The SkeleFamily.
What if Frisk died at the end of the pacifist route, what would happen if two skeletons weren't ready to let go.
It had been only a few days since Frisk had broken down the barrier. Only a few days since she freed everyone… yet no one was happy. The monsters hadn't even ventured beyond the cliff that overlooked the barrier which lead out onto the surface. The evening after the barrier was broken down, the seven human souls gave fractions of themselves to create a new soul for Asriel, turning the once evil soulless demonic flower he was into the true kind, fluffy, prince he was once again. Asgore and Toriel had been delighted when they saw their dead son, return to them alive and unharmed, there he told them that when he absorbed Chara's soul and took her body out down to the village at the bottom of the mountain and how when she saw one of her abusers she sort of took a mental breakdown and used him to go on a rampage through the village. The King and former Queen were in shock but to an extent knew as Chara had once told them how mean and abusive the humans were to her all because of her eye, and skin colour, but were shocked to hear that there former adoptive daughter would go that far. Once the young Prince was re-introduced to the small group which consisted of Papyrus, Sans, Undyne, Alphys, there saviour Frisk as well as the royal family. The said group made their way up to the surface through the broken barrier, but they didn't notice that when Frisk passed through it, she had started to shake for some unknown reason. As they neared the top they were joined by Mettaton, who said that she (I see Mettaton as a girl don't judge) was there to broadcast the stars live to the whole underground.
After watching the sun set and the stars rise the group decided to head on back down into the underground and get everything ready to re-join life on the surface… if the humans accepted them and didn't chuck them back into the underground and seal the entrances completely. As they travelled back to the barrier they noticed some carved symbols of the ancient human spells but ignored them as they meant nothing to them now. Although they probably should have paid more attention to the translations. The group continued on down the tunnel back to the palace gardens, were the entrance of the tunnel into the underground was located. As the group passed on by the shattered barrier, Frisk got worse, and worse. Sans had turned around to ask her a question but when she passed out in his arms, they started to freak out. They hurried and got her back to the castle were Alphys diagnosed her, her diagnostics were that there was some form of magic, none of which any monster, be it boss or normal monster could conjure. Then Sans remembered the inscription carved into the rock on the way back down the entrance and wondered if it was the cause of this, he quickly discussed it with Alphys who agreed that it did look like an ancient human spell. Alphys, Undyne and Papyrus quickly made their way back up the tunnel to try and decipher the symbols and find a cure, but once Alphys deciphered the text, their horror grew. It wasn't just a spell… it was a curse, with no cure. The symbols translated to, "to the human/s who break the barrier, the crushing weigh of the barriers magic will lock onto your soul with no hope of relieving your sins, and the weight of humanity's hatred will crush your soul to dust, like the monsters who dare to fight against the true rulers of the surface. Those who betray and support monster returning to the surface will never see it for themselves ever again." Undyne was physically sick once Alphys finished reading it out, and Papyrus shocked the two girls by pulling out a couple of Gasterblasters and erased the text from the mountain in raged, it was the first time Undyne had ever seen Papyrus so hateful as both of the skeletons eyes glowed a bright vivid orange, and Alphys started to break down into tears… there was only one person in the whole underground who knew anything about human magic, but he was stuck in the void, and the only person who knew his name was Sans. While back at the palace, Frisks condition had deteriorated. Tori had placed Frisk into one of the beds in the palaces many spare rooms and were waiting for the others to return with hopefully a reversal spell to the magic that was causing this to Frisk. By the time Alphys, Undyne and Papyrus had reached the palace it was too late, the damage was done and Frisks soul had shattered and dispersed to the void under the weight of humanity's sins. The group burst into tears as they got Mettaton to spread the news around the underground, Asgore announced that at the end of the month the mourning period for Frisk would be over and then they would go back and re-join life on the surface.
