PROLOGUE SUMMARY: [P.S. This is a crossover, Varikai's story is on AO3, it's original story is called "Organized Chaos."
[[Since we're combining worlds from Amartin22 and Varikai's story we should clear shit up. There are clones of nearly every character so we've had to tweak a few names. Underfell characters will be abbreviated by shortening/changing their names to avoid confusion (except for Toriel) Here is the list of changes:]]
Charlie (UF) & Scarlet (OC)
Sann (UF) & Sans (OC)
Asriel (UF) & Flowey (OC)
Undy (UF) & Undyne (OC)
Alyp (UF) & Alphys (OC)
Toriel (UF) & Tori (OC)
Mett (UF) & Mettaton (OC)
Pap (UF) & Papyrus (OC)
Todd (BurgerPants from UF)
Gerson (Old Turtle from OC's Universe)
[[Charlie and The Renegades lost the war against Chara in the underground. The war was then carried to the surface.
Undertale Underfell: Years pass and Chara still stands at large as the only remaining power. He turned monsters against humans and produced a Hell on Earth that has forced every human and monster to live in war-torn fear. The vast majority of the civilized world lay in ruins...
For Organized Chaos readers, this will crossover will likely contain spoilers. Scarlet is being thrown into a setting where her past will likely come up faster in the face of more than just Sans' clumsy advances. I'll be warning you in the notes beforehand just in case some of you care about that sort of thing. I encourage you to read this anyway, seeing as it won't really change much about my story, other than you, as the insert, knowing more about yourself.
Tug.Tug.TUG.
Scarlet tossed and turned in her bed. She broke into a cold sweat, her black rib-cage tank top and loose purple pajama pants beginning to cling to her body. She clutched her chest over her soul as she began to feel a strange tug. The tug became a yank… then almost a tearing force. Scarlet winced and coughed. Sans twitched in his sleep on the couch in the living room, feeling the sudden shock in the time flow... There was one final wrenching yank and the void swallowed her.
She suddenly felt the wind on her face as she fell 14 stories high towards a vast wasteland of rubble. She opened her eyes with a gasp. She must be dreaming.
"Holy shit!" she shouted, trying to steady herself against the wind current. While she wasn't the biggest fan of falling dreams, at least they were fun and short.
"Sann...pick up your damn feet. We won't make it to camp if you don't hurry your ass," Asriel barked. "Alyp, did you get find the part you needed?"
"Uhhgg...fine," Sann groaned while casually lifting a middle finger mid-yawn, behind Asriel's back. Pap slapped Sann in the back of the head.
"Fucking pay attention," Pap ordered with a scowl.
Alyp held a metal device in her hands. Her forefinger was pressed down on the button and she confused as to why it didn't work. When Asriel called, she looked back up with a shrug and a gaze that simply meant 'I don't know.'
Sann stopped...everyone paused.
"What?" Charlie asked, noticing the discomfort on his face. "We still need to find Alph her parts so that maybe we can lea-,"
Sann lifted a finger to his teeth, indicating everyone to hush. Charlie was a little frustrated after being ignored, and Asriel kept walking forward...ignoring his shitty shenanigans.
"What on Earth is that?" Alph asked, curious while listening to what sounded like faint screaming… or cheering?
Asriel scoffed, "Let's...go," he ordered one last time. No one moved, the screaming then increased dramatically. Asriel froze as he ceased moving ahead. He finally looked up. Charlie's mouth dropped as a girl was literally falling from the sky.
Sann's hands glowed but she was falling too fast for him to focus, he ran forward. Asriel was right underneath her, his placement shifting as he kept regauged her landing.
The girl flipped in mid air a bit. They could have sworn they heard her giggle for a moment.
Sann's hand glowed brighter in a last attempt to slow her movements. Her body glows for a second as her momentum is slowed even more. Asriel finally has a lock on her.
"FUCKING CATCH HER," Sann shouts, still focusing on slowing down her speed.
"Wooa-W-Woah!" Scarlet gasped as her momentum is thrown off, she felt her stomach flip from the sudden change in speed. She tumbled forward a bit, staggered.
Asriel immediately holds his arms out from his body and positions himself to correctly receive her as she falls. Scarlet's slammed backward into Asriel as he bent his legs to try and steady the shock. He fell back onto the ground after catching the human bridal style.
"Fucking hell," Charlie spat, she ran over in a huff.
"Fuck me," Undy scowled at this new addition.
Alyp began to sweat nervously as she hid the device behind her back as multiple thoughts raced through her mind.
"Dammit," Asriel curses as he quickly tries to balance Scarlet onto him.
Scarlet hit her head on the ground a bit despite his efforts. She sits up hissing and rubbing the spot on the back of her skull, hair covering her face. Asriel's hand hovered over hers, tempted to hold her closer but observed her instead. This human appears to be a smaller in frame, a little taller than Charlie, but pale and toned. Her clothes are loose and comfortable, barely hanging onto her. She was barefoot. Her long white hair in a tuft of messy tangles from the wind as she rubbed her head. Asriel blushed a bit as she started to shift against him.
"Ow…! What the fuck..." she whimpered, checking her hand for blood. Phew, none, but still… yowch.
"Hey." Asriel cautiously tried to attempt communication. He gently touched her back.
