After thinking long and hard about what should be the first chapter of this series of non-canon scenes/chapters, I've decided "what better first chapter than a variant of the beginning?"

Hope you enjoy!

The human walked up the secret path until they reached what seemed to be the top. They found it strange that this path seemed to just open up for them at the bottom of the mountain, but they soon forgot about that as they admired the views on the way up. For awhile they had a great view of the mountain range around Mt. Ebott, but then they found themselves surrounded by trees as they walked along a serene path up the mountain.

But then the path ended, the trees cleared away, and they heard someone crying.

They quickly ran towards the cave ahead of them to find and comfort whoever was there. They entered and saw a young boy standing near a massive hole in the cave, openly crying and sobbing. The boy wore blue jeans and a brown short sleeve shirt, and they had short brown hair.

The older human walked up towards the boy with a concerned look. "H-Hey, little kid?" She started.

The kid spun around in surprise at the sound of their voice, and the teen could see the tears in the boy's eyes and flowing down his cheeks. Their expression turned to one of anger in an instant. "Go away!" The boy shouted.

Her eyes widened a bit in surprise from his anger, but she relaxed and continued to slowly approach the kid. "What's the matter? Why are you crying?" She asked, concerned.

"I said LEAVE ME ALONE!" The kid screamed as they took a step away from the girl.

"Hey, come on, you don't need to shout." She said as calmly as she could.

"Grr!" He growled in frustration. "Shut up!"

"Just, step away from the hole and talk to me… Please?" She asked. "We can just talk and work things out, right?" She got close enough to hold out her hand for the kid to take. He stared at her hand with a conflicted look and he paused to wipe the tears from his face.

Their expression changed back as they seemed to come to a decision. "I don't… want to talk!" He said. "So just-" He was cut off when his foot slipped back off some loose rock and he found himself sliding into the pit below. The older human gasped in shock before jumping down to get him before he totally slid off. She managed to grab his wrist just before he fell completely, but then she realized her other hand had nothing to grab, and they ended up falling. She wrapped her arms around him and made sure she would be the one to land first.

Eventually she woke up to a surprisingly small amount of pain in her back, and a sorrowful child sitting next to her and looking at her.

"I'm… I'm sorry for yelling at you…" The boy apologized shyly. "Thank you for saving me… even though I didn't want you to…"

She groaned before sitting up straight and turning to the kid and patting his head, getting a strange look from him in response. "Apology accepted. And you're welcome. a kid like you shouldn't be thinking stuff like that anyway." She rolled over so she was on her knees in front of the kid and smiled at him. "I have an idea! How about I be your new friend!? Would that make you happy?" She asked.

He frowned and looked down. "If I can live with you and don't have to go to school, then yeah..." He deadpanned.

"Hmm… I don't know about that. School is kind of important." The teen said hesitantly.

"No! School is terrible! Everyone there's a jerk! I hate it there and I'm never going back!" The boy shouted angrily.

She smiled at him and sighed before holding her arms out. "Come here." She said softly as she pulled him into a hug, and he froze in surprise. He wanted to tell her to let go, but he couldn't. Her hug so tight and warm, and her sweater was so soft, that he just felt incredibly safe and couldn't bring himself to do anything.

"It'll get better, I promise." She said softly. "In fact, I'm gonna prove that it will!" She said before releasing him and standing up. "We're gonna talk to your parents about homeschooling, or at the very least, getting you out of whatever school you're in now. That'll be a good start, right?" She said cheerfully. "Oh, I'm Frisk by the way! What's your name?"

"I'm AJ." He answered with a bit of a smile.

"Aww! You're so cute when you smile!" Frisk exclaimed, and the boy frowned and glared at her. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She said with a chuckle. "I couldn't help it!" She then looked up at the path ahead of them and realized something. "Oh. We're gonna need to find a way out of here first. Stay close to me, okay?"

He nodded. "Okay."

But then I thought… "Why leave it at just one variant?"

On this day, two couples will awake to find their children are not here anymore.

But that time has not come yet, since the sun is only just rising.

A young girl walked until she reached nearly the top of the mountain. When the path ended and she found herself in a clearing devoid of any trees or grass, she turned around and walked to the edge of the cliff. The light reached her forehead, and then reflected off the gold of her eyes, and she smiled brightly. This was why she came up here.

She heard noise and she quickly turned to her right, towards a group of bushes next to the entrance to the cave behind her. She expected an animal, but to her surprise a boy about her age stepped out of the bushes and looked a bit surprised to see her.

"Oh. Um… hi?" The boy greeted.

"Hi!" She responded cheerfully and waved to him.

"What are you doing way up here?" The boy asked and walked a few steps towards her.

