UnderSwap Meeting the Skele Brothers
You weren't sure what was so weird about this reset. Something was different. Despite how much you loved seeing Asgore and Meta in the ruins it all felt fairly out of order and as you walked through the forest, to a place Asgore called Snowdin, you felt an eerie chill in the air. It wasn't the snow, though you couldn't understand how it could snow in the underground anyway. Probably magic. But no, this was different and yet familiar. You couldn't put your finger on it. You passed a rather large branch as you walked down the path, purposefully jumping over it as you tried to make the eerie feeling go away.
Then suddenly you heard a loud crack and your heart picked up the pace. You felt like running but you didn't want to make any sudden movements. A sound to the right caught your attention. Then to the left. And then to the right again. Were you surrounded? You felt your feet pick up the pace and noticed a bridge up ahead. Surely Snowdin was not far away, but as you got to the edge of the bridge you heard a deep voice from behind you. "Halt, stranger. It's rude not to say hello to a new friend. Turn around and shake my hand." You could have sworn that the deep voice rose in pitch a little once they reached the end of their sentence, but you were too scared to think it over and slowly turned around, not looking them in the eye. You hesitantly reached for their hand, but they met you half way and suddenly you heard a loud "Ppppppppppppppfffffffffffff!" The figure was giggling so hard they fell to the floor, their legs kicking in the air. "T-the o-old w-whoopy cushion in the hand trick. F-funny every time." Then, as quickly as they landed the floor they were on their feet, smiling widely at you. "HEY FRIEND! The name is Sans! SANS THE MAGNIFICENT SKELETON! You aren't from around here! Do you need help getting into Snowdin? There are many traps and puzzles to cross still yet before you reach town so you'll need all the help you can get. Lucky for you, I showed up. My brother Papyrus is currently on the hunt for Humans and he might not have been as kind and gentle as I." The odd skeleton took you by the hand and brought you across the bridge. Halfway across laid a gate with strangely large spaces between the bars.
"Do you like our gate? It's to keep humans out, but we had to make the bars big enough so my brother could still get through. That's okay though. It should still keep humans at bay for at least a short while." He tugged you across the bridge until you reached to the gate, slowly passing through the bars before picking up the pace again. "Just wait until my brother sees I've made another friend. He'll like you. You're my size. Papyrus always said that I needed to make friends who are more like me." The bridge was crossed and you wondered how you got into this mess. It wasn't entirely unpleasant being with the bright skeleton, but the sound of his brother was starting to make you nervous. Just when you were starting to realize how tight the skeleton's grip was on your hand he shouted in excitement. "THAT'S MY BROTHER! PAPY!" Up ahead you could see a tall skeleton in a baggy orange sweater and cargo shorts, running over to the two of you. "SANS?! SANS! ARE YOU OKAY BUDDY?!" He hurried over to the two of you and looked over Sans before his posture relaxed and he gave a large sigh. "Don't scare me like that bro. When I didn't see you at your post I was worried where you went." Suddenly you were a lot less afraid. Everything about this skeleton was relaxed and chilled out. He pulled out a cigarette that smelled a little funny to you and took a long drag before he bothered to even look at you. When he did he gave you a bright smile. At least as bright as his lazy bearing would allow. "Who's this, Sans?" Even though you weren't looking at his face you could see the excitement roll off of the shorter brother as he introduced you. "I, SANS THE MAGNIFICANT, have made another friend!" Papyrus looked a little shocked at this, but brushed it off. "Did you now? Nice to meet you. I'm Papyrus the skeleton. Hope Sans hasn't caused you too much trouble." Sans made an exasperated sound "Of course not! I'm showing them the way to Snowdin, since it would be impossible for them to get through all of the traps we set up without MY help. But now that you're here you can help too ya lazy bones. I'm gonna go ahead and make sure we don't run into any humans." And then Sans was off, in a happy trot and expressed his bright attitude and stout body.
Papyrus looked at you up and down once again as he took another slow drag of his cigarette and just as slowly blew it out before speaking again. "You're a human right?" suddenly your fears came back. Was this guy actually a human hunter? Did you need to be worried for your life? "I don't care or anything. My brother is the one hunting humans, but obviously he doesn't quite know what to look for. That's okay though. He's still pretty cool." He took another agonizingly slow drag and continued. "Hey, listen. It would mean a lot to him if he found a human. Do you think you could, ya know, humor him and go through his traps? He's not really dangerous. The kid already likes you so he won't hurt you or anything and the puzzles won't be too bad. So what do you say? I'll go ahead so you don't have to explain. If you could just play along I know you'd really be making him happy." He sauntered away at that. You stood in your spot for a few moments unsure how to react. The two brothers were odd to say the least, but both seemed rather friendly and that look that the shorter one gave you. You wouldn't mind making him that happy again so you decided to follow.
When you saw them again, Papyrus was talking to Sans. "Yeah, I'm tell'n ya, bro. It was human. All fleshy and everything." He turned his head toward you and gave another lazy smile "Hey, Sans. What's that?" Sans looked at you and gave an extremely large gasp. "PAPY! IS THAT A HUMAN?!" Papyrus looked and smirked. "I think that's a rock, man." Sans deflated a little till his taller brother tapped his shoulder. "Hey, what's in front of the rock?" Sans looked at you, then at Papyrus, then back at you and his brother once again. Papyrus, all with a smile, made a point to look at his brother every time Sans looked back at him. You wondered how they were able to keep their heads on at the rate they were looking back and forth from you to each other. Sans stopped and made a high pitched squealing noise. "PAPY! I-IS THAT A H-HUMAN?!" Papyrus' smirk broke into a smile. "I think so, bro." Another squeal left San's mouth. Then he cleared his throat and made a heroic pose as he pointed at you. "HUMAN! I see you were able to trick SANS THE MAGNIFICANT. Very clever. It's a shame really. It was SNOW nice to meet you." A load groan came from his brother, but Sans ignored it. "But puns aside, I will not be able to lead you to Snowdin, Human. Now you will have to beat my puzzles in order to get there. I can TALUS you won't get very far." And in a fit of giggles Sans once again trotted off.
Hey guys. This is the first time I'm posting fanfiction ever~ and I didn't see much Underswap AU for Undertale so I decided to do it myself. If you DO know of any Underswap fiction (more so dealing with our lovable skele bros but I'll read other stuff too 3) I'd love to hear about it cuz I didn't find much. I'm thinking of doing some writing for Underfell too because I love the character development for that! So if you know any good stories I'd love to hear about them. Any way I'd enjoy the feedback about how the story made you feel so if you want to send me long or short comments I'd love them all~ I'm planning on continuing this one at lest until the Papyrus date. I haven't decided how much I'm going to stir off of the original time line but if you have any suggestion let me know! I'm very excited to be doing this and hope to hear from you guys as I figure out . hopefully I'll start posting on Archiveofourown as well.
Lots of love 3
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