Alyp looked up in the sky, where the girl originated from. Looks like it worked… a little too well. Pap carefully stalks in a circle around the two of them... watching the human's movements. Sann teleported beside Charlie… they both watch Scarlet with some hesitation. Undy stood by Alyp's side.
Scarlet looked up, her blue eye peeking through her hair. She caught the gaze of what seemed to be another goat person, but younger. She gave Asriel a broad grin.. an eerily familiar grin.
"No way..." she whispered. She softly touched Asriel's nose. "This dream just… goat really interesting..." she snorted and laughed at her own joke
Asriel's eyes grew wide while everyone else paused. Did this girl just make a pun…?He quickly turned to the others with Scarlet in his arms.
"She must be hallucinating… Alyp, do we having anything to help?" Asriel grew concerned as he noticed a skeleton pattern on her shirt. Maybe hewas hallucinating.
Sann wore a confused smirk and shrugged, Pap was unresponsive, and Alyp was lost in thought. Undy raised an eyebrow and nudged her, bringing her back to the moment.
"Uhh, I don't th-think so," Alyp replied. She cautiously walked over and looked at Scarlet, studying her but from a safe distance. Charlie drew closer. Another human…? And she seemed completely unfazed by them. Charlie frowned, she didn't trust this...
"It doesn't make sense. We haven't seen another human for days on the surface, where did she come from…?" Charlie asked herself.
"I do not care for this..." Pap intervened.
"Bitch better not try anything..." Undy readied a spear. It was hard enough warming up to Charlie, and after everything they'd been through, she didn't have the energy for that shit again.
Scarlet flipped her hair back, brushing it down with her fingers. Everyone finally got a good look at her. Her demeanor was almost child-like, without a care in the world. Her right eye was a brilliant blue while the other is a dark brown, nearly black. She looked at Asriel with wonder and stood on her knees. She was lovely, sporting a mischievous grin. Scarlet playfully grasped one of Asriel's horns.
"Woooaaahhh..." she cooed, fascinated. She grabbed both and gently steered his head from side to side, giggling. Asriel still carefully held her, though he was blushing horribly. He didn't know whether or not she was meaningto nearly shove his face into her chest.
"Uhh, who are you?" He cleared his throat, eyes shifting. Sann chuckled. The more flustered Asriel became, the louder his laughter built, and it built fast. Charlie wasn't amused. She was almost disappointed watching Asriel humor the girl instead of taking the situation more seriously. The reality was: either that girl was in danger or they were. Alph shared similar discomfort.
Scarlet looked over, hearing Sann laugh. She saw the apparitions of her friends and dismissed them as projections of her dream. They looked entertaining enough, but the cute goat bro in front of her was built like something out of greek mythology and her attention stayed fixed.
"Did I hit you right in the 'funnybone' Sans?" Scarlet snickered again and grabbed Asriel's ears. She giggled adorably flopping them around. Asriel's stammered and blinked.
Sann's laughter stopped… his red eyes flashed for a moment. Everyone went dead silent. An eerie tension fills the air as Sann slowly rose to his feet.
"Do….I know you?" Sann growled as his glare pierced through Scarlet. Asriel gently takes her hands away from his head, dumbfounded as to how he should feel. Scarlet felt Sann staring at her and looked up at him, her grin fading.
"Uh... yes?" she shifted away from Asriel, looking around and realizing just how different everyone looked. She started to feel uneasy for some reason.
"There's no way she's from the underground," Pap deduced.
"Then how the fuck does she know my name!?" Sann shouts back, making Scarlet jump a little.
"Sann cool it," Asriel barks, noticing her becoming uncomfortable. Scarlet continued to look around at all of the staring faces. She knew that look… the look when someone has no earthly idea who you are. She started to worry about what sort of dream this might be.
"Woah... I must have had more to drink than I thought..." Scarlet mumbled to herself. Charlie shook her head and sighed. Enough.
"Hey," Charlie softly calls out. She puts herself between Sann and Scarlet.
"Huh..." Scarlet looked Charlie up and down. "You're new..."
Scarlet looked at everyone individually, running a mental checklist of her familiars. This dream was getting weirder and weirder. Perhaps this girl was some sort of subconscious manifestation of some emotion, Scarlet thought. Maybe this was going to turn into a much more entertaining dream later on. She was really cute.
Scarlet looked back at Asriel for a moment. He was new too. Yet… there was something about his energy that made her feel as though she'd met him before somehow. Maybe she had just forgotten. Or maybe this was some sort of younger Asgore and her subconscious was trying to tell her she was a closet furry. Whatever it was, she smirked and looked back at the girl who was interrogating her.
"Do you by chance, even know where you are," Charlie inquires. That last line made Scarlet feel the familiar creep of anxiety, but she managed to keep calm.
"Apparently, having one hell of a fever dream..." Scarlet sighed casually. She stood and looked around.
"Holy shit, this entire place is a hazard." Scarlet kicked some rubble to the side and started climbing the remains of a wall with ease for a better view.
"Hey! Answer the question!" Charlie asks again, more serious. She had no tolerance for being ignored. Charlie grabs Sann's shoulder, he nodded and teleported them both to the top of the wall, waiting for her.
Scarlet saw them up there and seemed unfazed. More weird dream shit…
"Scuse me, sub-conscious metaphors." she said, flipping backward and perching atop a broken pillar. She looked around at what was left.
