Undertale – Aftermath
Chapter 2: Recovery
DISCLAIMER: Undertale belongs to Toby Fox.
When they're unconscious, Frisk had a strange dream, or is it a vision? It is seen they're holding another human child that resembles them, even the striped shirt is almost the same. They are carrying the child into some kind of human village. Slowly and carefully, they reached a bed of golden flower in the middle of that village.
"Here we are..." they put the children down on the bed of flowers, kneeling down beside the child.
"Nice view, huh?" they stare into the orange sky in the middle of sunset.
"This is what you really wanted, right?"
Minutes later, they hear a scream that pierces the silence, "Help! A monster!"
After realizing they've been seen, they quickly carries the child up and ran for the edge of the village. But on the way, the villagers had already throwing all kinds of objects at them, while shouting curses and foul words, they took hit after hit while shielding the child's body and running away.
After a brief moment, they arrived at some kind of castle, two tall white figures approached them when they stumbles across the room.
Barely standing still, they lost their grip on the child's body, and falling to the ground themselves.
"I'm sorry, Chara..."
Chara?
Frisk woke up, sweating, catching their breath, what manner of dream was that, they're not even sure. Before they know it, the door swung open, revealing the yellow monster, its carrying a plate with a slice of pie on it.
"Oh, I didn't think you'd be up yet, Frisk." the monster moves closer and puts the plate of pie on a nearby table, "Let me do a check up on you, see if your body is feeling better."
The yellow monster grabbed a set of medical equipment before checking Frisk' heartbeat, blood pressure, and body temperature.
"Everything seems normal, I don't see any kind of illness..." the monster put the equipment back, "How is your chest feeling? Is it still hurt?"
Frisk tries to get up, the burning sensation is almost, it's like they can do normal activities again. To answer the monster' question, Frisk shook their head.
"Then I think your body condition is already fine, but I bet your energy is drained up, huh?" the monster grabs the pie and handed it to Frisk, "Here, this butterscotch-cinnamon pie is made by Toriel for you, she's really worried about you, you know?" then it reaches for the front pocket of its coat and hands over a spoon to Frisk, "Don't worry, it's sterile."
Frisk began eating the pie, something about it seems very familiar. However, they can't quite remember why, but it sure does taste good.
"While you regain your energy, I should inform the others that you're okay." the monster turns around, walking towards the exit, "I'll be back, Frisk." then it closes the door.
Frisk' mind wanders while eating the pie, thinking about the dream they had, and that human child, why does their appearance resembles Frisk? And the name "Chara", it feels like they heard it before.
Too confused because of the dream, Frisk decided to lie down on the bed for the time being.
*At the King' Castle (or house)...
Asriel is staring at the bed of flower while his father is watering it.
"Hey, buddy, why the long face?" Asgore stopped watering the flower and turns his head to his son.
"I'm just worried about Frisk..." Asriel let out a sigh.
"Don't worry about it so much, Dr. Alphys is taking care of it, Frisk will be okay." Asgore sits down beside Asriel.
"Having you back itself is a miracle, your mother can't stop crying yesterday."
"But at what cost?" Asriel scratches the back of his head, "I knew this would happen..."
"Knowing Frisk' determination, I'm pretty sure Alphys can back the kid up to speed again." Asgore sniffs the air, catching a sweet aroma coming from the kitchen, "Also, Tori' pie never fails." then stands up, "C'mon, buddy, don't you want some of your mother' cooking after so long?" Asgore holds out his hand to Asriel.
Asriel smiles before grabbing his father' hand and standing up, "Golly, I'm hungry!"
"That's the spirit!" Asgore drags his son into the kitchen, "Let's go!"
Asriel chuckles while heading to the kitchen with his father. Toriel greets her husband and child with a fresh baked pie on her hands, a sweet family reunion.
*After a few hours...
Frisk is ready to leave and come back home, they wait around the front room of the lab while reading some comics on magical teenagers.
