I'm bored and I want to add my own commentary to Undertale, so I'm gonna do that. I just recently joined this fandom and haven't read any Undertale fanfics, so I have no idea if people have done this already, though I'm sure it's been done a million times… (the title for the fic has probably been used as well I imagine) oh well! Doing it anyway!

In case I didn't say it in the summary, let me clarify that this will not be going through the genocide run, but the neutral/pacifist run. I actually am not sure which it will be yet though.

Oh, and Frisk is a girl in my fic, deal with it.

Enjoy!

(Warning: Depression and the topic of suicide are both mentioned.)

(Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own Undertale or anything else that I may use or reference in this fic, such as songs or video games.)

"Speech"

'thought'

SHOUTING/YELLING

Stressed words

Speaking Demonically

Protectortale Ch.1

Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell.

Many years later…

Mt. Ebott, 201X

Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.

"I can see why no one comes back from this mountain! Freaking vines everywhere!" A young man said to himself as he chopped through a large amount of vines, opening up to a clearing that was blocked by more vines. Seeing as he had been hiking for quite awhile, he decided to take another break in this small clearing. He looked down at his small machete and saw the reflection of a seventeen year old boy with medium length brown hair and brown eyes. His hair was a bit of a mess and his forehead had a layer of sweat on it.

He then looked to his left at the camera in his left hand. "Vines with spikes on them, random steep cliffs with rocks falling from them and hitting you in the head, random pits into god-knows-where… So far I haven't seen anything mysterious besides how damn hostile this place is! People talk about strange things happening here and that being why people disappear. Thing is, I haven't seen any strange things happening, at least not yet. I also don't see much wildlife around here, it's too hostile even for them. Since nothing as large as a deer can even make it here, there's probably nothing here that could eat anyone that gets lost here. That begs the question, where are the bodies then?" He asked the camera.

He really shouldn't be here, the authorities don't want anyone up here, and his parents were worried he wouldn't come back. He told them he was sure he would come back, hopefully with some hint as to why people go missing here. He neglected to mention that he hoped he would never come back. He just hoped the camera would survive if he didn't, maybe then people would know why they should be afraid of this mountain.

Eventually he felt good enough to continue on, onward and upward, cutting down endless vines as we went. "The vines, man! The vines!" He shouted in annoyance as he marched onward. "You know, if there was some mysterious, magical reason for why people go missing up here, I would believe it! Come on, Mt. Ebott! Give me something those scientists can't explain!" He shouted into the heavens.

He was met with silence…

…and another vine cutting into his shirt.

"VINES! WILL YOU PLEASE!?" He shouted angrily and cut the vine with his machete. He looked down and saw his brown long sleeve shirt had far more cuts in it than he would have liked... it's also a short sleeve now. "Aww man… and Mom had said this shirt really went with my eyes." He whined jokingly to himself before continuing on.

At some point, far up the mountain, he cut through vines and was thoroughly shocked to not meet more vines. Instead… "TREEEEES!? Holy- TREES! I HAVEN'T SEEN A TREE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!" He exclaimed before falling over and gasping for breath as he rested on the grass. "I need to look deep inside myself to find what chill I have left because this mountain is driving me insane…" He deadpanned. "Those vines were ridiculous…"

When he got up and started walking again he quickly noticed that there was a dirt path amidst the trees. As he followed it, he was in awe by how beautiful this portion of the mountain was. The light came through the leaves of the trees in just the right way. Eventually the beautiful path ended and he reached a far less beautiful cave.

He pulled his machete out and held it with the intent to use it as a weapon. He also made sure the camera was rolling. "Alright… bear that managed to make it here alive and make a living here… insane scientist that performs horrible experiments on anyone who gets lost here… magic that I couldn't hope to understand?... Well, let's find out." He said before slowly walking into the cave.

