It had all happened so fast. Where do I even begin?

I was working in my laboratory on that eventful day. (Though let's be honest, it was really just my desk in my room.) I was tinkering with my barrier blaster, another one of my many attempts to get to the surface, when there was a bright flash of light.

The next moment I was back in my room, as though nothing had happened. But it felt as though something big had indeed happened.

I heard a lot of monsters walking past the apartment I lived in, which happened to be near the stairwell. It seemed everyone was leaving. I decided to stay in my room. I didn't really want to stop working on my device just yet. I felt I was so close to finally getting it to work. So close to the surface. So close to freedom. I figured if whatever was causing everyone to leave was that important, someone would come and get me.

Eventually, someone did.

It wasn't my parents whom I shared the apartment with. That was to be expected, since they were rarely ever home. They were always busy, out and about, fixing important machinery all over the Underground.

I heard knocks on my bedroom door. "Insur! Insur, come quick! Have you heard the news?!" Apparently it was important. I tore myself from my work, and opened the door. It was Erup, with his little sister Vulkin. The volcano monsters were boiling their lava with excitement.

Annoyed to be pulled from my tinkering, I grumbled, "This better be important."

"Oh it is." said Erup.

"The most exciting thing in the history of forever has happened!" Vulkin squealed. "The barrier has been broken!"

"Hey!" Erup glared at his sister. "I wanted to tell him."

"Sorry, I'm just so excited!" Vulkin said, hearts in her eyes. "We'll get to go see the sun! The real sun! And wish on REAL stars!"

It took a moment for what they had said to sink in. The barrier was broken? How?

I then remembered that a human had recently fallen into the underground. The eight one. The last soul for Asgore to collect. Their name was Frisk, right?

Wait, how did I know the human's name? I never met them before. Though I had seen them on Mettaton's show. Maybe it got mentioned there.

Did that mean that Asgore had gotten their soul? I shuddered thinking about it. Most of what I've learned about humans before reaching the surface was rather unpleasant to say the least. But I had also seen that not all of them were bad, thanks to Alphys' videos on human history. And from what I had seen of Frisk on TV, they seemed really nice. They spared Mettaton!

"So Asgore finally did it, huh? He used all seven souls to break the barrier." I said, feeling saddened by all the deaths it took.

"Oh, no. Asgore didn't break the barrier. Frisk did!" Erup said.

"They did it with their determination!" said Vulkin dreamily, with hearts in her eyes.

"A single human child has broken the barrier with determination?" I said awestruck. I couldn't believe it. I had spent so long studying the barrier. It surely would have taken more than that or I would've freed everyone myself by now. "How?"

Erup shifted a little. I knew that he knew that I wanted a very technical answer. I also knew that there was no way he could've given me one, even if he had witnessed it himself. "Uh, well, no one really knows. From what I've heard, a bunch of monsters went to meet Frisk at the castle. Then some weird flower monster showed up, attacked everyone, and then everything went white. After that, the barrier was broken."

"That's it?" I asked.

"That's all I know."

"We should all get packing," Vulkin chirped up, "Everyone's moving out to the surface."

We all agreed to meet up outside the apartment entrance in an hour. I ran around, packing as much as I could in my suitcase. Clothes, tools, books, and food, of course. I hated to leave my barrier blaster behind, but I figured we would come back with equipment to carry all of our belongings later.

I thought about my parents. They had probably gone ahead of me to help set up some equipment, confident that I would find my own way out. They were used to my independence.

Then I thought about Frisk. They seemed to be something special, to be loved by so many. I was glad that the barrier was broken, though a little jealous that they had beaten me to it.

I had finally managed to close my suitcase, which was nearly bursting at the seams. I stopped to look at myself in the mirror. This might be my first encounter with humans, and I didn't want to look like a mess. There I was, a short dinosaur monster. My sky blue scales didn't look too dirty. My claws were a little grimy from my machine work. I would have to wash them before I left. The clothes I had on were clean. No spots on my two-tone blue sweater that nearly matched my scales. The dark blue elastics that came with the sweater on my collar, arm ends, and bottom of sweater looked nice and tidy. The light tan khakis I had on weren't wrinkly. The goggles I always wore on the base of my triceratops-like frill were a little worn, but they were important to me and there was no time to spruce them up.

As soon as I was ready, I headed down to our meeting spot. Erup and Vulkin were already there.

"Are you ready?" Erup asked.

We started walking through New Home to the castle. It was strange to see the place so empty. Usually the pathways were busy and full of chatter. "We must be the last monsters to leave." Vulkin stated.

We then talked for a bit about what the surface would be like, and what we would do when we got there. No one was really sure at the time.

"What are you gonna do, Insur, now that the barrier's been broken?"

I had a lot of ideas, mostly involving learning new things and exploration.

"I have so much I want to do! I don't even know where to begin." I answered.

The conversation switched to the human, Frisk. We were all curious about them. As it had turned out, Vulkin had already met them in Hotlands.

"I was taking a stroll when I saw them coming towards me. They looked a little hurt, so I tried to heal them with my lava!"

Vulkin had believed her magic lava bullets had healing powers. While this wasn't necessarily true, to most monsters her lava was pleasantly warm.

"They told me that my lava didn't really heal. But that's ok! They gave me a great big hug afterwards! It was so lovey!" Her eyes were hearts again. "They're really nice!"

We finally got to the castle. The doors were wide open. They were rarely locked. Our king has always liked being available to hear any problems from his subjects. We went through the castle, took an elevator to the top, walked through his house, past the throne room, and reached the room were the edge of the barrier once stood. Only rays of sunlight were there now.

We paused. None of us had ever seen the sky before except in pictures. I think we were nervous. After a brief moment, I couldn't stand it.