Asgore took one of the empty coffins up from the castles basements and they helped to lay frisks cold, soulless dead body in it before they took it out to the cliff on the surface were they had been only hours before. They had a little ceremony in Frisk's memory as they buried her beside a tree, overlooking the entire cliff. They all paid their respects differently but all the while crying. Alphys and Undyne were hugging each other, as it had been the young ten year old who had helped each other realise that they both had a crush on each other with the help of Mettaton. Sans and Papyrus had finally made their first friend although, during the time Frisk had been with them the skelebro's considered her to be less of a friend and more of a little sister… even if she was a human. While Toriel, was crying for the young girl that had called her mom and then proved that she was strong enough to free an entire civilization. Asriel was crying in his mom's arms as it was Frisk and the other human's souls who had freed him from his personal living hell of being a flower for the past few centuries. Asgore was just stunned as he relayed the curse over and over and over again in his head not believing that the humans that sealed them in would be so cruel as to curse their own kind for freeing monster kind, but then again it was a few centuries old curse and humans could have changed in that time. As they all made their way back down into the underground they failed to notice the ghost like figure of a certain, half melted skeleton scientist. The same skeleton which had been lost to the void when he pushed his own son out of the way of one of their experiments which had malfunctioned and blown up, erasing him from the minds of all monsters bar his own son who he saved, and messed around with said sons stats and magic granting him a few good ability's and one really agonizing one were he's stuck in a time loop. Although the young skeleton son now didn't have to worry about a reset as there was no one who could activate one, Sans could finally have a night of peaceful sleep… well as peaceful as it could be, he and Papyrus were going to be kept up late with grief over the little human they considered a sister.
Gaster while in the void had discovered some new abilities given to him from the explosion as a side effect for what they were testing. As the days passed on from Frisks Death he saw how depressed Sans and Papyrus had actually gotten, Papyrus was no longer his usual happy, bubbly eccentric self and had become as depressed as Sans, the taller Skeleton had somehow lost H.P because of it. Sans on the other hand his stats were constantly at 1, Attack, 1 H.p. Although Gaster could see his son's real stats in the void, Sans had more power of attack, defence and H.p than himself and Asgore put together but it too, like Papyrus's were slowly eroding and lowering. He was proud of his two sons, but was upset because he hated seeing them so depressed. They had seen Frisk as a little Sister, she was the barrier between the two brothers starting an all-out feud with each other over Papyrus's nearly in edible cooking and sans Inappropeate, but hilarious humour, and punning. She enjoyed both of their company, papyrus's inedible food and sans weird sense of humour, and both the brothers would forget their problems with each other just to make her happy. That gave Gaster an idea, he had always loved being a father and loved his sons but he had always wanted to have a daughter. He had remembered that there were three ways for a skeleton to reproduce, firstly as a couple, secondly by pouring compassion, and love into small chips of their own bones to create a new living skeleton child (Like what he did for Sans and Papyrus), or finally Creating a new soul from either fragments of their own soul or any lingering memories and soul pieces from dead humans while placing the soul back into the dead body, re-animating it as a monster… mostly skeleton due to humans already containing a skeleton under their skin and flesh, but there were a few cases that arose in the past before the war of them becoming different monsters, due to their human determination. He set his plan into motion and searched the void for Frisks memories and soul fragments as they had been scattered into the void once it shattered, likely due to the human spell. After days… or what seemed like days of searching, Gaster had found all the fragments he needed, and all of Frisks memories.
Gaster started the painstakingly delicate work of piecing his soon to be daughters soul back together, fitting all the dust like fragments, and memories back into the right place. As he was doing that he found the fragment of which had caused the few genocide routes in a few past timelines, he extracted and cut off Chara's connection to frisk. The demonic dead child screamed as she formed into a melting pile of goo close to Gaster in the void. Before the demon could do anything, Gaster had already launched the demon into the farthest reaches of the void, well away from him and Frisks soul. Once he had finished piecing Frisk's soul back together he noticed a fragment missing, this had previously been the fragment that Chara had been resting in, waiting to make her move and possess Frisk all over again. He was stuck on what to do now, Frisk soul was like a jigsaw puzzle and you could see all the joining lines between each part except with a large gaping fragment which was the last part of her soul that needed to be filled. He had an idea, and pulled his own soul out and used his magic to chip off a small fragment just large enough to fill it. It was searing pain to his H.P levels and felt like a bullet had been shot into his soul but it had been worth it. He picked up the fragment in a pair of forceps he had manifested and picked up the small fragment and carefully and delicately slipped it into place. To his joy it fitted, but it still wasn't complete, he made a small cut on his arm and used his magical blood to become a shot to hold the soul together again, the skeleton scientist carefully injected the shot into the soul. Frisk new soul lit up and was surrounded in bright white Flames once Gaster removed the syringe, her soul remained on fire for a good minute and a half as the cracks, crevasses, and small fissures that littered her soul filed over. By the time the flames died down, Gaster saw that his work had been completed as Frisk soul had been fully healed, but to his surprise it had become a white inverted monster soul which had a reddish pink outline and essence coming off of it. Before it could shatter and break again the doctor, (As Gaster had received a PhD and a doctorate when he was a young monster, Sans had taken after Gaster and also had a PhD in science, like father, like son.) the doctor stuck it into a modified soul container, which was designed for holding both human and monster souls. He had spent some time whispering something to the soul. Now that the first part of his plan had been accomplished he needed to get into contact with Sans and Papyrus, and he knew just the way to do that.