"I come here for the views." She answered before turning back to the sunrise in the far distance.

"Really? Seems more like a place to get away from everything." The boy noticed.

"Well, I guess, but look at that sunrise!" She requested enthusiastically while pointing.

The boy walked towards her to get past the line of trees blocking his view. He stopped when he got a clear view of the sunrise, and his eyes widened slightly. "Wow… that's…"

"Amazing, right!?"

"Yeah it… kinda is…" He trailed off.

"So what are you doing up here?" The girl asked after letting him admire the view for a few seconds.

"I came here to get as far away from everything as I could." He turned away and noticed the cave nearby. "What's in there?" He asked as he started walking towards the mouth of the cave.

"Oh! You don't want to go in there." She answered as she quickly walked up to him and grabbed him by the sleeve of his right arm.

"Why not?" He asked, looking over his shoulder at her.

"It's… dangerous in there." She answered. She knew what was in there and didn't want to talk or even think about it.

"Dangerous?" He parroted, and she nodded. He stared at her for a second longer, and she tried to figure out what he was thinking, when he shrugged her off and kept walking. Her cheeks puffed out in annoyance before she followed him into the cave.

Just inside the darkness of the cave, they were met with a massive pit. "See? You could fall down there and hurt yourself." She said as they stood near the edge of the hole.

She turned to him and noticed that he was just staring down the pit, clearly deep in thought. Eventually he looked up at her, seeming a bit hesitant. "Hey… you seem kind of nice, so… can you do something for me?"

"W-What?" She asked, curious and just a bit worried.

The boy suddenly put his hands over her eyes. "Turn around, and go home."

"Why?" She asked, not even bothering to try moving his hands.

"Because I came here thinking I'd be alone." He answered before pushing her away.

The girl stumbled back, but didn't fall. "Why do you want to be alone?" She asked out of concern.

"That's none of your business." He responded before turning away from her.

She walked back next to him and paid close attention to his expression as he kept staring into the hole, hoping she would go away. "Are you thinking about falling down there?" She asked.

"I said go away." He growled out without looking at her.

She grabbed his sleeve and held it tight. "I think about it too." She turned away and squinted at the bright sun in the distance. "Every time I come up here to see the sun, I can't help but think about the hole behind me, and how easy it would be to just… fall in." She looked down the hole as well. "No one would know I fell, no one would know where I fell. I'd be gone and no one would know it." She pulled on his sleeve as she turned to walk towards the sun. "But I know better than to do that, so come on. Why go near the dark when there's so much light right here?" She asked with a smile.

"Let go of me." He demanded and pulled back.

"No!" She shouted suddenly. "Everyone lives for a reason! I won't let someone leave if I can help it!"

"I don't care what you think!" He shouted back. He started tearing up as his anger and sadness both got to him. "Life is… it's terrible! It's the worst thing ever and I don't want any of it! Now LET ME GO!"

"NO!" The two kids began a tug of war near the edge of the hole.

"I SAID LET GO!" He screamed and punched at her, partially hitting her cheek and surprising her enough to make her lose her grip. He was pulling back as hard as he could at the time, so he went flying back. She reacted as quickly as she could though and flung herself at him as he fell. She managed to grab onto him, and she tried to land in a way that she could stop them both from falling, but she failed and ended up being pulled with him. Their screams became distant as they fell into the darkness.

""Oof!"" They landed on a bed of golden flowers. They both groaned in pain before noticing their pain fade away.

The girl rolled off of him and slowly raised her head to look around. Her eyes widened as she got on her hands and knees to get a better look. She looked up and saw the light above them, and she realized where they were with a gasp. She quickly turned to the boy and shook him. "Hey! Hey! Wake up!" Thankfully for her, he groaned and looked up at her. "We're okay! We're alive! Look!"

He looked up where she was pointing and realized that they had somehow survived the long drop. He looked around them at the bed of flowers and the broken pillars. "What?" He asked, confused.

The excited child grabbed him by the arm and pulled him up. "This is it! This proves we have a reason for living!" She exclaimed with a smile. "I'm Frisk! What's your name?"

"Uh… AJ." He answered hesitantly as he was still trying to grasp what had happened and what was going on.

"Alright AJ, now you listen to me! We wouldn't be alive right now if there wasn't a reason, so let's find a way out of here and live like we're supposed to!" She said before grabbing his hand and running off down the path.

"H-Hey! Whoa! Slow down!" He shouted with a light blush as he was pulled along.

Because having two kids going through the underground together would be adorable IMO.

You know what? I'm not doing the last variant.

Hope you all enjoyed this! I'll continue making these non-canon chapters if I have ideas and the time. They're really all side projects compared to the main story after all.

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