A/N: This chapter will have an awkward moment...
But it's not all fun and games, when the hero descends back into hell.
I was a bit inspired by "Falling in reverse" and "The Plans of Monsters and Men" for this chapter.

Enjoy.

That day was normal enough for Frisk, with him helping Asgore tending out the garden of golden flowers, and then passing by the skeleton brothers' house. He was happy enough to stay through Sans' puns and eating Papyrus' dishes of spaghetti, while talking about his Ambassador duties with Sans. "You know, I could use some help in expanding the UnderNet," Frisk said, with a thoughtful expression on his face. "And I have to make sure humans manage to tolerate the monsters' presence in the town..." the child continued, realising that the heavy burden he had when fighting Chara didn't diminish in the least. "Papa kept talking to Mama about something like striking a deal with the humans, whatever that meant. In any event I have to go with them at the City Hall, tomorrow." Frisk let himself sink on the skeleton brothers' couch, and Papyrus, seeing the human so low in thought, couldn't help himself in giving out some advice.

- FRISK. I UNDERSTAND YOU MUST FEEL REALLY BAD ABOUT ALL THIS. HAVING TO MAKE SURE US MONSTERS ARE SEEN AS GREAT..., BUT DO NOT FRET! YOU HAVE US ALL TO HELP, Papyrus said, striking his heroic pose.

- Thanks, Papyrus, I really appreciate your support, Frisk smiled towards the taller skeleton.

- paps, could you please leave frisk and me alone for a moment? Sans asked his brother.

- VERY WELL BROTHER. BUT PLEASE, IF THE HUMAN NEEDS ANYTHING, JUST YELL FOR ME. I'LL BE OUTSIDE, TRAINING.

As Papyrus made his way out of the living room and out in the rather large garden Papyrus and Sans used as training grounds, Sans looked at the brave child who stood against Chara with a questioning look. "tell me, frisk. have you and asriel destroyed the RESET buttons?" Frisk, caught up by the question, admitted that he and his brother didn't really have the time to destroy those buttons. "frisk. i ask because i have...some nightmares. i keep seeing you RESETting, and putting us through bad times, " Sans said as his left eye glowed a faint cyan, but Frisk reassured the skeleton he would not do such a thing. "kid...you were a hero back there...and i don't want to see you becoming a villain for heaven-knows-what reason that would push you on that edge."

- I understand your warning, Sans. But I promised I would not RESET, no matter what circumstance would arise. I don't want to kidnap the life we have here, together. I am happy to be around you all, to stay with you. Chara's machinations are over, the hero child said, as he rose a bit from the couch.

- okay kid, i believe you, Sans said, hugging the small child. so, wanna hang out at alphys'? she said she found a cool video game we could play.

- Sure, Sans, Frisk said. But, please, tell Papyrus we're leaving to Alphys' place.

Frisk and Sans exited the house and Sans told his brother he will hang out at Alphys' for a while. "keep training, bro. all of your fights will be 'snow' problem!" to which Papyrus could yell "SAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!" but Frisk also joined the pun boat. " 'Sans' him, you wouldn't be 'train' to be good." and Papyrus could only note "SANS, YOU ARE TURNING EVERYONE INTO YOU!" prompting a hearty laughter from Frisk and Sans. "Oh God, if Mom and Asriel would've heard that pun..." the child smiled. "yeah, tori would've loved your pun, kid. come here, i know a shortcut to alphys'." A few seconds later, they were in front of Undyne and Alphys' house, and they could hear some agitation going behind the door. Sans' big grin immediately dropped to a frown, as he knocked on the door, merely to stop whatever was going on. Alphys was the one to open the door, and she was surprised to see Sans and Frisk. Frisk could note Alphys' face was a tad redder than her usual self, making him wonder what was really going behind the door.

- Oh, hi Frisk and Sans! Sorry for not answering the door so quickly.

- i hope we didn't interrupt anything important, Sans said as his frown was still there.

- Oh, no, Sans. It's really okay. What brought you two here? the lizard scientist asked.

