A/N: Did you know if Frisk declines to become Ambassador, Papyrus becomes Ambassador instead? I ask because a lot of people seem to not know, leading to there being an extreme lack of Ambassador Papyrus content. So here I am, trying to fill that void.
Ch. 1: First Contact
Papyrus stares into the sunset. Or was it a sunrise? He can't tell, with it being his first time on the surface and all, he doesn't actually recall where it rises from or where any of the cardinal coordinates are in relation to his current location. Then Papyrus heard Asgore speak.
"Will you act as our ambassador to the humans?" He glances to the corner of his eye socket just in time for the human to respond with a 'no'. He began to speak immediately afterward.
"IT'S OK FRISK! I'VE GOT YOU COVERED! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THE AMBASSADOR...I CAN DO IT FOR YOU!" He immediately turned on his heel, "I'LL GO MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION!" And he took off in a full sprint, excited to meet humans, excited at all the possibilities the surface held for them.
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He ran into his brother partway down the mountain. Considering none of them had left the mountain before... "SANS! DID YOU PUT A PHALANGE IN MY BOOT AGAIN?" He immediately stopped and rattled his boots, finding the culprit in his left boot. He groaned and pulled it off before shaking the 'misplaced' finger bone into his open hand. After re-strapping his boot on he shoved the finger in Sans' waiting outstretched palm, before tossing him over his shoulder full aware that his brother only did this to hitch a ride down the rest of the mountain, admiring the fiery shades of the leaves.
At the base of the mountain they came across a sentry station of some sort. He set his brother down on a picnic table in the clearing and approached the new building. Potential first contact! Exciting! He looked in the windows, a human was seated behind a desk reading a newspaper, and faintly he could hear the static of a radio playing inside. He followed the exterior wall of the station until he found a door. He stopped himself before he got a chance to turn the handle. 'WHAT IF THE HUMAN IS STARTLED BY ME JUST WALKING INTO THEIR STATION? WHAT IF I FRIGHTEN THEM SO BADLY THAT THEY ATTACK ME? BETTER NOT RISK IT.' So he knocked on the door instead.
"One second!" The human from inside called, followed by the creak of a chair and some papers rustling. Sans casually waited at the picnic table he was left at, offering a lazy thumbs up at his brother. The blinds on the door parted a little, and Papyrus put on his friendliest smile and waved in a hopefully non-threatening manner at the human. This immediately preceded the blinds flicking shut, a rather loud 'thump', a yelp of pain, and several curse words. Sounds like the human was so startled that they hurt themself. Papyrus out of concern tried the doorknob, and upon finding it unlocked slowly slid the door open; cautious, just in case the human wasn't out of the way of the door.
He poked his head in to find the human sprawled out on the floor staring up at him in pure terror. "HUMAN? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" The human did a very good impression of someone trying to do a sprint on ice with their hands. Frantically trying to retreat but not getting anywhere. They refused to move one of their legs however and every time it was jostled they would wince in pain. He took a step forward, intending to help them-
"Stay back!" The human was fumbling with something on their belt. Papyrus quickly knelt down.
"I HAVE NO INTENTION OF HARMING YOU, HUMAN! I AM THE AMBASSADOR FOR ALL OF MONSTERKIND AFTER ALL. AND ALSO, IT WOULD BE VERY RUDE?" Papyrus gingerly placed a gloved hand on the human's ankle, focusing on healing it. They must have turned too quickly and twisted it when they saw him. The human's face went from fearful and twisted with pain to astonished. Then fearful again.
"Th-there's more of you?"
"WHY, YES! THOUGH I ASSURE YOU, NONE OF THEM WILL ATTACK ANY HUMANS! UNLESS THE HUMANS CHALLENGE THEM TO A PLAYFUL FIGHT. WE LOVE THOSE!" Suddenly Sans peaked out from behind his taller brother.
"oh hey, a human." He casually held out his hand. "'sup. name's sans, sans the skeleton." The human slowly reached out their hand and shook his.
"Uh, Garret, Park Ranger Garret Larson." Papyrus slapped himself in the face.
