Stumbling through the barrier on weak legs she drops to the ground, a cool autumn breeze whips through her tattered and torn sweater. The sun is just rising on the horizon, throwing tones of gold and purple across the multicoloured canopy of trees below her spot on the cliff edge, making the view look like it was ablaze. Slowly her heart beat slowed and she felt numb, "Is this it, is this how it ends?" she croaks out quietly, but no one answers, no one is around to answer. Curling up, she wraps her aching arms around her knees at a loss of what to do now, she had given up everything on the surface when she came to the mountain, she never expected to see the sun, the sky or even the world again when she fell. After everything she had experienced in the underground, "what do I do now?" she asks the open air with no emotion.
Ring, ring ...
A phone rang, she frowns and looks around before realisation floods through her and she scrambles to pull out the small phone Toriel had given her, and that Dr Alphys had upgraded from her small satchel. The number flashing up on the screen was one she didn't recognise but she answers it quickly with a small flicker of hope, "H..hello?"
"Heya. Is anyone there...?" Sans deep voice fills her ear and a shattered joy flows through her,
"Sans!"
"Well, I'll just leave a message..."
"Sans? Sans I'm here!"
"So... It's been a while." He could not hear her, sadness wells up and with her head drooping she continues to listen, "The Queen returned, and is now ruling over the underground. She's instated a new policy..." there is a pause, "all the humans who fall here will be treated not as enemies... but as friends. It's probably for the best, anyway. The human souls the King gathered... seem to have disappeared. So, uh, that plan ain't happening any time soon. But even though people are heartbroken over the King..." tears begin to sting her eyes, "...and things are looking grim for our freedom... the Queen's trying her best not to let us give up hope. So, uh, hey... if we're not giving up down here... don't give up wherever you are ok? Who knows how long it will take... but we will get out of here," tears were silently streaming down her face now as a new voice erupts loudly from the phone,
"SANS! WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?" It was very clearly Papyrus,
"Oh, nobody." Sans responds,
"WHAT!? NOBODY!? CAN I TALK TO THEM TOO?"
"Here, knock yourself out,"
"WAIT A SECOND... I RECOGNISE THIS NUMBER!" this makes her giggle quietly, "ATTENTION, HUMAN! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS..." dramatic pause, "AM NOW CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD! IT'S EVERYTHING I'VE DREAMED OF..."another pause, "EXCEPT, INSTEAD OF FIGHTING, WE JUST WATER FLOWERS. SO THAT'S EVER-SO-SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. AND, WE'RE HELPING DR. ALPHYS WITH HER RESEARCH! SHE'S GONNA FIND A WAY TO GET US OUT OF HERE. UNDYNE IS HELPING HER TOO! THOUGH, TO BE HONEST, HER METHOD OF HELPING...SEEMS KIND OFF... EXPLOSION-INDUCING," this turns her quiet giggle into a louder chuckle, "BUT I THINK ALPHYS LIKES HAVING HER AROUND. UH OH!"
"Hey! What are you up to, punk!? Ngahhhh!" Undyne's loud voice rivals Papyrus'
"PLEASE DON'T NOOGIE THE PHONE."
"Hey! Who's in charge here!?" she demands,
"ME." Papyrus responds simply,
"Oh... yeah, that's right! I quit my job as leader of the Royal Guard. Actually, since we won't be fighting anymore... The Royal Guard totally disbanded. There's, uh, only one member now."
"BUT HE'S EXTREMELY GOOD."
"Yeah! He is! C'mere!"
"PLEASE DON'T NOOGIE THE SKELETON."
"Any way's, now I'm working as Alphy's lab assistant... We're gonna find a way out of this dump once and for all! Oh, yeah, and I'm a gym teacher at the queen's new school. Did you know I can bench-press seven children? Awesome, right?" there is a long pause, "Hey. I'm sorry about what happened with Asgore. You were just doing what you had to. It's not your fault he..." a sob of raw emotion caught in her throat at Undyne's words, "Ah, darn it. I miss the big guy."
"H-hey, Undyne, are you okay...?" Alphys' stuttering voice interrupts,
"I'm fine. Why don't you talk for a while?"
