her mind. 'Will they abandon me when they have Chara back?' 'Will they still want me?' and so on. Finally she couldn't keep it in and asked.

"Uh.. mom..?" Toriel turned around.

"Yes, my child?"

"C-can I still stay...?"

"What do you mean? Of course you can stay, Frisk. That is, if you want to.." Toriel had a saddened expression, as she was thinking that Frisk wanted to leave them.

"No, no! I want to stay! I'ts just that... now you have both of your children back...I- I thought-" Before Frisk could finish her sentence she was swooped up in a hug. Toriel already figured out what she wanted to say from her espression.

"Never think that, my child. I will never abandon you, alright?" Frisk buried her face in her dress melted into the hug.

They embraced for a while, and Frisk fell asleep in Toriel's arms, all worries gone, for now.

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Frisk surprisingly had no nightmares that night, 'Not that I'm complaining, please let it be that way forever.' But now she was gonna face a nightmare in daytime, the surface. The humans who inhabit the surface. She never really had good experience with humans, except her birth mother, but she was gone. Though, the monsters were ecstatic about finally going to the surface, so she decided to not put a damper on their hopes and dreams. But she was worried about the citizens, mostly because there was a 50% chance of the humans protesting against the monsters too.

"Good morning, Sis." Frisk immediately stiffened up. That word brought back memories, both happy and unpleasant ones.

"Mornin', Chara." Chara was sitting at the edge of Frisk's bed, looking at her with amusement.

"No nightmares?"

"Nah. It was surprisingly peaceful. I didn't have any kind of dreams, which is honestly refreshing." Chara let out a relieved sigh.

"What's going on..? Ugh... Flowey never shuts up in here..." Asriel was waking up, rubbing his head like he had some sort of headache. Frisk jolted upright at the mention of Flowey.

Asriel's eyes immediately widened when he realised his slip-up. "I- I mean, I feel absolutely flowery!" 'Okay, that was lame, Azzy, way too lame.' He laughed nervously. Frisk's glare on him became intense.

"Ugh..." He facepalmed. "Alright, yeah, Flowey is inside my head, like Chara was inside yours, but a lot less nicer. And his determination is too weak to take control of me again. But he's still annoying as all heck. He keeps telling me to give him control."

"I- I'm sorry, Az.." Frisk looked away in shame. She felt like it was her fault for not doing something to get rid of Flowey. She never thought that Flowey would continue to torment Asriel.

"Hey, it's not your fault Frisk! I knew he was always going to be with me!" Asriel tried to comfort Frisk.

"He's right Frisk, it's not your fault. You saved him from a fate way worse than this. Please don't blame yourself." Chara put a hand on her shoulder.

Frisk sighed. "Heh, thanks guys. Now, let's get ready for the day. I'm pretty sure there should be some word from the humans by now."

~

Well, there was word, and it was good word. Most of the citizens were seeing forward to having monsters around, roughly 73%. The rest though, uh, let's just say that Frisk's e-mail is public, being the ambassador of monsters. Though, throwing that aside, the monsters were welcome to the surface, to build homes and whatnot. They could finally enjoy their lives on the surface now. Everybody was excited as all heck to move out onto the surface.

Frisk was extremely happy with this. She wanted to help the other 27% of humans to understand that monsters are nice. And she wanted to enjoy her new life with the monsters.

Chara and Asriel shared similar emotions, but Chara was definitely more pessimistic about it. He didn't like any humans, besides Frisk. He just wanted to be away from all the other humans.

Asriel was actually excited about it. He also wanted to join Papyrus on his 'Mascot' endeavours, with the provided reason being 'I am cute and fluffy and the humans like cute and fluffy.' He wasn't able to join him as he had to go to school.

The monsters emptied the mountains pretty quickly, and started to buy land and build their homes, or buying apartments.

Toriel wanted to live together with their children and she wanted to give Asgore another chance. So, she asked him to stay with her and the children too. Asgore had been, absolutely ecstatic, to say the least. After all, he finally had a chance to get his goat back. They bought land to build a mansion for the Dreemurr family. It was a large area so they could have a backyard garden, due to Asgore's insistence.

Sans had wanted to buy an apartment but Papyrus insisted that they built their home just like their house in Snowdin, and Sans couldn't not agree with his younger brother for long, so they bought some land next to the Dreemurr mansion.

Undyne and Alphys decided to live together. They bought some land near the beach, as Alphys wanted a basement lab which an apartment couldn't exactly offer, and Undyne wanted to be near the ocean.

Mettaton, well, was Mettaton about it. He was constantly travelling the world as a celebrity, but got a mansion made in the city.

~

Things were looking up. But they had to face the rest of the world too.

Toriel had officially adopted Frisk once they got onto the surface. She also got her teaching certificate after a lot of struggles.

Asgore took on Ambassador duties until Frisk grew up, despite Frisk's persistence that she wanted to start right then. He finally agreed that Frisk could help him occasionally and accompany him to some meetings, much to Frisk's happiness.

Sans and Alphys started to work as scientists, with Sans selling hot-dogs most of the time and only working part-time as a scientist.

Undyne applied to be in the police, and she passed the tests...quite easily.

Papyrus just did his mascot duty.

Muffet, Catty, and Bratty settled their businesses in a small shopping strip with Burgerpants who opened his own fast food restaurant in order to escape from Mettaton. Catty and Bratty expanded their shop into a boutique. Grillby opened a new bar too. Mettaton went into the show business chasing his fabulous dreams, and Napstablook became an online celebrity for his music.

Frisk, Chara and Asriel were admitted into high school due to their ages rather than their prior education, though they caught on quick onto the studies. They wanted to go to the same school Toriel taught in, but that was an elementary school.

Many humans were actually excited to have monsters between them, but most of them were still a little uneasy around the monsters. And some of them downright despised the monsters. Going as far as making anti-monster groups. Well, Frisk and Asriel were sure they could show them that monsters and humans can co-exist peacefully. Chara thought they should all just die. 'Very Chara like.' The other two thought.

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It had been a month since everyone settled on the surface. Life was peaceful and good. Sure, there were random hiccups here and there from the protests and the Anti-Monster Group (Chara liked to call them Anti-Nice People Shits, much to the distaste of his goat parents.) but they were fine for the most part. The children were going to start school tomorrow, and they were fired up for it, except Chara, of course, 'Now I will have to see more human faces, ugh.'

It was a Sunday today, which meant that all of the Boss Monsters (including Alphys) flocked into the Dreemurr mansion for a family breakfast. Frisk always looked forward to Sundays as she got to meet all her family at once. Everybody was sitting at the breakfast table, having normal conversation. The Dreemurr children were occupying one side of the table. The skeleton brothers were occupying a side adjacent to theirs, with Sans next to Frisk, much to her joy. Undyne and Alphys occupied another side of the table, opposite to the skeleton brothers. The side opposite to the children was to be occupied by both their parents, but currently only Asgore was there as a chair was left empty for Toriel who was in the kitchen making bacon and eggs. Currently, Sans was telling everyone about his first meeting with Frisk.

"...hehe, and then the kid started laughing so hard that i had to struggle to not start laughing along with her again!" Sans was recounting his first meeting with Frisk in earlier timelines, as he clearly didn't want to get incinerated by a goat for attacking her daughter on sight in this timeline.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOUR FIRST MEETING WITH THE HUMAN WAS AS UNDIGNIFIED AS THAT! WAIT, ACTUALLY, I CAN." Papyrus said with an annoyed tone.

"I gotta say that whoopie cushions are funny, but they are not as funny when they are on EVERY GODDAMN CHAIR IN MY HOUSE-" Undyne was both smiling at the event being recited, and mad at her past memory. Only she knows how one shows both emotions on their face at once.

"L-l-language, Undyne..." Alphys was trying to calm her girlfriend down.

"yeah, calm down bass. There is a pacifisht in the room."

"SANS!" Papyrus looked about ready to murder his older brother. Sans just shrugged.

"heh, sorry to rattle your bones, bro." He said with a wink.

"Yeah, yeah, sorry Al. But seriously, that one time was frustrating and I had to resist a urge to SHOVE A SPEAR UP THAT SKELETON'S BONY A-" Undyne continued on with her story after Sans was done with his puns.

"Please, mind your language Undyne, there is a child in the room. Three children, to be exact." Asgore reminded her with a subtle menacing glare, which Undyne caught.

"Sorry.." Undyne scratched her neck sheepishly. The room fell into silence for a while. Toriel came in with their plates. Everyone started eating mostly in silence, until Asriel broke it.

"Hey, I've always wondered, when's your birthday Frisk? I mean, I know Chara's birthday but you never told us about yours." Everyone's eyes turned towards Frisk in curiosity.

"Huh, what's the date again?" Frisk asked, pausing her eating and looking up at Asriel.

"U- um... I-it's 17th March." Alphys answered.

"Ah, It's tomorrow, then." Frisk said casually and then her gaze dropped back to the plate and she restarted eating, while everyone stared, shocked.

"TOMORROW!!!?!?" Everyone screamed.

"Woah, woah, hold up guys! What's with the screaming!?" Frisk was confused. Why were they screaming about her birthday being tomorrow?

"Uh, are you serious? Don't you want to celebrate it?" Chara questioned.

"Y-y-yeah, Frisk, aren't you e-excited?" Alphys asked.

Frisk's mood darkened visibly. "...I stopped being 'excited' for my birthday a long time ago. 'Not looking forward to' is a much better description of my opinion for it." She looked back at her food and restarted eating so she wouldn't have to explain any further. Everyone had confusion or concern on their faces. 

"Huh, why sis?" Asriel had a confused frown on his face.

"...Too many bad memories." Frisk paused eating as the memories flooded into her mind.

Shrapnel on the floor, alcohol bottles littered everywhere, and HIM standing over her, dangling her in the air by her sweater. She was shaking in fear.

"It's your birthday~ Dont'tcha want yer present, slut?" He sneered at his daughter.

"N-NO, PLEASE! NO-" Frisk screamed and thrashed for him to let go. He loosened his hold on her torn sweater, but then grabbed and lifted her up with her hair and slapped her across the face.

"Now look at what you've made me do, bitch. Do you like me to force you to take it, you worthless piece of shit!?"

"NO, PLEASE DADDY I WON'T BOTHER YOU PLEASE-" Another slap. He dropped her on the floor.

"Well then, if you don't want it then I'll just give the present to your little sister!" He said in a mocking tone and headed towards her room. Frisk recovered from the fall and hurried over to her room where her sister was sleeping. She stood between the door and her father.

"N-no, please, leave my s-sister out of th-this... I'll...I'll do what you w-want.." She looked down in shame, tears pricking at her eyes.

"Good girl." He grabbed her by the arm and dragged her to his bedroom, throwing her onto the bed-

"kid? ya alright?" Frisk was jolted out of her memories by Sans' hand on her shoulder. She whipped her head towards his direction and came face to face with a concerned Sans. Both gained a slight flush from the close proximity and she looked back down to her plate immediately.

"H-huh? Y-yeah I'm alright." She said, trying to hide the shakiness in her voice, which obviously didn't work.

"You were staring at the food like it had personally offended you. What happened?" Asriel asked.

"N-nothing. It's alright." She wasn't looking at anyone. The others were all concerned about her, but they let it drop because Frisk obviously didn't want to tell them. The room fell into silence once again until Papyrus broke it.

"WELL, IF YOU HAVE TOO MANY BAD MEMORIES THEN WE JUST HAVE TO REPLACE THEM BY MAKING GOOD ONES!" Papyrus said enthusiastically.

Frisk giggled. She admired Papyrus' optimism. It brought a smile to her face despite the bad memories resurfacing. "Hehe, If you think so Papyrus."

"I KNOW! WE CAN THROW A SURPRISE PARTY TOMORROW!" Everybody deadpanned and stared at him.

"You know that it isn't a surprise if you say it out loud, right?" Chara said while rubbing his forehead, exasperated. Frisk burst out laughing.

"THEN WE CAN JUST THROW A REGULAR PARTY!"

"Alright, alright. Whatever you do let's just do it after we return from school tomorrow." Asriel said more as a reminder for his siblings rather than Papyrus.

"Ugh, yes. A building where we recieve useless information while I have to see more human faces." Chara made his discontent clear.

"Education is important, my child." Toriel shot Chara a subtle glare. "As for your other concern, there will be monsters in the school too!"

"C'mon Chara, don't skullk, the skeleton will get upset if he finds his skull missing!" Frisk patted Chara's back with a smug grin plastered on her face. Chara glared at Frisk.

"I  w i l l  e n d  y o u ." Chara tried to do his 'creepy face' but his face returned to normal in a split second as he realised the others might get freaked out.

Frisk scoffed. "Yeah, right. Let's get back to eating now." 

The rest of breakfast went normally with a few more puns from Toriel and Sans, giggles from Frisk and murderous groans from Chara and Papyrus. Undyne just kept telling everyone her experiences of being in the royal guard whenever they got a break from the jokes.

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Frisk was hiding in her room along with her sister, who she had put to sleep before her mother's husband (she would never call that man 'father') started another one of his drunken fits. She could hear heated, slurred, arguing voices from the living room.

"It was a mistake marrying a little slut like ya! Ya got one chance and ya went off fucking another man!" Her father was in a drunk haze, screaming at her mother.

"N-no, I was just helping him get home! He was just a colleague at work!" Her mother defended herself.

"Yeah, his home where he fucked ya, huh?" Frisk had had enough of this. Even though the man was her father she was not in the mood to stand by and listen to her caring, loving mother being insulted by that pathetic excuse of a human being. She ran through the house, not paying attention to the rest of the argument as she tried to reach the living room.

"NO, I-" Her mother's voice was frantic and scared when she started to pay attention to the voices again.

"Shut up!" She reached the living room right when her father said that and the next thing she saw was an empty bottle of alcohol heading for her mother's hea-

"NOO!!"

Frisk was unable to hold in her scream when she jolted upright on her bed. She scoffed, 'Knew that the peace wouldn't last for long.' She rubbed her forehead in exasperation and looked at the clock. '3:47 AM. Wow, new record, fucking fantastic.' Chara was woken up by the bloodcurdling scream that Frisk emitted and rushed to get to her side. The Dreemurr children slept in one room even though they had seperate rooms built for them, so he was there within seconds after jumping down from his bunk bed above Asriel. The room was big enough to fit the three children, with a queen size bed on one side for Frisk and a bunk bed on the other side for the other two children. The room was supposed to be mainly for Frisk but the other two had insisted that they slept in one room, so the room was adjusted to fit the other two children for the night.

"You alright sis?" Chara stood at the edge of the bed.

"Yeah, j-just a nightmare.."

Chara climbed up to her bed and hugged her from behind, trying to calm her down. He was never good at this feelings thing, but he tried anyways. "It's alright now, sis. You are safe now. The nightmare isn't real. It stops being real the moment you wake up."

"Heh, that's the funny thing Chara, they are real. They've already happened."

'Oh well that fucking backfired.' Chara berated himself. He really wasn't good at this feelings thing.

"You should go back to sleep Chara. You don't need to worry about me."

"But-"

"No 'but's. Go back to sleep bro, you need it. Not everyone is accustomed to waking up at ungodly hours of the night. Plus, we have school tomorrow."

"Ugh. Fine. But you have to go back to sleep too."

"Nah, I don't think I'll be able to sleep after that. I just start the day when I wake up from a nightmare." Frisk replied and tried to get off the bed. But Chara held her in place.

"Nope, I ain't letting you go. You have to sleep." Chara kept on hugging her from behind. Frisk sighed and gave in.

"..Fine. I'll sleep." Chara loosened his grip and pulled the covers over them, and cuddled up to her. Frisk gave him a shocked look.

"Ch-Chara? What are you doing?"

"Shut up, I am doing this so you can sleep. Don't you dare tell anyone abaout this." Chara gained a slight flush and buried his face into her chest.

"Hehe, fine. Whatever suits you bro." Frisk closed her eyes and slowly drifted back to sleep. Chara looked up to see his sister's sleeping face and let out a sigh of relief. He fell asleep soon after that.

~

Asriel woke up a while later, and was surprised to hear no other voice greeting him. He whipped his head around to scan the room for the usual chaos. Finding that the room not looking disasterous he turned his gaze towards Frisk's bed to find both of his siblings...cuddling!? Since when did Chara start fucking cuddling up to another living being!? 'Can't wait to inform the shipper squad of this new development.' He thought and got up. He looked over to his bedside clock. '6:35 am? Those two are usually up by now!' Then he remembered that today was their first day of school.

"WAKE UP! WE HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL!"

"Ugh...who the fuck is bleating at this ungodly hour...?" Chara tried to get up but was unable to. His vision started becoming clearer and saw Frisk, then remembered the night's events, and immediately let go of Frisk, blushing furiously.

"SWEAR JAR!" Asriel screamed.

"..Out of all things to hear right after waking up, why is someone screaming about the swear jar..?" Frisk woke up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. She had a generally peaceful sleep after going to sleep for the second time, surprisingly.

"Chara said 'fuck'." Asriel answered her question.

"...Did he just..?" Frisk gave Asriel a deadpanned stare while Chara burst out laughing.

"OH LORD- Now you have to put money in the swear jar too- OH GOD THIS IS TOO HILARIOUS!" Chara was laughing uncontrollably.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just wake up and get ready! Today is the first day of school!" Asriel just accepted his unjust fate because he was way too excited to care.

"I am gonna go get ready, then." Frisk got up from bed and headed to the bathroom attached to her room.

~

In about an hour, the children were ready for their first day of high school and having breakfast.

"Hey Chara, why were you cuddling up to Frisk in the morning?" Asriel asked while taking a bite of his french toast and wiggling his eyebrows.

"She had a nightmare. I was trying to help her sleep." Chara said while blushing.

"Hm, is that the only reason???" Asriel pried.

"C'mon Azzy, It's just brotherly cuddling! Right, Chara?" Frisk caught onto what Asriel was implying. Chara just blushed harder and gave a nod, too flustered to say anything.

"...Alright, if you say so." He shrugged and returned to munching his breakfast.

~

In a few minutes they were heading out for school. Toriel had already left for her school, and called Sans to escort the children to school safely. Sans was, as always, fashionably late. Asriel actually pouted when he 'shortcutted' to the Dreemurr's living room.

"You are late, Sans! We need to reach school on time!" Asriel tried to scold Sans.

"hey, calm down kid, i ain't gonna get you late for school! tori'll have my skull if i do that!" Sans raised his arms in a peace gesture.

"Hey, let's not fight, yeah? We'll get late if you keep fighting." Frisk stopped Asriel from saying anything else.

"...Yeah, let's go."

"'k, thanks frisk. now, all of you, hold my hand and don't let go at any cost. and maybe close your eyes so you don't get motion sickness." Sans put his hand forward, the children caught hold of it and the short skeleton pulled them into and through the void using his 'shortcut'.

"we're here." He said while the children opened their eyes. They were standing in front of the school gate.

"Welp, let's get going guys! Bye Sans!" Frisk hugged the short skeleton while Asriel rushed forward. Frisk caught up to him quickly after letting go of Sans. Chara walked slowly behind the both of them.

"Gee, what's the hurry guys? It's just school!" Chara called from behind the others. The only answer he got was his siblings telling him to pick up the pace.

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Okay, sure, Asriel was excited as all heck while getting ready for school and rushing in, but the moment he entered the buildings and saw the number of heads that turned to see him, it turned to nervousness. Whispers broke out between the other students.

' Oh goodie another monster! They're so cute!'

'I want to pet them!'

'Okay...? That's a good reaction, I guess? At least they aren't saying anything racist.' Asriel thought.

'Are they seriously letting those things inside?'

'They should be attending different schools!'

'That thing looks freaky.'

'Oh golly, speak of the devil.' Asriel felt like this wasn't a good idea anymore.

Asriel felt offended with the number of negative comments increasing. His discomfort decreased a bit when he heard any nice whispers, but he definitely was breaking down from the increased racist comments.

"It's rude to stare, you know." Frisk's voice came from behind him, her tone edging on threatening. Chara had caught up by then and was standing behind Frisk with an expression that clearly said 'Calm down Frisk'.