He found none of those things and instead found that the cave ended with a massive pit. On the opposite side of the pit was another large opening into the cave. "Whoa…" He said, in awe at the deadly hole. "I think I see another reason how people could disappear here..." He said grimly. "I've seen quite a few pits on the way here, but nothing like this!" He said as he sheathed his machete to get a better grip of his camera, he did not want to drop it.

He made sure to get everything he could on his camera. "Well, I am both disappointed and happy that-" He shut up when he heard a twig snap from the other side of the cave. He went absolutely still and silent as he waited for something come into the cave from the other side, and eventually something did.

"W-what?" He asked hesitantly as he saw what looked like… a little kid? "How did a kid get up here?" The kid walked forward, looking around in confusion and curiosity. "H-hey! Kid!" The child's eyes widened as they looked towards him. Unfortunately the kid had not stopped walking when they looked to him and that distraction led to them tripping and falling… right into the pit.

His heart jumped up as he saw this. "AH!" He didn't even think, he just pushed off the edge of the pit as hard as he could and dove after the little… girl? He caught her mid-air and spun around so he would hit the ground first. He had just enough time to think 'If I die, let it be instant and painless' before they hit the ground.

There was definitely pain, and that pain made him afraid to move. He would rather not know if anything was broken. The problem that he wished he didn't realize was while he was lying on his back in pain, he had this kid in a death grip and they probably wanted to be released from it. He prepared for pain before releasing the child, letting them roll onto the ground next to him.

He opened his eyes in surprise as the pain in his back seemed to go away. He stared straight up at the pit they had fallen down and thought 'How am I not dead? Shouldn't I be dead? Did people overreact about the height you could fall before you die? Why is the pain going away already?' He noticed his pain was already almost gone so he rolled over and stood up slowly. 'We fell on sunflowers? Did that really break our fall? There's no way… right?' "U-um… are you okay?" He said hesitantly, looking at the child.

"Y-yeah…I think so." The child answered hesitantly as they stood up and rubbed their head through their long brown hair.

'Definitely a girl.' He thought the moment he heard her voice. 'I should probably go, this kid isn't going to want to be near a stranger.' He thought before turning to walk away down a path he just saw.

He felt the child run into his back and hug him. "Thank you for saving me, mister!" The girl said, sounding scared.

'You idiot. The kid has no one else to go to.' He mentally berated himself before turning around, getting down on one knee and putting a hand on the girl's shoulder. "I'm glad you're okay. Why were you up here on this mountain? It's dangerous here." He asked her.

The girl put her hands up to hide her face and she shook her head. "I-I don't want to talk about it."

'Damn it, quit being cute.' "That's okay, that's fine." He said softly. "Hey uh… what's your name?"

The girl hesitantly removed her hands and looked at him with her golden eyes. "F-Frisk." She answered hesitantly.

"Well hello, Frisk. My name is Anthony, but I would like if you would just call me AJ." He said, trying to ignore her cuteness.

Her eyes widened and she gained a wide smile. "I know a kid named AJ at school!" She said happily.

He chuckled. "Oh you do? That's cool." He said with a smile.

"Yeah! But he had blond hair, and I think his eyes were blue." Frisk said, clearly thinking hard to remember if she was right or not.

"Is he your friend or just someone you know?" AJ asked.

"No I just know him." Frisk answered.

"Cool. Well, Frisk, we should probably try to get out of here." He said before looking up. "I don't think we can climb back out though…"

"What's this?" Frisk asked.

He turned his head to where he heard the sweater-wearing girl's voice. "Ah man! That's my camera!" He realized as he looked at the broken pieces she was standing near. 'I survive the fall but it doesn't!? What the heck is going on!? It couldn't be that I landed on the flowers, it couldn't be!' "Great, now I actually need to come back in order to tell people what's out here. Oh well. I guess we have to go… this way?" He suggested, taking a step towards the path ahead of them.

The girl nodded and started to run ahead of him.

