Author's Note: Hello there! Welcome to my sequel of the first fanfiction I made for Undertale: Unexpected Encounter. If you have not read the first work and you are interested in reading this story, I recommend you read the first story before continuing:

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Okay, with all that being said, enjoy the story!

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Y… you're…

… Everything is… still here…

… I… I still… remember…

… Heh… guess I'll take that as a 'yes'…

… To be honest, I… I didn't think… I thought that you might…

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Uh… well, doesn't matter now. The important thing is that you're here, and… I guess…you want to hear about what you missed… what you've been missing…

(Ah geez, how do I even start…? How far did they see…? Maybe… yeah, I'm sure that's a good starting place).

You haven't seen the Surface, right?

I… I didn't immediately rush up there. I waited for all the monsters to leave before I looked. About a week. They collected their belongings. Their families. I was… kind of surprised it didn't take them longer. Well, maybe more… astonished at how empty the place got after so little time. Centuries worth of civilization, just… gone in an instant.

Your… friends… left right after the Barrier was broken. For a while they just stood there outside the cave like a bunch of id–– um, just uh… stood there in the light. I just sort of glanced at them from a distance. Didn't really see what they were looking at. Thought it was just the sky. What was the big deal anyway? I've seen better color schemes in paintings than just orange and yellow mixed together.

At least… that's what I thought… until I actually went out there myself.

I… I couldn't help but just stand there, just like they had. It was overwhelming, but in a good way.

… You've… never felt it… have you?

… For as long as I can remember, monsters have always speculated what the light above the Underground would feel like. Would it be as soft as the glow of the echo flowers in Waterfall? Or as harsh as the heat of the lava in Hotlands? There were only a few monsters who could really remember how it felt, but they each had their own way of describing it. Gerson said it felt like laughter that was bottled up inside, but instead of exploding into a boisterous guffaw, it would seep out as quiet giggles that would keep you content until it gave out for the night, replenishing the next morning. Asgore said it was like the feeling he got when he was reading to… his kids, the feeling he got whenever he saw their smiling faces. … Toriel… she said it was like… (how did it go again) … like… "an embrace… by someone very dear to you, and it is as if they will never let go. When they finally do, it saddens you a little bit, but you know that they will be back the next day, so you are excited for what tomorrow will bring". … That's how she always described it.

And then I felt it for myself. It was kind of intense. I even felt like I was burning for a few seconds. But only a few seconds. Then it was just relief, like a weight had been lifted, and I could've sworn I felt it fly away with the breeze blowing by. If I had to describe it, I guess… I guess it reminded me of the times I'd get scratches and bruises when I played with… my best friend. They sure loved to roughhouse! Hehehe… yeah, it would sting but I always felt better when she would give it a kiss. You know who…

You know, thinking about it now, that wasn't my first time on the Surface. I'm sure you already know what happened, and I… I don't really want to talk about it much, but looking back at it, I don't think I even really felt what it was like to be outside the Underground. I didn't notice. All I felt was… the… the uh…

Mmmm… on second thought, let's not talk about that…

It's kind of weird. It's not like sunlight is a foreign thing. I mean, obviously most of the monsters never saw the sun while they were underground. But the Barrier let in the light and the sounds of the Surface. You've seen the hall leading to the Throne Room, so you know what I'm talking about. In the earlier days of the Underground, just about every monster passed by there, whether it'd be to attend the balls the Dreemurrs would hold, to ask the Dreemurrs for advice, or simply to marvel at the light that came through the stain glass windows. That probably seems pretty dumb. Light is light, right? What really made it different from anything else, from… say… the light from a lamp? Well… a lamp is a source of light. That light that came through the windows, there was no source. At least, from within the barrier, you couldn't see the source. You couldn't see the sun, you couldn't see the stars. … Whatever spell those magicians used to make the Barrier, it wasn't just something that they came up with willy-nilly. They knew what they were doing…

I remember one time I thought, "What good are these windows if you can't even feel what's out there? You can see it (barely), but you can't feel it?". I asked him that once. Asgore. He said that the hall was like "a beacon of hope for his people", or something like that.

… Hmm… even thinking about it now… I think it was the opposite. Like rubbing salt on the wound. He didn't do it on purpose, obviously, but… just think about it. The Barrier was designed to let in light and sounds. Why didn't it completely cut every sense off from the Surface? I'm sure it could've easily been done. But they didn't. Instead they made small pieces of the Surface still tangible to the Monsters so they would want something that was impossible to get. Letting in more of that light only strengthened that desire…

If you can't harm someone physically anymore, why not harm them psychologically?

Genius. Cruel, but genius.

… The Barrier sure acted funny when a strong force met it. Where the entrance to the Surface is, where the Barrier loomed over the most, that area wasn't always so spacious. When the Monsters thought it was safe enough to travel further into the Underground, they found that cavern. The stone there seemed flimsier than what they had encountered everywhere else, so they thought that maybe that this point… this was the Barrier's weak spot. They took a chance and started working on breaking down the stone walls. They were wrong, of course. *tch* I don't even know why they thought it would work. The Barrier wasn't the mountain, it was The Barrier. Two different things.

Well… I guess I can't blame them. It was hard to tell what was the mountain and what was the Barrier. The Barrier was invisible, so some of them were even skeptical that this "Barrier" even existed. Maybe it was an illusion the Humans came up with to make the Monsters stay underground.

That is until they struck it on accident while uncovering more of the cavern. With one great blow, the Barrier pulsated and howled as if some great beast had been disturbed. The weirdest thing about it was that instead of radiating energy from the point of contact, it actually seemed to absorb it as large rings of black and white concentrated themselves at that point of contact. That's how Asgore put it. More or less.

It settled after some time, but it stay––

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Author's Note: Hoped you enjoyed my work! If you have any suggestions to what Flowey should talk about in the story, let me know. I can't guarantee that they'll make it into the story, but I can guarantee that all suggestions will be considered.

Everything's caught up with my AO3 account now, so this will be the last story uploaded here for a while. I'm not sure how many chapters this will be, but I have a lot of ideas that will be used here and I have a general outline going. I just need to get things organized.

Well, until next time!