"I mean, why don't we all go to our classes? You can meet us later if we're in your class, but right now we're getting late." Frisk spoke with a forced smile, discarding her dangerous tone. The students looked like they just realised that they had classes and started running around to get to their class.

"Thanks, sis. I was going to get a mental breakdown if that continued." Asriel turned around to look at his sister.

"Exactly why I stepped in. Now let's get to our classes, yeah?"

"I swear you are gonna scare someone to death with that tone one day." Chara commented from behind them.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyways, here's your schedules." Frisk handed them both pieces of paper with their schedule written on it. "We'll all be together for the first, second, and sixth hours. Me and Asriel will be together for the third and seventh hours. And you and Asriel will be together for the fourth hour." She explained.

"Cool." Asriel rushed to the class first.

"Hey, wait for us!" Frisk grabbed Chara and sprinted in the direction Asriel ran off to. Chara refused to use his legs and got dragged by Frisk along the ground.

~

For the first hour, they had English. Frisk excelled in the subject so it was a breeze for her. Chara kept getting wrong spellings and Asriel kept doing wrong punctuations. The teacher was a nice old man named Mr. Shepherd, and he looked around the age of 50. He had grey hair and wore spectacles with blue eyes underneath them, and had a slight Irish accent. He was treating students of both species as equal, so he immediately got into the 'nice' category of Frisk's book.

~

Asriel made a new friend named Cooper. He was a human with brown hair and blue eyes, and he had tan skin. He was a nice guy who got along with everyone except the people who hated monsters.

They were both sitting side by side when Cooper turned to Asriel.

"Hello!" He greeted Asriel. Frisk was watching the both of them closely.

"Oh, howdy!" Asriel turned his attention from the teacher to the human sitting beside him.

"You look like a goat, hehe." Frisk held in a snicker at Asriel's offended expression.

"Yeah, but goats don't have paws."

"So you're a monster?"

"Yeah."

"That's so cool! Wanna be friends? I have never been friends with a monster before!" Frisk let out a subtle sigh of relief. 'He just wants to be friends. That's good.'

"Sure!"

~

The next hour was History. Frisk and Asriel were really interested in this subject, so they were excited for this hour. Chara hated the subject so he didn't even try to listen what was going on. The teacher was man in his 20s named David. He had dirty blonde hair and tan skin, and brown eyes. He didn't care about which species he was teaching either, so that's another 'nice' in Frisk's book.

The third hour, Frisk and Asriel had Geometry while Chara had Algebra. Chara was actually good at Algebra while Asriel was suffering in Geometry. Frisk did it like second nature. The Geometry teacher was a redhead woman in her 30s named Ms. Fairbairne. She also went to the 'nice' category in Frisk's book. The Algebra teacher was an old man in his 50s, and he didn't mention his name. He had pure white hair and a walking stick, and spectacles.

~

Frisk made a new friend named Candice. She was one of the shy girls at school with no friends whatsoever. She had brown hair and eyes, and light skin.

Frisk was sitting and taking down notes when she felt a hand on her shoulder. 

"H-hey.. Frisk, right?" The girl sitting beside Frisk said.

"Huh? Yeah? I'm Frisk." Frisk turned to her.

"Y-you're kinda f-famous, y'know."

"Okay...?"

"Uh.. nevermind, I-I am kinda a-awkward at conversations, s-sorry."

"Oh, it's alright. Nice to meet you!"

"N-nice to meet you t-too Frisk! M-my name is Candice."

~

For the fourth hour Chara and Asriel were together for Chemistry while Frisk went for Physics. Frisk and Chara excelled in their subjects while Asriel was trying to catch up with them. The Physics teacher was a man in his 20s named Andrian. He had brown hair and one of his eyes was red while the other was blue, and he had spectacles. He was nice to both species so he got another 'nice' from Frisk. The Chemistry teacher was a blonde woman with way too much makeup on her face, but looked around the age of 30 either way. She was being subtly racist to the monsters, mostly by not helping them when they had doubts or weren't able to understand something. Chara was getting annoyed by her behavious but Asriel asked him to stay calm. Asriel made another friend named Klum. Klum was a monster, a Snowdrake to be exact.

~

The bell rang, declaring it was time for lunch. Frisk, Asriel and Chara had packed lunches that Toriel made from them before they left. They all headed to the cafeteria. Asriel brought Cooper with him to sit with Frisk and Chara. Klum was unable to come as he had leftover work which he was finishing up in class. Frisk brought Candice with her.

"Hehe, look at that Chara. Az's already popular!" Frisk said with a smirk. Chara was glaring at Candice, who was shifting uncomfortably in her seat.

"U-um, hey.. Y-you are F-frisk's brother, right?" Candice spoke up.

"Yes. And I don't like yo-" Frisk slapped the back of Chara's head and shot him a glare.

"Howdy! I am Asriel! Nice to meet you." Asriel gave Candice an encouraging smile. Candice eased up a bit.

"I thought your siblings would be monsters?" Cooper asked. Before Asriel could answer Chara spoke up.

"Why the hell did you make a human frie-" Chara started but Frisk shut him up with another slap to the back of his head.

"He's nice, Chara, let him be. Don't be a jerk to Az's new friend."

"Sorry about Chara, he isn't very fond of humans. Now don't ask me why, because honestly? I don't goddamn know." Frisk explained to Cooper.

"Oh, It's fine. I don't mind. So your name is Chara, huh?" He turned to Chara.

"...Yeah." Chara glared at him for a while longer and then sighed, dropping it.

"Alright. Now, what's your name, pretty lady?" Cooper asked Frisk.

"A-are you seriously flirting with my sister now!?" Asriel had a dumbfounded expression on his face. Frisk giggled.

"Hehe, guess I'm not the only one who flirts with random people huh? Anyways, I'm Frisk, Frisk Dreemurr." She extended her hand towards Cooper for a handshake.

"Frisk...? Oh, you're the one who brought the monsters to the surface, right?" Cooper took his hand out of his hoodie pocket.

"Um, yeah, though don't go around announcing that- AHH!" Frisk felt a shock when Cooper took her hand.

"OH LORD YOU FELL FOR IT!!" Cooper started laughing and showed his palm to Frisk. He had a joy buzzer in his hand. Frisk started laughing along with him.

"Oh golly, I can't wait to witness his meeting with Sans." Asriel said, snickering a little. Chara stared at the three with a deadpan. The rest of lunch went normally with everyone doing conversation and eating their lunch.

~

For the fifth hour, Frisk had Geography, Chara had Geometry and Asriel had Citizenship. Chara liked Geometry so he was actually listening to what was being taught, while Frisk did excellent on Geography. Asriel was mostly behind in Citizenship but he was trying. The Geography teacher was an old woman around the age of 50, and she was Mr. Shepherd's wife. She had grey hair and used a walking stick, but she didn't have any spectacles. She was treating both species equally so that's another 'nice' from Frisk. The Citizenship teacher was David. Frisk met another friend named Venessa. She was a cat monster who vaguely resembled Mad Mew Mew in appearance.

All of them were together for the sixth hour which was Physical Education. All three excelled in that. The PE teacher was a bald man in his 30s, and he didn't mention his name. He was strict on both species and treated them equally so that got another 'nice' from Frisk.

Frisk and Asriel had Algebra for the seventh hour while Chara had Art. Asriel suffered from brain cell destruction while Frisk was interested in the subject. Chara just drew anything that came to mind, not paying attention to the teacher. The Arts teacher was a man in his 40s named Andrew. He had brown hair and spectacles and was incredibly racist towards monsters. But Chara didn't pay attention to him so he's alive for now.

~

The bells rang, and everyone rushed out of their classes and out the gates. Frisk and Asriel met up with their friends at the gate before leaving. They all said their goodbyes and left for home. Frisk, Chara and Asriel chose to walk back home.

"Today was awesome!" Asriel exclaimed.

"Gee, you are talking like you met your fangirls. Did you?" Frisk teased.

"No!" Asriel got a little flustered.

"She's just pulling your horns, Azzy. Let it go." Chara called out from behind them with a smirk on his face.

"Hey, can't you walk faster Chara?" Asriel asked.

"Nah, I feel like being dragged by Frisk instead."

"Yeah, let's not do that." Frisk deadpanned at Chara. He just snickered.

"I can't wait to tell mom about my classes!" Asriel was practically bursting with excitement.

"He's definitely met fangirls." Frisk giggled.

The rest of the walk home was filled with similar banter between the children. And Asriel was definitely going to tell everything to Toriel the moment he would burst through the door.

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"Hey Frisk, why don't you wait outside!" Asriel said when they reached the mansion.

"Um, why?"

"Today's your-" Chara started but Asriel slapped a hand over his mouth and dragged him inside the house.

"Wait outside, sis!" Asriel called out from inside the house.

"...Eh? Okay I guess?"

~

"Okay, you can come inside now Frisk!" Asriel called after a few minutes.

"Huh. Why do I feel like I am forgetting about something?" Frisk pushed open the door. The room had no lights on and the curtains were drawn. She was unable to see anything in the darkness, so she took a step inside, and immediately her foot came into contact with a whoopie cushion.

A smile spread across her face when she heard the familiar noise, declaring that her best friend was here. She bent down to take the whoopie cushion in her hand. "Oh, so Sans is visiti-"

"SURPRISE!!!" Multiple voices rang out from the darkened room and the lights came on at once, startling Frisk.

Frisk screamed and jumped back from the sudden voices and a wave of blue magic flowed from her, turning everyone's souls blue and slamming them against the walls, almost denting them. Frisk looked around trying to find the source of the voice, just to see her family slammed against the walls. Everyone was there; Toriel, Asgore, Alphys, Undyne, Sans, Papyrus, Chara and Asriel.

She immediately dropped the grip on their souls. She involuntarily took a step back. She saw her family look at her with strange expressions, almost like...they were scared of her?

"DEMON!" The woman screamed.

"FREAK! GET OUT!" Her adoptive father was holding a bat, looking at her with fearful eyes.

"GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE! WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE!" Her adoptive mother screamed from behind the couch.

"CALL THE ORPHANAGE! TELL THEM TO TAKE HE-- IT BACK TO THE ORPHANAGE!" The man screamed. Frisk took a fearful step back.

"CATCH THE DEMON! IT'S TRYING TO RUN AWAY!"

'Shit.' She started panicking. Her deepest fears were coming true. Her family was scared of her. The only people who had accepted her as their own were scared of her. They were scared of her. They were going to abandon her. They are scared of her. They will abandon her. They will think she's a freak. They will torture her. Just like the other humans. Just like the humans who branded her as a demon. 

"Oh god I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hurt you I just got startled I'm sorry please I didn't mean to hurt you-" She was having a full on panic attack. 'Oh god I hurt them they'll abandon me now I'm so stupid oh god what have I done they're scared of me oh god-' She was breaking out in cold sweat, her throat felt dry and her breath came in short panicked gasps. She took a step back when her mother tried to walk towards her.

"It's alright, my child. Please, calm down. We are not hurt." Toriel's voice had a pleading tone, asking her to calm down. Frisk still felt like the world was closing down on her. Her heart was pounding in her ears. Her body started shaking uncontrollably.

"IT'S OKAY TINY HUMAN! DON'T BE SCARED!" Papyrus had actually lowered his loud voice a little to help her calm down.

Sans teleported to her side.

"kid! calm down, please!" Sans put his hands on her shoulders, trying to calm her down.

"it's okay kid, we're okay, you're okay. calm down." He kept repeating the words. Frisk started to make Sans' voice out from her own panicked thoughts and eventually started to calm down. She was pulled back out of her memories and saw Sans' concerned expression. his expression changed to a happy grin seeing that she was back to normal.

"welcome back to the waking world kid." He tried to lighten the mood. Frisk removed his hands from her shoulders.

"You okay, punk?" Undyne said. Everyone was gathered around her.

"I- I'm sorry... I-I didn't m-mean to.. P-please..please d-don't..." She whispered, looking down to the ground in shame and resignation. 'They will tell me to go away. They wouldn't want to see me again. They think I'm a freak.' Tears gathered in the corners of her eyes.

"Please don't what, my child?" Toriel was at her side by then. She was looking at her with a worried expression. The tears spilled down her cheeks and she started sobbing uncontrollably.

"P-please...d-don't abandon m-me.. please I- I don't want t-to be abandoned a-again I won't h-hurt you p-please I'm not a-a demon I d-don't-" She was pleading with broken sobs when she was suddenly pulled into a fluffy embrace. 'W-what..?'

"We will never abandon you! W-why..why do you think we'll abandon you for such a small mistake? We all love you, p-please don't think otherwise." Toriel had tears running down her face while she tried to comfort her sobbing child.

"who the hell called you a demon, kid? you are a goddamn angel!" Sans was flabbergastered when Frisk said that.

"Yeah, sis. We ain't gonna abandon you! Sure, you might be a bit over-protective at times with your scary tone and all but that doesn't mean that we'll kick you out or something!" Chara put in.

"Yeah, Frisk! We are just surprised that you can even do magic!" Asriel hugged Frisk from behind, who was still trapped in Toriel's arms.

"Yeah punk! Even Papyrus can't do that kind of blue magic and he's an expert!" Undyne encouraged her.

"S-so...y-you're not s-s-scared of me..?" Frisk was in disbelief. Usually, the humans used to kick her out screaming curses at her when they found out about her magic. This was...different.

Toriel reeled back in surprise at her daughter's words. "Why would we be scared of you? It was just as Asriel said; we were surprised you could use magic."

"S-so you're not going to s-send me a-away..?" Frisk wanted to be sure. Her doubts were still lingering in her mind.

"Of course not, my child! What makes you think that we will do such a thing?" Toriel looked at her with wide eyes.

"P-p-personal experience..." More tears fell from her eyes.

"GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!"

"GET AWAY FROM OUR CHILD, DEMON!"

"GO BACK TO THE ORPHANAGE YOU CAME FROM!"

Everyone was shocked by her words. 'Who would...?' Toriel hugged her sobbing child again.

"Don't worry my child. We will never abandon you. Don't ever think otherwise. We all love you my child."

"Yeah punk! We ain't gonna leave your side!"

"yeah kid. you're awesome and you gotta accept that you are way too good to just be abandoned."

"YES HUMAN FRISK! WE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU!"

"Th-thank you! Thank you!" Frisk hugged her mother tighter and cried into her dress, all her worries and fears dissipating and her gratitude tumbling out, until she eventually fell asleep from exhaustion.

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Toriel had put Frisk in bed after she fell asleep and tucked her in, placing a kiss on her forehead and leaving the room to let her daughter rest. Chara and Asriel had also entered the room to keep a sleeping Frisk company.

"Well, hopefully we didn't trample the huge cake." Chara whispered to himself.

"Are you seriously thinking about the cake rather than Frisk's mental stability?" Asriel deadpanned.

"Eh, I am used to it. I was inside her head for god-knows-how-long, after all. Those thoughts keep plaguing her and I don't know what to do about them. Now I have just given up trying to do something about it." Chara shrugged.

~

Frisk woke up after a few hours. Chara and Asriel rushed towards her when they heard her awoken grumbling.

"Mom! Frisk's awake!" Heavy footsteps were heard from down the corridor.

"Sis, you okay now?" Asriel was holding her in case she had a panic attack again. Toriel was at the door.

"...Fluffy..." Frisk was still only half awake. Chara snickered when Frisk lifted and pulled Asriel onto the bed and cuddled him like a pillow. "...Warm..."

Asriel wasn't even able to react to being lifted up that easily. "Mom, help!" Asriel yelled from Frisk's arms once he realised what happened, completely flustered.

"Hee hee. I need to get the camera!" With that Toriel ran back to her room. Asriel turned to Chara with more urgency than before.

"Chara! Help! Before mom comes back with the camera!"

"Nah. Suffer." Chara said with a smug grin.

"I hate you." Asriel pouted.

~

After an absolutely embarrasing photoshoot, Toriel shook Frisk awake.

"My child, you need to let go of Asriel before he catches fire from his embarrasment!" Toriel snickered. Asriel was even more embarrased than before, if that was possible.

"...Nooo...fluffy..." Frisk was apparently still half asleep.

Chara sighed, then his face split in a devilish grin. "Well, this calls for extreme measures!" With that, he started tickling Frisk's sides. She immediately started laughing.

"AHAHAH AHAH STOP-! AAH! HAHAHA-- STAHP!" Chara let go once Asriel slipped out from Frisk's arms and he was sure that she was wide awake. She was still holding onto her aching sides even after he had let go.

"Good...uh, evening, sis." Asriel said, still recovering from his embarrasing moment.

"W-when did I fall asleep...?" Frisk whispered as she sat up.

"When you were hugging mom." Asriel took this as a chance for revenge.

"Wow, why do I fall asleep every time mom hugs me?" Frisk rhetorically asked while stretching her limbs. She looked at her bedside clock. '8:20 pm.'

"You called her comfy and soft in your sleep, sis." Asriel said with a smug grin. Frisk felt her cheeks heat up.

"Hee hee. We should go downstairs now, my child. Everyone is waiting to celebrate your birthday!"

"Wait, birthday?" She scratched her head trying to remember what the word meant. "...Oh." She froze once she remembered what today was. "I knew I was forgetting something when I entered the house!" Frisk jumped from her bed and raced downstairs. Asriel and Chara looked at each other for a moment and rushed down after her. Toriel giggled and followed them downstairs after a while.

~

The moment she jumped down from the last stair, she looked around to try and see the decorations properly but before she could a ton of confetti burst into her face. She was shocked still for a few seconds before she removed the confetti from her face and she saw Sans in front of her with a smug grin plastered on his skull.

"geeettttttt confetti'd!!" And with that Frisk burst out laughing.

"THAT'S- AHAHA- GENIUS! AHAHAHA OH GOD-"

Undyne deadpanned. "Am I the only one who thought that prank was stupid?"

Papyrus followed. "I AM WITH YOU UNDYNE."

Asgore however, disagreed. "I thought that was a good one, to be honest."

Alphys didn't comment on the prank. "H-h-happy birthday, F-Frisk!"

Frisk finally looked around to examine her surroundings. The room was simply DROWNING in balloons. There were balloons in every corner of the room. There were balloons everywhere on the floor. There was a banner hanging from the roof reading 'Happy birthday. Frisky-bits!', and more balloons. There were softly-colored banners on the wall and the room was lit in multi-colored lights. And there was confetti scattered around, 'Probably from the many confetti pranks Sans pulled on everyone.' Frisk thought. She smiled from all the effort she could see was put into her birthday.

"...Wow. This is amazing! Thank you guys!"

~

After everyone wished her a happy birthday, it was time for presents. Asriel sneaked up on Frisk and tried to place a party hat made of colored paper on her head. Unfortunately, she turned her head before he was done with securing it and it fell from her head. Frisk caught it.

"Hehe, cute hat."

"Thanks Frisk! I made it!" Asriel said with an enthusiastic grin.

"Cool." Asriel took the hat from her hands and properly placed it on Frisk's head.

Chara came forward and gave her a bar of chocolate from his chocolate stash. Frisk shot him an apologetic look.

"Uhhh, um, I appreciate the gift, Chara but... I have an allergy to cocoa. Sorry."

"Oh. Shit. Sorry. Should've known." Chara immediately had a guilty expression on his face.

"SWEAR JAR!" Asriel screamed.

"Ugh. Fine." Chara took the chocolate bar and headed to the kitchen, where the swear jar was located.

Papyrus stepped in front of Frisk with multiple boxes of jigsaw puzzles, and a Rubik's cube.

"UM, HUMAN. YOU ARE NOT ALLERGIC TO PUZZLES, ARE YOU?"

"Oh, no. Thanks, Papyrus." She tried to balance the boxes in her hands but the pile looked like it would topple over any moment. Toriel took it from her and headed upwards to put it in her room.

The others crowded around her, holding their gifts. One by one she recieved all of them. Toriel gifted her with her favorite 'Sherlock Holmes' novels that she used to borrow from the library to read. Alphys gave her DVDs of her favorite anime and some manga. Sans gave her a quantum physics book, as she was actually interested in the subject and had been on more than one occasion caught reading one from his room when she visited. He also gave her multiple joke books.