"Hey! Frisk, wait!" He called out. She turned around and walked back towards him with a curious expression. "It could be dangerous up ahead, stay next to me, okay?" He requested gently. The girl nodded before walking alongside him. 'What are these pillars? They look like ruins of some-' His own thoughts were interrupted when Frisk grabbed his hand and held onto it tightly for security. He blushed lightly in embarrassment as he had never had to deal with this before, but he knew the kid had to be a bit scared, so he powered through it and didn't make her let go.

They stepped into another opening, and there they found a flower… with a smiling face.

"Hey there! I'm Flowey! Flowey the flower!" The flower greeted with a cheery tone.

Frisk let out a gasp of awe and went to walk towards the flower, but AJ jerked her hand back.

"What?" Frisk asked, confused.

"I don't think we should trust this thing." He explained, eyeing the flower warily.

"But it's so cute, and it's smiling!" Frisk said happily.

"Just stay behind me till I say it's safe, okay?" He requested.

Frisk nodded and now stood behind him while watching the flower closely.

"You two are new to the Underground, aren't cha?" Flowey asked, still smiling widely. "Boy, you must be so confused! Someone ought to show you how things work around here!" Saying this caused AJ to move his hand ever so slightly towards his machete, which is something Flowey noticed. "I guess little old me will just have to do! Ready!?" He suddenly gained a slightly ominous tone. "Here we go…"

Suddenly small red hearts appeared, floating just over the humans' chests.

"Lesson Number 1: You see those hearts?" Flowey asked. "Those hearts are your souls, the very culmination of your beings!" He/it explained. "Your soul will start off weak down here, but it can go strong if you gain a lot of LOVE! You want some LOVE," His expression darkened and he grew a menacing smile. "don't cha?"

Now feeling it in his gut that this thing wasn't as friendly as it had first looked, AJ took a few steps forward and pulled out his machete. "Stay far back, Frisk." He ordered.

Flowey eyed the blade with a menacing look of wonder in his eyes. "Ooh! That's sharp! You should be careful with that thing! You might hurt someone." It said, its eyes turning black, gaining a menacing smile filled with sharp teeth. "I bet you cut a lot of vines with that thing!" Suddenly two large, spiked vines poked out of the ground, swirling around the flower and growing longer by the second. "It's only fair that the vines get to cut you BACK!"

The vines suddenly shot out at him at high speeds, forcing him to dodge. He jumped high into the air and back flipped once before landing lightly on his feet. He looked back up at the vines in shock. "Since when could I do that?" He asked simply before the vines attacked him again. His body almost acted on its own as he jumped to the right while attacking the right vine simultaneously, his blade cutting right through it. The left vine had turned quickly though and one of the spikes on it cut his shoulder as he just barely avoided a direct hit. The heart floating over his chest gained a small, barely noticeable crack in it.

"Lesson Number 2!" Flowey started cheerfully as the one remaining vine moved back over to his side, preparing for another attack. "In this world, It's kill, or BE KILLED!" He shouted demonically before the vine shot out at AJ again.

'Forget birds, my new arch enemies are apparently vines!' The boy jumped high over the vine again, but he looked down as he flew over and saw the vine was going for the girl. "Frisk! Jump!" He shouted. The girl did as he said and jumped high into the air, landing away from danger. The vine came up at him while he was still stuck in the air. He raised his blade to counter the sharp end of the vine, but it hit him so hard that it knocked him into the ground.

"AJ!" Frisk cried out before running to his side. "Are you okay!?"

"It's okay, little girl!" Flowey said cheerfully as the vine retreated to his side again. "You haven't been a bad human, so I'll give you a reward! I'll give you these… 'friendliness pellets'!" Suddenly a group of massive, spinning white seeds appeared and flew at them. AJ forced himself up and deflected the first one, but the second one knocked him away and the third hit Frisk.

He looked down at his Soul in fear. It looked like it was about to shatter at any moment. He looked up from the ground and saw two massive vines and a plethora of pellets all about to attack them. He tried to get up, but before he could, Frisk jumped in front of him, shaking as she held the machete in her hands.