"OH! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF!" He held out his hand now, "I AM PAPYRUS! AMBASSADOR PAPYRUS!" When the human's hand was securely in Papyrus' grip he pulled him up to his feet with ease.
"Uh, you already said that-"
"I KNOW, BUT I WAS ONLY JUST APPOINTED." He brought his hand to the side of his mouth like he was telling a secret, "AND I AM STILL RATHER GIDDY ABOUT IT."
The human scrubbed a hand down his face before running it back through his hair. "Okay, so." He took in a deep breath and looked up at Papyrus. "I'm not dreaming?"
"NOPE."
"Monsters are real?"
"yep." Just to demonstrate - or maybe just to mess with the human - Sans pulled off one of his arms and scratched his back with it. The Ranger's eyes widened before he peeled his eyes away and looked out the window to try calming down. Only for Undyne to slam out of the woods, looking around with a manic grin on her face. The second she spotted Papyrus she barreled through a window and attempted to tackle him. Papyrus noticed just in time and dodged before turning her blue and sticking her to the ceiling.
"Aww! C'mon Pap!"
"UNDYNE! I AM TRYING TO MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION ON THIS HUMAN," He gestured vaguely to the man who had ran behind his desk to get his two-way radio. "AND YOU JUST BROKE HIS WINDOW!"
"Ah, shi-shoot." She censored herself at the glare Papyrus shot her. He released his magic and she dropped down. Then Alphys cautiously peeked in the door, before she swung it open to reveal herself and Asgore standing just outside. Alphys entered, leaving Asgore still outside as the door was much too small for him to go through. Undyne turned back to the Park Ranger who was frantically talking to someone over the radio.
"-Not evil, but trust me you have to see this! I am not BS-ing you I swear Shauna! There are real monsters in my station!"
Over the radio came the crackly voice of Shauna, "Uh-huh. What kind of monsters are they then, Gary?"
"Two skeletons, one of which claims to be the Ambassador, a uh-" He glanced over, "Fish person, a lizard in a labcoat, and a goat? Rabbit? So big he can't even get inside. C'mon, please, you have to see this. I made first contact with a whole new species!"
A sigh from the human on the other end of the radio. "Fine. I'll be right up."
The man turned to face the monsters who had left very little room for maneuvering in his station. His station wasn't even that small! Undyne was the first to speak up.
"Uh, sorry about breaking your window, human." She nervously scratched the back of her head. He glanced over, seemingly only now aware that she has easily destroyed a screen.
"That's...that's fine. At least it wasn't glass. And my name is Garret Larson. But you can call me Gary."
"WELL GARY, IT IS VERY NICE TO HAVE MET YOU! DO YOU KNOW HOW WE COULD PEACEFULLY INTRODUCE OURSELVES TO ALL OF HUMANKIND? PERHAPS CALLING IN A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL? I WOULD DO IT MYSELF BUT SEEING AS HOW WE'RE NEW AROUND HERE I DONT REALLY HAVE ANYONE'S NUMBER."
"I figured. That's why I radioed up Shauna. She's my superior and would know how to do something like that. Maybe. But I also called her just to make sure I'm not having some kind of vivid hallucination." A silence. "She should be here in a few minutes."
"Thank you for being so hospitable towards us, Gary." Came the rumble of Asgore's voice just outside the window. He stuck his hand through the window where the screen used to be. "I am Asgore Dreemurr, King of Monsters." Gary shook his hand, mildly terrified of his much bigger it was than his own.
He turned and came face to chest with the tall blue fish woman. She stuck her hand out for him to shake. "Name's Undyne, Captain of the Royal Guard. Or...former Captain I guess. Not really sure if that'll be necessary now." She glanced out the window as she practically crushed Gary's hand in her grip.
"Depending on the speed of our integration we may still need the guard to protect the citizens, Undyne." Came Asgore's voice from outside. Her face lit up at that.
"SWEET! So I'm still Captain!" She pumps her fist into the air.
Alphys nervously looked at the human, wanting to introduce herself but not really sure how to. Papyrus places a hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile, which she returned with a shaky one of her own before carefully approaching Gary. She chose not to hold out her hand and instead plainly introduced herself.