All of them also gave her some clothes to expand her filled-to-the-brim-with-striped-sweaters-and-sweatshirts wardrobe. This included a hand knitted blue turtleneck from Toriel. It had small heart patterns on the sleeves. Sans gifted her with a black fur lined sleeveless hoodie, which had a heart imprinted in front, seperated in the middle by the zipper, and the back had bone patterns on it. Papyrus gave her a plain black t-shirt which had 'COOLEST HUMAN EVER' written on the front with white paint. Alphys tried to give her a maid outfit but was pulled back by Undyne. Undyne gave her some slacks and military trousers. Asgore gifted her with some formal dresses for political work.

Right after the last gift, before Frisk could say anything, the front door burst open, revealing a Gaster who looked like he had just ran a goddamn marathon.

"I did not miss anything, did I? Oh, Happy birthday, Frisk. Sorry I am a bit late."

"heh, about time ya showed up dad."

"HELLO FATHER!"

"Ah, it's alright. Glad you were able to come!" Frisk assured him. Gaster then dumped some quantum physics books on her which were also the reason he was late.

~

"Time for cake!" Toriel lead Frisk to the table in the middle of the room where there was...nothing? She asked Frisk to close her eyes as she gestured Sans to use his magic. Frisk heard the faint sound of teleportation and Toriel allowed her to open her eyes. On the table now was a huge three-tier vanilla and butterscotch cake.

"I hope you like it, my child. It took a long time to get this into the oven, hee hee."

The cake had 'Happy birthday Frisk' written on top of it in cursive handwriting, and had small designs drawn on the side. The designs included spears, bones and flowers, 'Probably made by these guys, hehe.' Frisk's thoughts were confirmed by Toriel. She handed Frisk a plastic knife to cut the cake.

Frisk cut the cake slowly and handed a piece to everyone. Sans was quick to shove it into Frisk's face instead of eating it, and thus, the cake war began-- But it was stopped after the first attack by Toriel. Frisk gave Sans another piece to eat this time, with Toriel giving him a menacing glare to prevent him from shoving into anyone else's faces. Gaster was still trying to get used to eating food and had cake all over his mouth.

Looking around and seeing all her friends laughing and talking, with her face covered with cake, she had never felt more happy and at home on a birthday.

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The next day was...normal. As normal as it can be for Frisk, anyways. Another nightmare, waking up at an ungodly hour, her brothers helping her go back to sleep, waking her for school again, Chara making a donation to the swear jar, and going to school.

School was fairly the same as the day before, studying and having random conversation with her friends. She talked about her birthday party in the lunch break, and nobody except Cooper thought that the confetti prank was hilarious. She tried to help Candice with her social anxiety and confidence a little. The rest of the classes went smoothly too.

After school ended and everyone rushed out the gates, Frisk immediately parted ways with her siblings instead of going back home with them.

~

"Hey guys! I'm gonna go somewhere for a while, you guys can go ahead."

"Huh, where?" Asriel asked.

"..." She just turned and walked away.

"Don't tell mom about this, she'll freak out. Tell her that I am in detention or something. I'll return home in a few hours, 'kay?"

"..Alright. Just don't get into trouble sis!" Asriel didn't look too approving of her actions but he let it go and started to walk back home. Chara followed after a while of staring at Frisk's retreating back.

"We can't just leave her alone Azzy." He whispered once he caught up with Asriel and was sure that Frisk wouldn't be able to hear them.

"I dunno, but she doesn't want to tell us where she is going, so we should respect her privacy." He shrugged.

"We can't just leave her alone like this! What if she get's into trouble! The humans aren't as nice as monsters! What if a human attacks her!? What if-" Chara was losing his composure pretty quickly in concern of his sister.

"So what do you suggest we do? She isn't going to just tell us where she is going!"

"We can follow her."

"Eh, alright, I guess. But I'm pinning it on you if she gets mad."

"Fine. Let's just go now."

~

Frisk went on with a slow pace, pulling her hood over her face. She was wearing the same hoodie that Sans had given her for her birthday, along with the turtleneck Toriel gave her.

She had been on this route before, but visiting that place after so much time felt almost new to her, and a bit nostalgic. It was a dirt path, surrounded by trees and wild flowers. The path lead outside the city and to a small village. She collected some flowers from the bushes and trees while walking as there were plenty to be found. She tied all the flowers around the midsection with a yellow ribbon she pulled out of her slacks' pockets, like a small bouquet.

After walking for a while she finally reached the place. It was a graveyard just outside of the village. She went through the gate.

"What the hell is Frisk doing here?" Chara whispered to himself from behind the bushes.

"What do people do at graveyards?" Asriel rhetorically asked, feeling annoyed by his brother's respect for privacy. Or rather, the lack of it. They both followed Frisk through the gate and hid behind two tombstones near the gate, from where they were able to see Frisk directly.

~

She walked up to a tombstone which was almost right in the middle of the graveyard. There were many dried flower bouquets in front of it, just like the one she held in her hand. Well, of course there were, this wasn't the first time she had visited.

She set down the bouquet in front of the gravestone, and walked to its side to sit down, and leaned on the gravestone. She looked up at the sky, like she was looking for something up there.

"'Sup." She said after a while.

"..."

"Yeah, I know that's a dumb question. It's the sky." She said with a grin on her face.

"..."

"Wow, was it that bad? C'mon, I plan new jokes to tell you every time I visit and you don't even laugh." She had a mock offended expression on her face.

"..."

"Okay, okay, I know that it's overused but I can't help it." Frisk snickered.

"..."

"Anyways, I'm sorry I can't visit yesterday. I was going to but then it just so happened that it was my birthday." She tilted her head to look back at the stone and then looked back up.

"Speaking of my birthday, it was actually...good. No, great, even. I can't even remember when I had a birthday that good before. Well, considering we lived with...that man...I don't think I ever had such a great birthday before. Except the fact that I freaked out from the sudden surprise and accidentally used blue magic on them."

"..."

"No, no, I am not kicked out. They're...not like the humans. At all. They...accepted me, actually. It was...different, to say the least. I was fully expecting them to hide behind things and scream at me to get out, just like with the humans. But all I got was a fluffy hug." She had a grateful smile on her face.

"..."

"Yes, I will admit I call Mom fluffy. Don't you dare tease me about it." She looked back the the stone with a playful frown.

"Okay, wait, this is confusing." Her playful frown turned into a confused frown and she looked down into her lap in thought.

"I fully accept Toriel as my mother, but then you are my birth mother, but you are...on vacation. Yeah, on vacation, but I still visit you, I guess."

"So, what should I even call you? This is...confusing."

"Should I call you 'birth mother'? No, that sounds wierd. I think I'll just call you, uh, 'mother'? And Toriel 'mom'?"

"Eh, at least it's not all that confusing." She shrugged and looked up at the sky again.

"..."

"Alright, back on track. So, I had a freak out and they actually...comforted me...told me that they won't...abandon me..." She had another grateful smile on her face.

"They really remind me of you, y'know. You were the only one who ever comforted me." She had a wistful expression on her face now. 

"And then I fell asleep in mom's arms and called her comfy in my sleep."

"..."

"Yes, I know, definitely not absolutely fucking embarrassing."

"..."

"No, you're dead. You lost the privilege to tell me to contribute to the fucking swear jar." She had a defiant expression on her face.

"..."

"Yes, I will abuse my right to swear, and you can't do anything to stop me." She said with a mischievous smirk.

"..."

"Okay, after that I woke up at around 8 in the evening, with Asriel cuddled up in my arms like a pillow. He was so flustered! Then I realised what the day was and rushed down from my room. And when I reached down Sans just, BLASTED confetti into my face, and then said 'get confetti'd!'. God, that was fucking hilarious."

"..."

"What? You don't find it hilarious? I'm offended."

"..."

"Next, they showered me with presents! Like, hell, I got almost every book I ever wanted! Papyrus gave me jigsaw puzzles and a rubik's cube, which I am pretty sure he got me so that we can solve it together, along with the other puzzles. Alphys successfuly turned me into a weeb with all the anime and manga she dropped like a nuke on me, and now I am a nerdy weeb with all the quantum physics books Sans and Gaster dumped on my head. Well, at least Sans balanced it out with the extra joke books."

"They also gifted me with all these new clothes, most of which I didn't even know the proper names of! This...uh, hoodie...? Whatever it's called, Sans gifted it to me, and this sweater is knitted by mom." She pointed to her clothing.

"And then there was the cake! It was huge! I have no damned idea how mom put it into the oven, but she somehow did. It was delicious! Sans though, he just shoved the cake slice I gave him into my face. Though, mom stopped the cake war before it even started. I was looking forward to seeing Az covered in cake, too!" She said the last part with a pout.

"..."

"I think I ran out of things to say."

"..."

"But... I can stay for a while...right? You don't mind do you?" She sighed and looked down at her lap. After a few moments she spoke.

"I miss you and Amelia."

"I really just want to join you two on your vacation... y'know?" She looked up at the sky and sighed.

"But, I can't leave my family alone. No. I have to protect them. I- I can't fail them." She looked down at her lap.

"...Not like I failed you..." She whispered as a few tears dropped from her eyes.

"Ah, shit. There's the waterworks. We don't need those right now." She wiped her face with her sweater sleeve and looked towards the stone.

"Hey, you will take care of her, right...? You will take care of Amelia, right?"

"I-I know I ask this of you every time we meet, b-but please, take care of her up there. I-I wasn't able to protect her when she was here. I failed her as an older sister." Tears were flowing down her face again.

"B-but. T-take care of her in death... p-please?" She had a pleading look on her face. She sighed and stood up.

"Well, I guess I gotta go. Mom must be freaking out by now." She turned around and started to walk away.

She paused when she was a few feet from the gate. "Goodbye. I still love you mother, alright?" She pulled up her hood and walked out the gate.

~

"...We should go home now Chara."

"How can you not cry after seeing such a heartmelting moment!?" Chara had cartoonish waterfalls streaming down his face.

Asriel sighed. "Let's just go." Asriel grabbed the back of his sweater and dragged him along the ground.

They had been walking for a while before Chara decided he would start walking on his own legs. After walking for a while he suddenly felt something hit the back of his head, hard. he instantly fell to the ground with his ears ringing. He was able to hear the concerned shouts of Asriel through the ringing. His vision started to blur. The last thing he saw before passing out was Asriel falling unconcious on the ground.

"We got them, boss." Said the man standing over the unconcious teenagers.

~

Frisk reached home in the record time of 28 minutes, to find the house in a state of chaos. Toriel was on the phone talking to the authorities. Asgore was pacing around in the middle of the living room. Papyrus and Alphys had their hands holding down Undyne trying to keep her from suplexing anything. Alphys was fidgetting in her seat on the couch beside Undyne while Papyrus wore a worried expression on his face. Sans was sitting on the couch sweating bullets with his eyes completely black and devoid of light.

"My child!" Toriel shot up from her chair seeing Frisk enter the house. She ran up to Frisk and enveloped her in a teary hug. Asgore looked over at her with relief crossing his features.

Frisk awkwardly hugged her mother back, still trying to process the scene before her. "Hey mom. What's going on? Where's Chara and Asriel?"

"Are you hurt? Did they hurt you? What happened?" Toriel looked her up and down with a worried and frantic gaze.

"M-mom! It was just detention! What are you talking about?" Frisk was still confused. Detention wasn't supposed to freak them out this much?

"Oh, you... you don't know, do you..?" Frisk shook her head. Tears started streaming down Toriel's face.

"Chara and Asriel... they... they were kidnapped..." The rooms temperature dropped. Frisk's head shot up and her right iris turned from a brilliant green to a blood red. Her scleras turned completely black and a wave of red magic flowed from her, shaking the walls. Everyone's heads shot up to look at the source of the change in atmosphere.

"  W  H  A  T  ?  "

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Her hands twitched with held back magic, a red aura covering them. She forced herself to calm down and make her eyes return to normal. She sighed in annoyance at herself.

"Sorry about that. Anyways, how did you come to know this?" Frisk asked. Toriel pointed to the telephone, still too shocked by her sudden outburst.

"Well, if there's a kidnapping there must be a demand. What have they asked for?" Everybody froze. Frisk gave them all a curious look.

"What?"

"they want us to hand asgore and you over to them. apparently, they want to have some kind of meeting with you both." Sans eyelights still haven't returned. Frisk sighed.

"Let me guess, it's the Anti-Monster Group?" Everyone nodded slowly.

"Fucking lovely." Frisk cursed under her breath.

"Well, then just hand us over." Frisk said in a matter-of-factly tone. Everybody let out shocked gasps.

"What!? No!! Have you gone mad punk!?" Undyne yelled.

"I am not going in without a plan. Calm down. Did you all call the authorities?"

"I am not letting you take such a risk, plan or not." Toriel said. She had used her authorative tone, the one she used to use as a queen.

"Please. Mom. Az and Chara are in danger. I can't just leave them alone-"

"The authorities are on it. I cannot allow you to take such a ris-" The telephone rang unexpectedly. Toriel walked over and picked it up, pushing the speakerphone button.

~

"Hello?"

"This is a reminder. You have only an hour to fulfil our dema-" A gruff voice responded. The voice was obviously male, and was accompanied by Chara's screaming in the background. Frisk interrupted Toriel before she could speak.

"This is Ambassador Frisk Dreemurr. What are your demands?" Chara stopped screaming when Frisk spoke.

There was a long pause on the other end. "...The Ambassador's on the line, sir." They heard the man say to somebody, it was muffled but Frisk heard it either way.

Shuffling was heard on the other end, and then a sickly sweet voice responded.

"Hello~" Frisk froze. Her scleras went black again. That voice was painfully familiar. Her hands started shaking from barely concealed rage. She took a step back involuntarily.

~

Everyone gazed at Frisk in worry.

" Y o u . "

"Oh~ It's you! ...What's with that tone Frisky? Are you not happy to hear your father is alive?" The man emphasised the word 'father'. Everybody in the room let out shocked gasps.

"You are not my father." Frisk barely managed to kept her voice even. 

"Oh, but I am-"

"N o, you are not. I refuse to call you a father of all things, human. End of discussion. Now, do tell me where are my brothers?"

"...Brothers? That freak boy and that...thing...are your brothers?" The human sounded disgusted.

"YOU CALL ASRIEL A THING AGAIN AND I WILL MAKE YOUR DEATH EVEN MORE PAINFUL THAN I PREVIOUSLY PLANNED!" They heard Chara's voice in the background.

"So quick to replace Amelia, I see." That struck a nerve for Frisk, visibly. 

"I did not replace her." Frisk actually growled. Her hands were borderline painful with all the magic flowing into them.

"It's reasonable. She was so...weak." The man was purposefully riling Frisk up.

"Shut up."

"And normal. And boring." Everybody in the room had disgruntled expressions. Except Frisk, she had an expression of unbridled rage.

"Shut. up." She shoved her hands into her hoodie pockets so that the others couldn't see them shaking. Sans put a calming hand on Frisk's shoulder.

"I still don't know how a person like you had such a pathetic sister." She gritted her teeth.

"SHUT UP!" There were red sparks flying around Frisk. Her iris had magical flames emanating from it.

"Well, she did flutter deliciously when I drove that knife into he-" She snapped.

A strange skull that looked much like Sans' blasters materialised over her head, but it was not made of bone, but looked like it was made from pure, solidified determination. The place where its eyes should have been were empty, and a black ball of magic formed in its jaws, and small flickers of it came out of the eyesockets of the skull. A black beam of magic fired from its jaws, taking out the telephone and the whole wall behind it.

Everybody jumped back when it was summoned. They looked at the destruction it caused. The wall had a huge gaping hole in it, and black tendrils came out of the original hole, eating away more of the walls before fading into non-existence.

"M-my child?"

~

"You're gonna need a new telephone." She said with non-chalance that anyone with a braincell could see was fake. Her eyes were still not back to normal.

"kid, you okay?" Sans' eyelights were dim.

"Yes. I just need to take a little walk." She walked towards the door.

"You're not going out there alone punk!" Undyne rushed behind Frisk.

"Come back, my child!" Toriel called out in a panicked voice.

~

She had gone to a clearing in the forest near the foot of mount Ebott. The same one they had first set up camp at. She had reached there and screamed her heart out, summoning everything in her arsenal to get rid of the agitated magic flowing through her veins. 'Gotta preserve this place for future venting sessions.'

She came back to the house, carefully putting her happy and normal mask on to hide the pain of resurfaced memories. Her sister. Her mother. Everyone she had failed.

She had thought about her current predicament on her way back. Chara. Asriel. Her brothers. That man.

She had thought her life was going to go fairly normal now. She had a family again, a loving one, at that. But no, the universe just loved to fuck with her in Every. Way. Imaginable.

She entered the house, ready to find her mother waiting for her on the couch with concern and love in her eyes. 'Or screaming at me to get out, who knows? Maybe they finally got fed up of my shit?' She gathered up the courage and turned the doorknob, stepping inside, bracing herself for the screaming. What she found was much, much, worse.

~

The living room was a mess. The tables were toppled. The TV was broken. The carpets had blood on them. Everything was broken. There was evidence of a fight, judging by the bones and spears stuck to the walls. And then there was dust. She immediately panicked. After examining the dust she breathed out a sigh of slight relief, as the amount of dust was not enough to be from a full monster body. The dust was probably from small injuries. But dread still hung over her. She began to examine the rooms one by one, starting with the kitchen. She wandered around till she came to the refrigirator. It had a note stuck to it.

Tsk. tsk. You left your family alone, to go on a walk? Oh, how do we know? We were watching. They had to defend themselves when we barged in. They did well. Very well. But six against a couple hundred isn't an easy battle now, is it? They tried to give us MERCY. Too bad. 

~

Frisk Dreemurr - 2̶̜̍̌̎̀͊̈́̉͊̐̀̚̕0̶̡̈̎ ATK 2̸̡̧̛̝͕̲͚̞̏̑̾͛͌̂͗́̄͂̅͑͝0̶̨̯͖̼̰̉̅̃̊́̑̾̅̽̆͑̑͛͂͝͝ DF 

LV 1̶̥̗͉͇̙̎̀͆̌͑͊̀͝͝͠ EXP 0

* She feels her failures crawling on her back.

~

Then her attention went to the wall. On the wall was a message written in red paint.

YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND US, SUBJECT D-008-A.

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Frisk Dreemurr - 9̸̛̫̩͋̔̌͛̐̔͛̎͗͋̏͗̿̓̕9̶̨̛̣̥͎̘̳͈̲̬͉̙͕͖̻͑̎̄̊͊̃̾̀̇͛̾͒̎͜͝ ATK 0̸̧̡̛̞̦̠̼̳̺̦̠͕̫͇̜͖͎̍̂̈́̀̌́͘̕͘ DEF

LV 2̴̠͆́͐̚̚1̵̢̨̢̩̱̞̣̗̰̦̳̂̔̍̀̀͛͝

* Fresh out of mercy.

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"Well, then." She crumpled the piece of paper in her hands. Her expression was scarily neutral. It was an expression she had perfected over the years so that people couldn't see her real emotions on her face. She stormed out of the house.

Her iris was glowing a blood red, bright enough to act as a lamp. It was painful keeping in the agitated magic. She just wanted to get to the place as quickly as possible, and get her family out of there.

~

Her eyes hadn't changed back to normal yet, and to keep humans and monsters from staring at her she pulled her hood over her head. It wasn't easy to hide her face, though. Children that were shorter than her could see under her hood and get a glimpse of her eyes, then complain to their parents how creepy she looked. She didn't care.

She was passing through the woods to get to her destination. Frisk knew where to go. If that man was going to spite her with that name, then she definitely knew where she had to go.

She walked through the villages she had once ran past, when she had not cared about where she'll end up, just to get away from that place. And now she was getting dragged back there.

Passing by trees, breaking branches here and there, she finally made it. The laboratory. It looked just as destroyed as the last time she had been here. The place was well hidden deep inside the woods. It had vines growing all over it. She had never thought that the Anti-Monster Group had their headquarters here of all places. Memories resurfaced in her mind.

The experiments conducted on her and her sister just for the sake of some twisted revenge.

The pain of the punishments when she didn't co-operate.

How she was violated by those scientists when she lashed out.

How those true monsters thought they were above concequences.

The magic that was pumped into her soul.

The determination which she was forcefully injected with just to see how much her soul can hold before it cracks.

The blood of her sister.