Sans and Papyrus had been emotional wrecks since Frisk had died, Sans had to admit it was scary to see Papyrus so mad and at a loss. Papyrus had been out in the forest firing his Gasterblasters off like crazy until he was too tired to use anymore magic. They hadn't seen any of the others like Alphys or Undyne in days, they were probably grieving as well for their friend. The two bro's had been crashing on the couch in the living room as sleeping together since Frisks death, as neither of them had been able to get a proper night's sleep since the barrier was broken. As the two slept a week after Frisks death, they had a joint dream. Papyrus spoke up first to ask his slightly older, yet oddly smaller brother about their location.
"Sans… where are we?" the tall and slender skeleton asked.
"Don't know pap's… is this a jointed dream or something?" the smaller skeleton questioned as he looked at his confused and scared brother.
"Yes, Sans you're in a jointed dream." A mysterious voice spoke out, the two boys turned around to face the person speaking only for Sans to be in complete shock and Papyrus to be utterly confused.
"Umm Sans…" Papyrus asked nervously, "Who's that?"
"No way… Dad? How?" Sans asked, his usually shut jaw dropped and literally on the floor, as it had fallen off in shock. Gaster walked over and picked it up and placed his son's lower jaw back into place. Papyrus just stared in shock as thousands of memories flooded back into his mind of all the times he, Sans and this new skeleton had when they were younger.
"D…Dad?" Papyrus quietly asked.
"Yes son it is I. My, you have grown up into a fine young monster, I'm so proud of you both of you." Gaster smiled as he put his hands onto his sons shoulder.
"How are you here?" Sans asked.
"I have been watching you since the incident, which caused my disappearance into the void and your stats deceiving other monsters to believe you only had 1 H.p. I'm here because I hate to see you too so sad and depressed, and it hurts my very soul to know that you're so upset." The elder skeleton sighed as he looked into his son's eye sockets.
"Were upset because Frisk was like a little Sister to us, She loved my cooking." Papyrus sighed a few orange tears leaking out of his sockets,
"And she tolerated my puns and loved my sense of humour." Sans sighed letting a few blue tears run over his cheek bones.
"So I have seen, she had also paid me a visit to, she is such a sweet little girl. I'm surprised you didn't listen to her about the grey door behind the waterfall, she could enter and exit but I could not." Gaster smiled slightly at his sons. Sans face palmed when Gaster said that, he though Frisk was joking, now he felt so stupid.
"Wait… Is a sweet little girl? Dad… Frisks dead the humans had cursed the barrier and it crushed her soul, and we could do nothing for her." Sans cried out, more tears falling from his eye sockets. Papyrus just let more tears of his own fall as he hugged his brother. Gaster put his hands under both of his sons' lower jaws and raised their heads so that he could look them in their eye sockets one more time.
"I need you to head to my hidden lab in hot lands, there I will give you a surprise." The skeleDad smiled slightly.
"Ohh, what's the surprise!" Papyrus asked excitedly.
"If you must know my dear son. I have spent the past week finding the Fragments of Frisks soul and rebuilding it. But there was a problem." The doctor sighed, sans knew instantly what the problem was.
"Let me guess, Chara?" Sans grunted, not liking the demon one bit for the countless timelines were she possessed Frisk and went on a total genocide of the underground and the surface.
"Yes, I had to remove the fragment in which she loitered and replaced it with a part of mine, meaning her newly pieced soul is no longer human, it is a monster soul. I will give you more instructions as you enter the lab. Do not lose hope my sons, your little sister Frisk will be with you soon." Gaster said, before either brother could say anything else Gaster faded from existence and there dream world that they were in crumbled around them.