- aren't cha gonna let us in, alph? Sans asked.

- Just a moment, Sans, please, Alphys said as she left Frisk and Sans to wait.

Frisk, being curious as always, wanted to see what was going on, but Sans' grip kept him in place. "maybe it's best that i go in first. who knows what's going on, and it might not be okay for you to see." Sans went in and his bony cheeks went a flushing blue as he saw Undyne in a rather...not suitable for children outfit to see. "jeez, put some scales on, we have a kid around." Frisk understood somehow it would be better for him to wait outside until Sans called him in. "Oh my God, Sans!" Undyne yelled at the small skeleton. "Couldn't you just wait outside like Frisk did? Alphys, bring me my dressing gown, okay?"Alphys shot Sans a rather cold stare as she crossed the hallway, making her way towards the bathroom. That cold stare made the skeleton scratch his skull in embarassment, while Alphys brought the dressing gown to Undyne. "sorry. i came in because frisk was curious, and trust me...it would've been worse if he saw you." Undyne's anger diminished realizing that Sans actually went in because he wanted to protect Frisk. "Anyway, he can come in now. It's okay." and Sans motioned to the kid to come in.

- I'm sorry for Sans' behaviour if he bothered you, Frisk said. He was just protecting me from my childish curiosity.

- Which is totally normal, Frisk, Undyne said, a little embarassed.

- Anyway, what brought you guys here? Alphys asked, with a smile on her face.

- you were telling me about this cool video game frisk and i should totally try, Sans said.

- Oh, yeah, that one! Come with me, Frisk, Alphys said as she handed out a paw to the human child, and the latter took it with ease.

"I loved the way you were piecing up the whole story of our fate, and it reminded me of an anime detective - I found a totally cool game with him, where you have to pick up clues and solve mysteries! It's small things mostly...disappearances of animals and objects. Can you solve these out, Frisk? This time I won't spoil the game out for you. Enjoy it," Alphys said as she left Frisk at her console, while Undyne and Sans were talking about what stuff they did since the breaking of the barrier.

- so, you're saying you've seen some posters with frisk's face on them? and what's the occasion you went in town? Sans asked, curiously.

- We went together for a dinner, and we were tired of Grillby's. We found a restaurant that actually accepted monsters as customers. Human food is really delicious, Alphys barged in the discussion.

- As for the posters...I'm not sure if they mean anything. Perhaps they were just for his support as Ambassador, I never looked at them closely, Undyne voiced her thoughts.

- i hope so too, frisk's doing a hell of a job making sure we're getting accepted. and tomorrow he's got a meeting with the leader of the humans. he's got asgore and tori with him, Sans said as he was looking in the direction of the lab.

In the meantime, Frisk was checking his e-mail address - he was taking a break from the game - and he was now replying to every invitation and every complaint he received from monsters and humans alike. Everyone who wanted to meet the human Ambassador of the Monsters would have to wait after he would be done with the arrangements around Ebott City, and he was getting nervous thinking about what tomorrow brought for him. He then recalled he left his phone at home - it must've rang a lot - and perhaps Toriel was worried about his whereabouts. After he carefully did everything and cleared another level of the game, he then decided to shut off the console and return to Sans. He could catch up only a bit of the conversation going through the three adult monsters. "...really, frisk is so brave for carrying such a burden at his age.", and when he entered the room, all the talking ceased and everyone looked at him.

- Did you like the game, Frisk? Alphys asked, with hopeful eyes.
- Yes, Alphys, it's exciting! May I come back tomorrow after the meeting? Frisk pleaded, with hopeful eyes as well.
- Of course, Frisk. I'll make sure Undyne will be proper tomorrow, Alphys said with a meek smile.
- woops, frisk, tori is looking for you. you'd better read this text, Sans said as he showed him a text from Toriel.