'No.' She repressed the memories. She would not get dragged down by those memories. She had her family to save. She will not fail them.

She had never cared about dying, because after all she had been through, she was sure she literally fucking can't. She came out of the underground every single time, showing everyone mercy, without ever taking damage. She didn't even need the power of reloading to come back from the dead because no monster had even been able to actually hit her. Except flowey, of course. He cheated.

Even if she did die, she was too far gone to care.

Sure, she was a pacifist child. She had shown mercy to everyone in the underground. She hadn't chosen violence over peace even in life threatening circumstances.

But, she wasn't one to be messed with.

She never cared about anyone after her mother and sister. She thought that it wasn't worth the pain of losing them.

But now, she once again had people to care about. These monsters who didn't even know the real her, they had shown her love. They had given her a home, and she had found family in them. And she would protect that family, no matter what cost.

And these guys- these- fucking humans- they were gonna figure it out the hard way.

~

"Motion sensers and security cameras. Someone has been taking care of this place." She looked at the sliding doors made of steel. They had a fingerprint recognition system and a retina scanner on the wall next to them.

"Huh, that much security to get in?"

"..."

"Ah well, who cares." She summoned a blaster and the door was evaporated in a second. She stepped in and heard the alarms ring and footsteps heading towards her.

She held a neutral expression, not showing any interest in the definitely-life-threatening situation approaching her. She just examined the polished interior of the building which looked ruined from the outside. Soon there were AMG members filing into the room with weapons in their hands. They aimed all the weapons at her.

"What? That's how you greet visitors?" The humans shuffled around.

Her hands glowed with a red aura, her right eye emanting magical flames. 

"Nevermind, it's not like I am a friendly visitor, after all." The humans didn't waste another second and started shooting at her. A half formed blaster appeared in front of her, making a shield against the bullets. The humans paused for a second when the blaster appeared, but then kept shooting, thinking that they could break it.

Knives made of red materialisation magic appeared around Frisk, aimed at the humans. They were out of ammunition by now, and they cowered in fear.

"That was rude." 

"...Anyways. So, class." A notebook materialised in her hand. "I am your life-slash-death lessons teacher for today." She flipped through the notebook. "And according to my diary here, today's lesson is.." The other half of the blaster materialised and it started charging up. The notebook was snapped shut and then it disappeared.

" W h a t  h a p p e n s  w h e n  y o u  m e s s  w i t h  m y  f a m i l y . "

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It had been more than half an hour since her children's school had ended. They were supposed to be home within ten minutes of leaving school premises, Toriel had already instructed them. She was growing more worried by the second. Asgore had already called the authorities a while ago.

"Don't worry Tori. We have already called the authorities." Asgore said from his place on the couch, sipping tea.

"They are my children! How can I not worry-"

Suddenly, the telephone rang. Toriel walked over to the phone and picked it up. It was an unknown voice which greeted her.

"Greetings." She pressed the speakerphone button.

"Hello? What can we do for you?" She spoke up.

"We are the Anti-Monster Group. Your children, Chara and Asriel Dreemurr, have been kidnapped by us. You have an hour to fulfil our demands."

"...If this is a joke, sir, then it is not a funny one." This was not helping her growing anxiety.

"This is not a joke. If you want proof, then here." The man put the phone on speaker and then they heard their children.

"FUCKING HELL DON'T TOUCH AZZY YOU PIECE OF FLESHY SHIT! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MOTHERFUCKER-" Chara was screaming in the background.

"P-p-please s-stop.." They heard Asriel's voice.

Toriel gasped. The teacup fell from Asgore's hands. Asgore had already started calling all of their friends.

~

This place felt like being stuck neck deep in shit.

The people here were shit, the walls looked like shit, his condition was shit, this whole goddamn situation was shit! Chara forced himself to calm down.

He was kidnapped, alright. Who the fuck did it? By the looks of it, the Anti-Nice People Shits. Of-fucking-course!

He was stuck here bound in handcuffs with his brother who was scared as all hell. He wanted to break these restraints and comfort his brother, and then kill every last one of these fuckers who dared hurt his brother.

They were both being tortured over the past few minutes they were awake. Those dumbasses were doing whatever they wanted with them. Whipping them, carving on their skin with knives, injecting them with god-knows-what, etc. etc.

He was able to withstand his own torture without giving a shit, but Asriel, he cried. He begged them to not hurt him and his brother. Chara's blood boiled seeing his brother like this.

He really hoped that Frisk wasn't going through the same thing.

~

Sans had shortcutted with Papyrus, much to the younger one's dissaproval, when Asgore called him. Undyne barged through the door with Alphys in her hands, bridal style. Gaster teleported into the middle of the living room.

"What are your demands?" She barely kept her voice even.

"Our demands are simple; Hand over Ambassadors Frisk and Asgore Dreemurr to us."

"buddy, pal. we ain't handing nobody over to you. you are the ones who will be handing the kiddos over to us, capiché?" Sans said darkly. His eyesockets were blank.

"Oh, you think you are in-charge?" There was shuffling heared and then an ear-piercing scream rang out from the reciever.

"MOTHERFUCKER TAKE THAT FUCKING KNIFE AWAY FROM AZZY AT ONCE YOU PIECE OF SHI-" Another painful scream, this time from Chara.

"Still thinking you are in charge?" They could almost hear the smirk in the voice.

"PLEASE DON'T HURT OUR FRIENDS! IT IS WRONG OF YOU TO TAKE LITTLE ASGORE AND MEAN-ISH HUMAN WITH YOU FORCEFULLY!" Papyrus pleaded.

"You just need to hand over the Ambassadors to us. We will return the children to you once they agree to have a meeting with us."

"...Can you please give us time?" Toriel asked after a while.

"You have an hour." The line disconnected. Everyone slumped down.

~

Did the motherfucker just demand for his sister and his father!?

God fucking dammit, he would kill these dumbasses. He would kill them painfully and he would make them suffer.

But he was bound to an examination table. What the hell could he even do?

~

"W-what do we do...?" Toriel was crying buckets upon buckets of tears. Asgore was sitting on his armchair with a dark look on his face. He wasn't saying anything.

"WE MUST CALL THE AUTHORITIES!" Papyrus said optimistically, somehow.

"we already did that bro." Sans' grin was turned upside-down in a frown.

"THEN...Then...I don't know what to do..." His optimism faded.

"I-I t-t-think I can c-come up w-with something a-at the l-l-lab. A-a tracker to t-track t-the prince's s-soul signature..?" Alphys suggested.

"and how exactly are we supposed to get that soul signature? soul signatures are unique al. and we don't have the kid's soul signature."

"Maybe I can try to trace the location, but the police have never been able to get the location of their headquarters, so I doubt that it would be successful." Gaster said.

"We should wait for the punk to get back home before we do anything. They are her brothers after all." Undyne said.

Gaster's face lit up. "Yes! Frisk tracked down my soul in the VOID using a strand of magic from Sans' soul. Maybe she can find the prince using the king or queen's souls?"

"She did what?" Asgore asked.

"yup. the kid's full of surprises. let's just hope she gets home safely from wherever she is."

"I think I should be at the lab. I will try to come up with something in the meanwhile." Gaster teleported away.

~

Frisk still hadn't come back. Everyone was growing even more worried and anxious. Suddenly, the door opened and Frisk stepped inside. She didn't even get to say a "Hello" before Toriel shot up from her chair.

"My child!" She ran up to her and enveloped her in a teary hug. Asgore looked over at her with relief crossing his features.

Frisk awkwardly hugged her mother back, her face saying that she was confused as all hell. "Hey mom. What's going on? Where's Chara and Asriel?"

"Are you hurt? Did they hurt you? What happened?" Toriel looked her up and down with a worried and frantic gaze. She knew that the Anti-Monster Group didn't say anything about kidnapping Frisk but she was worried due to Frisk being so late.

"M-mom! It was just detention! What are you talking about?" Frisk was still confused. Well, that answered everyone's questions as to where she had been all this time.

"Oh, you... you don't know, do you..?" Frisk shook her head. Fresh tears started streaming down Toriel's face.

"Chara and Asriel... they... they were kidnapped..." The room's temperature dropped. Frisk's head shot up and her right iris turned from her usual green to a blood red. Her scleras turned completely black and a wave of red magic flowed from her, shaking the walls. Everyone's heads shot up to look at the source of the change in atmosphere.

"  W  H  A  T  ?  " That was the most dangerous tone that the family had ever heard from Frisk. They all jumped back a bit.

Her hands twitched, and a red aura was covering them. Her eyes had completely changed. She looked like she was definitely going to kill somebody. She controlled herself.

"Sorry about that. Anyways, how did you come to know this?" Frisk asked, after calming down. Toriel pointed to the telephone, still too shocked by her sudden outburst.

"Well, if there's a kidnapping there must be a demand. What have they asked for?" Everybody froze. Frisk gave them all a curious look.

"What?" Everybody was thinking how to break the news to her. Sans beat them to it.

"they want us to hand asgore and you over to them. apparently, they want to have some kind of meeting with you both." Sans eyelights still haven't returned. Frisk sighed.

"Let me guess, it's the Anti-Monster Group?" Everyone nodded slowly.

"Well, then just hand us over." Frisk said in a matter-of-factly tone. Everybody let out shocked gasps.

"What!? No!! Have you gone mad punk!?" Undyne yelled.

"I am not going in without a plan. Calm down. Did you all call the authorities?"

"I am not letting you take such a risk, plan or not." Toriel said. She had used her authorative tone, the one she used to use as a queen.

"Please. Mom. Az and Chara are in danger. I can't just leave them alone-" Frisk protested.

"The authorities are on it. I cannot allow you to take such a ris-" The telephone rang unexpectedly. Everybody knew who it was. Toriel walked over and picked it up, pushing the speakerphone button.

~

"Hello?" Toriel said.

"This is a reminder. You have only half an hour left to fulfil our dema-" The same voice from earlier responded, and it was accompanied by Chara's angry screaming in the background. Frisk interrupted Toriel before she could speak.

"This is Ambassador Frisk Dreemurr. What are your demands?" Chara stopped screaming when Frisk spoke.

There was a long pause on the other end. "...The Ambassador's on the line, sir." They heard the man say to somebody.

Shuffling was heard on the other end, and then a new voice responded.

"Hello~" Frisk froze. Her scleras went black again. Her hands started shaking. She took a step back.

Everyone gazed at Frisk in worry. She looked like she was going to punch the telephone.

" Y o u . " Her voice was filled with anger.

"Oh~ It's you! ...What's with that tone Frisky? Are you not happy to hear your father is alive?" The man emphasised the word 'father'. Everybody in the room let out shocked gasps.

"You are not my father." Frisk barely managed to kept her voice even. Now it looked like even the wall wouldn't be spared.

"Oh, but I am-" The man protested.

"N o, you are not. I refuse to call you a father of all things, human. End of discussion. Now, do tell me where are my brothers?" Her voice was laced with so much venom that if it was actual venom pouring out of her mouth, the man would be dead.

"...Brothers? That freak boy and that...thing...are your brothers?" The human sounded disgusted. Everyone in the room had a disgruntled expression. Well, they expected this. It was the Anti-Monster Group, after all.

"YOU CALL ASRIEL A THING AGAIN AND I WILL MAKE YOUR DEATH EVEN MORE PAINFUL THAN I PREVIOUSLY PLANNED!" They heard Chara's voice in the background.

"So quick to replace Amelia, I see." That struck a nerve for Frisk, visibly. Everybody had a confused expression on their faces, silently asking 'Who?'.

"I did not replace her." Frisk actually growled. Everybody took a step back. She was growing angrier by the second. It was a surprise that she wasn't already breathing fire yet.

"It's reasonable. She was so...weak."

"Shut up."

"And normal. And boring." Frisk had an expression of unbridled rage. 'yup, that wall is not going to have a happy ending.'

"Shut. up." She shoved her shaking hands into her hoodie pockets. Sans put a calming hand on Frisk's shoulder. His frown was twisted in concern.

"I still don't know how a person like you had such a pathetic sister." Oh, that answered everyone's question. So, Frisk had a sister? And this person was insulting her. No wonder she looked like a fire breathing dragon right now.

"SHUT UP!" There were red sparks flying around Frisk. Her iris had... were those flames!? They didn't look like actual fire, but Sans recognised what it was. Her right eye was her magical eye.

"Well, she did flutter deliciously when I drove that knife into he-"

A strange skull that looked much like Sans' blasters materialised over her head. Everybody jumped back. A black beam of magic fired from its jaws, taking out the telephone and the whole wall behind it. 'called it.'

"M-my child?" Toriel had a mournful expression on her face for her child. Everyone else had one too. Their savior looked on the verge of tears. It definitely wasn't a fond memory, everyone figured as much.

"You're gonna need a new telephone." She said with non-chalance that definitely didn't match her actual emotions. Her eyes were still not back to normal.

"kid, you okay?" Sans' eyelights were dim. He wanted to hug Frsk and comfort her. Hell, everybody in the room did.

"Yes. I just need to take a little walk." She walked towards the door.

"You're not going out there alone punk!" Undyne rushed behind Frisk.

"Come back, my child!" Toriel called out in a panicked voice.

~

This organisation was run by his sister's goddamn father!? What the fuck, he would not accept that this bitch is his sister's father. Hell no, this man couldn't be her father! She was so fucking different! Sho was so kind and sympathetic! 

His blood boiled from the man's taunting, he was livid. This man had taunted his sister. Motherfucker killed Frisk's sister and was now taunting her with it! He would rip his fucking tongue out!

At the same time Chara was mournful. His sister was definitely in pain right now.

~

Undyne and Toriel returned back when they weren't able to follow Frisk. Turns out she was fast as all hell. Toriel sat down on her armchair and Undyne crashed on the couch.

"The punk's...huff...fast..! We...huff..we couldn't even...huff..keep up!" Undyne was completely out of breath.

"she just wants some alone time for now." Sans knew what it was like to lose your loved ones to a psychopath. His own brother had been killed multiple times by a fucking weed. He always came back with the next RESET, but it didn't lessen the pain. He knew Frisk had the power to RESET, but her sister was still dead, apparently, so she probably couldn't reset that far back. His brother always returned to him safe and sound, but she wasn't able to save her sister. He couldn't comprehend how it must feel to have the ability to manipulate time and still not be able to save someone you care about.

"What a cruel, pathetic man. Taunting someone with their loved one's death. His own daughter, as he said." Toriel looked furious and mournful.

"I can't believe that man is our child's actual father. Our Frisk is so...different. How can someone ...kill... their own daughter?" Asgore still had that dark look stuck on his face.

"She never told us about her past life. But, it was probably... not as nice as most children, by the looks of it."

"no joke. her own father killed her sister. what do you think that man did to frisk herself?" Sans wasn't imagining anything good.

"..." The room fell silent.

"I think I will bake something. Frisk would probably need some energy when she comes back." Toriel stood up and walked to the kitchen. She had a habit of baking when she was not in a good mood.

"I think I will tend to my garden. The flowers need watering." Asgore got up and left for his outer sanctum too. The living room was left with a passed out Undyne, a worried Alphys, a scarily smile-less Papyrus and a lost-in-his-own-thoughts Sans.

~

Asgore came rushing inside. He looked panicked and frantic.

"Everyone! Watch out!" He screamed and pulled out his trident. Toriel came rushing from the kitchen with fireballs ready in her hands.

"What happened!?" She yelled.

"It's the Anti-Monster Group! They are barging in with hostile intentions!" The windows and doors burst open and people filtered in wielding weapons.

"fuck." Sans summoned his bones. Undyne was awake by now and summoned her spears. Alphys hid behind her.

"Oh, so you have a bit of fight in you? Guess this wouldn't be completely boring." The man in the front grinned a psychotic grin laced with amusement.

Sans fired his bones, Papyrus surprisingly did too. His face was expressionless. Undyne's spears and Toriel's fireballs flew at the humans. Many of them were dodged.

"SO YOU FINALLY DECIDED TO SHOW YOURSELF. WERE YOU WAITING FOR HUMAN FRISK TO LEAVE?" Papyrus said.

"You noticed? And I thought you were the oblivious one."

"MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT." Papyrus sent off more bones, blue and normal. Everybody was shocked still for a moment, seeing their happy-go-lucky skeleton like such, but then they started their attacks too. Asgore ran forward with his trident covered in fire, Undyne marched forward with her spears, Sans threw more bones. The people started shooting with their guns and attacking with knifes.

"NGHHHAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Undyne threw a barricade of spears at everyone

"you are gonna have a bad time, bucko." People flew around covered with his magic, being slammed into the walls.

"YOU PEOPLE HAVE HURT MY FRIEND EMOTIONALLY, BUT STILL, EVERYONE DESERVES MERCY."

"Sure." A man flew at Papyrus with his knife. A long bone appeared in his hand and he blocked the attack with it.

"SORRY HUMAN. BUT I AM NOT GOING TO STAND THERE AND TAKE YOUR ATTACKS." The man's soul was turned blue and he was flung to a nearby wall by Sans.

Alphys threw some electricity at the humans. "T-t-there are t-too m-m-many of t-them!!" It was true, more and more humans were filing in.

Sans sighed. His magical eye glowed. "let's just get to the point." He summoned a circle of gaster blasters around the humans. Bones were flung at them too.

"LET'S DO THIS! YEAAAAHHHH!!!!" Undyne yelled and sent spears from all sides. Toriel sent fireballs and Asgore attacked with his trident.

The battle continued like that for a long time. The monsters were going at the humans, but more humans filed in as others fell. The monsters grew tired. The humans saw their chance.

~

"wow. now we're kidnapped too." Sans was the first to wake up. He was in an unfamiliar place. The room he was in looked like some sort of prison. The walls were made of concrete and one wall was swapped out with glass, overlooking a control room of sorts. Next to him were the rest of his friends. In front of him on the opposite wall of the cell were the royal children. Everyone's hands were bound and he was unable to use his magic, for some reason.

"'sup kiddos."

"Not really in the mood for polite conversation." Chara said.

"oh well."

"So... what happened? How did you all get here?" Asriel asked.

"the humans barged into the dreemurr mansion. we had to fight. we lost."

"That's rough buddy." Asriel sighed.

~

'she'll probably reset now.' Sans scoffed as he was lost in his thoughts.

'so much for thinking i have a future huh? it'll all be reset again. the kid won't deal with this.'

'any minute now and i'll wake up back in snowdin.'

'it's hopeless.'

'she'll break her promise.'

'we'll be back in hell.'

~

Everybody else woke up one by one. Toriel and Asgore were relieved that their children were not dead. After a while, someone entered the control room. It was a man who looked like he was in his early 40s. He had jet black hair and sharp eyes, with a grin that looked psychotic. He had pale skin and wore a grey coat with black pants, with a red shirt underneath.

"Hello~" The same voice from earlier. Everyone had a disgusted look on their faces at seeing the man.

"Not thrilled to see me? Understandable." Sans quickly tried to check the man, but his magic was blocked. Toriel tried to summon fireballs but it failed.

"Not able to use your magic? Yeah, the handcuffs are working properly then." Sans cursed under his breath.

The man walked over the the huge monitor and pulled up the cameras.

"By the way, Frisk would be coming soon. We left a message for her in your kitchen. Wanna see how we break her?" The man said with his psychotic grin.

"You're sick." Asriel said with an angry expression.

"What, don't you want to see how we kill your savior?"

"Oh look, she's here." The man pointed to the screen. And sure enough, Frisk was standing in front of the door.

~

People filtered into the room Frisk was in, armed with weapons.

"What? That's how you greet visitors?" 

~

Almost everyone gave the screen an incredulous look. "Is she literally making jokes when she is surrounded by humans?" Asriel rhetorically asked.

~

Her hands glowed with a red aura, her right eye emanting magical flames. 

"Nevermind, it's not like I am a friendly visitor, after all." The humans didn't waste another second and started shooting at her.

~

Chara almost screamed but then he stopped, seeing what happened next. Everyone had a scared expression on their faces.

~

A half formed blaster appeared in front of her, making a shield against the bullets. The humans paused for a second when the blaster appeared, but then kept shooting.

~

"Okay, can someone tell me what all can she exactly do?" Asriel asked.