The yellow monster steps down from the elevator at the side of the room, "Alright, I've sent the news to every monster in the kingdom." but then realizes that Frisk is reading its comic, "W-Where did you get that?"
Frisk closes the comic and points out at the table with a stack of comic on it before handing the comic to the yellow monster.
"O-Oh, forget that. Just d-don't tell anyone else about it." the monster puts the comic back to the table.
The monster point out to the exit door, "Let's get you back to the family." the monster heads out, with Frisk following it from behind.
On the way out, Frisk noticed that the lab is located in some kind of... volcano? They see an enormous machine in the middle of the volcano, among the molten lava, even the air is extremely hot here. They stop for a while to stare at the machine.
"That's the CORE, remember?" the yellow monster points out the machine, "I kinda helped you climb up there to defeat Mettaton and reach the barrier."
Frisk doesn't really remember about climbing up such an enormous machinery, but they decided to put that aside once the yellow monster beckons them from a distance.
On the way, they met a blue monster in a stand that reads "Nice Cream", the monster called them both to come by, "Hi, Frisk! You're better now, it seems. I thought you were gonna turn to dust!"
"Not on my watch." the yellow monster replied.
"You remember me, right? You used to buy my nice cream every now and then." the blue monster points to himself, "I decided to set up shop here, since the air always hot here, a nice cream is good choice to cool your head down."
"No argument there."
"Speaking of cooling your head down..." the blue monster opens a fridge and pulled out two wrappings labelled "Chocolate", "Here, free nice cream for you two. Chocolate, it's your favorite, right?" the blue monster handed them out to Frisk and the yellow monster.
"Wow, thanks a lot!"
"No problem!" while Frisk and the yellow monster continues on their way, the blue monster waves his hand at them, "Have a nice day!"
"I heard that Nice Cream guy almost never got any customer back then, but your patronage changed his business. A lot of people in Hotland came to his stand to buy nice creams." said the yellow monster while they're eating their cold nice cream.
After some more walking, they arrived at an elevator leading to the top of the giant machine.
"I and Mettaton made this elevator so that it leads straight to the top of the CORE. From there, we can head to the King Asgore' castle... or house." the yellow monster pushed a button, they stepped inside after the door opens, and then the monster reaches for the topmost button.
While they're riding the elevator, it plays a familiar tune of music through the speaker.
"You recognize this music, right? It's Asriel' favorite music back then. It's kinda old, but I think he still likes it."
The elevator stops with a "Ding!", they stepped out when the door opens, and heads out to some kind of hallway with pillars on either side, windows that has a golden symbol on them, reflecting the light that came from the outside.
"Do you remember this place? You have to go through this hall to reach the king's palace... or house." they walked across the hall while the monster tells Frisk that it observes them when Frisk converse with someone named "Sans", the name sound familiar to Frisk, but once again, they're not sure why.
*The "New Home"
The two of them arrived at the yard of a house. This time, Frisk remembers the surrounding, it feels like home. When they walked towards the house, Frisk stopped in front a bed of golden flowers, they stares at the flowers for a while.
Mesmerized by the flowers, Frisk didn't realize the yellow monster has already entered the house to inform the residence of their recovery. And then a white figure calls out while running towards them, "Frisk!"
"Asriel?" Frisk' is filled with joy all of a sudden, then Asriel hugs them tightly.
"Boy, I'm glad you're okay!" then let go of his hold, "Gee, stop making us worry, will ya'?
Another two white figures approaches them, Frisk remembers them somehow, the king and queen of the monster kingdom, Asgore and Toriel.
"I'm glad you're back, my child." Toriel gave Frisk a welcoming hug.
"Golly, Frisk, the entire kingdom is tad worried about you." Asgore pats Frisk' shoulder.
"Why don't we all go inside?" Toriel points out to the house.
"Yeah, let's go." Asgore heads toward the door, followed by Toriel.
"C'mon!" Asriel grabs Frisk' hand and took them in to the house, "The family is all here!" he exclaimed before heading in with Frisk behind him.
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