"U...uh okay? Man, she's tsundere..." there is an extremely long pause before she speaks again, "um, hi... S-sorry, I hate talking on the phone. I don't really know what to say..." another long pause, "Hey, why didn't you tell me the Queen was so cute? Uh, I mean, uh... Mettaton's doing OK! And! Um! I'm trying to figure a way for us to get out of here! B-but I kinda have no idea what I'm doing. I'll figure it out eventually though. The Queen is a lot different from Asgore... She actually checks to see if I'm doing anything. She's really turned this whole place around!" another pause and what sounds like movement, "Oh! Hey! Wait a second! Hey! Toriel! Do you wanna talk to...?" another pause a mumble of conversation to quiet to comprehend, "Well, she says she's busy."
"Oh, she SAYS she's busy." Undyne chuckles,
"IF SHE KNEW WHO WE WERE TALKING TO..." Papyrus continues,
"We wouldn't get the phone back for at least a few hours." Sans adds,
"WE HAVE THE MERCY TO SPARE YOU FROM HER!" this brings a little more sadness into her heart,
"B-but, if you want to, call and talk to her any time." Alphys says as if she could tell this had upset her, but that was not possible,
"Yeah! She'd be happy to hear from ya!" Undyne encourages,
"Oh, whoops. This thing's almost outta batteries. So, hate to cut this short, but... be seeing you, ok, buddy?" Sans interrupts,
"BYE BYE FOR NOW!" Papyrus shouts,
"See ya, punk!" Undyne yells,
"G-good... good... Hey, why do I have to be the one to hang up? Eheheh... I hate goodbyes... Um, we'll see you again someday!" Alphys ends the call, the phone goes dead. Curling back into a ball her body shudders with emotion as her heart brakes and tears fell. After a while she becomes aware of a presence beside her, glancing down she scowls sadly at the small yellow flower, silently demanding to know what he wants now, he looks up at her with a thoughtful expression before beginning to speak,
"Why? Why did you let me go? Don't you realise that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself, you made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it?" her glare hardens a little at his mocking pity, "If you had just gone through without caring about anyone... You wouldn't have to feel bad now. So, I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way... Why did things still end up like this? Why...? Is life really that unfair? Say. What if I told you... I knew some way to get you a better ending? You'll have to start over, and... Well, in the meantime, why don't you go see Dr. Alphys? It seems like you could have been better friends. Who knows... maybe she's got the key to your happiness...? See you soon." he smiles shiftily and disappears into the ground from where he came. She's left wondering exactly what he meant, start over, was it even possible. As she questioned this, two choices appeared in front of her, glowing yellow. Continue? Reset? She hovers her hand over the reset option,
"Is it even possible?" after everything she had just experienced, was she willing to go through it again? The answer was surprisingly simple as the images of her friends flickered through her mind, "I'll do it, I'll go back, and I will get everyone out, I'll save everyone," a grin of determination flows across her face, "including you Flowey." She presses the reset, darkness envelops her and suddenly she was falling.
She wakes up on a bed of yellow flowers, "It actually worked..." she mumbles quietly, everything kind of hurt as she stared up at the hole she fell from, again. Suddenly a head pops into her vision, she lets out a yelp of shock and scrambles away in fear,
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare ya!" a cheery voice chuckles mischievously, looking over the person, she found it was a boy maybe a year or two older, with shoulder length light brown hair, crimson eyes, pale skin and rosy cheeks. He was wearing similar clothing to herself, though whereas she was wearing a blue sweater with two purple stripes, a pair of blue shorts and brown boots, the boy was wearing a green sweater with one yellow stripe and brown shorts and boots. There was something else about him that she found odd, and not because he was not here last time, but the more she looked at him, the more she noticed he was kind of see through, "are you okay?" he asks cocking his head to the side like a puppy, she nods her head in reply, "don'cha talk?" he asks floating over, her eyes widen a little as he stops in front of her,
"I can talk," she mumbles quietly, "I just don't like to, for personal reasons," the boy grins at her but then frowns and looks up,
"Did you fall down from up there?" he asks before looking back at her, she nods, "Hmm, so did I, but that was a long time ago," he frowns deeply. Out of curiosity she tries to poke him and is surprised to find substance, "hey that tickles!" he laughs and steps back a little,
"I thought you were a ghost..." she mumbles,
"I am," he grins, "I died down here and now I'm kind of stuck," he shrugs, "what's your name?"
"Huh, oh, my name is Frisk," she answers shyly,
"Frisk huh? That's a nice name," he smiles as she blushes lightly, "I'm Chara, it's nice to meet you partner."