"She can summon a scary-ass dragon skull to blast a telephone and a wall." Undyne answered.

"Is that materialisation magic?" Asgore said as he looked at the screen.

~

Knives made of red materialisation magic appeared around Frisk, aimed at the humans. They were out of ammunition by now, and they cowered in fear.

"That was rude." 

~

"She's mad. Look at her completely expressionless face. They're all fucked." Chara was studying the screen closely.

~

"...Anyways. So, class." A notebook materialised in her hand. "I am your life-slash-death lessons teacher for today."

~

"D-d-did s-she just s-say slash-d-d-death?" Alphys murmured.

"I HAVE A FEELING THAT HUMAN FRISK IS GOING TO DO A VIOLENCE." Papyrus had a concerned expression on his face.

~

She flipped through the notebook. "And according to my diary here, today's lesson is.." The other half of the blaster materialised and it started charging up. The notebook was snapped shut and then it disappeared.

" W h a t  h a p p e n s  w h e n  y o u  m e s s  w i t h  m y  f a m i l y . "

~

"yeah, the kid's gonna give them a bad time." Sans' attention was pulled away from the possibility of a RESET by the events on the screen.

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"Now, this is a pretty simple question, with a simple answer." She shrugged, while the blaster went off.

" Y o u  s i m p l y  g o  t h r o u g h  a  l o t  o f  p a i n . " Multiple humans were turned blue and flung around the room.

"Don't worry though, you aren't dying just yet." Blue and orange knives flew at the humans next, as she was curious if the humans knew what those attacks meant.

"Can't guarantee that you won't go into a coma or be physically impaired for life, though." The previous attacks had hit. They knew what to do with blue attacks but not orange ones. A barrage of normal red knives were sent at the humans next.

"Or traumatised, who knows?" A circle of blasters fired off.

Bodies were being burned, flung around, sliced, tortured. It looked like the room was a battlefield. And there was a war going on between an entire army and a lone statue in said battlefield. And the lone statue was winning.

She had hardly moved from her standing place, not even blinking, just standing there like a statue with moving hands while chaos unfolded around her. Limbs flew around severed, people slammed into walls covered in magic, the room had holes where the magic beams from the blasters had hit. She wasn't actually killing anyone, just leaving them at 1 HP and making them pass out. Even if she was angry, she still didn't want to actually kill anybody.

Finally only one person was left in the middle of it all, their cloak covered in blood and body shaking in fear. She walked up to them. They had a red knife sticking out from the shoulder and their masked cracked in half.

"I am not gonna ask this twice, so, answer quickly. Where exactly is my family?" Her expression was neutral, an expression that the humans learnt firsthand to be absolutely feared when it came to her.

"U-u-u-m-u-uhhh-m-I-I-" They kept on stuttering.

"I'm waiting." Frisk grabbed the knife embedded in their shoulder as a warning.

"I-I-In t-the c-c-c-control room!!" The member yelled out.

Frisk's face contorted in disgust and stepped back. "That room still exists? I even took extra care to make sure that the room was completely obliterated when I escaped!" She grumbled to herself as she stuffed her hands into her pockets and sauntered out of the room into the next hallway, passing by the human. They breathed out a sigh of relief. Then she stepped back into the room and the member got slammed into the wall, knocking them out.

~

She walked down the hallway, making quick work of anyone who came into her line of sight, trying to stop her. She came to the stairs that led to the next level, where the elevator would take her to that room.

She despised that room the most in the building. It was where that man used to sit, watching as that scientist and his team conducted their experiments on her. He used to drag her there after the experiments to- 'No. Nope. No unnecessary thoughts right now.'.

She was pretty sure that she would find that motherfucker (Heh, such a fitting title.) right there, sitting on his stupid chair with that smirk plastered on his ugly face. She cringed as she remembered how that demon in human skin used to look.

Wait, that reminded her of something. That man was probably seeing her through those cameras in the hallway. She looked up and sure enough, the camera was aimed right at her.

"Still being the creep you are, huh?" A knife smashed into it.

~

There were more guards on the next level. She attacked them before they even got to properly aim at her. She didn't even look at the other hallway which led to the examination rooms and quickly ran over to the elevator, blasting the door to get in, not wanting to fiddle with the stupid security system.

Another hallway. And another door with a slot for swiping the card. The door which led to the control room. She had snatched a card from one of the members on the last level, not wanting to blast the door this time as to not hurt her family in case they were right in front of the door. And there was a lone guard standing in front of the door. At first she thought it was just some ordinary guard, but then she felt a strange, icky feeling coming from his soul. She immediately recognised what it was. 

LOVE.

Sure, almost everyone had an LV of above 5 in the building, but this one had a lot more than the normal guards. She focused her magic and accessed the more hidden part of the man's stats.

AMG General - 38 (10) ATK | 16 (5) DEF

HP 126/100

LV 16 | EXP: 12568

KILLS: 73

WEAPON: Combat Knife | ARMOR: Cloak

Her eyes widened. She stepped back in surprise. "Am I really going to be dealing with a fucking psychopath now?"

~

She stepped forward, catching the attention of the man. She strided down the hallway, stopping in the middle of it. The man gave her a cocky smirk, telling her to go first.

She sent a barrage of knives and a blaster. The man jumped over the barrage and ran at her with his weapon drawn, dodging the blaster. She just sidestepped the attack.

"What? Did you think you're the only one who can dodge?" The man slashed repeatedly at her. She kept dodging him. Then she turned his soul blue and slammed him into a wall, knives erupting from it. The man gave her a psychotic grin.

"You can't dodge forever, though."

"I'm not planning on it either." She slammed him into the opposite wall and sent an arc of three blasters. The man got hit. She dropped the grip on his soul and sent another blaster. The man dodged into a wall of blue knives. He laughed.

"Was that supposed to hurt?"

"Not yet." The knives suddenly changed to yellow. The man screamed out in pain as he was impaled on them. The knives vanished and he thought that was the only damage done, but then he felt his energy draining.

"Huh. Didn't think I still remembered how to use that." The man lunged at her. She dodged.

A combination of yellow, blue and orange knives were flung at him. Most of them hit, as it was almost impossible to avoid them. The blue and orange ones came in pairs, and all of the knives moved at ungodly speeds. He tried to destroy an attack with his weapon but was knocked back into another attack instead.

He tried to move to attack Frisk but then circles of energy beams erupted from the ground, trapping him. When the energy beams faded they had left holes in the ground, making the place he was standing on fall along with him. He quickly jumped to safe land. but then a blue knife erupted from beneath him. Another blaster with a yellow energy ball instead of a black one appeared, aimed at his head.

"Are ya kidding me!?" The blaster fired, making him move from the sheer force of the beam and thus having damage done to him by the blue attack. Along with the blaster and the karma from it.

"Why don'tcha fight fair!?" The man yelled and ran forward to attack in a last attempt. She teleported to his side, causing the man to pause, and she grabbed his arm.

"I don't know. Why didn't you ask that to yourself when you were gaining all that EXP and LOVE?" She bended and snapped his arm in half, causing him to shriek out in pain.

"Because an LV of 16 and that fuck-ton of EXP you have doesn't show that you gave a fuck about a fair fight." Another blaster with karmic magic charged behind her, aimed straight for the man.

"And I really don't think all the 73 people you killed deserved it." The blaster fired off. The man ended up into a dent on the wall, badly burnt and no longer capable to fight.

"So, did you at least feel remorse killing those people?" She asked.

The man grinned. She already knew the answer. "No. That rush of power is intoxinating, y'know? Another reason those monsters should be killed till there is nobody left! It felt good to kill those insects who begged for mercy at my fee-" He was shut up as blue magic covered him.

"Huh." He was slammed into a wall. "I really thought there would be at least a sliver of a good person inside you." He was slammed again on another wall. A loud crack was heard. "But that's clearly not the case, is it?" The man was slammed against the walls repeatedly, his bones cracking everytime he came in contact with a wall. Then he hovered limply over the hole in the floor from Frisk's earlier attack. The man finally had a look of fear on his face.

"No! Stop! I- I feel remorse, okay!? Spare me! L- let me go! Please!" The man pleaded with fear in his eyes, but the words he uttered were lies.

"...Okay." The magical grip on him vanished.

"Really poor choice of words, though." She said as the man fell through the hole.

~

She walked up to the door and slided the card in.

The room was just as she remembered it. One chair in front of the huge screen showing the camera views, and a glass window looking into the examination rooms, except there weren't examination rooms there, but a singular cell where her family laid.

She ran up to the window.

"Hey, sis. Glad to see you're done with your ass kicking." Chara greeted her with tired eyes.

"Huh?" She stared at him dumbfounded.

"That motherfucker wanted to show us 'how our saviour gets killed', in his own words. Instead we had imaginary popcorn watching this action-filled movie where you take down a villain's lair." Chara pointed to the screen.

"Wh- Wha..?" She turned back at the screen with a look of shock. Her family had been seeing her as she did that?

Fear clawed at her gut. Her blood froze.

'They know what kind of monster I am. They saw me hurt those people.' She started shaking. 'They know what a freak you are. How you are not a pacifist. How you hurt people.' She felt the world closing in on her.

She tried to get some semblance of control over herself.

"Are you all okay? Did he hurt you?" She asked, pushing her anxiety aside.

"Some people ran some experiments on me and Chara, but the others are probably unharmed right now." Asriel said in an exhausted voice. The others simple nodded.

"They did  w h a t ? " Frisk turned around, her fears forgotten for the moment as she looked around for any signs of the man.

"Don't worry about him punk! He ran with his tail between his legs when you broke that camera! That was so badass!" Undyne hollered. That didn't help her fear. Sure, Undyne thought it was badass, but what about the others? They must be scared of her. They must be disgusted.

"L- let's get y- you all o- out of here." She stammered.

Everyone's souls turned blue, ready to teleport them. She saw the split second of fear on their faces. That confirmed her thoughts. They were scared of her. They must not want to be near her now. They will think of her as a threat.

~

She teleported them back to the living room of the Dreemurr mansion. She doubled over herself from teleporting so many people at once.

Sans stepped forward to help her as he was used to teleporting, but everybody else stepped back from surprise at the sudden change of environment. Frisk interpreted it as fear, though. She was still plagued by her thoughts.

"N- No...Please don't r-run- I- I won't h- hurt you.." There were tears at the corners of her eyes. Everybody's eyes widened, realising their mistake, but Frisk took it as another sign of fear. Sans stepped forward to comfort her but Frisk's memories made her think otherwise. They only step forward when they want to hurt you instead.

"Where did it go!?" The man yelled as she teleported away to avoid the blow of the watering can.

Frisk had teleported behind a bush to hide herself. She shook in fear. She had just fallen accidentally from the tree and had used her magic to save herself. Her eyes had changed their color though. The gardener had saw them and screamed for help.

" I don't know, but she shouldn't be far." Her adoptive mother who had jumped back answered.

"We should call the priests or something! It's a demon, I tell you!"

Her heart dropped and the tears fell. Toriel opened her mouth to reassure her that they weren't afraid of her, but Frisk had already teleported away to her room.

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"My child!" Toriel called out.

"Where did the punk go!?" Undyne looked around for any sign of Frisk. Alphys fiddled with her phone.

Asgore ran out into the garden without saying a word. Chara and ASriel ran around the house searching for their sister frantically.

"WE HAVE TO FIND THE HUMAN! I WILL CHECK OUTSIDE!" With that, Papyrus ran outside.

"i'll check inside the house." Sans said and teleported to the kitchen first.

~

He saw a note crumpled up on the floor. He picked it up and read it. 'another something to rile her up. heh, at this point they were just asking to die.' Then he looked at the wall. That confused him. Why did they refer to Frisk like that? He teleported to Frisk's bedroom next.

~

He looked around the room. He saw nothing. Just as he was going to teleport again he heard a sob. His eyelights snapped to the general direction of the sound and he saw her. She was curled up on herself and crying. She was covered in the room's shadows. No wonder he didn't see her there before. He checked her.

Frisk Dreemurr - ATK 0  DEF 0

HP 10/10

LV 1  EXP 0

* Doesn't want to lose her family again.

'again? this...has happened before?' He thought as he approached her slowly. Her calm and happy mask had cracked, showing the little girl underneath who was afraid of losing her family. 'wasn't her hp 20 last time i checked?' He grew even more worried than before.

~

"kiddo?" Frisk responded with a whimper. 'They found you. They will hurt you.'

"shh. it's alright. we're not scared of you." She backed away into a corner on the mattress. He sighed and she felt him climb upon the bed.

"it's alright frisk. you're alright. you're safe with us. we won't leave you, 'k?" She was still tense. Sans shifted forward. 

"c'mere kid." He opened his arms wide for a hug. Seeing the geniune caring in his eyes, she gave a choked sob as tears started to flow, and she jumped into his arms. She buried her face into the fluff of his hoodie as he wrapped his arms around her. Her body wracked with sobs as she grabbed onto his shirt like she was drowning. Sans stroked her back as she cried.

He had never seen Frisk look so...vulnerable. She had always been one who hid her sadness from others, much like himself. She had never cracked under all the pressure in the underground. She had always chosen mercy over violence. He knew how much she cared about all of them if she had broken that rule of hers for them. Seeing her like this, it scared Sans.

"it's alright, shh. we all love you, 'k? we won't leave you kiddo. you're safe with us. you won't lose a family again." He whispered soothing words to her.

"P-p-promise..?" She managed to stammer out between her sobs. 

"yeah. promise." She hugged him tighter at that. Her sobs became louder. Her fingers were ripping through the fabric of his hoodie as he continued to comfort her.

Frisk didnt know how long they sat there, her sobbing in his arms, and him whispering to her, occasionally kissing the top of her head as he rubbed her back soothingly. After a long time, her tears had finally stopped and she was back to breathing somewhat normally.

"c'mon kiddo. everyone's worried about you downstairs."

"Th- they are n-n-not s-scared of m-me..?"

"no." He gave her a disbelieving stare. "you just saved us kid. and we already have lost count of how many times have you done that. why do you think we would...be scared of you?" She sobbed again.

"T-t-the humans t-they a-always thought of me as a t-t-threat T-t-they drove me away T-they said I-I w-was a freak- a-a demon I-I d-don't w-want y-you to be scared o-of me a-and I-I don't w-want to hurt you p-please I- I won't hurt you I am n-not a f-freak I will d-do what you want p-please-" She was breaking down again.

"shh. it's alright. you're alright here, between people who love you. you won't be abandoned again, i promised, right? calm down. please. it's okay. it's okay." Sans kept repeating those words. It was comforting. 

Everyone was at the bedroom door listening in to their conversation. They also came in to help Sans comfort her.

"It's alright my child. I...I know you haven't had good experiences in the past but... We won't leave you. We promise." Toriel lifted her up from the bed and embraced her.

"YES HUMAN. WE ALL PROMISE TO STAND BY YOU! AND I PROMISE TO BE YOUR COOLEST BEST FRIEND EVER!" Papyrus said with his usual boisterous tone.

"NGHAAAAHH!! SHE'S MY BESTIE, NOT YOURS!" Undyne challenged.

"IN YOUR DREAMS!"

Chara, Asriel and Asgore joined Toriel and Frisk in a group hug. Everyone comforting Frisk. Her tears changed to tears of happiness pretty quickly after that.

~

Everyone had returned to their homes to rest after the exhausting ordeal. Toriel and Asgore had given her goodnight kisses and hugs before departing for their rooms. Asriel and Chara had been out like lightbulbs before they had even hit the pillows. Everyone was sound asleep, except Frisk, who was thinking to herself.

So much had happened today. She had finally felt loved and accepted by a family after such a long time. She felt that she could finally push her fears aside completely, and hopefully forever. Maybe she really wouldn't be abandoned again. Maybe she could finally be happy again.

And maybe she could allow herself to hope, without the fear of that happiness being ripped away from her, again.

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"Subject D-008-B has not been able to learn to control its magic. The reports are showing that the magic levels in its soul are diminishing." The scientist finished the report.

"We should try to bring it back up." Another scientist commented.

"Nah. That's a waste of time. We can't waste time and money on a failing subject. Get rid of it." The boss ordered.

"That's a good idea. Maybe we can even run an experiment on the other subject using this one." The head scientist continued.

"We haven't experimented the emotion and magic connection in the other one. Not like it actually shows emotion in front of us, per say. Maybe this can get it to show some kind of visible emotion other than the neutral expression it always holds?"

"Maybe. Subject D-008-A is reserved about its emotions." The new apprentice agreed.

"Well, then. It's settled. Get the room ready, won't you? The last experiment did cause a bit of damage. You are dismissed." The boss said.

Everyone filed out of the control room, judging by the footsteps. Frisk had only heard the last part of the conversation clearly from her cell. 'Wow. Third experiment for the day, I guess. Probably should get ready.'. She got up and looked around the cell, not finding her sister. 'God fucking dammit, how many experiments are those dumbfucks going to run on her!?'

"Subject D-008-A. Come." The cell door opened and the usual guard walked in to drag her to the experimentation rooms.

.

.

.

She was brought to the cell directly at the side of the examination room, with strong glass seperating both the rooms. Machines and monitors were lined up, showing some sort of bar and line graphs and data and numbers. 'So, I'm supposed to stare at the other room, I guess?'

Suddenly, that motherfucker walked into the other room, along with her fucking sister.

"What the hell is going on?" Her sister was strapped to the examination table by that man himself, whose hands lingered on her body for far longer than Frisk was comfortable with.

The man turned to Frisk, mocking smile on his face. "Oh, Frisky~ Wanna see how I turn your precious little sister into a slut like you?" The man called in his sickly sweet voice.

"You do that and you're dead."

"I'll take that as a yes." The man turned back to the little girl, paying no mind to the obvious threat Frisk had given him, and started stroking the girl's thighs under the patient gown she was wearing.

"Keep your filthy hands off her." Frisk's face was still neutral. She wouldn't give this man the satisfaction of seeing her pissed off.

"Wonder how wide she will spread those pretty legs..." The man mused as his other hand touched the girl's neck and shoulders.

"Y-you're m-m-making me u-uncomfortable... p-please stop.." Her sister pleaded. Frisk snapped at the sound of her sister's frail and frightened voice.

"DON'T FUCKING TOUCH MY SISTER!" She yelled, angrily.

The man continued touching her. His hands were steadily getting close to the girl's crotch. Frisk banged on the glass and screamed constantly, yelling curses and threats.

"LET GO OF HER! I WILL MAKE YOU WISH YOU WERE NEVER FUCKING BORN YOU BASTARD!"

The man kept disregarding her yells and curses as he pushed his filthy fingers inside her sister. The little girl pleaded for him to stop between her gasps and whines.

Frisk banged on the glass with her fist. Eventually, s he sent everything she had at it; knives, blasters, her fists and kicks, even going as far as banging her head on it.

But the glass it- fucking- it refused- to goddamn break.

"Frisk!" An unknown voice called out from somewhere.

The man took out a knife from his pocket.

"Wow, you're nowhere as fun as your older sister. So pathetic. Guess we'll just have to get to the getting rid of you part." The man said with a dissapointed click of his tongue.

"KeeP THaT KnIfE AWAY FrOm my SisTEr!" Frisk's voice started to glitch with the amount of raw magic coursing through her. Her eyes had changed their color. The glass cracked as more blasters were sent at it.

"Frisk! Wake up!"

The glass finally shattered.

"It's just a bad dream!"

But it was too late.

"SIS!!! PLEASE!"

The man plunged the knife into Amelia's throat.

~

Frisk shot up in bed, no scream, no emotion on her face. She was immediately hugged by... somebody. She couldn't pay attention. Only her internal thoughts were in focus.

"Failure."

Her mind started becoming a bit clearer and she could faintly feel that whatever was hugging was...fluffy?

"Couldn't protect your sister."

She could hear voices. Sobbing. Comforting. Something. She couldn't make out who.

"Freak."

"Useless."

She could hear words now. The voices were strangely familiar.

"Sis! Thank god you're awake!" 

"You alright, Frisk? What happened?"

"Why're you still alive?"

 She snapped out of her thoughts. The memories came flooding back.

"W-w-what..?" She looked at the concerened faces of her brothers.

"God, Frisk. You gave us a scare." Chara said, seeing his sister was finally back to the waking world.