"I-I'm Alphys, f-former Royal S-s-scientist." Gary nodded his head in confirmation.
"Well, it's nice to meet you all, but Shauna should be here s-" The sound of an ATV cut him off, followed by the distinct sound of a woman shouting 'What the hell?!'
"Howdy!" Asgore greeted the newly arrived human. The door burst open, a woman running in.
"You weren't bullshitting me!" It was then Shauna noticed all the other monsters inside the station. "Holy shit."
"HELLO NEW HUMAN!" Papyrus enthusiastically held out his hand, "I AM PAPYRUS, MONSTER AMBASSADOR." And she shook his hand, and everyone else that offered their's paired with a name.
"So, uh..." Shauna began. "Where did you all come from?"
"The mountain," Asgore said, his almost mournful tone surprising the humans. A sweep of the other monster's reactions revealing quite a lot of pain. "We were trapped inside...for nearly a thousand years. Sealed away by humans at the end of a war that incredibly diminished our numbers." Gary looked terrified at this, Shauna seemed conflicted, but mostly sad.
"We would like to get into contact with your government as soon as possible to inform the rest of humanity of our return." Shauna gave a nod, reaching into her pocket for a special satellite phone.
"I do have this phone for emergencies, not really sure if they'll believe me, but I'll try to get ahold of someone." With that she left the cramped cabin, walking a decent distance away before dialing in a number. It seemed to start normally enough, exchanging greetings, a little bit of small talk, the cautious introduction of the current dilemma involving the monsters, a pause as she held the phone away from her ear. Though the person on the other end was undoubtedly screaming, it almost sounded like a whisper to those in the station.
It was around this point Toriel showed up with Frisk in tow. She decided top sit at a picnic table on the other side of the cabin from Asgore as she, too, was unable to fit through the station door. Shauna brought the phone back to her ear, a fierce determination in her eyes. A calm explanation that she wasn't lying back at whomever she was speaking to, however with each back and forth she got progressively more annoyed. Finally she was storming to the station, yelling about doing a video chat.
"Could you guys come out here please? This fu-guy...refuses to believe me!" At that the monsters filed out of the cabin, the two Boss Monsters standing from their respective tables to join the small group out front. Shauna fiddled with the phone and finally managed to get the video chat function before turning the camera towards the monsters, who all put on their best smiles. The man on the phone, who only Shauna could see became frightened for a second before schooling a scowl back onto his face.
"How do I know this isn't some elaborate CGI prank?" The lady park ranger gave a sigh so frustrated that it almost came out a scream.
"Tell them to say something then!"
"Fine! Say the Pledge of Allegiance." There was a notable pause from the monsters where they confusedly looked between each other.
"Sir, they have literally been under a mountain for almost a thousand years, I doubt they know the Pledge."
"Ridiculous." He grumbled. "Then repeat after me: I am not a CGI prank and am an actual monster. Then say your name."
Everyone followed his directions except for Sans who instead of saying his name at the end said 'then say your name.' On the phone out of the monsters view, the man's jaw dropped, terrified. For a solid minute there was nothing but an awkward silence where no one moved, except to shuffle in place. Quietly, fearfully, the man on the phone spoke.
"I need to make a call." And with that he hung up.
"So more waiting then?" Undyne huffed. She was getting impatient, she had thought that by this point she would have noogied at least five humans. It had even started getting dark, confirming that it was the sunset they were looking at.
"It appears so," Asgore rumbled, "Though I am beginning to get worried that the rest of monsterkind might soon try to leave the mountain. Someone needs to go back to make sure they don't get lost in the woods or leave the area until we are given proper authorization. I would go back, but as the king I need to stay to greet whatever official may come."
"I'LL DO IT!"
"but bro, you're the ambassador. you gotta stay here too."
"I WON'T DO IT!"
"I would be happy to do it, as long as someone watches over Frisk while I'm gone." Toriel offered.
"sure, i'll keep an eye socket on the kid."
"Excellent, thank you Sans!" Toriel gently hugged Frisk goodbye before taking off in a sprint back up the mountain.
"So...what's happened since we were sealed?" Asgore asked, trying to break the ice.
"We forgot about your existence." Shauna replied bluntly.