The surrounding area was a wasteland. Mounds of rubble, composed of chunks of concrete, have created a valley of destruction. Large buildings in the distance are crumbled and broken, nothing is left untouched. Everyone now resides outside what is left in the city of Denver. Sann watched as Scarlet climbed the wall of the former University of Colorado.
"Woah..." Scarlet said sarcastically. "Some post-apocalyptic shit..."
Dust is lifted off the ground as soft winds blow from the west. Charlie quietly sits down, Sann follows her decision. They both sat in quiet tension wondering what to do. Neither were in the mood to babysit yet another person... The rest of the group stays down, keeping an eye out from the other side of the wall, Asriel and Alyp continuing to watch the girl. Scarlet cat walked across the wall before shortly jumping, and then climbing back down.
"Are there any signs of Zombies, Undyne?" Scarlet asks playfully, jumping to the ground and stretching her arms, looking around for anything interesting.
"Is… she talking to me?" Undy sneers. Alph hides behind her lover.
"It's been a while since I've had a good ol fashioned zombie dream..." Scarlet sighed, biting the bottom of her shirt and tugging it against her teeth with a grin. She finally sees something promising and walks a few feet away from the group.
"Uhhh... human?" Pap questions.
"Yes, Pappy?" Scarlet turns, starting to clear some rubble. Pap scowls at the informal nickname. Sann and Charlie then teleport behind Scarlet a couple feet away, they shrug to the others.
"Sh-She apparently believes she's in a dream..." Alyp tried to explain while still holding on to the device. Asriel was nervous, he continued watching Scarlet.
"So I guess something is supposed to happen, right?" Scarlet sighs. She finds an old tea chest under it all and opens it, looking at plates and cups that were miraculously spared from the wreckage. Scarlet starts casually throwing the mostly broken ones behind her, collecting the few still in tact.
Everyone steps back as the delusional human throws plates around. Charlie takes another step forward.
"What do you mean 'something is supposed to happen'?" Charlie asks.
"Well, I mean, I guess I could call the shots. It's my dream n all..." Scarlet turned with a stack of plates she collected.
"You guys wanna play target practice?" She chimed, her blue eye glinting yellow for a moment.
A blue spear, two yellow bone swords, and a black longsword materialize in front of their respected monsters. Everyone was on edge once they saw Scarlet's eye flicker.
"Jesus, guys!" Charlie shouts while throwing her arms up in the air. Sann's eyes are burning, his hands glow… Alyp jumped back. Scarlet took it they accepted the challenge.
"Hell yeah!" Scarlet smiled. "さあ!" She shouted and threw a plate up.
Undyne threw a spear and shattered the plate within a second. Charlie clinched her fists and punched Scarlet right in the jaw. Scarlet whimpered and fell back, hissing. She held her cheek and looked up in confusion as she touched her bloody lip.
"Jesus fucking Christ. What the hellis wrong with you!?" Charlie shouts, reaching the end of her patience.
"This isn't a fucking game..."
"Wh-What the fuck...? Ow..." Scarlet spat as she looked at her bloody hand, fear washed over.
" What... thefuck?!"
"It doesn't matter if you're crazy! You can't just walk up to monsters in this world and throw shit at them!" Charlie continued to scold. Everyone is taken back by Charlie's stance...most of them form a defensive circle around her.
Scarlet looked at her hand and back at Charlie a few times. She'd never felt pain like this in a dream... unless is was a nightmare. Scarlet crawled back a bit. Here she was hoping to have one night where she wasn't maimed or tortured.
Charlie noticed her fear. Sann, Asriel, and everyone else dropped their guard.
Scarlet scrambled to her feet once everyone's weapons disappeared. She jumped up and sprinted over a few mounds of rubble, ducking under old bridges and left over walls, running as fast as she could.
Sann grins devilishly.
His hands glowed red. Charlie glares at him and nods, "Get her, Sann."
Sann disappears with a low chuckle. Asriel sighs and runs off after them. There goes any chance on making a good first impression on the poor girl...
Scarlet continued sprinting. For some reason she started feeling fatigue; something else that didn't usually happen in dreams. She bolted down an alley that had several chain link fences and toppled pillars from an old mess hall. After she hurdled over them, she stopped for a moment to catch her breath, looking behind her. There seemed to be nothing, but if she knew her nightmares, there was really nowhere to run. She only did it to feel better and delay the inevitable.
Asriel picked up the pace and jumped clear over some piles of rubble as he closed the distance. Sann grinned in the shadows as he watched the small, frightened girl running for her life. So sweet, so unsuspecting… fuckhe missed the hunt... The moment she stopped to take a breath, he saw his moment.
"Peeka-boo…" he growled, low and taunting. He teleports in front of her,
"... I see you!" Sann reached for her. Scarlet was quicker than he'd anticipated and she jumped backward. Suddenly, strong arms lifted her up. Asriel pulled her farther from the skeleton's grasp.
"Dammit, Sann...we're not trying to give her a heart attack," Asriel scolds. "She still thinks she's in a dream..."
Sann just shrugs, "...so?" He smiled smugly while watching the girl become more and more frightened by the second. Scarlet shrieks and squirms, shoving Asriel away and jumping higher onto the remains of the building, climbing desperately.