"Y-Yeah! What happened sis!?" Asriel hugged her tighter.

Frisk noticed blood and cuts on Chara. Asriel had small scratches all over his body.

"What the hell happened to you two!?" Frisk yelled.

"U-uh. You were uh maybe using magic in your sleep?" Asriel explained.

"And uh it could be that some of the attacks hit us?" Chara continued nervously, already knowing what reaction his sister would have.

"...I- I did this..?" She looked around. There were knives sticking out of the walls, and scorch marks littering the room. Frisk felt like the scum of the earth. She had hurt her own brothers.

"Can't even protect them from yourself."

"Why can't you just die?"

"They would be better off without you."

"Waste of space."

"Burden."

She wanted to disappear. What had she done!? She started panicking. Chara and Asriel shook her.

"H-Hey sis, we're not hurt. We're alright! It's okay sis!" Asriel comforted her quickly.

"Yeah. It's alright! You should get ready for the day! We don't have school today so maybe we can play some video games or something!" Chara added.

"I- I hurt you. W-what if you would've gotten seriously hurt!? What if- What if I killed you!? Oh god, I- I am so sorry! Please-"

Chara immediately shushed her. "It's alright sis. You didn't hurt us intentionally. And anyways, we ain't just gonna die that easily! What do you think we are made of? Glass?"

"B- But-"

"No butts. Except yours out of the bed." Asriel dragged her out of the bed and onto the floor.

"You don't deserve this, y'know?"

Frisk sighed. These guys sure were persistent. But if they can forgive her, then she could try to do that for herself too, then.

"Sure. You guys should wash up too. Both of you look like shit." Frisk stood up from her place on the floor, brushing the pajama bottoms she went to bed with.

"SWEAR JAR!" Asriel screamed before rushing off to his bathroom, dragging Chara along.

Frisk laughed to herself when they were both out of the room. "Bunch of innocent dorks."

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It was a Saturday. Toriel was out shopping with Asgore, and that meant the kids were alone in the house, unless anybody else dropped by.

And that could only mean one thing.

"CHAAARAAAAA! THAT'S CHEATING!" Asriel yelled and threw a pillow laying behind him at Chara, who easily dodged it.

"What?" Chara said in a mock innocent tone, with a smirk on his face.

"YOU CAN'T JUST TICKLE ME AND MAKE ME DROP THE CONTROLLER WHEN I'M ABOUT TO DEFEAT YOU!"

"Oh, please. I didn't do that." Chara scoffed.

Frisk hopped down the last step of the staircase, still drying her hair with a towel. She tossed the towel onto the sofa and went to the kitchen. She opened the fridge to get the leftover pie that her brothers had probably left for her. She found it empty instead.

"CHARA! ASRIEL! WHERE IS THE PIE!?" She screamed, popping her head out from the doorway of the kitchen.

"There's actually no pie today. We got pancakes and it's right here." Chara pointed to the half empty plate of blueberry and chcolate pancakes lying between him and Asriel.

"Oh. Alright."

"What are you two doing?" She said as she picked up the plate to devour the rest of the pancakes.

"Kicking Asriel's ass."

"Trying not to murder Chara." 

"Ah, nothing out of the ordinary then." Frisk sat behind Chara and Asriel on the mat in front of the TV.

~

"Hey sis! Wanna play with us?" Asriel said as he and Chara completed another round of Mario Kart. Frisk was solving the Rubik's cube Papyrus had gifted her on her birthday.

"Sure. Hand me the controller." She got up from her new place on the couch and plopped down on the mat.

"I'll let Asriel go at you first, as mercy." Chara smirked.

"I am the better player here, Chara." Asriel glared at him.

"In your hopes and dreams, Azzy."

"Pretty sure you both want to have another go at each other first. I'll just wait for my turn." Frisk quipped as she went back to fiddling with the colorful cube again.

~

"Looks like I'm winning~" Asriel teased when he was in the first place.

"Oh no you ain't- YES! BLUE SHELL!" Chara laughed.

Asriel immediately had a look of horror on his face. "NO!"

And Chara won.

~

And the doorbell rang.

"Wasn't mom supposed to come back at 3 o' clock or something? It's only 12 PM right now." Asriel questioned.

"Sans, stop trying to sneak that whoopie cushion in from under the door. I ain't falling for that again." Frisk said as she already heard the familiar rattling of bones from across the door.

"alright kid, you got me." Sans held his hands up in a peace gesture as she opened the door.

"Where's Papyrus?" Frisk asked.

"at the old man's lab for 'father-son bonding time', or something."

"Yeah, that's Papyrus alright. Come in."

~

"Hey Sans! Wanna join us on this round?" Chara asked the skeleton, who had immediately plopped down on the couch when he entered.

"sure." Sans shortcutted onto the mat.

"Wasn't it my turn?" Frisk asked.

"We have four controllers." Asriel stated, already setting the other two controllers up.

"cool." Sans took the controller offered to him.

~

"SIS ARE YOU SURE THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME PLAYING THIS GAME?" Asriel was nervously sweating as Frisk was in the second place, right behind Chara.

"Pretty sure." She said as she hit Chara with a green shell and passed him.

"damn. she's already kicking all our asses." Sans was in the 4th place.

"Damn she's good. Might be in for some actual competition." Chara grumbled under his breath as he focused on getting past her, unsuccessfully.

~

After around 15 rounds and 9 first ranks, Frisk retired from gaming for the day. Sans followed close behind at 17 rounds.

"Hey Sans, wanna help me with my maths assignment?" Frisk asked him as he plopped down on the couch, again.

"why don't you ask your brothers for help?" He raised a browbone at her.

"They're still playing." Frisk stated with a matter-of-factly tone while pointing at them.

"okay, i guess." Sans followed Frisk up the stairs. Chara's face split in a grin as he turned around to see them going up.

"Hey! Sis! Don't get too 'frisky' in there!" Chara called out ro them with a self satisfied smirk. A pillow came flying from upstairs and hit him square in the face.

"Worth it." He said as he was knocked down on his back from the hit. Asriel finally won a round as Chara was distracted.

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Frisk and Asriel loved school, even though Asriel took a while to understand most things. Frisk didn't take part in extracurricular activities but Chara was, just, doing that the entire time. He was both in the football and basketball clubs. He loved school too, just not the school part of it. He still didn't like the human friends his siblings were making, but he decided he would not butt in after both Asriel and Frisk slapped him when he had made Candice cry.

Welp, everything was going well at school. Today they had a test in Algebra, which went fairly well. Frisk got an A+ and Asriel got an A. They both were walking down the corridor to get to their respective classes. Chara dragged Asriel off as they were without Frisk for the class.

"Seriously? Another test?" Asriel had an annoyed expression on his face as Mr. Shepherd wrote the questions on the whiteboard.

"Damn. We're unlucky." Chara had already started writing down the answers.

Frisk's last class was with Andrian, who had once again wore a hoodie to school. It was honestly amusing to her how the other teachers told him to wear some sort of formal clothing but he just shrugged them off with a "Isn't a button-up shirt under the hoodie formal enough? I even wear glasses."

Frisk had already gotten back her notbook with an A+. Cooper had handed in his notebook after everyone else had and was now nervously fidgeting while Andrian went through his answers.

"Excellent job, Cooper. This is better than last time. You're improving." Andrian handed him back the notebook with a B+ on it.

"Thanks, sir."

"Though, there's still more room to improve." He gave Cooper an encouraging smile.

The bell rang and everyone filed out of the classrooms.

It was summer, and even if she was just wearing a blue t-shirt and white sweatpants, it was absolutely scorching outside. Frisk ran to get to the gates, where her brothers would likely be waiting for her. She was going to visit to the graveyard today again so she had to inform her brothers to avoid a repeat of last time. She still hadn't forgiven them for following her. The 300 metre gravel path from the building entrance to the gate seemed even longer than normal with the unbearable heat.

She finally reached the gate and saw three people blocking Chara's path. Asriel was nowhere in sight. 'Did he get detention again?'

"For someone who has an ass, that's a concerning amount of shit coming out of your mouth." She heard Chara say as he dodged a blow from one of the guys blocking their path. 'Alright, these guys definitely aren't friendly.' She thought.

"Shut up!" The other two guys tried to hit him too. Frisk decided this would be a good time to step in.

"What's going on?" 

Chara immediately made an 'Oh, shit.' face. He had thought he could get this over with before Frisk arrived.

"Oh look, it's the bitch who brought all those freaks to the surface!" The eldest-looking boy sneered. She looked at him closely before recognizing him as one of the bullies at school. One of the more racist ones towards monsters, at that. 'This is bad news.'

Said person was Nick Daniel. He was the leader of the bullies at school. He was about the same height as Asriel, who was almost half a head taller than Frisk and Chara. And he looked like he had a balanced amount of fat on his stomach and muscle on his arm. He wore a vest over a plain t-shirt and ripped jeans. He had already picked on the three kids multiple times, and he never did leave them alone even after Frisk had asked him to. 

"Jeez. That's what parents are teaching their kids these days? Being racist?" The boy let out a grunt of irritation and lunged for Frisk. She dodged the blow. The other two came from behind her. She sidestepped their attempts at trapping her.

She was going to try giving these guys mercy. She highly doubted they would accept it, but she didn't want to jump to drastic measures just yet.

"Hey, how about we stop fighting. We can be friends if you want." She put her hand forward for a handshake, or to block the enemy's oncoming attack.

It turned out to be the latter.

"C'mon, aren't you getting tired? You don't have to hurt others." The boy didn't show any sign of accepting her mercy.

She tried one last time. "Look. I am not going to fight you. You don't have to fight me too. We can end this in a peaceful manner."

"Shut the fuck up and just let me hit you!" He yelled and moved forward to kick her in the stomach.

She grabbed his leg and pushed him. He went stumbling back. 'Oh well. I tried.'

"Seriously though, you should stop swinging that hand around." She said as she dodged another of the punches intended for her. She was leading them a wall behind her.

"You might just hit something you don't want to." She sidestepped when her back was against the wall. The fist which was going to connect to her jaw smashed into the wall and the boy let out a shriek of pain.

"Can't say I didn't warn you." Frisk stepped towards him as he gripped his hand, and her tone changed to outright dangerous.

"Now, Nick Daniel." She used his full name to show that she was indeed serious. "I would really appreciate it if you leave the school premises right now, or I can and will drag you to the detention room myself. And I can't guarantee that the teachers here take lightly to physical assault. Do you understand?" The boy whimpered and ran out of the gate, cursing at them. The other two boys followed with fearful looks on their faces.

She looked at the retreating backs of the bullies. When they were finally out of sight, she spoke.

"So." She turned to Chara. "What exactly happened?"

"U-uh. Yeah. They were trying to hit Azzy and I stepped in while he escaped, and then I may have intentionally failed to escape myself because I wanted to beat the crap out of these guys?" He said, dreading the lecture when they get back home already. 

"Chara. I have told you to not be reckless with bullies, and then you go ahead and do just that. Do you have any idea what would have happened if they got a hit in on you!? How would you have escaped then!?" She was visibly mad at him.

"S-sorry sis..." He said sheepishly. Frisk sighed.

"Don't do it again Chara. You know how worried I am about you two after the kidnapping incident." She wrapped him up in a hug, and he blushed.

"A-Alright sis." Then realisation flicked across Frisk's face as she let go of him.

"Wait a second." Her eyes widened. "If Asriel escaped, then does that mean that he's alone right now!?" She almost yelled.

"Oh. Shit."

Asriel was walking down the street, swiping his forehead every now and then.

"I really hope Chara is okay..." He said to himself. He had barely escaped and he knew that Chara would stick back there just to beat the crap out of those humans. His reckless behavious always concerned him and Frisk, and Frisk was definitely more overprotective over both of them. She acted like she was almost like a second mother to both of them, even if Chara was technically older than her.

Suddenly, he was knocked down as something connected with his back. He looked up to see the same bullies from school. He panicked.

"W-w-what..?"

Nick looked down to apologise to whoever he had accidentally knocked down trying to get away from the school, but then his face scrunched up in disgust when he saw it was Asriel. "Oh. It's the goat boy." 

"First I got my knuckles broken by that monster-loving whore and now I am apologising to a freak. What a day." The boy spat with anger bleeding through his voice.

"Wait... You're that bitch's brother, right?" He immediately felt dread as Nick grinned maliciously at him.

"How about we return the favor? Boys, Hold him down." The other two immediately did as instructed. Asriel thrashed as Nick's face came dangerously close to his.

"N-no.. Please! Stop! Don't hurt me!" He pleaded with them. He was weak in physical combat and he wanted to use his magic. But he couldn't use it because it was very unstable right now. Alphys had told him that his magic would be stable after a few months when his body gets used to his soul, and he could even train with Undyne when it is. 

But he needed his magic right now and he once again wished that he still had time-bending powers.

"Oh, don't worry. You won't be able to feel pain after we're done with you, freak."

Frisk and Chara were running down the street they usually took when returning home. They knew Nick used the same route and he would run into Asriel. They had been expecting that he would have left Asriel alone because of his fist, but what they saw made the blood freeze in their veins.

Asriel was lying down on the road, beaten and bruised. His arm was bent at the elbow at a definitely unnatural angle, his claws were broken and his face covered in tears and his own dust. More dust flowed freely from his wounds. His clothes were tattered which were definitely caused by something sharp.

And the worst thing? Nick was straddling his waist, holding a piece of sharp glass.

"ASRIEL!" Frisk screamed and ran towards him. Nick turned his head towards the voice and his eyes widened. He immediately got off Asriel and tried to run away. The other two were nowhere in sight.

"YOU BASTARD!" Chara lunged at Nick and started chasing him.

"A-Az..?" Frisk kneeled down beside Asriel.

"H-hey sis.." His voice was raspy and pained. Frisk immediately felt guilt crash down on her.

You failed to protect them once again.

Pathetic.

She pushed the guilt and thoughts away quickly and lifted Asriel up carefully, she didn't want to cause him any more pain. He flinched when the hand touched one of his wounds.

"O-oh god.. I-I am so sorry.. A-Asriel.. Oh god I-" Her voice was breaking with guilt and concern.

"H-hey don't beat yourself u-up over i-it.." Asriel lifted his good hand slowly and wiped Frisk's tears away. He was trying to comfort HER. She was the one who failed to protect him and he was comforting her? She shook her head free of those thoughts again. She had to save Asriel right now. She can't let this happen again.

Chara came back looking out of breath. "That bastard... fucker escaped before I could get my hands on him." He ran towards Frisk and Asriel. His eyes widened seeing the damage clearly. "A-Azzy..? Oh god.. That fucking human.." He cursed.

Frisk grabbed Chara's hand without warning and teleported them to the house. Asriel's breathing hitched and Chara stumbled back in shock. Friks kicked the door open.

"MOM!"

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"My child? What's wrong? Why are you yelling?" Toriel came out of the kitchen, spatula in hand.

She immediately dropped it and her hands came up to cover her mouth in shock and horror. She gasped and ran towards Frisk.

"A-Asriel..? H-how did t-this happen!?"

"W-we don't have time to explain-" Chara frantically tried to say, but Frisk interrupted.

"Mom- Y-you know healing m-magic r-right!? W-where should I-I lay him!?" She almost yelled. Toriel pointed to the couch.

Frisk was by the couch in an instant, not bothering to walk and instead teleporting there. She laid Asriel on the couch as Toriel regained balance and immediately set down to work.

"O-oh god..t-this is bad..!" She had tears running down her face as she focused her healing magic. Frisk looked Asriel over carefully to assess the damage. His body had shrapnel sticking out at random places, he had several bruises all over his body and his dust was still flowing freely, though a little slower than before. She knew healing magic will not fix him up completely.

"I-I am gonna go g-get A-Alphys!" Frisk vanished.

Frisk had immediately teleported to the labatory where Alphys worked, straight to her office. "ALPHYS!" She screamed, her voice breaking.

"What the hell!?" Undyne was co-incidentally, in the same room, somehow. She was sitting in a plastic chair in the corner of the room. Frisk then realised that she had teleported to the basement lab under Alphys' and Undyne's house. 'Oh god I hope Alphys is home right now-'

Before the thought could finish, said lizard monster emerged from the stairs, shocked. She adjusted her glasses. "F-F-frisk!? H-how did y-you get in h-here!?"

"P-please, t-this is serious- As-Asriel got seriously hurt- w-we need you at the mansion! Now!" Both women froze. They had never heard Frisk sound so panicked. Their jaws almost dropped as they took in her appearance, covered in dust and her face covered with tears. Frisk frantically explained everything and moved to teleport Alphys but she interrupted her.

"B-but all my e-e-equipment is here..." Alphys explained.

"O-Okay.. Can you get a table or something ready for Asriel here, then..? Please?" She surely hoped that was possible.

"S-sure." Frisk held back her sigh of relief as she immediately teleported back to the house to get Asriel and the others.

"Mom! We're gonna need to move Asriel to Alphys' lab!" Frisk shouted as soon as she materialised in the house.

"W-we have to do t-this quickly...He's barely h-holding on.." Toriel explained as her paw came up to her mouth to muffle her sob.

"T-t-this is all m-my fault.." Chara said to himself. Frisk immediately slapped the back of his head.

"Shut up! It's not your fault! Now hold on and try not to fall!" Their souls were turned blue and she teleported them back to the lab.

Once they had teleported back Frisk immediately caught Asriel in her arms as Chara and Toriel recovered from the dizziness. Frisk spotted Alphys and Undyne standing by an examination bed pulled out in the middle of the room.

Both of them jumped at the sudden appearance of the group. They both gasped as they took in the state of the prince. They quickly registered two things. One, Asriel was way too limp in Frisk's arms, and his dust was covering the places near his wounds, and smearing onto Frisk's t-shirt. Second, they had rarely seen Frisk not hide her sadness and pain with a smile. They knew she never showed anyone when she was sad, but now tears were freely flowing from her eyes and dripping onto Asriel's body. The way her hands dug into the his fur was desperate, as though she could keep him from dusting if she held him firmly enough.

"Alphys, help him. P-please..." Frisk barely choked out. Alphys quickly put on her serious demeanor, and ushered them all to lay Asriel on the bed. Toriel and Frisk were by the side of the bed immediately. Alphys assessed the damage, barely keeping in her gasps, and Chara helped Undyne hook Asriel up the machines so they can monitor his stats.

"What the hell happened!? Who the fuck did this!?" Undyne shouted. Toriel and Frisk didn't care to scold her for her language as Chara explained.

"W-we don't know much." Chara said. He didn't seem able to tear his eyes from his brother."There was this guy, a huge piece of shit, by the way, who was bullying Azzy at the school gates- I-I stepped in and allowed Asriel to escape a-and then Frisk c-came along and tricked the human to punch the wall and break his knuckles- a-and then we realised that Asriel was alone and w-we went to find h-him and f-found him l-like this- and- oh god it's all my fault- I-I shouldn't have let him go-" Chara was breaking down as he explained. Undyne immediately steadied him.

"Okay punk- 'm sure this is p-pretty much nobody's fault except the little shit who dared hurt the prince- so don't fucking beat yourself up over it and keep your shit together till we get the punk through this safely, okay!?"

"O-Okay." Chara sniffled and wiped his tears with his sleeve.

Alphys rushed around the room, face set with determination. 'Time to put all that medical training into practice.'

She quickly grabbed her tools, and set to removing the shrapnels. Toriel maintained a steady flow of healing magic on Asriel's soul as Frisk decided to heal the physical wounds.

'Alright. Alright. Focus. You can do healing magic. Just. Concentrate. Don't let him down- You can't let him down.' Frisk concentrated on bringing out her healing magic. Soon enough, her hands were covered with a flickering green aura. The magic was much weaker than Toriel's healing magic but she didn't care as long as it still healed. She focused the magic on the wounds, as her healing wasn't good enough to heal a soul.

Frisk healed the flesh wounds first. It was easy enough, leaving the place bare of fur and with a scar. Once she was done with them, she quickly moved onto the more... severe ones. There were wounds which cut right to the bone. She could literally see the white of his cracked bone.

"A-alright Az, this is gonna hurt, okay? Just- just hold on for me, please." She reached a hand down to grip the bone.