A beat of awkward silence.
"NGAAAAHHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS!" Undyne jumped to her feet, before running off in the direction the city seemed to be.
"UNDYNE, NO!" Papyrus took off, trying to catch her. "WE DON'T NEED FIRST CONTACT WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO BE YOU SCREAMING!" His voice faded the farther into the woods he went.
"Uh, sh-should we do something about them?" Gary asked.
"I think they will be fine." Shauna said.
"why do you think that?"
"Because. Halloween is next week."
"What is a 'Halloween'?" The king inquired.
"Oh boy." Shauna sighed.
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Somewhere, in a rather suburban neighborhood, a blue fish woman with red hair burst from the woods howling with laughter, before darting down the street with an inhuman speed. Moments later a skeleton burst through the canopy of the trees, seeming to almost fly as the momentum of a supposed jump propelled him half way down the street, before he took off in a full sprint, close behind the fish woman.
Across the street from this, a sole human on the porch of a house where a party currently was, looked in horror at his solo cup of booze before dumping it into the nearby bush.
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At this point Papyrus was close enough to cast blue magic on her, causing her to stumble slightly before she kept running, though struggling more due to the feeling of increased gravity. He used this opportunity to take another flying leap at her, tackling her to the ground successfully.
"UNDYNE! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO STAY WITH OUR GROUP UNTIL WE GOT INTO CONTACT WITH PROPER OFFICALS!" Undyne had the decency to look a little ashamed at her impulsiveness. Papyrus rolled to his feet and offered her a hand up.
"Sorry, Pap. I'm just so excited to see more of the surface. The world is so much bigger now, y'know?" She took his hand an hauled herself to her feet. Papyrus sighed, knowing what she meant.
Then they heard a strange sound, almost like a low humming, but more aggressive, like bees. They looked around, until they spotted the two bright white lights speeding right towards them. Taken by surprise they enter their battle stances, Undyne materializing a spear, and Papyrus pulling bones seemingly straight from the earth. Needless to say the car skidded to a stop. The driver cautiously exited the vehicle, hands raised.
"Wh-what do you two want? My car? Cuz, you can have it, just please don't hurt me!" Undyne and Papyrus shared a glance before dematerializing their weapons.
"WE APOLOGIZE FOR FRIGHTENING YOU HUMAN, WE WERE ONLY STARTLED. IT IS OUR FIRST TIME SEEING A CAR IN PERSON!" The human gave them both an incredulous look.
"What? What are you?"
"We're monsters! We just crawled out of that mountain back there!" She jerked her finger back in the direction they had come from, completely missing the look of mortal fear on their face. Papyrus quickly put a hand on Undyne's shoulder, leaning closer.
"YES! AND WE'RE QUITE FRIENDLY! HELLO! I AM PAPYRUS, THE AMBASSADOR! WE WISH ONLY FOR PEACEFUL INTEGRATION!" He held out his gloved hand for this new human to shake, like he had done quite a lot today.
With terror still in their eyes they shook his hand.
Meanwhile someone in the car had phoned the police, while government officials had finally gotten in contact with everyone back at the station. The news being that they will be deploying a small military group to help them and that they shouldn't leave where they currently were. Now this really didn't set any of them at ease. Alphys, Sans, and Asgore shared a paranoid look. They aren't sure what the humans had in store but it probably wasn't to take them to the nearest capital to introduce them on the news. Sans quietly brought up how he had found conspiracy tapes about how the government might be hiding the existence of aliens from the general public. He admitted that it was likely impossible, but he wasn't sure how keen he was to stick around to find out if the rumors could prove true.
They looked at Frisk for their input, as they had lived on the surface longer and probably knew more than table scraps that washed up in a dump under a mountain. Frisk unbeknownst to them was actually really in to documentaries, conspiracies, and mysteries, which was part of the reason they had scaled the mountain in the first place. So this launched Frisk into a list of different experiments that the government had done on their own people without anyone noticing for so long, how the government would initially deny it before decades later revealing that, yes, they did do those things, and related conspiracies.