"Leave us alone!" Frisk shouted.

"F-Frisk… wait…" AJ said weakly.

Flowey looked shocked for a moment, then he smirked, then he just started laughing. "Are you kidding me!? Leave you alone!? Why would anyone pass up an opportunity like this!? DIE!" Just before he attacked, he hesitated as he saw a light to his left, he turned only to be hit in the face with a fireball that sent him flying away and out of sight, the vines and pellets vanishing.

Wasting no time, Frisk dropped the weapon before turning around to her new friend. She took a bandage out of the pocket of her shorts and quickly put it on the cut on his cheek.

"Frisk… are you okay?" He asked weakly.

"Be quiet! You're more hurt than I am!" Frisk demanded as she pulled out another bandage.

"F-Frisk, stop." He said as he gripped her arm and stopped her. "I need more than a bandage… you're the one that isn't hurt that badly, you should be getting Band-Aids right now." His soul looked like it was about to shatter, while hers was only lightly cracked. Ignoring that though, his wounds were deeper, or not cuts at all, she was the one with small cuts on her.

She pouted before taking the bandage and putting in on the cut on her cheek, then taking another and putting it on a cut on her leg. "There! Now let me put more Band-Aids on you!"

'Huh. I come here with nothing and this girl is actually smart enough to bring a bunch of Band-Aids, not that they will do much.' AJ saw movement and looked over Frisk's shoulder while she got out another Band-Aid.

"What a miserable creature!" The thing said angrily with a woman's voice. "Are you two okay?"

He quickly hugged Frisk close with one arm and picked up the machete and pointed it straight at the stranger with his other. "Stay away." He ordered with a strong glare.

"I know you are afraid right now. Please, I just want to help you." The person said.

Frisk turned her head slightly so she could see who was talking to them. She let out a gasp before whispering "Goat lady."

"I do not want to hurt you." The goat woman said gently. "I know healing magic, I can heal you both if you would let me."

AJ stared at her for a few more seconds before lowering his blade. "Fine. If you do anything other than heal us, I will… I will use this." He threatened, pointing at her for a moment with his weapon.

"No, don't hurt her." Frisk said quietly.

"We don't know who we can trust here, Frisk." He argued, and she looked at him sadly. "If she doesn't do anything bad, I won't have to hurt her." He said, hoping to calm her down.

"Alright, I'm coming over now." The woman said as she approached. "My name is Toriel, I am the caretaker of these ruins. What are your names?" She asked cautiously as she approached.

"Frisk!" Frisk answered happily. "And this is AJ!" She said, pointing to her friend.

Toriel finally reached them and slowly crouched next to them. "Alright… I am going to use my healing magic now." She warned. "Try to relax and not move around too much." The boy held onto Frisk tightly as the goat person used her magic on Frisk. He noticed her Soul lost the cracks it had, and her wounds disappeared, so he hoped that this Toriel really was helping them. "Okay, now I'm going to use my magic on you." He gripped his weapon tightly as her furry hands glowed a light green. He felt all the pain leave his body and he saw the cracks in his Soul disappear.

"Thank you." He said hesitantly and nodded.

Toriel smiled and nodded back before taking a step back as the two humans stood up. "I am glad you two are alright. I have been coming here every day to see if anyone had fallen down. You two are the first humans to here in a long time. If you are willing, follow me! I will guide you through the catacombs ahead." Her voice was very friendly and loving, and unlike that flower, she actually felt trustworthy.

"Can we go with her?" Frisk asked.

He could tell she wanted to go, too innocent and trusting for her own good. "Well, we have nowhere else to go, so… sure." He answered, and she smiled happily before grabbing his hand and running to follow Toriel. 'Well, here's the magic stuff that you can't explain that I asked for.' He thought as they followed Toriel into the ruins of some ancient place.

Huh, weird, I'm actually satisfied with this chapter for some reason. I usually am not this comfortable with a chapter that I've written. Just gonna hope that's a good thing…

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