"Think of uh, happy thoughts. You won't feel the pain, okay?" She reassured him once again.

"O-Okay.." He weakly said back with a smile. His pained smile broke Frisk's heart.

"Alright. I am gonna count to one, okay?"

"Three.."

"Two." She twisted the bone back into place, eliciting a scream from Asriel. She cringed at the pained sound. She had to do it though. She couldn't have risked him flinching or moving, or the bone would have accidentally been snapped right off.

"Sorry! S- sorry! It's gonna stop hurting, okay? Deep breaths, In, Out." She patted his head and repaired the bone with the healing magic. Alphys was almost done with the next shrapnel. Frisk immediately jumped to heal those once Alphys uncovered them.

"H-how's he doing up there!?" Alphys asked Chara and Undyne, who were monitoring Asriel's stats.

"The punk's doing good enough Al. Keep going." Undyne answered with an encouraging grin, despite the grim situation.

Toriel kept channeling her healing magic into her son's soul. Frisk was working tirelessly on the physical wounds, sweat beading on her forehead. Everything was going on so slowly, yet so quickly. Asriel was whimpering from pain every now and then, and Frisk and Toriel kept soothing him, encouraging him to hang on.

And then time seemed to freeze as they heard the sound of a soul cracking.

No no no no no no NO! She wasn't ready to lose her child again! No! Toriel put everything into her healing spell aimed at Asriel's soul.

Crack!

"No!" Frisk was done with the physical injuries and she aimed her magic at his soul, not caring if it was enough or not. She needed to save him. She couldn't lose another one. She couldn't fail another one.

Crack!

"Azzy! No! Hang on! Please!" Chara screamed and he was immediately by his dying brother's side.

Crack!

"O-Oh g-g-god t-this is a-a-all going w-w-wrong!" Alphys stuttered and gripped her head in horror.

Crack!

'Shit.' Frisk said internally. This was all going wrong. Oh god. She can't lost another one. She can't let him die.

...Wait. Wait. What if she used that spell? No. That would make her pass out or even downright die. ...Actually, fuck it. She would do it if she had to. She can't put herself before her brother. She wasn't worth being put before Asriel.

Crack!

Shit! SHIT! She had to act fast! Goddammit she didn't even have that much magic left! The soul was way to close to fucking shattering!

The soul started floating out of Asriel's chest and his eyes started to droop, a very obvious sign that it was about to shatter if she didn't do anything about it-

Shatter.

The soul pieces drifted away from each other, her mother's face already one of horror and heartbreak. Everyone else had shocked and horrified expressions as well. Everybody but Frisk, that is. Her face was instead absolutely determined. 

Within a fraction of a second, Frisk's hand began to glow red instead of green. The soul pieces were covered in red too. Her iris flashed red.

The soul pieces were being pushed back together.

Everybody's faces turned confused. Frisk kept exerting all her magic, all her will, all her fucking determination, at the soul, trying to, no, making it refuse. She won't give up goddammit!

Her magic brought the shattered pieces closer, resisting against the force of death itself. Particles of dust which had started to come out of Asriel were suspended in mid-air. Her magic reserves were running low, and she wouldn't last if she used the slow and steady tactic. So she pushed all her magic at it.

A few seconds passed. The soul pieces were slowly drifting apart. Frisk's magic was running dangerously low. It seemed that she was failing. No! No! I won't lost him! I can't lose him! She pushed more magic at it. She knew it was dangerous, but she had to try.

It still wasn't working. She was close to giving up, but she pushed. All hope seemed lost.

I can't even save one soul. God. I am so pathetic. He's going to die isn't he? I am going to fail again-

But it refused.

"Urkk!" A jet of blood came out of Frisk's mouth. Asriel's eyes shot open. The room was covered in red light, and a blast of power came right from the soul as it was fused back. Everyone stumbled back and their eyes widened when they saw the miracle.

A white soul, completely undamaged floated above Asriel's chest. It was covered in a thin, red shield sort of thing which seemed like it was holding the soul together. They all stared at it in wonder. Toriel's tears of heartbreak turned into tears of happiness. The soul slowly floated back into Asriel, and he closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.

They all turned their gazes to Frisk and immediately their happiness and wonder turned into horror.

Frisk coughed up more blood. Her hand gripped her chest. Her soul had been completely overexerted this time, fuck. She felt her soul gaining another crack. It hurt. She felt like her entire body was going to shatter at any moment.

Everybody rushed to get to her side before she fell to the floor. Chara caught her.

"S-sis! Are you alright!?" He yelled. The pain was dulling and she was able to form coherent words.

"Yeah... Just.. just a little tired.." She tried to stand up but Undyne and Alphys held her down.

"Nope! Pretty sure humans don't shoot that red stuff out of their fucking mouths when they're just tired!" Undyne yelled, concerned.

"A-Ah it's alright, just kind of pushed my soul a bit too hard. Nothing to worry about..."

"What do you mean 'nothing to worry about'!? This is concerning!" Toriel hugged her daughter close.

"I-I can handle it mom... let me gooo..." She half-heartedly pushed at Toriel. She was feeling like she could collapse at any given moment.

"Actually... nevermind... I feel really tired... I wanna sleep..." Her eyes drooped.

"O-Oh! Of course my child!" Toriel took her from Chara's arms and headed to a second bed standing in the corner of the room. She gently laid Frisk on it.

"Sleep well, my child." Toriel kept petting her head slowly as she drifted off into a peaceful, dreamless sleep.

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It had been a month since the incident when Nick had severely injured Asriel, or the 'little shit incident', as Chara liked to call it. Asriel had recovered quite quickly, he was practically running around within an hour of waking up, which was just two hours after the operation. But Frisk took almost two whole days to wake up. The other monsters had almost panicked that she was falling down. After that, they had went to the school and informed the principal of the assault that happened. The principal had been reluctant to carry out anything against the accused kid because the incident was technically out of school premises but he finally relented after a lot of convincing. Nick Daniel was tried in a juvenile court.

He was indeed guilty for racism and a murder attempt, as he had- way too proudly- declared that he wanted Asriel- the freak- to die.

After that, things had been quite normal. Frisk insisted to have their schedules changed so that she was with Asriel in all the classes, so that the same thing couldn't happen while inside school premises either. Asriel insisted that he didn't need to babied all the time but Frisk was pretty adament so he finally relented. His body took quite a while to get used to his soul enough to use magic, and today was the day.

Asriel had insisted that he wanted to start training with Undyne right away. Frisk tagged along to ensure that he didn't get hurt severely. Toriel was out grocery shopping and Frisk had asked her to go to Undyne's house to find them once she was done.

"Frisk! You can stop following me around everywhere!" Asriel screamed, frustrated. It was a nice sunny saturday outside. They were walking down the street to get to Undyne and Alphys' beach house.

"No. I am worried about you Az. I can't let you just go anywhere you please. Not after the last two times."

Asriel sighed. "I know you're concerned, but I can take care of myself now! I have my magic now!"

"I am not letting you go alone until I am sure, okay?"

"Fine. Mom." Asriel grumbled. Frisk sputtered and choked on air and stumbled- all at once, somehow.

"Hey! Sis! Since mama is on vacation, you can be my mommy!" The little girl walking beside her said suddenly.

"W-what?" She stumbled a bit in surprise.

"I mean! You always take care of me, and take me to school, and put me to sleep and do everything mama does! So you can be my mommy until mama comes back from vacation!" Her sister went on to explain. Frisk felt a bit guilty, hearing the lie she had told Amelia about her mother's death- no, murder. But she didn't let it show on her face.

"U-u-uh. Sure sis... whatever you want." Frisk sheepishly scratched the back of her neck, blushing a little.

"Yeah! And I will protect mommy too!" Her sister stood in front of her in a protective pose, hands spread wide. Frisk laughed a little at Amelia's antics. She giggled back.

"...Mom...?" She whispered to herself, feeling tears sting at the back of her eyelids.

"Sis?" Asriel turned around to face his sister who had stopped in her tracks.

"Ah, it's nothing. Keep walking." Frisk waved her arm in a reassuring gesture, but her eyes had unshed tears in them. Asriel didn't notice, thankfully.

"...Uh. Sure." Asriel turned back around and continued on his way. Frisk stood there for a few seconds and then followed him.

"Hey punks! Ready for some kickass training!?!?" Undyne waved at them when they entered the fanced area behind the beach house. It was pretty big, with a few palm trees scattered around. There were spears here and there stuck on trees and sand, probably from earlier training sessions when Undyne was by herself, or with Alphys.

"YEAH!!" Asriel jumped excitedly and ran forward. Frisk leaned on the fence and watched them from afar.

"Glad to see you're excited about this, punk! GIMME ALL YOU GOT!!" Undyne hollered and then went on to explain what they were doing for today.

"Wait, so, I have to run- 5 rounds!? But- But where's the magical training stuff!?" Asriel asked.

"We'll do that after the 50 push-ups!" Undyne declared and Asriel whined.

"Noooo! I don't want to do all that exercise!"

Frisk's face split in a mischievious grin. "C'mon Az! Think of what all that exercise will do to your body! All the girls would be swooning when they see your hotn-" Frisk was promptly hit in the face by a beach ball.

"Shut up sis!" Asriel covered the blush on his face. Undyne snickered.

And then she yelled. "NOW GET THOSE 5 ROUNDS DONE BEFORE I TURN 'EM TO 10!"

"Y-Yes Ma'am!"

It had been almost an hour since the training started. Toriel had joined Frisk with a chair from the fish and lizard household's backyard. Even Chara had shown up as he had nothing better to do alone at home, and Asgore was still in a meeting with the humans. Asriel had given up running on the 2nd round and was going on with his push-ups by this point, after going through a multitude of exercises.

"47...Urgh...48...49...Gahhh...50!" He jumped up immediately.

"GREAT! ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE ACTION!? I SURE AM! NGAAAAAHHHH! EN GUARDE!" Undyne summoned a dozen spears.

"Wait a minute I was gonna ask for a break-" He stopped mid sentence to dodge Undyne's attacks.

He sidestepped the first spear and jumped over the other two coming from the sides. He ducked under the fourth and fifth spears and then made a dash for somewhere the rest of the spears weren't aiming at. He dodged most of them but 3 spears hit him head on. The spears dissapeared on impact.

"B-B-BREAK!" Asriel yelled, out of breath.

"Tired already!?" Undyne stared at the prince in disbelief. "Tch. Fine. We'll continue this next time!" Asriel walked over to where his mother and sister were and slumped down on a chair.

"You did great today Az!" Frisk gave him a pat on his shoulder.

"I wanted to do the magic training too but those exercises sure are tiring." Asriel wore a defeated look.

"There's always next time for that, Azzy. And the day is not over yet so maybe you can get back into training once you have regained your energy." Chara said.

"Chara is right, my child. But you do need rest for now!" Toriel gave him a bottle of water which he immediately grabbed and gulped down.

After a while, Undyne seemed to have remembered something. She called out to Frisk. "HEY! PUNK!"

"Me?" Asriel immediately piped up, feeling some of his energy coming back.

"No, 'm talking about Frisk." 

"What happened?" Frisk looked at her from the tree she was sitting under.

"C'MERE! I WANT YOU TO SPAR WITH ME!" Undyne said, or rather yelled. getting to the point.

"W-What!?!?" Frisk was taken aback.

"I mean fight me." She said like she was explaining the meaning of a word.

"Why?" Frisk asked, already having an idea of the answer.

"Because you never fought us underground! And then we saw you go all up and make those humans haul ass in that villain's lair! I wanna see how strong you are in a real fight!"

"I am just gonna decline that offer." Frisk answered bluntly.

"WHAT!? WHY!?" 

"It's for your own safety." She simply stated.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?"

Frisk sighed. "I only fight when it's necessary. I don't like fighting for fun or anything." That was true. The others might fight for practice or for a friendly spar, but she didn't. She didn't like fighting all that much, doing so only when it was extremely necessary. And when she did it always ended with... gruesome results.

Not to mention it always reminded her of those scientists and their stupid experiments on her.

"C'MON! I WANT YOU TO FIGHT ME!"

"Undyne. No. I don't want to hurt you." Her face held a solemn look.

"I'M NOT MADE OF GLASS! YOU'RE BEING A COWARD!"

Frisk sighed. She was arguing with the most determined monster in the world, so it would be useless. She decided to give in. "Fine." She got up from under the tree.

"YES! Step forward when you're ready! NGAAAAHHHH!"

"I am just gonna remind you that I will not pay for any damages." Frisk stepped forward. A couple dozen spears materialised around Undyne.

"If you lose then you will!"

All the spears shot forward. A giant blaster appeared in front of Frisk and destroyed all of them with a blast of magic. The few which passed through, the blaster caught them in its jaws, and began... happily eating them???

"Aww. You like those spears?" She petted the blaster on where it's nose would presumably be, and it actually nodded, chewing happily. Everybody gaped at the sight.

"Um. why are you looking like fishes out of the water?" She looked at the others, confused.

"UM. WHY IS THAT DRAGON MURDER SKULL ACTING LIKE A FUCKING PET!?" Toriel shot Undyne a stern glare for her language but she ignored it.

"Excuse me-!" Frisk looked offended. "That's not a 'dragon murder skull'!? It's kind of made from my soul!?" Well that was true. The scientist had tore off a piece of her soul to make that. No. Stop. No unnecessary thoughts.

"WHAT!?." Undyne looked flabbergasted.

"Nevermind." Frisk's iris shone red and a red knife materialised in her hand. She ran forward and jumped to a tree trunk, hopping onto and off the next and swinging the knife at full force towards Undyne. She created a green shield to block the attack.

But the knife shattered the shield, hitting Undyne and taking out a good chunk of her HP and knocking her back. Undyne stumbled and regained her balance.

"That was pretty good punk!" Undyne wiped some sweat off her forehead.

"I'm not done yet." Frisk's hand glowed red and the ground beneath Undyne's feet erupted with a magical blast, sending her up in the air and dropping her HP to half. A ring of blasters formed around Undyne, ready to fire. Undyne did a split second decision of shoving spears into all their mouths, stopping them in their tracks as they chewed at them like fucking puppies, and she fell from the height, landing on her feet.

Frisk smirked. She knew Undyne would do that to distract the blasters, so she had readied the attack for her landing. Blue knives appeared from the ground.

Undyne stood stock still, knowing that she was not to move. The knives suddenly changed to orange, doing some amount of damage before Undyne managed to jump off.

Frisk's soul turned green.

"NOW YOU'RE AT MY MERCY! FUHUHU!" Almost twenty spears headed towards Frisk at once. Her soul turned blue right then and she floated herself out of the point of impact, barely missing the last few spears which had bounced off each other.

"WHAT!?"

"Sorry Undyne, but blue magic trumps green. Neat trick, huh?" Then Undyne's soul was turned blue. She dropped to the ground, barely rolling out of the way of a knife wall and standing up. Frisk flicked her wrist and Undyne was shot up at the sky, smacking into the wall of an invisible done Frisk had built around the fence, and right in the firing range of three huge blasters. Her soul turned back to normal and she fell.

"Shit." The three blasts fired at the same time towards the ground and the falling fish woman. It hit her and the ground head-on. The blast even left a crater, and Undyne laid in the middle of it, dazed.

"Hey! You okay Undyne?" Frisk asked, concerned and panicked that in the haste of cutting the fight short she might have damaged Undyne a bit too much. Oh god! What if I killed her!?

"Urghh.." Undyne slowly sat up in the crater, rubbing her eyes to get rid of the double image in her vision. Her ears were ringing badly. "I got like, 1 HP left! What the hell!" Undyne slowly stood up and Frisk rushed to her.

"Oh god. I'm so sorry! Here, Let me heal this up!" Magic flowed out of her hands as she held Undyne upright. I shouldn't have done that. Oh god. She hates me she's afraid of me ohno Ihurther-

"There's nothing to be sorry about punk! That was awesome! Even paps couldn't beat me down like that!" Undyne cheered.

"I- I shouldn't h-have been so r-rough. S-sorry." Exactly why I don't fight. Frisk bowed her head down in shame.

"I said there's nothing to be sorry of! Stop beating yourself up!" Undyne said, more like ordered, but yeah.

"I guess we should go home. That was a lot of excitement for one day." Frisk said as she finished healing up Undyne's wounds with some help from Toriel.

"Yeah! I want to finish my game too!" Chara said from his place in the corner.

"That. Was. So. Awesome! You totally won that round!" Asriel said, patting his sister on the back, who looked downtrodden instead.

"That's not something to be proud of Asriel! Don't you understand!? I could've accidentally killed her!" Frisk snapped at him. Asriel took a step back in surprise. His expression was one of hurt. She wasn't sure she could hate herself any more right now. Way to go! Now make your brother hate you too, idiot!

"S- sorry... I- I didn't mean to." Frisk looked back at the road in front of her.

"Hey, it's alright sis! I know you're strong and all that but you're a good person! Even if you wanted to you wouldn't have killed somebody! Hell, you didn't even kill those humans!" Asriel reassured. Frisk scoffed.

"Hah. Yeah. A good person." Frisk said. Anybody could tell that her tone was sarcastic. Asriel looked at her in worry.

What a joke. She felt a stray tear fall. If I really was... a good person, then... then maybe Amelia would still have been alive.

Frisk wiped her eyes with her sleeve. "...Let's just go home. Chara's probably dying to get back to his game."

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It had been a while since Frisk had visited Sans and Papyrus. They hadn't come over in a while either. Wait, she forgot about Gaster. He wouldn't mind though, probably cracking a joke about how he is used to being forgotten. He did that when Toriel forgot to invite him for Asriel and Chara's birthday, whcih was just last month. Frisk decided that since they did not have anything to do, again, they could visit the skeleton household.

"Eh, sure. Just tell me before you decide to get 'frisky' and traumatize my eyes." Chara shrugged, dodging a pillow from a flustered Frisk.

Asriel immediately got nervous. "Uhhh... I- I don't think Sans would like me being there..." His goat ears drooped. He knew that Frisk told Sans about him being Flowey. And he knew Sans remembered timelines and would possibly kill him if he got near Papyrus in any way, flower or not.

"Asriel, you can't avoid him forever. I'm sure he won't mind having you around!" Frisk patted him on the shoulder. It was reasonable that Asriel was nervous, but she had already explained to Sans that it was not technically Asriel. She could only hope nothing bad happens.

Frisk had called up the skeleton family to tell them that she was visiting today. Papyrus had immediately set to the kitchen, and Sans moved a few centimetres from his position on the couch to view the door better, while still staying on the couch. Gaster kind of, just, existed in the middle of the living room.

"dad, you can stop acting like a statue."

"I must be ready to greet them!"

"doesn't mean that you have to be a statue."

"It's been a while since I've been last alive. Let me get used to life." Well, that was true. He had been in the void for god knows how long. He was used to just floating in the black space with literally nothing to do at all. He had even forgotten how to eat properly for the record.

"didn't know people can actually forget how to live."

"Try being stuck in a void."

"nah, i'll pass." The door opened, interrupting them. Sans teleported to the door, just to spite his dad, and to open it to greet Pap's favorite human.

"Hey!" Frisk greeted him enthusiastically and entered the house, hugging him on the way, knowing full well how flustered that would make him.

"Don't mind me. Frisk forcefully dragged me here." Chara carried a small box of his favorite video games, a DS, and a switch. He entered the door as Sans waved him in.

He turned back to the door and his eyelights immediately ceased to exist, seeing who was standing there.

"FLOWERY! WE DO NOT NEED TO DO A VIOLENCE! I... I AM SURE WE CAN SORT THIS OUT IN A PEACEFUL MANNER!" The tall skeleton pleaded.

The flower laughed his maniacal laugh. "You really are an idiot." **FILE SAVED**

Papyrus was ripped bone to bone- **FILE LOADED**

Papyrus was slashed across the torso- **FILE LOADED**

Papyrus was beheaded- **FILE LOADED**

Papyrus was crushed- **FILE LOADED**

Papyrus' soul was shattered- **FILE LOADED**

'yeah, i already know what kind of nightmares i'll be having tonight.'