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!" Her eyes welled up. She looked down, Asriel and Sann are gone. Why did she look down. She knew better than to look back in a chasing nightmare, dammit. Hanging from the ledge, panting, she dug her nails into her ribs. She was starting to feel her panic build up.
"What… what's happening?" Scarlet's chest heaved. She'd never had a panic attack during a dream before… This wasn't a dream, was it…
Two boney arms wrapped around Scarlet's waist as Sann pulls her in tightly. He gently leans down and breathes heavily into her ear. Scarlet choked back a sob.
"You need to learn some manners," he whispers. They both teleport back to Charlie's group.
Charlie stands tapping her foot, as if she expected them. Sann dropped Scarlet on the ground. Asriel braced himself on his knees, catching his breath as he rushed to get back in time. Charlie leans over and offers her hand...
"Hi," Charlie smiles, "my name's Charlie."
Scarlet leans back, shaking, her chest heaving. She tried to respond but her body refused.
"I... can't...br-" she gasps. "F-Fuck..." Scarlet braces herself on all fours trying to get a hold of herself. This was clearlynot a dream. Her body made sure to drive that point home. She tried to lift a hand to ask for help, but her confusion only made the mania worse.
"HEY GUYS! LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!" a very enthusiastic voice calls out. An orange, humanoid cat runs over a nearby hill stop and is carrying a very old bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey in his right hand. He proudly waves it around in the air as a beautiful yellow flower is draped around his neck, it moves.
"Oh, my goodness!" Toriel then looks around, seeing another human all alone. "Who's she?"
"I...uhh, we," Charlie was at a loss for words. She noticed Scarlet panicking. Sann stood up straight, glaring Scarlet down. No one approached her, everyone's eyes darted back and forth, silently waiting for someone to make a move.
Scarlet struggled to get a grip, none of her self-tactics were helping. She wished Sans were there, her hysteria taking over. She collapsed and balled up. "Itsjustadreamitsjustadreamwakeupwakeupwakeup..."Scarlet whimpered to herself.
Toriel hopped down, she slithered over to the poor girl. Everyone was on their guard and began to advance, but Charlie threw up an arm, staying their action.
"Everyone, please..." Charlie beckoned.
Toriel placed a leaf-appendage on Scarlet and tried to calm her nerves. Todd is curious and takes a seat.
Scarlet's breathing slowed a bit. She felt warmth throughout her body. Her lungs relaxed and her heart regained rhythm... Scarlet flinched for a moment but started to come around. She looked up at the flower with wide eyes, studying it.
"Holy shit..." Scarlet whispered. Asriel walked around Charlie, keeping a close eye on his queen. Sann keeps a close eye on Asriel keeping an eye on his woman. Undyne lifted her spear and then shoved it into the ground, leaning against it.
"Hey, lady!" Sann blurted out, directing his glare back to Scarlet.
Scarlet's gaze was locked onto the flower that saved her from the endless pit of her trauma. This was real. Her friends were all warped somehow… She looked up at the more obnoxious version of Sans (which she didn't even think was possible) and grimaced.
"Where am I…?" Scarlet asked softly.
Charlie glared at Sann, but turned back to the stranger. "You're just outside of Denver, Colorado...or what's left of it..."
Alyp carefully hid the device behind her back...slowly trying to hide guilt. Scarlet shakily stood, her body still feeling the aftershocks of panic.
"You're... all different." She admitted in disbelief. Scarlet walked up to Sann, looking concerned, almost sad. Sann stepped back, intimidated by the way she looked at him. She stopped when he recoiled and looked hurt. He looked her up and down, not fully comprehending the situation. Sann felt the unfamiliar prickles of fear for some reason. Something was wrong… but it in a way he couldn't explain.
"You don't know me do you…?" Scarlet frowned.
"Sorry, kid. But you apparently think you know me," he scoffed, trying to sound confident. Scarlet was staring, wide-eyed. If this was real, then there was no way Sans was gone… she refused to let that happen. He had to be in there somewhere. Maybe if she tried reasoning...
"You sometimes have nightmares that make the entire room shake..." Scarlet began softly. "You used to love Toriel but it didn't work out... You love your brother more than anything, even though you wish he and Mettaton would knock off the PDA sometimes..." she rambled, trying to jog his memory. She drew closer after every fact, as if he'd somehow snap out of it.
"It's me... Scarlet." she said, standing inches from him. "Your best friend."
Sann backed away until he fell right on his ass. For the first time, he visibly showed fear as she approached him. Charlie maintained her composure but it took everything she had not to punch this bitch again. She awkwardly stepped between Scarlet and Sann, holding up a hand. That was littletooclose for her comfort.
"Woah there...I wouldn't suggest taking another step," Charlie almost threatened. "We don't know who the fuck you are...or where you came from." Alyp held up her hand to explain but Charlie didn't see it.
"I don't know how you know Sann personally if he has no memory of you to begin with." Charlie continued. Alyp held her hand higher, now visibly shaking it.
"How about we start with how youknow him?" Charlie's eye twitched a bit. She'd had enough. The last thing she needed was some random girl to bust into her life and encroach on her relationship. Sann was already hard enough to control.
The beating sound of drums echoes far off in the distance. Everyone jumped from their spots and quickly gathers their gear, their all terrified except for Charlie and Sann, eyes fixed on the phenomenon. She wasn't getting off that easy.
