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After a long time of living underground, monster kind finally achieved true freedom. Most monsters haven’t gone up to the surface yet, instead spending their time celebrating or maybe spending time with loved ones, but a few very special monsters, Asgore, Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Alphys, and Undyne, were already admiring the sunset. They each talked back and forth about their new surroundings, but Frisk, the human child who freed them, looked down at their hands in guilt knowing how many resets it had taken them to get here.
Frisk knew exactly how many times they practiced the same things over and over again. They've previously only gotten the same set group of endings many times. ‘What’s so different about this timeline?’ Frisk thought as they tried to remember what had happened between the last reset and now.
Ohhh, now it made sense. In the last reset, Frisk promised someone to stop messing with the timeline. Who it was who told them? They couldn’t remember. Though, it had to have been special if they agreed to stop. Sans, Flowey, and even the 1st fallen human tried to plead with the child to stop and all failed.
Frisk wanted to listen to them at first…but it was like there was an invisible force pushing the child along. Choices of life and death were far too easy to make.
A skeletal monster-Sans- was currently following his brother to keep him out of trouble. After all the timelines, Sans finally pushed his feelings behind him and accepted fate. He was prepared for the world to reset. He was prepared to be stuck in an never ending loop for the rest of eternity.
The skeleton laughed bitterly and sat down. He realized a few resets ago that there was nothing to stop Frisk.
That was the moment he and ‘Flowey' foolishly came together and believed they could actually make a difference, when in reality the confrontation was more of a fun game, a different outcome, that this kid could explore and exploit.
The plan was a failure. Sans absently chuckled ‘It was more of a last resort then anything’ he concluded looking back towards his brother. Papyrus looked at him with a worried expression “BROTHER? ARE YOU FEELING ALRIGHT?” To which the shorter skeleton shrugged and replied” better than ever, bro”
Frisk had long since zoned out to try and figure out who had told them not to reset and succeeded.
They were snapped back into reality as a soft, furry hand landed gently on their shoulder, they quickly looked up. ” My child, are you alright? You never answered my question...” The gentle voice of Toriel spoke as a look of concern flooded her face.
Seeing this, Frisk quickly smiled and signed “I’m alright, what did you ask?” Toriel smiled and retracted her hand from Frisk’s head “I asked if you would like to stay with me.” Frisk was relieved when Toriel stopped worrying about them and beamed brightly” Of course I would!”
Toriel soon found herself giggling at her child’s enthusiastic response, and reached out for their hand” Let’s join the others then my child.” Frisk quickly took her hand and smiled as she led them to the others.
Fortunately, getting down Mt. Ebott wasn’t that difficult. Soon, Toriel and Frisk ran into the others, who stopped near the bottom of the mountain. Undyne and Alphys were trying to teach Asgore how anime works, while one of the skeleton brothers was busy keeping the other energetic, tall one from running off. Frisk giggled a bit at the sight 'looks they've all got their hands full' the child thought with a smile.
After a while, Sans had finally convinced Papyrus to take a rest. The hyperactive skeleton was a handful indeed. Sans felt exhausted, but hey when wasn't he exhausted?
It didn't even matter because only mere moments later, King Fluffy buns announced to everyone that it was time to move. Fueled by pure excitement, Papyrus was off again. Sans simply sighed in defeat, smiled, and walked after Papyrus.
As soon as the others looked away, though, he was nowhere in sight. The rest of the group quickly followed. It was almost time to see what awaits for monsters on the surface.