The two brothers awoke on the living room floor with a jump, as they looked at each other they noticed that they both had their magic pulsating from their eye socket, both of Papyrus' were glowing Orange, like his soul essence, while Sans only had his left eye lit up, glowing Blue like his soul essence. The pair looked at each other before Papyrus ordered an explanation from Sans as to why he had no memory about their dad until now. Sans sat up and explained to Papyrus about the incident in which the pair were involved, and how the effects were that Sans got caught in an eternal time loop, and how he remembered every timeline the neutral, pacifist, and genocidal, committed by both Chara possessing Frisks body and Flowey. He also explained about how he didn't actually have 1 H.p and that his stats board was stuck reading like that, and that he also picked up his karma retribution attack which could let him read off a monsters Level of Violence, and that he was Asgore's Judge too. Papyrus was shocked that Sans had been juggling his full time post as a sentry, and hotdog seller with being the Kings Judge, only to be put in even more shock and confusion when Sans said to add on full time scientist to the list. Papyrus started to fuss over his brother and went crazy, and started to blame himself for Sans constant napping, knowing his brother worked all those different jobs. Papyrus could only hug Sans and apologize to his brother before they realised that they had to go to the hidden lab in hot lands. As the skelebro's left there log cabin they bumped into Alphys, Undyne, Mettaton and Napstablook. They asked were the two were going I such a hurry, so Papyrus quickly told them that their dad left them a surprise at one of his labs, the four were confused but before they could say anything sans had teleported them all to the lab in hot lands and started to explain carefully what had happened. Alphys knew exactly who sans was on about and once Sans told the group there Dad's name it's like being in the lab had opened up flaps that were missing in their memories, everyone had a memory of meeting the skeleton scientist at one point in time or another in time.
The group didn't have to wait too long until Gaster appeared to them again. This time he appeared in a large Mirror at one end of the lab which Mettaton had been posing at, which freaked the ghost gone robot out so bad that she jumped out of her possessed robotic body and into her cousin Napstablook arms… if he had any. After Mettaton (or Mettablook as she was called when in her true ghost nature) returned to her body, Gaster spoke to them through the mirror.
"Greetings young ones. The brave captain Undyne, my successor Alphys, the talented Mettablook and the incredible Napstablook, my most humble greetings to you all, and thank you for being such good friends to my two sons." Gaster smiled through the Mirror, leaving Undyne boasting, Alphys blushing, Mettaton smirking as she pulled a pose, and Napstablook cowering behind his cousin. "Now, Sans, Papyrus if you would please come forward, and don't drop the container. Before I give the surprise to you, here are your instructions. Take the container and dig up Frisks grave, carefully and gently open the coffin and place the container over her chest, press the button on the side and it will release her soul back into her body, afterwards take her back to your log cabin in Snowdin and please… take care of your little sister." Gaster smiled as his two son's approached the mirror past the four others present. When the two were about a foot away from the mirror, Gaster produced the modified soul containment unit which was holding a white inverted heart… a monster soul, but which had a reddish pink outline and Frisks essence flaring out of it slightly, And passed it straight from one side of the mirror to the other and into the boys waiting arms. The two were in shock and awe at what their dad had done. The looked up to thank him but he had gone from the mirror leaving the group of six monsters to themselves in the abandoned lab. Sans snapped his fingers and the six of them had teleported to the tunnel which lead up to the barrier, cliff and Frisks grave. Undyne and Mettaton went to Asgore, Toriel, and Asriel to see if they could get a few shovels to dig up the grave and explain the situation to the royals, which was made a hell of a lot easier when Mettaton showed them a clip of what had taken place in the lab only moments before hand. The memories of the missing scientist flooded back to them and they quickly understood. Asgore showed the two girls to his gardening shed and pulled out a few shovels before handing them to the pair. The girls asked if they were going to come up, but the royals declined stating that they will visit Frisk if the doctor's plan is successful, and told them to pass on by the castle afterwards.