"Undyne and Alphys are together and are getting married!" Scarlet points at the two lovers, but her eyes stayed fixed on Sann, continuing to make a case for herself. "Papyrus loves Mettaton but holds back because you disapprove. Mettatonis my Mentor.Why does none of this ring a bell!?" Scarlet's tone became more and more desperate to connect.
" I know you!" she shouted at Sann, blushing with frustration. "... But I don'tknow you." she looked at Charlie.
Pap, Undy, and Todd quickly scout in all directions...it looks grim. Alyp knew what those faces meant. She nervously looked down at her device.
"Maybe...just maybe," Alph bit her lip, contemplating what it would mean if her calculations were incorrect. Scarlet's presence confirmed the ability of interdimensional travel… as well as the capability to get through without being torn apart atom by atom. If she failed, they'd die… either here or through time and space. Alph's hands shook had no idea what the human's world was even like… but anywhere was better than here.
"Shit! We're surrounded on all sides," Todd reported to Asriel.
Scarlet looked up, the sudden urgency breaking the tension. "...Surrounded? What the hell is going on?"
Charlie grabbed Scarlet's arm.
"Fuck, he found us," she muttered. Sann growled trying to shake off the fear as he felt the armies closing in. Asriel shouldered on two sacks of their supplies, while Torriel wrapped tightly around Asriel's neck.
"We need to leave. NOW!" He barked.
Charlie ducked as an she heard whistling in the air. Everyone dropped to the ground as arrows shot overhead. Alyp panicked... It was now or never. She pressed the button on the device again.
A clear outline of a sphere materializes. Fabricated and solidified in front of Scarlet.
Scarlet looked at it in awe. She'd seen enough Sci-Fi to know how this was gonna go. She bolted into it without question.
Scarlet suddenly screams and jolts awake, safe in her bed. Sans burst into her room and looked around, then over to her.
"Scarlet?" He jumped into her bed and gently touched her shoulder. She looked up at him and sighed with relief, hugging him tightly.
"Oh my god... Fucking hell, dude... It was just a dream... " she squeezed tighter. Sans tensed at her sudden touch, not sure whether or not it was safe to reciprocate. He took a chance and held her gently, setting her on his lap.
"Hey, shhh… you're okay..." he said, rocking her a little. Scarlet curled into his lap and nuzzled the crook of his neck. She had never been so happy to see him. The feeling of Sans looking at her without any knowledge of who she was… just like her mother… She didn't care if this might send the wrong message, she was just glad to have her friend back.
"That was... too real..." she sighed, gripping his t-shirt.
Sans enjoyed the feeling of her weight leaning into him, completely trusting. He kissed the top of her head. "Wanna talk about it...?"
Charlie's fucking shocked as everyone stared at Alyp.
"So that's how she fucking fell, isn't that right Alph." Charlie is rather upset as she stared at a very guilty lizard. Alyh grits her teeth. Undy shoves her head further down as more arrow slip past over their heads. The portal is still active..but it's changing. Alph freaked out.
"We've only got one chance to leave this shit hole," the yellow reptile yells. Alyp quickly scampered up and then ran straight into the portal.
"ALYP!" Undy quickly tumbles over and lunges in after her.
"UNDY...ALYP," Pap ordered but they both disappeared. He looks over at Asriel with an apologetic look. Pap then crouches down and jumps forward into the sphere as his body is absorbed by this mystifying sphere.
"WHY THE HELL DID EVERYONE FUCKING LEAVE," Asriel shouts over to Charlie, she shrugs.
Charlie shook her head, trying to contemplate where that sphere was connected to on the other side. Sann grabbed her arm, and jerked it a little. Charlie watched him as the emotion drained from his face.
"Charlie, w-we have to go...my br-brohter," Sann's voice falters.
Charlie nodds, she then seriously looks at Asriel. "We need to follow them...," she suggests. Charlie's face pleads for understanding. The beating drums crescendo, making it impossible to even hear one's own thoughts.
"DO IT," Asriel shouts over the drums. Sann grabs Charlie's jacket and throws her inside the portal. Todd bounces off his feet and does an over exaggerated back flip into the portal. Asriel and Sann quickly exchanged worried glances before scampering into portal after their comrades.
Everyone is enveloped in darkness.
A familiar shadow steps forward towards the exposed portal. Deep chuckling ensues but it's cut short when they noticed the portal shrinking. Through a last second decision, they jump though.
"Then you looked at me like you didn't know me at all... and like you were terrified of me somehow. It was like no one knew who I was… it was horrible." Scarlet continued on the brink of tears. Sans was stroking her hair as he held her close, listening.
"But like... I felt the pain... of everything… it was so surrea-" she stopped, touching her cheek. She still felt the pain.
"o-ow..." she sat up a little. "Oh... my... god..." Her eyes widened as she touched the inside of her cheek. It still bled a bit. "...Sans?" She said, holding up her bloody fingers.
Sans looked at her fingers. "... maybe you just bit your cheek-" he suggested, but then suddenly froze. Sans looked at the closet, holding Scarlet protectively.
Charlie, Asriel, Sann, Alyp, Und, Pap, and Toriel are suddenly encased in a very tight space. It was dark… but they could feel other people.
"What...the hell!?" Undy roars out. She kicked her feet, Pap sharply hisses.
"Stop fucking kicking me!" Pap scowls.