"Sans, do you know where Frisk is? I am sorry to bother you, but he left his phone at home and I couldn't contact him. It is important that I talk to him. Please let him know (and no, he's not in trouble for leaving for so long) - TORIEL." the last sentence made Frisk exhale in relief he didn't upset his mother. "don't worry bucko, i'll show you what i'll type her. here," said Sans as he showed Frisk the reply. "don't worry tori, frisk is with me. we're now at alphys and undyne's. trust me, i'll bring him home. (he's relieved that he didn't fire you up) - sans." Frisk could only snicker at Sans for the last sentence in the parantheses, but agreed to it nonetheless. "okay, bucko. let us get you back home, okay?"

A shortcut later, Frisk smiled gently as Toriel picked him up in her loving arms. "Where have you been for so long, Frisk?" to which Frisk recounted the full day and the moment he talked about what Sans went through with Undyne, Toriel's face carried a shocked expression. "It makes me want to burn her down to a crisp. To be so liberal when a child comes to visit..." but Asgore attempted to calm her down, "Toriel, I believe neither knew that Sans and Frisk were going to visit. It was Sans' fault he didn't call in before, and he tried to make it up by protecting Frisk". Toriel's motherly rage seemed to diminish, but not completely, as she held Frisk tighter. "He has seen enough bad things...I don't want him in danger anymore, I don't care how big or small that danger might be." to which Asriel softly chuckled "Mama, Frisk is a warrior, he can pull through danger." His brother was right, Frisk had battled evil...what danger could be threatening him anyway? After a healthy dinner, Toriel tucked in her two children, kissing them goodnight, while Asgore waited in the doorstep of his children's room. The old king had now a chance to make it up to Toriel...he knew that on some levels, she was still resenting him, and the only reason she was living with him was because of the two children - neither were aware that the royal couple was going through a rough patch right now. The two were sitting in the kitchen, so they could talk freely without disturbing the slumber of their children.

- Toriel..., Asgore called her, with a soft baritonal voice.

- What is it, Asgore? she retorted, a tint of anger in her voice.

- I want to ask you something. It's been on my mind for so long..., Asgore trailed off.

- Out with it. Do not dance around the matter, Dreemurr! Toriel said, impatience running in her timbre.

- Do you truly hate me this much? I know you have allowed me a few things here and there, and I'm not taking these for granted. I know you stay with me just for Asriel and Frisk's sakes, Asgore said, as he was lowering his head in front of her, like awaiting an execution.

- Asgore, by now you know my anger towards you is not fully gone. Even though the six children have forgiven you for your savage actions..., I find it hard to forgive you. Toriel said as she folded her arms.

- What more must I do, to prove you I can be forgiven? Are you really that blind, to not see how much I love Asriel and Frisk? Asgore asked, still keeping his head low.

- I have seen, but it's not enough to change my mind, she said sternly.

Unbeknownst to the two Dreemurrs, Frisk could sense their auras, and he figured something was up. "I can't sleep because of this disturbance. I must see what's going on..." he thought as he rose up slowly from his bed, making sure not to wake Asriel up. He could hear, as he opened the door, their quarelling.

- So everything that happened until now, means nothing to you? Asgore asked, sadness in his voice.

- Your words do not sway me, Dreemurr, Toriel sternly said.

- If I have to wait an eternity to get your forgiveness, so be it, Asgore said. Goodnight, Toriel, the monster sovereign said as he headed towards the living room to sleep on the couch for this night.

- Goodnight, Dreemurr, Toriel said as she made her way towards the room she and Asgore were sharing once.

Frisk closed the door on time as she passed through the corridor, so she didn't notice anything suspicious. But Frisk was DETERMINED to get his parents back on good terms, and then Asriel awoke, at the sound of the clanking door and he whispered to Frisk,"Frisk? Why are you up in the...middle of the night?"

- Asriel, get back. It's nothing. Goodnight brother, Frisk said as he snuggled the goat child.