I rushed forward, up the path, and onto the cliff. I skidded to a stop, and gaped at the view. It was a breath taking sight.

A few years later, we had all settled down, forming a new city on the base of Mount Ebott. Our king had declared it to be called: Newer Home. He is a great king, but he is awful at names.

A lot had happened. Queen Toriel returned from the Ruins, though she and the king are still not exactly on good terms. Humans had met us, with mixed reactions. For the most part, we kept to ourselves, though Frisk, our new ambassador, and adopted prince, was working hard to smooth the kinks out. We had all met them at that point. They are a great person, loved by everyone in our little kingdom.

Alphys revealed the erroneous results of her terrible experiment. As it turned out, she had injected determination into monsters who had fallen down to see if that would keep their souls from disappearing. Instead she created the amalgymates, and then hid them for years in her basement, too scared to tell everyone the truth.

Now that the amalgymates were allowed to go home, most monsters had forgiven her, and were happy to see their loved ones alive. Though several monster scientists, including my parents, were appalled. Alphys lost her job as Royal Scientist, and was disrespected by many. Even her own parents had denounced her, announcing that she was no longer their daughter.

I decided to support her. It was an accident, and while it could have been handled better, her actions had saved lives – sort of. And I knew she wasn't a bad person. Of course, this meant that my parents hated me. So then I lived by myself in a single apartment. I'm self-sufficient and independent. It worked.

For the first few months I had spent a lot of time with Alphys and Undyne, and had met their friends: the skeleton brothers, Mettaton, and even Frisk.

I had only hung out with Alphys once prior to the barrier breaking. Out of my curiosity of the Royal Scientist, I decided to seek her out. She was nervous at first, but after I showed interest in her collection of strange looking books, she warmed up a little. That was when she showed me her study of human history, which I now know was really just an obsession with anime.

Interesting, but I was more interested in what she was doing to take the barrier down. After asking her this, though, she got really nervous, and then asked me to leave for a bit, as she "suddenly" remembered a dangerous experiment she was working on that needed to be done solo. She refused to answer my questions as to the nature of it, and nearly dragged me to the door.

I suspected that she had given up hope, and decided it was best to keep going on with my plans.

However, for the first few months after the barrier being broken, they were the closest thing I had to parents. Undyne was cool in her own way, with her passion and spirit of justice. Alphys was great at complimenting it, especially after she got friends to support her and get her past her own issues. I could definitely see their connection.

However, despite all that, Alphys was still being treated poorly for her determination experiment, and so she and Undyne had left for Florida.

After that, I had to find something to do. I would have liked to be the next royal scientist, but I still had my stripes. So I decided to spend my time outside of school learning about the surface. Mostly the technology. Now that I no longer needed to obsess over breaking the barrier, I needed something to consume my time and energy. However, despite all the amazing things the humans have done while monsterkind was trapped, and despite the vastness of information on the Internet, there was still something else I wanted to do. I wanted more than just reading information. I wanted to experience something new.

Some monsters had left Newer Home to achieve their dreams in the human world. I decided I wanted to be one of them. The problem was I was too young, just a student. No one would let me go out by myself, and there was no one to take me. Then it occurred to me.

What if I were to become a transfer student? I knew that was a thing, in which a student from one place goes to a school in another place to learn about a different culture. That was what I would do. But first, I needed to pick a place.

I didn't want to go to America. Technically, we were in America, and a lot of the monsters who had left remained in the country. I wanted to go somewhere new. I went to my computer, which I had built after we got to the surface, and used the internet to browse various places. I googled (using image search) "cool places to go" and scrolled through the pictures. Something caught my eye. I clicked on it to enlarge it. It was a tall tower, shaped like an 'A' with the tip extending upward. It looked to be in the middle of a city. A pool of water below reflected it.

After a bit of searching, I found out that the tower was called the Eiffel Tower, and it was located in Europe. I found out that Europe was a whole ocean away from America. The city was called Paris, and it was in a country called France. That was where I would go. I would transfer to a school in or nearby Paris. I could study the architecture of the tower on top of everything else.

There were hurdles though. First of which, I would have to learn a new language. The residents of France spoke French, not English. That wasn't too bad. After using my saved up gold to buy Rosetta Stone, I was able to speak quite fluently in just three months. I practiced with French Youtube videos right before I left. I was confident that the language barrier wouldn't be a problem.

Then there was the matter of convincing the king and queen to let me go. Asgore was uncertain, and Toriel didn't think the humans would ever let me on an airplane.

Frisk thought it would be a great idea. They helped me to convince them.

The last thing we had to do was find a school willing to take me in. It took some time, but eventually we found a boarding school in a well off district, practically a suburb of Paris, willing to work with us.

A few weeks later, and I was at the airport. My parents didn't show up, but Alphys and Undyne came. Along with the royal family. We all said our goodbyes and farewells, and I was nearly squished to dust by Undyne just before passing security.

I finally boarded the plane, too excited to care about the strange looks I got from everyone.

For the first time in a while, I was going somewhere new, where no monster had ever been before. (At least, not in several hundred years.)

Not my first fanfiction I've ever written, but definitely the first one I've ever uploaded to this site. I actually wrote this months ago, but only now decided to publish it on here, mostly for kicks, but also to test the waters a bit. Also, I wanted to fill that void in the Undertale/Code Lyoko crossover page. I don't know if I'll continue this, though maybe I'll feel more determined if readers want more.

Actually not expecting too much traffic, considering where this is going, and since this is one of the more unique ideas, I think. (In Undertale terms, since I haven't really seen this done before with Undertale in my regular crawling on this site. Though I know this idea has been done to death with Code Lyoko, other than the fact that this time the new student is a dinosaur monster.)