"Who's touching my ass?" Charlie demanded to know.
Asriel squirmed under Charlie as he quickly tried to remove his arm...but it keeps brushing up against Charlie's breasts.
Sans' eye glinted and the closet doors burst open.
Everyone clumsily toppled out. Todd was the first to fall, quickly buried by Undy, followed by Asriel and Charlie, groaning at their previous uncomfortable positions. Toriel is still wrapped around Asriel. Everyone grunts and shifts in mild discomfort as Alyp carefully tiptoed around the pile of angry monsters, still holding the portal device in her hands.
Sann waited in the closet. He loomed near the back.
There was a moment of silent tension as the Renegades all view the scene of their mystery human in the arms of a blue version of Sann.
Scarlet bursts out laughing hysterically cutting the nearly falls over.
Sans stares at Scarlet, still in his lap, raising a brow.
"OH...MY...God," Charlie is fucking surprised as she sees Scarlet and… Sann? What!? She points a finger at the laughing woman, "...you!"
"Monsters!..." she gasps, nudging Sans. "In my closet!" she continues to laugh. Everyone looked up.
"Sans!?" Pap is confused as he stares at his blue-er brother.
"Oh shit..." Todd snorts.
Sans looks at them all. He gently puts Scarlet down on the bed, where she stands on her knees. Asriel is deadpanned. He looks up at Sans with utter disbelief.
"I take it you're all from this 'dream." Sans stands in front of the pile of monsters.
Sann hears a familiar voice...he steps out cautiously. "...and you are?"
Sans sees a red eye glow in the darkness as the red skeleton steps into view, his eyes harboring morbid curiosity, stepping over everyone carelessly. His red sneaker smudges dirty all over his comrades faces and the clean wooden floors. He snickered as his feet 'accidently' stepped over Asriel's hair as the goat still lay prone.
Charlie is then torn...she gazed at Sann...and then Sans.
"Someone who finds all this pretty... humerus..." Sans grinned. Scarlet snorts and then bursts into laughter again.
"WHY! Why me," Pap cried out as he slammed his face into the floor bored.
Undy grinned a patted poor Pap.
Stagnant tension poisoned the air as two Sans's stare off, grinning at each other. Neither of their gazes faltered.
Sann grinned, "I think we're in the right place."
Asriel is still at a loss for words.
Charlie awkwardly smiled but then lifts herself up from the pile. She tried to remain composed. Sann's eyes shift over to Charlie with a smile.
Scarlet climbed off of her bed and leaned an arm on Sans' shoulder. The two looked at each other mischievously and nodded, looking back at the group with menacing expressions.
"I'm not sure he's punny enough to be you..." Scarlet yawned.
"If he's anything like me, he's probably punbelievable." Sans shrugged and winked.
Pap groans into the floorboard, hitting his skull against it repeatedly.
"WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS!?"
"IT'S MY KIND OF SHIT," Undy shouts back.
"I dunno... maybe we should show them how pungent we can be..." Scarlet placed her hands on her hips with a knowing grin.
Sann just bursts out laughing, he holds his face in his hands as he realizes how much he missed that...
"Now now... no need to PUNish them so bad right off the bat." Sans twirled Scarlet into a dip and they struck a pose. Scarlet and Sans try to keep straight faces
"God ...now you're just trying too hard," Charlie demands with a sassy attitude while holding up a hand. She looked over at Sann, enjoying seeing him laugh that hard.
Everyone hesitantly returns to their feet, not sure what's going on.
Charlie finally smiled.
"She's the one who PUNched me in the jaw..." Scarlet nodded towards Charlie as Sans stood her back up, both of them crossing their arms.
"That little PUNk?" Sans raised a brow with a smile.
Charlie steps back nervously while waving two hands in front of her, "Now now, I wasn't the one throwing fine china around…."
They both snickered, about to break character.
Sann came down from his pun-high, chuckling as he walked closer.
Asriel stood and cleared his throat.
"So...who might you be," Toriel softly asks while tied around Asriel's neck.
Sans saw the flower and there was a moment of inquiry. He simply grinned and winked.
"Sans the Skeleton. And this..." Sans nudged scarlet. "Is the lovely Miss Scarlet Starlet." Scarlet swept into a deep, sarcastic bow, keeping eye-contact.
"How about you?" Scarlet said, strolling up to Asriel. "Who might you be?"
Asriel fell back down; this girl's presence was staggering.
"Aww, what's... goatyou down..." she grinned.
Everyone suddenly heard a loud crack as the portal device was shattered against the floor.
Charlie jumped, and looked at Alph standing over the broken looked at Alph seriously. Alph looks to her left, then turned to Asriel.
"I...was nervous," she tried to explain. Asriel took a deep breath and patted Alyp on the back.
"Tis okay," Asriel reassures as he comforted a friend.
"So is that how you got here. Al?" Sans said casually.
"It's some sort of portal gun." Scarlet observed. "At least, it's how I got home."
Sans nodded, stroking his mandible.
"Interesting… I knew there were parallel universes and alternate timelines… I've never seen two actually cross over before…" Sans sighed.
"Yeah well, read it and weep," Charlie makes a snarky remark while stretching. "It was either here, or back to whatever's left of our world." Charlie then grew incredibly sad, "I wonder if my dad," she then shakes her head.