The two girls passed on by the barrier as fast as they could with the shovels, and quickly came to a stop at the entrance close to the tree Frisks grave was under. Mettaton handed her shovel over to Papyrus while Undyne started to dig up the shallow grave. After a couple of hours of digging they had finally unearthed Frisks coffin, Sans used his magic to lift it out of the ground and set it gently beside the group. Alphys looked on and was taking notes… for her own scientific knowledge. Papyrus, Undyne, and Mettaton unlocked the lid of the coffin and slid it off. Before they could get a look at Frisk, Sans already had the containment unit over the corpse which was Frisk, he looked up at the others quickly for a moment and then to Papyrus who nodded. Sans pressed the release button and quickly moved back as Frisks body accepted the new soul. Frisks dead body was lifted out of the coffin in a blinding ball of white light, to which everyone had to cover and shield their eyes/eye sockets. After what seemed like a minute the light died down, to reveal a skeletal pre-teen who was the darling angel Frisk who freed them all only a week before. Papyrus caught her in his arms as she settled back down. They didn't know if Frisk was alive but were relieved when she started to move around I Papyrus's arms, but she didn't wake up. Sans made a quick comment to see if he could wake her but was only met with his new little sister mumbling out something along the lines of "Sleeping, leave me be." which resulted in quite a few laughs, especially from Papyrus for a change. They all walked down the tunnel back to the underground. They did make a quick pit stop at the castle to return the shovels, before heading off towards Snowdin. Sans simply teleported the group to their little log cabin. The two boys took Frisk to the guest room where she had been staying when she was with them, and tucked her in to the bed that was in the room. Alphys and Undyne had made a quick stop up the room with the boys before heading on their way, shortly afterward Mettaton and Napstablook made their own way home… after Mettaton measured Frisk up for some new clothes as the ones she had on her at the minute were really loose, due to her transformation. The former human had probably dropped about sixty percent of their original weight now that there were just bones.
A few days had passed since Frisks resurrection and word had spread all through the underground about it, thanks to Mettaton and her constant need to record everything that goes on in her life, and all the while Frisk had been sleeping peacefully in the guest room. Sans and Papyrus were constantly in the room with her, or if one had to go do something the other would be by her side, waiting for her to come out of her deep slumber. Mettaton had been by with some new clothes that would fit Frisks new skinnier body. Alphys and Undyne had also been by as Sans had helped give his new little sister a check over with Alphys to make sure she was alright. Three days after the skelebro's had taken her back to their house and placed her in the guest room, both Sans and Papyrus were looking out of the window opposite the bed in which there little sister was sleeping. Frisk started to wake up and gave out a little moan as she got up, which was overheard by the two elder bone brothers. The pair quickly turned around and made their way to Frisks bed side. There they quickly hugged the confused little skeleton, and explained everything. They were surprised when Frisk told them that they knew what had happened because Gaster had told her when she was just a soul, but what he didn't mention was now Sans and Papyrus's little sister and his own Daughter. The ten year old was over joyed when she heard that and hugged her two new big brothers. After changing out of the clothes she was wearing and into some of the stuff Mettaton had brought over for her, the three shared another family hug. To which Sans muttered "Welcome home sis… welcome home." All the while Gaster was watching his children's antics from the void.
A year after Frisks First death, monster kind had re-joined life on the surface and were starting to move away from the mountain town ebbot, were most of the Monsters had settled. The skelesiblings, Sans, Papyrus, and Frisk… whom they liked to call Frisky like the font, had moved into a nice sized cabin which they had built up the mountain in one of the many forests that littered the area, and were it was snowing for most of the year… they only settled there because it reminded the brothers of their home in Snowdin. Sans and Frisk practised using magic every odd day and were working in yet another of Sans's secret labs which he built close to the house. Papyrus on the other hand was busy learning how to cook at a local school and was busy running his part time job of a chef and Juggling dates with Mettaton who had made it HUGE in Hollywood, and the humans couldn't get enough of her, while sans also worked in the new monster/human school in ebbot were Frisk goes to, as one of the various science teachers alongside Alphys. Undyne had become the new P.E teacher at the school, and any time they play dodge ball they would record it because in the end it was Usually Frisk vs. Undyne. While Gaster, all the while watched from the void, so happy that his children were enjoying themselves, and he was proud of them for being the brave and wonderful monsters that they had grown up into. Gaster was soon released from his imprisonment from the void, by Sans and Frisk working together and using his wonderful daughters high levels of natural determination. Now the four of them were one loving, and happy family, and just in time for Undyne to propose to Alphys too! They had a wonderful future to look forward to now. A future of peace, hope and a future with each other as the family they had always wanted.