By the time Frisk was done excitedly telling them about these things they were wracked with enough anxiety that they decided they had to leave, now, Asgore picking everyone up easily and taking off into the woods, after throwing a polite 'Goodbye!' at the unprepared rangers.
The human that almost hit Papyrus and Undyne was distracting them, asking them about where they came from, what it was like, and how did it snow underground? Still, in the car the other human who had gone unnoticed had been streaming this straight to the internet. It had gained incredible numbers as it was rapidly being shared, but still there were skeptical humans who thought this was all prerecorded and edited and other desperate explanations.
Soon enough another sound made itself known to the monsters, hearing slightly sharper than the humans. It was like a scream, but revolving somehow. Then flashing lights appeared down the street, before speeding up to the monsters and the other parked car. It came to an abrupt stop and there seemed to be a notable pause between when the car stopped and two police officers jumped from the car, guns drawn. Both looking quite terrified, one much more so than the other. The calmer of the two spoke up.
"P-put your hands in the air!" He managed to stutter out, both of them complying instantly, which managed to shock them, before the first officer spoke again. "Wh-who are you, what are you?" Papyrus looked at Undyne as she tried to speak first again, which cause her to look back at him, gave a quick nod and let him go first.
"I AM PAPYRUS, AND I AM A SKELETON AS WELL AS AMBASSADOR FOR ALL MONSTER KIND. I WOULD SHAKE YOU HAND LIKE I HAVE BEEN DOING ALL DAY, BUT THEY ARE CURRENTLY RAISED AS PER YOUR REQUEST." He turned back to Undyne.
"And I'm Undyne! Fish monster, and Captain of the Royal Guard for the King of Monsters, Asgore Dreemurr." There was a look of astonishment on both of their faces, which lit a small flicker of pride in both the monsters, a smile pulled across both their faces. Their rather menacing expressions seemed to be the last straw for the more rattled of the two police officers. He took a shot at both of them. The human who had been talking to them earlier dove into their car the second they registered the sound of the gunshots. The first officer and both of the monsters were frozen still with shock, lucky for the monsters that it was a long forgotten fact that bullets, arrows, and similar projectiles carried no intent damage, just physical damage, for which there was fewer repercussions.
However, no one present knew that.
"MCKINNEY!" The first officer screamed at their subordinate. "You just shot a fucking Ambassador and Captain!"
"I know! I know! Oh shit, what did I do?" McKinney dropped her gun, hands clutching her face.
"UM? WE'RE OKAY? MOSTLY." Papyrus spoke up, causing the police to look back up at them in wonder. Papyrus was annoyed and picking at the hole in his armor. Luckily the bullet passed completely through his ribs, not harming him at all, Undyne however...
"Ow! Shit! That hurt." She gave a harsh cough, a bullet falling out of her mouth and into her hand. She rubbed the hole in her chest which was leaking slightly. Papyrus leaned over, manifesting glowing green bone and pressing to the hole. Almost instantly the wound faded away, causing the bone to disperse as well.
"SEE? NO HARM DONE!" He remained cheerful, wanting these surface authorities to calm down. It was about this time that Asgore came running up to them, having used his great sense of smell to track them.
"Oh, hey! Asgore!" Undyne pointed out, causing the police to perk up, the as of yet unnamed one recalling Asgore being the name of the King. What neither of them expected was to see a 9 foot tall goat man in golden armor and a flowing purple cloak to be sprinting up to them and the other offputtingly tall monsters. As soon as he was close all four humans present could recognize that he was holding two smaller monsters (and by small I mean, average adult human sized) and a child.
"Howdy Undyne! And surface guards." He gently placed Sans, Alphys, and Frisk onto the pavement, before reaching out one of his massive fuzzy hands to shake with the officers "I am King Asgore Dreemurr." Overhead there was the sound of a helicopter, something only a few of the monsters present recognized..
"WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE STATION?"
"we were a bit worried about why they wanted us to stay put and not try to make contact with more humans."
"GOT IT." Papyrus turned towards the officers. "WOULD YOU MIND BRINGING UP TO THE NEAREST NEWS OUTLET? WE WOULD LIKE TO REINTRODUCE OUR KIND TO SOCIETY WITHOUT FURTHER INTERFERENCE."