"Yeah… Trust me, where they were was no picnic…" Scarlet said looking at Sans. they stared at each other for a moment before Scarlet wore a bright smile and Sans contrasted with an unsure scowl.
"... I don't know, Scarlet…" he sighed.
"Pleeease~!" She said, swaying.
"It's a lot of responsibility…" he shrugged sarcastically.
"I promise to feed them and take care of them and make sure they're all the happiest monsters ever!" She clapped her hands excitedly. "Can we keep 'em! Please please!"
"Welp, I'm good with that," Sann jokes while cracking his knuckles, changing the subject. He then relaxed his stance.
Todd curled onto Scarlet's bed. "I could get used to being a house cat." Todd's thick orange fur is then smothered all over the sheets. He rubs his back deeper into the cotton.
Sans sighed with a chuckle. "Fine, fine… But you better clean up after them." He grinned. He pulled out his phone and started scrolling through it.
"We'd better tell the kids." He smirked.
Sann's grin faded. "Hey. Blue and uhh...Blue's playthang...," Sann walked forward, "We didn't go through hell and back to be compared to dogs." Charlie slaps him on the back. Scarlet and Sans looked at eachother in shock for a second before Scarlet snorted.
"Wow, um yeah no. Meand him? That's the funniest joke I've heard all night." She snickered. Sans blushed wildly and looked away.
"Sorry, he's….uhh...he's kinda not used to acting civilized. He's," Charlie slaps her own face, "He's not what you would call a BONE-ified house guest."
Scarlet and Sans both laughed awkwardly. Sann scoffed.
"I can't ….can't go on," Pap whines, falling limp onto the floor.
"Wait!" Scarlet interrupts loudly. "I'm sorry. Something needs to happen before anything else does." She stepped out of her room, leaving Sans staring at Sann. The clinking of glasses could be heard, followed by some shuffling in the kitchen.
Sann winked at Sans. Sans' grin broadened. Sann strolled over to his blue-er half and placed a hand on his shoulder, "You seem to have things under control..," Sann's smile broadened.
Scarlet started setting up champagne glasses into the shape of a heart, popping open a bottle of Mettaton's brand of Rose Wine.
"I'm such a terrible host... I apologize!" Scarlet called into the bedroom, pouring everyone a drink.
Charlie looked down, nervously avoiding eye contact with Sans. Sann grabbed Charlie's ass. Charlie quickly flinches but then calms down, realizing who's FRISKy hand that was.
"Everyone, would you kindly join my in the living room!" Scarlet announced. Everyone filed into the small apartment living room, seeing Scarlet perched in her kitchen counter. Sans stared at Sann for an additional moment or two before scoffing and turning to join them. Scarlet grinned.
"Okay... now..." She said, gracefully poised, taking a sip. "Who . the FUCK. are you people." She stated, crossing her legs with a sultry smile. Everyone looked at one another for a moment, not sure who should begin...
"A-Apparently," Alyp began, "we're from a different world. And I a-apologize beforehand. I originally created a device that would allow us to leave our world...and possibly into a better one. But in order to make sure we weren't followed...I destroyed the device. For both our protection...and yours," she stared at Sans.
"Enough of that," Sann blurted out. "If we're going to stay in this world...we need to know what we're dealing with," he smiled. Charlie deeply sighed, troubled but somewhat relieved. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't still shell-shocked from having literally left a war less than ten minutes ago. She wanted to believe that this was a real chance at something new… but her skepticism kept prodding deep thoughts.
"Then I guess I should introduce you to my turf." Scarlet sneered at Sann. She showed off, bending backward off of the counter, twisting on her wrist and landing on pointed toe. She walked towards the balcony, signalling for them to follow.
Charlie curiously followed. Todd performed a front flip and followed Charlie close behind. Asriel kept his gaze forward but followed as well. The others filed over. Sann raised an eyebrow at Sans, who nodded him towards Scarlet. He begrudgingly followed the rest of them.
Sans chuckled, gesturing everyone out the door.
Scarlet opened the doors to her balcony. Down below was a colorful world teeming with monsters and human coexisting. The mixture colored lights and the hustling sounds of the thriving city filled the air. Scarlet sat on the ledge swinging her feet, smiling at everyone's faces.
"Welcome to Tokyo, Darling~!" she mimicked Mettaton. "The Monster/Human Capital. Home to Mettaton's Empire."
Toriel gasps. Todd whistles. Asriel is breathless. He watches the monsters casually pass through the streets with little concern...or fear.. Sans sighs fondly, watching Scarlet handle everything with finesse.
"Well I'll be damned..." Sann snickers while leaning against the doorway.
Charlie jumped up and down at the back of the crowd, trying to shove past everyone, but they were too enamored to move. She jumped up and tries to look over Pap and Undy. Sans levitated a chair over to her and winked. Charlie smiled and gave him a thumbs up and jumped upon the chair. She was in awe while gazing the beautiful city, nearly emotional from seeing everything in tact again...
"So..." Scarlet swung her legs to cross the other way.
"I'll be honest with you all. This whole thing might come as a shock to your doppelgangers. I figured the best way to introduce you all is via the only way we do things around here." she smiled.
Everyone nods to acknowledge her but remain fixated on the new world before them...
Scarlet nodded at Sans, who's way ahead of her, inviting everyone over. Undyne, Papyrus, and Alphys recieve a text.