In the morning, it seemed like nothing had changed in the Dreemurs' home, but Frisk was the only one aware of the discrepancy in the auras of his parents. While Asriel had his own share of powers, they didn't extend to Frisk's versatility. Frisk, for some reason, had a feeling this morning was not going to be a good one. Toriel made breakfast for everyone, even for Asgore, although Frisk could see in his mother's eyes a stern rage towards his father. Asriel wanted to go in the park with Frisk today, but Frisk said that he, Asgore and Toriel, had a very important meeting to attend to and he excused himself, "Sorry brother. I know how much you'd want to play in the park with me, but I gotta go. I'm the Ambassador, and I have to make sure every monster and human goes well along with one another." Asriel then said he will hang out with Papyrus at the park.

Frisk rose from the table and went to dress up in a white shirt, black bowtie and blue suit, with white shoes, and he combed his hair - it was now shorter, at Frisk's request - and then waited for his mother and father. Toriel dressed herself into a purple blouse and a blue skirt, while Asgore picked up a white shirt and blue pants. It seemed like he really enjoyed Frisk's choices of colours, and he tried as best to keep up. The human child could only smile at his parents, as he picked up Toriel's left paw in his right hand and Asgore's paw in the other, while they headed out towards the City Hall of...Ebott City. As they were walking down the streets, a few humans were surprised to see a child along with some monsters, and others were completely disgusted or scared by the monsters, and Frisk advised his parents to ignore such humans. "They will be reformed soon enough, do not worry." Toriel saw a few posters with Frisk's face, and just as Undyne, was a bit puzzled and concerned over what they meant, but that thought soon disappeared as they arrived to the City Hall.

However, in that very same time, Frisk's parents were sitting on the opposite, and recognizing their child, they yelled across the street, "MAGGIE JAMES HUNT, IS THAT YOU?!"
When Frisk heard that old name, he felt the whole world crashing down on him, as he snapped out of his foster parents' paws and began running down the street, not even hearing Toriel and Asgore's calls to stop. Frisk ran, and ran without even excusing himself for bumping into people...Toriel and Asgore didn't see who called out to Frisk, as they began running after Frisk, seeing that the latter didn't stop. He didn't even care anymore about the meeting with the human leader, he didn't care about anything. He ran all the way until the Dreemurs' house, and Sans, out of coincidence, was about to visit Frisk, when he saw the kid running down the street in such a distressed state, that it made him ask him what went on.

- Please...greet Toriel and Asgore Dreemurr for me when they get here. And tell them I am okay. I just need to get some stuff from here and run. Don't tell Asriel I was here.

Sans knew that Frisk thought of the Dreemurrs' as his family, so he was shocked to hear him calling Toriel and Asgore by their first names. But no longer than ten minutes later, he saw two groups of adults, two monster, two human that came down the street, running. "heya, tori and asgore. i leave myself into account some whacked stuff knocked frisk into this state," he said to the two Boss Monsters. "Yes," Toriel began saying, "the two humans following us are Frisk's parents." Frisk was still in his room when the adults came in.

- Okay, where's our daughter? the father asked.

- You mean our son, you idiot, the mother said.

- It doesn't really matter, as long as we get our child back, the father said.

Toriel was about to burn them to a crisp hearing the name she used for Frisk, and Asgore tried to calm her down, although his rage was as justified. Frisk finally came out from his room, and breaking in tears, he apologized to Toriel and Asgore for lying to them that he didn't have a family. The motherly goat monster leveled herself to Frisk and pulled him in a gentle hug, "Now, now...don't worry. You'll be with your family who loves you. You can always come and visit us anytime! I will tell Asriel you found your family. I'm sure he will understand."

- Come along, James, the father said.

- Yeah, Maggie, come along already, the mother insisted.

Frisk stopped to say goodbye to Sans as well, and the small skeleton could only try to calm Frisk down about how to announce the others, "don't worry, bucko. i will let the others know you found your family. that's surely great news."

Appearances can be so deceiving, can't they? Every monster thought it was for the best that Frisk was back with his human family. Indeed, the posters with his face on them meant only one thing - that the child was missing and looked for by a family - but for Frisk it meant that he was soon going to be back in hell. A hell he tried so hard to escape from, where the demons weren't evil entities such as Chara. This time, the demons were represented by his human parents, human parents that he cared for once...