Disclaimer: Undertale belongs to TobyFox and all the magnific people who worked in that amazing project. I'm just borrowing their ideas and concepts to make something that gives me no economic gain.
[[Welcome to the surface]]
1. Overtaken by the oddity
As the group of monsters went downside the mountain, something was quite off. They crossed paths with some humans hiking. No one berated seeing monsters in the surface. Undyne mentioned that maybe the hikers were so though they could not afford showing they surprise, but when two high school girls making an evening stroll passed beside the monsters, the later started to fret. Asgore considered humans had a short lifespan it was likely that the most of them would have never seen a monster in their lives, this made things easier for him as he wanted to give a good first impression. That's why the king had asked everyone to look as unthreatening as possible. He even went the extra mile to go back and change his attire to a simple cotton t-shirt and shorts. Eventually three duck monsters and a Cyclops with lots of tentacles walked beside them in the opposite direction.
"IT SEEMS SOME OTHER MONSTERS WENT OUT BEFORE US." Papyrus was a little disappointed for not being the first. This made Toriel wonder from where could those monsters could have possibly left, if the barrier entrance was behind the throne room in New Home.
"Th-that's highly improbable. I—We… we were s-suppose to be right beside the entrance." Alphys followed Toriel's train of thought. "We could…. I mean… we should have noticed if s-someone crosses it."
Toriel looked down at Frisk, as always it was hard to read her child's emotion through that plain face. But a slightly open mouth gave her the hint to think that maybe the child was as surprised as the others. When they felt the eyes of Toriel on them, Frisk looked up at her and smiled reassuringly.
"We can come down this way." The little one pulled Toriel's paw. The rest of the monsters followed.
When they reached the base of the mountain, the feeling of bewilderment had taken over them. They had walked by a country road for about half an hour. During the lapse, several cars have passed by without glancing at them, a couple of those driven by monsters. Toriel kept the discovery to herself out of sheer confusion. Frisk was in dead silence, concentrated in guiding everyone to a much-populated area. By this point, everyone had noticed something was wrong, but it was until when reaching a crowded street that Toriel uttered the question hovering over the group.
"What is this?" She stated as her gaze waltzed from across the street towards the end of the line. Things had changed a lot since the last time she had been in the surface, she had heard from one of the last souls before Frisk that the humans had built skyscrapers, and vehicles with the speed of hundred of horses, and of course, she had a hint that her old phone was way far from the newest models. But God why, from all the oddities she was ready to witness, this one had to be the one she could never imagine.
She looked at Frisk, the child holding her hand seemed oblivious to her inner struggle. Sans was right beside her, but the black void in his eyes delivered an impossible-to-decrypt reaction. Furthermore, the other monster seemed flabbergasted as well. She could but to wonder once again "What's happening here?" this time in silent powder.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, WHILE WE WERE DISCUSSING WITH THE HUMAN ALL THE OTHERS OVERTOOK US" Finally, Papyrus expressed what the rest had not been able to describe, although his naïve nature did not let him convey the problem.
"Paps, do you know any of those guys?" Undyne prompted, aware that she already knew the answer. None of the eight monsters that had just come up to the surface knew the monsters walking alongside the street. Holding their cappuccino macchiato, yelling from their huge cars, walking their own dog!?
"OF COURSE I KNOW SOME OF THEM, THAT'S THE GIRL WHO SELLS TRASH IN THE ALLEY" He pointed to a lizard monster who was just passing before them, the aforementioned did not take the comment well.
"How did ya callme, sack o' bones?" In fact, the lizard reeked an attitude of up-to-no-good. He walked towards the lanky skeleton cracking his knuckles, almost chewing his cigarette butt. She knew this was not going to end well, but before she could react, things went once again unexpected.
"I'M SORRY. EVEN SOMEONE LIKE ME CAN MAKE A MISTAKE. ALTOUGH YOU LOOK EXACTLY LIKE A GIRL I KNOW." Papyrus had started his apologize when the other monster picked him up by the scarf. When the stranger directed his fist at mere inches of Papyrus' face, his soul turned blue. Toriel could notice the glint of carnage coming from Sans' right eye.
"Whoa, what da hell man? Chill!" the lizard raised both hands while retreating, a couple of monster bunnies and a human looked at them. Some other people and monsters walking around casually noticed the fight and decided to turn away and run.
In some moment, the lizard decided to reach for something in his jeans pockets. Sans reacted by slamming the monster on the concrete. Of course, he only dealt one point of damage, but this was enough to trigger a human woman screaming for help.
The next second people and monsters were rampant on the street, desperate to get away from the newcomers. The cars stopped due to the passerbyers ignoring the street signs, some of the drivers abandoned their vehicles on the spot to join the rest of scared people.
"What's going on?" Toriel listened Undyne under the panicked screams.
"Th-there must be s-so-something that distressed them?" Doctor Alphys stuttered, her small body crumbled the closest possible to the captain of the royal guards to prevent the horde to stomp on her. Toriel picked up Frisk on her arms, and even thought she should not, she felt grateful of Asgore's huge mass protecting them from being shoved.
"Sans, let him go!" Frisk rumbled from her arms with the usual benevolence.
"Dude, da kid's right." The lizard monster whose soul had turned blue was begging for mercy, considering his level of violence his reluctance to fight was more a matter of principles. "You are only one HP and I don't want trouble."
The skeleton sighted, and listened to Frisk. The very next instant the lizard's soul turned white again, the guy stood up took his leave like a possessed. The eight monsters found themselves alone again, this time on the surface. Or so they thought. The sound of sirens getting louder and louder alerted them that the worse was about to happen.
A couple of black and white cars parked before them. A knot formed in Toriel's throat upon seeing people getting down with both hands holding guns, pointing their weapons at them. And as the officers asked them raise their hands and abandon all attempt to use magic, the everlasting question played in loop inside her head. She looked at Frisk holding the fur of her arms expecting the child could decode her expression and provide some answers to "what is happening?"
Author's note: Welp, recently I played undertale and the next moment I was swallowed by the fandom. I haven't read anything from AO3 because I found the amount of stories humongous! But out here I didn't find anything about a paceful life in the surface, so that's the premise of this story. I hope you enjoy this little cute story, all kind of opinions are welcomed.