Sans: [You guys wanna see something cool? Come to Scarlet's place.]
Scarlet jumped down and re-entered her apartment, climbing up onto the kitchen island. "Ladies and Gentlemen! Gather round!"
They all turned to see the champaigne. Todd and Sann both widely grin. Alyp looks uneasy, Undy smirks, rubbing her back.
Scarlet held up a glass with a broad sparkling smile. Charlie and Asriel share a similar look of uneasiness. She looked at him with a reassuring smile and gently placed a hand on his back, guiding him towards the group. Toriel climbed from Asriel's neck and wrapped around Charlie...
"As the designated human of your group, I think you should make the toast." Scarlet handed a glass to Charlie. Charlie tilted her head. She pulled her long brown hair out of her face, exposing her deep blue eyes. She sighs with a complacent expression… but it's quickly replaced by a smile as she raises her glass.
"To new beginnings," she softly smiles. Her friends nervously smile as they also take a glass.
"To a new way to party." Todd laughs.
"To sexy times!" Undy snickers.
"T-to new chances." Alyp hints.
"To not living in fear..." Asriel calmly states.
Sann grins as he unessecarily reaches behind Charlie to grab a glass.
"To finally being able to settle down...with the woman I love," Sann casually states...Charlie froze. She took a deep breath to scold him, but looks up at Sann and smiles softly.
"...sure thing big guy." She sighed.
"To the future." Sans said, looking at Scarlet.
"To living in the moment! To lovingin the moment!" She says with a smile.
"To the little things! Cheers!"
Everyone raised their glasses and drank to this strange new beginning.
The front door suddenly burst open and Papyrus, Alphys and Undyne pile over each other into the room, shoving one another aside.
"NO. FUCKING. WAY!" Undyne and Undy say excitedly in Unison.
"OH MY GOD!" Papyrus squealed.
Alphys is at a loss for words... she calmly stands and stares at her double from across the room.
Undy shouts and she charges towards Undyne with a smirk. Undyne tackles her into the couch as they start to wrestle. Alyp is taken back but calmly gins under her fogged glasses. Scarlet cheers, watching them grapple.
Pap is immediately annoyed as Papyrus approached him wide-eyed and innocent.
Sann and Asriel actually smile. Asriel places an arm around Sann as they both happily watch the new interactions. Sans scoffs hoping the Undynes don't damage anything.
"BROTHER!" Papyrus smiles, greeting Sans. "BROTHER?" He sees San and immediately lifts him into a hug. "BROTHER FROM ANOTHER!"
Sann is pulled in and his eyes grow wide as his devilish grins sees Pap from over Papyrus' shoulder. Pap is just shaking his head.
"I forgot how cute you were, bro." Sann laughed his ass off.
"MMYES! I AM THE MOST ADORABLE, AM I NOT" Papyrus replied, snuggling Sann.
"You got it, Pappy." Scarlet smiled, jumping down from the counter. Pap scowls...knowing that comment as actually directed towards him. Papyrus placed Sann down and hugged both Sans' before approaching Pap and asking him a barrage of questions.
Scarlet's eyes flicked towards Asriel. Asriel takes a step back, he actually grabs Charlie's hand. Why did this girl scare him so much… Scarlet approaches them with a sly grin. Charlie looks back, she notices he still nervous. She holds his hand and smiles.
"One of these things... is not like the other." She sipped her drink with a smirk. Asriel raised and brow…
"Pap, Pap. Fish, Fish. Lizard, Lizard. Human, Human…" Scarlet said, pointing to everyone, then to Asriel, her expression demanding an explination. There was a new sense of confidence that overtook him when he felt Charlie clasp his hand in return. He looked back at Scarlet with a smile, feeling less nervous.
"Sorry I fell onto you. I never got the chance to thank you for saving me. I would have been actual toast. So...thank you for catching me." She said, smiling sweetly. And just like that Asriel felt his stomach flutter again, feeling the heat in his cheeks.
"Hey! It's okay, Asriel," she tried hard not to smile at his bashfulness.
Sann's eyes flicker as they actively watch Charlie. Scarlet laughs.
"Aww, come on, 'Asriel'I don't bite….Often." she winked at Sann, catching him staring.
Sans raised a brow, not sure if he liked the way Sann looked at them. Sann paused for a moment then shrugged and smirked, walking to the couch. Scarlet looked at Charlie's tattered outfit. It had been a while since she'd hung out with another human girl. She must have been through a lot if the place they were just in was really her home… might as well show her some hospitality.
"Charlie, was it?" Scarlet said, taking another sip.
Charlie looked back at Scarlet.
"Uh, yeah?" She finished her drink.
"I figured I'd be a good host and offer you a welcome gift. You look like you could use some new clothes." Scarlet smiled and extended her hand.
"And?" Charlie said, intrigued. She took Scarlet's hand.
"My closet is damn near bottomless." Scarlet winked.
Sans scoffed and smirked, joining Sann on the couch. "That's an understatement..."
Charlie placed her hand on her hip and pondered.
"I haven't been among humans for a long time... but if you wish to dress me up as one, so be it."
Scarlet snapped a finger in front of Asriel's face. "Hey, fluffball!"
Asriel looks up, still a little flustered. Sann smiled, happy Charlie was making friends.
"You can help." Scarlet smiled lead them to her into her bedroom.