Sans wanted to forgive the kid. He really did. But he never could get the kid-(weed weed WEED-)'s actions out of his head. He remembered so many timlines so vividly, too vividly. He sometimes woke up screaming in his room from the nightmares, and more than once had forgotten which timeline this one was. He frantically checked outside his window almost every other night, thinking he was back in the underground with the fucking flower back in control. He knew the prince was a good kid. Frisk had told him so.

doesn't mean it's easy to forget what the weed did, though.

"U-U...um, h-howdy!" Asriel stood there stock-still with an almost fearful expression on his face. 

Blasters obliterated his TV screen- **CONTINUE**

Bones skewered his entire body- **CONTINUE**

Bones impaled him as he tried to hit the SmIlEy TrAsHbAg- **CONTINUE**

Blasters burned his entire body- **CONTINUE**

He dodged a blaster but a dozen more fired behind him- **CONTINUE**

Walls of bones slammed into him as the skeleton turned him blue- **CONTINUE**

'Ugh. I can't even defeat him in my omega form.' Flowey sulked, slumped down as he waited for the final hit in his flower form. He thought that maybe it would be a blaster, or maybe he would be impaled on bones. Instead, the skeleton uprooted him from the ground.

"heya pal." The skeleton's grin was malicious as he made the flower face him, twirling his stalk in his fingers.

"since you like playing games so much, why don't we play a game of our own?" The flower sneered at him, but in reality that grin was unnerving him.

"it's called, 'are you needed here?'" The skeleton grabbed one of his five remaining petals, wiping the sneer off his face.

He plucked it, making Flowey scream. "no."

Pluck. A grunt of pain. "yes?"

Pluck. His face contorted in pain and fear. "no."

P l u c k . "yes...?"

He had tears in his eyes, begging for mercy. The skeleton grabbed the last one. "no."

His grin widened. "you know what happens to unneeded weeds like you, right?"

'I definitely feel something crawling up my back.'

Sans stood aside to let him in, his eyelights returning dim and his fake grin back in place. The goat prince's ears drooped, seeing Sans' hide his obvious distaste for him. He understood it was reasonable. He had done some pretty weird- no, sadistic, cruel, and overall immoral stuff in his time as a flower."YeS wE dId!" 

He knew Sans was just doing his job. He was the judge, after all. And Flowey"WE!" had killed Papyrus, and everybody else in the Underground. It was reasonable. Sans was a good person. He was kind of lazy, and made excessive puns, alright. But he wasn't a bad person.

Doesn't make the pain any less real, though.

Frisk and Gaster watched the pair have a staring contest in the doorway from the middle of the living room.

"Who do you think is gonna speak up first?" Frisk stared at the both of them, ready to step in if anything goes wrong.

"It'll be the prince. 20G." Gaster knew that Sans wouldn't do anything rash, so instead he proposed a bet.

"I bet the amount on Sans' tab at Grillby's, then." Frisk played along.

After a long while, one of them spoke. "hey, you coming inside or what?" Frisk smirked, looking at Gaster.

"Fine." He took 20G out of his pockets and handed the coins to Frisk.

"Are- Are you two seriously placing bets!?" Chara asked from the couch, bewildered.

Asriel decided to finally walk in.

"HELLO HUMAN FRISK, HUMAN CHARA, AND ASGORE'S SMALLER CLO- I MEAN, PRINCE ASRIEL! WELCOME TO MY HUMBLE ABODE!" Papyrus greeted from the kitchen.

"Hey Paps! It's been a while!" Frisk ran up to him and hugged him too. Chara did a small wave from his place on the couch, then returned to staring on his DS screen.

Papyrus looked back at the kitchen. "UM, IS THAT SMOKE?"

Frisk peeked in to find that the stove was at full blast. "Ah." Shit.

For Frisk, the day was fun. She loved spending time with Papyrus and Sans. Papyrus was fun to mess around with in the kitchen and watch Mettaton shows with. Sans provided great commentary and made her laugh with his bad puns. And Gaster just struggled with life in the corner.

For Asriel, not so much. Sans kept glaring at him at times. Observing him. Judging him.

It was night-time by now, and Frisk decided to call Toriel to let her know that they were having a sleepover. Toriel agreed, but gave them a list of precautions over the phone, which nobody bothered to remember. Frisk and Chara made a joint effort to make a huge pillow fort. One corner of the fort was occupied by Chara and Asriel. Another was occupied by Frisk and Papyrus, because Papyrus wanted to solve puzzles with the human rather than sleeping. Sans took one corner for himself. Gaster kind of just fell asleep while sitting in the centre of the pillow fort.

Sans shot up in his corner. He had a lot of practice stiffling his screams, so he didn't panic much about the others waking up.

It had been a while since everyone had fallen asleep. Yes, even Papyrus got tired sometimes and had to succumb to sleep. Keyword is sometimes. Sans knew that Papyrus had nightmares whenever he slept, and thus avoided sleeping at all. Strangely though, he wasn't having one at the moment. guess being around his favorite human does help.

He decided to get up for a glass of water, as there was no better excuse to go out for a walk after his nightmare.

He teleported to the kitchen, and almost blasted the entire room when he heard Asriel's voice behind him.

"Sans?" Asriel had just gotten up to get some water, and maybe try his luck at a midnight snack. He was surprised to see Sans teleport into the kitchen, and a bit scared. Maybe I can try talking to him right now?

Sans stared down at him warily. “hey kid.” before Sans could say anything else Asriel walked up to him and hugged him. Sans definitely was not expecting that. what the hell?

“I’m sorry." He buried his face in Sans' shirt. "I- I know that I c-can't be f-forgiven for w-what I-I h-have done but- I’m sorry!” Asriel cried into him. He had thought that he would at least be a bit more composed while confronting Sans about this, but he broke down either way, remembering the terrible deeds he had done. He wasn't sure if Sans would accept his apology or not, but he really hoped that he would.

Sans relented for a second, thinking it was a trick, but then he remembered that this was no weed. This was just a kid seeking his forgiveness. He smiled and ruffled the fur on Asriel’s head. “don’t worry about it kid.” He said, comforting him. Asriel wiped the tears from his eyes. “for once, i-i think you really mean it."

Of course, he wasn't someone who forgave others easily. It didn't help that the weed had done a lot of shit when it had the power to control fucking time. He didn't think that he would be able to forgive the kid that quickly.

But he thought that maybe he could trust the kid. Maybe the kid deserved a chance. Maybe, everyone can be a good person, if they just try.

Yeah. Maybe he could forgive Asriel. The kid did deserve a chance. Sure, it would take time, but maybe one day he'll be able to put the past behind him once and for all.

Sans' grin widened. “you goat to put the past behind you, after all.” He decided to ruin the moment.

Asriel deadpanned. "I take back that apology right now."

And Sans burst out laughing.

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It was a beautiful day outside.

Birds were singing.

Flowers were blooming.

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And a certain goat child was being tormented by a very specific golden flower.

"Just shut up! Leave me alone! I'm not you!" Asriel screamed into his pillow, and into his mind. That's where Flowey resided, after all.

"GollY, yOu think YOu'Re A sAInt, AzZy? DOn't you remEMBer WHat wE did tOgEtHeR?"

"No! T-that was n-n-not me! It was you!"

"We're the SAme, you iDiOt! I AM you. ThE REAL yOu!" The flower laughed inside his head. It was the most ear-splitting laugh he had ever heard.

"I'm nothing like you! I don't want anything to do with you! Leave me alone!"

"YoU were the OnE who ATtacKed that KiD today, wEREn't You? AdMit It, aZZy. HE DeSERved it!" 

Well, that was true. And it hurt that it was. Asriel's eyes filled with tears of shame as he remembered the day's events.

"Hey, why the long face, Princess?" The boy stared him down with a smirk on his face.

It had been a normal day. He was just heading to the last class of the day. His mood was relatively good today, considering he had three consecutive tests, but that was only till the bully showed up.

And he was the same one as last time, except Nick, of course. This was one of his lackeys, Eric. He had jumped Asriel from behind, knocking him down.

"Ah, I get it. You're still scared of me? Damn right, you should be."

"Leave me alone..." Asriel weakly said.

"What was that? Did you say something, freak?"

"Leave me alone!” Asriel said with more volume in his voice. Eric's answer was a punch to his face. Asriel felt backwards with a whimper.

"Hah! Now lookie here, animal, you don't get to tell me what to do! You should-" The boy kicked Asriel in the stomach. "listen to your owner-" He did it again, making Asriel whimper and try to curl in on himself. "like the pet you are!" Asreil started crying from the pain.

"Aww, not so strong now that the monster-loving whore you call your sister is not here to protect you now?" The boy put his foot on top of Asriel's head.

"D-don't call her that!" Asriel snapped back. He didn't mind the insults being thrown at him, but humans had an annoying habit of insulting family members, which really got on his nerves.

"Oh, I gotta ask, do you take turns with her? How many times a day do you fuck the bitch?"

"Shut up!" Asriel screamed out in anger. It didn't have the desired effect, instead Eric pressed down his foot on Asriel's head, making him scream out.

"Hah, or else? What can you even do? I can have you put down for even touching me! Oh, I almost forgot about your brother! He even looks like a freak! Did you fuck him so much that he turned into an animal like yo-"

Asriel's hand lit up with fire. He snarled and shot multiple fireballs at the kid towering above him. He was filled with rage at the boy. How dare he speak like that about Chara!?Eric stepped back in surprise and pain, and then he was engulfed by the smell of burning clothes, and he could feel the fire burning him.

With a scream, he threw himself to the ground, rolling, trying to put the flames out. The boy screamed as the fire continued to burn.

Asriel laughed. His laugh was maniacal. His eyes were monochrome. He felt delight as he watched Eric burn. Yeah, that's right! Burn in he-

Asriel's laughter stopped abruptly. He realised what he had just done. He looked down where Eric lay with burnt clothes and skin, staring at him with absolute terror in his eyes. The fire was extinguished, but the damage was done.

Eric stared at him like he was a true monster. A monster that would kill him. A soulless beast who would burn him alive just for fun-

Like he was still that soulless flower.

It was proof enough.

The proof that despite regaining a SOUL, and regaining his emotions and supposed kindness, he was still more than willing to hurt people. The last thing the old Asriel would have ever wanted to do.

It was enough proof that it would have been better if Frisk had just left him down there to die.

To pay for his sins.

To face his own judgement.

To  b u r n  i n  h e l l .

He wanted to just dust right there. There was no way Frisk and Chara and Mom and Dad and everyone wouldn't hear of this. He couldn't face them after they learn what he had done. He imagined how disappointed Toriel would look when she got home. Even Asgore would be dissapointed in him. He knew Frisk would probably just give him a hug and console him, but that would be just her hiding her emotions.

He didn't want to imagine what Sans would look like. Maybe he would look disappointed too. Maybe he would be sad. Maybe he would be mad at him. Maybe he would look betrayed.

He had promised him that he would be good, didn't he?

He had promised him.

But what had he done?

He never did deserve to be forgiven, did he?

Where. The fuck. Was he!?

Chara had heard the other humans talking about Asriel. Something about a fight. Well fuck, he swore to god he would kill the guy who dared touch Asriel. The idiot was really unlucky that Chara had heard about it, not Frisk. She had already headed out to get to the graveyard. Chara walked a few steps closer to the humans, to listen in to more parts of the conversation.

"--Hah, Always knew the goat was a freak needed to be put down!"

"Yeah, it attacked Eric like some sort of animal! The little freak was even laughing at it!" 

Oh. Oh oh oh no no NOPE. Fuck. Fuck this. He needed to get to Asriel. No, NO. It was Flowey. The little weed had gained control again. The little shit. He would rip that fucking weed off his brother's soul! Where the fuck was he!?

Wait a minute.

"--Yeah, I dunno why the fuck did it run away crying after that. Was talking something like it actually regretted it."

Asriel had gained control back again, then. Yes! At least the weed was no longer in control. He knew Asriel wouldn't give up!

Wait. Wait. That meant Asriel saw what the weed had done. Asriel ran away crying. That, plus his tendency to blame himself meant...

Oh no.

Asriel marveled at the shiny knife in his hand. The knife reflected the light from the lightbulb in the bathroom, where he was sitting, leaned up against the door. He always took great care of the knife he had once stolen from the kitchen; it was the only thing which helped him cope, after all. And he couldn't leave any evidence of dust on it, or everybody would get suspicious. He pushed his sleeves all the way up.

There were already many cuts lined up above his elbow. They were criss-crossed over one another, and many were just inflicted in no set direction. He chose this spot because it was well-hidden. Most people who self-harmed would use the thighs, wrists or stomach. He knew that if Mo- No, he didn't deserve to call her that-- Toriel or anyone found out, it would be over. His only way of coping would be gone. But, nobody would think to check the upper arm for cuts, and he almost always wore long sleeves.

Worthless burden. Everybody would be disappointed in him. Sans would never forgive him. He was a burden -

He made the first cut. It hurt, but he was used to the pain. He deserved it. Dust trickled down the cut like sand grains in an hourglass. His HP lowered. He didn't want to kill himself just yet. He needed to feel more pain. He deserved it He deserved it-

Another cut. He couldn’t stop herself. He needed this. Even if it was unhealthy. Even if he was disappointing more people-

Hah, he had already disappointed them enough. He was a disappointment in and out of himself. How much more can he even disappoint them?

He paused. He stared long and hard at the knife. It felt heavy in his hands, more so than usual.

Maybe he could go straight for the wrist this time? He didn't have to hide from them anymore; He would just turn to dust. He had been cutting for a while now. Nobody knew about it, he was pretty good at hiding the cuts lined up on his arm. Flowey was incredibly good at making him feel like the scum of the earth.

As if on cue, Flowey confirmed his influence over him. "dO it! ThEy woUld BE Free Of YOur worthLeSs SelF!" 

That was true. He hovered the knife over his extended wrist. 

Suddenly the door burst open, knocking Asriel over and making him faceplant onto the floor.

Chara had sprinted all the way to the mansion within 10 minutes. He had slammed open the door and rushed up the stairs, tripping and stumbling. He needed to get there before something bad happened.

He slammed open the door to Asriel's bedroom, where he spent his time when he was not sleeping in Frisk's bedroom. He didn't find Asriel there. Where the fuck was he?

He heard a muffled sob from the direction of the bathroom. Oh. He walked over to the door and tried to open it. He found out it was locked.

He heard more crying from the other side of the door. It broke his heart. He was about to knock, or do anything, but then he heard the uncannily familiar sound of a knife coming in contact with marble.

Oh fuck.

He can't possibly be doing THAT, right?

He took a few steps back, and ran forward, ramming against the door. It flew off its hinges, revealing a sight he was not ready for.

Asriel was knocked over because of the door, sure. But the important the fact was that he was covered in his own dust. Chara foolishly looked towards his upper arm, wondering why was the sleeve pushed up. He stumbled back in horror.

Slashes. So many cuts. Dust pouring out like blood. A knife in his hand. Covered in his own goddamn dust. 

A trail of dust on his fur-less wrist.

Oh god.

Asriel got up to look back at Chara who was staring at him in horror. He didn't understand why. Then he followed his gaze, and realised with horror at what exactly he was staring at.

He found out.

Oh no.

"H-hey C-c-chara! H- how was school!?" Yeah. Real smooth Asriel. Real smooth. 

He didn't even get the time to react when he was quickly and violently knocked back in a hug from his brother, who looked like he was on the verge of crying.

"What the fuck were you doing Asriel!? W- Why the fuck were you doing that!?"

He froze. It wasn't that he didn't expect that question; it was just that he wasn't sure how to answer it. Instead of answering, he just started crying.

"I- I'm sorry..! I'm sorry!"

"Why the hell are you sorry!? I should be the one sorry! I- I should've noticed! I should've helped you! I'm so sorry!" How could he have been such an idiot!?

Asriel just kept crying. Chara dropped his questions and regrets for later and decided to comfort his brother. He kept stroking his back as he cried into Chara's chest.

"It's okay. It's alright... just.. just let it all out Azzy." Chara gently rubbed Asriel's back as he cried. Eventually the crying subsided into small hiccups as they both sat there on the floor, hugging each other close. Asriel took a few moments to calm down and just laid in his brother's warm embrace.

"You good..?" Chara asked, still rubbing Asriel's back. He nodded.

"God, I'm still such a huge crybaby, huh?"

"No! It's okay to cry. When you bottle things up, a lot of bad things can happen. Like for instance, you do things like this." He said as he pointed to the thin lines on Asriel's arm which had healed themselves by now.

"...Where did you learn that?" Asriel was pretty sure that was not something Chara would say. Ever.

"Frisk." Chara replied.

"Ah, of course."

"But... why? Why did you do this?" Chara asked in a whisper.

"...You know what I did today, right?" He really hoped that Chara did not, so that he could just drop the topic.

"Why the fuck were you doing this for that!?" Apparently he did know what happened.

"Because I did it! I- I attacked that defenseless bully! Don't you see!?" Asriel almost yelled.

"No, no! It was Flowey, okay!? It wasn't you!"

"That's the point. It was not Flowey. It was me. And you know what!? I laughed while doing it! I am still like... like Flowey!" Asriel was immediately shut up by Chara.

"No! You're not like Flowey! You're Asriel! You- You're not like that weed, okay!? I know the guy deserved whatever you did to him. Don't blame yourself. Please. Please... don't die again. Not again." Chara said the last part in a whisper.

"How... How can you say that!?" He pushed himself away from Chara.

"It was my fault we both died! I held you back from attacking those humans! It was because of me you died! And Mom and Dad got seperated! And Dad did thsoe horrible things! I turned into a flower because of it! How can you ever forgive me for that!?" Asriel yelled. He was in tears again.

"...Are you serious right now? It was your fault? Are you fucking delusional? I made the plan in the first place! If I had been an actually good person, I wouldn't have tried to do that! I wouldn't have tricked you into helping me with my revenge on my stupid village! The one at fault was me, you idiot!" Chara yelled back.

"But-" Asriel protested, but Chara just hugged him again, making him shut up.

"Just shut the fuck up, goddammit." Chara buried his face into Asriel's fluff. Asriel awkwardly hugged him back.

"We all care about you Azzy. Just... tell us if you have any problems, okay? Don't... don't... try to fucking kill yourself like some edgy teenager." Chara said the last part with obvious snark in his voice.

Asriel did acknowledge the first part seriously. But then he smirked. "The only one edgy here is you, chocolate demon." Asriel called him the old nickname Chara had given himself when they were back underground.

Chara deadpanned. "You say that again and I swear to god I will fucking choke you Azzy."

"I can hold my breath for 30 minutes." Asriel said in a challenging tone.

"The thought of choking my best friend fills me with determination."

"..." Well, that battle was lost for Asriel.

Asriel then grinned mischievously. "Wait, I almost forgot to tell you how many G's you have to put in the swear jar-"

"That's it I'm choking you."

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HOLY. SHIT.

HOLY. HOLY- JESUS FUCK.

69 KUDOS!!?

*looks at hits* OH JESUS- JESUS FUCKITY FUCK HELL- HOLY CRAP. *dies*

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i already said this in the two-shot i wrote recently, but i'm just gonna say it here too, since this is my main fic.

i think i'm gonna stop writing for a while. it's not like i'm not interested in it anymore; i love writing bullshit in the name of fanfiction, but i am currently focusing on working on my fangame, and other stuff- like music and stuff. so yeah. it would be a while before you hear from me again on ao3.

not saying that this fic will go dead for an eternity. i ain't leaving this unfinished. it'll be a long time before i return to writing this, but i will. it may be a few months, or even an year, but yeah.

also, thank you for the hits and kudos i've recieved on this fanfic. i never imagined that this will get actually popular, but look at that.

welp.

that's all i had to say, now bye.

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hello yes i am back. i, a decaffeinated, running on fumes, midnight meme surfing version of the author who tries his very best to make life harder for him deems that the author has been dead for far too fucking long.

in short, i lived. 

this message is exactly what the title says. i'll be rewriting this entire thing, but the concept will mostly stay the same, except a few major changes in the storyline. a lot of major changes.

since i want to like make an entire au or something out of this, meaning this is gonna have a fuckton of chapters, i was thinking about splitting this up into a series, so yes, opinions on names?

oh yeah and i'll not be deleting this, just marking this as completed and putting a disclaimer on the title of this fic, once i'm done with the first chapter of the rewrite.

thanks, signing off so i can sleep.