author´s note: Hello dear readers, we meet again in this new chapter. As always, valorative comments and correcting the faults from the text will help me to get better in this, also, in this chapter finally appear Sans, if you were waiting for him. If don´t play the character exactly how he is forgive me, I´m not a pretty funny guiy and make puns is something hard for me xD. And now, we begin.
Chapter 4: A day with the skelebros:
It had passed 20 minutes since both teens left Marcus´s place, and arrived to Grillby´s. They entered on the local and the boy looked amazed for the play. It was like one of those big taberns from an RPG game, there were a lot of people around the place, some chatting and laughing of whatever they were talking, others were playing poker, and some peopke were eating some food like hamburguers that looked delicious to his eyes. The ambient inside there was really nice, that he could stay the whole day on the loca. Frisk noticed the reaction of his friend, and smiled knowing he liked it.
The monsters from the place greeted Frisk like she were from their family, but they looked at Marcus with an strange look that discomforted him a bit, they were confused about the new human, and some of them were whisperirng each other about he, maybe doing theories about why he was on the city or his feelings about the monsters.
Marcus was a bit nervous about all the pression he received for the looks of the monsters and the whisperings, Frisk noticed that, so she hitted him gently on the arm and told him: "Hey, don´t worry. The monsters are good people, they just distrust the humans." Marcus understood it, after all, there were almost no monsters out of New Home, a great part of them still living in the underground, with the exception that they were able to go to the surface if they want, some others were famous stars around the world like the robot Mettaton and Napstablook, a ghost, and he saw some monsters around his old home, in the big city, that called themselves "Temmies" and people found them really cute. But not much more, It had been 6 years since the barrier was destroyed, and, despite that the monster called "Asgore", the king of the monsters, was a very nice guy and Marcus admired him, but most part of the humans didn´t wanted to make an agreedment with him, although he was trying his best to make humans see that the monsters changed a lot since they were trapped underground, and now they were good people, but many humans refused to believe that. That fact always made Marcus being sad about the monsters, and pray for them to be able to befriend the humans.
Marcus nodded at Frisk, and with a bit of determination thanks to her words, both walked direction to the bar, where there was a man made of pure fire as he could see, dressing as a waiter and cleaning some cups wit a big white cloth. "I wonder if I will burn my hand if I touch him... he he... what a silly though" The boy though while giggling a bit, making Frisk look at him a bit confused about his giggling, but didn´t mind it too much.
They took a seat and left of the stools from the bar free for Sans, and Marcus asked Frisk about where was her friend Sans. She told him with a confident look and told him: "Don´t worry about him, he´s a lazy guy. Will be here soon".
After she finished speaking to him, a short skeleton dressed in a blue coat, a black short with white stripes and a pair of sneakers, a set not apropiate for a cold day, but that guy was a skeleton after all. He greeted everyone and all the monsters there greeted him back, waving at him and calling him "Sans". Marcus then realized that he was the skeleton who was walking with Frisk when he first saw her while he was moving in his parent´s car to his new home. Approaching to where Frisk and he were, he waved and Frisk got up from his seat to hug him, saying: "Hello lazybones! We were waiting for you!". The skeleton hugged her back and replied: "Sup, kiddo? I missed ya too".
After the hug, Frisk introduced Marcus to the short skeleton: "Well, Sans, this is Marcus, the new friend I talked you about before."
Sans looked at Marcus with his perpetual and big grin across his face, something that Marcus found funny, and his two white pupils, and said: "Sup, Marky? Greet me as a good pal and shake your hand with me".
Marcus wasn´t sure about do what he said when he heard Frisk giggling a bit, but he was determined enough to make the most friends he can, so he was about to shake his hand, and in the moment their hands reached each other, a big ugly fart sounded suddently, making Marcus jump a bit scared and surprised, and yelling: "What the hell!? I didn´t do that!".
The people around and Frisk exploded in laughter after see Marcus´s reaction and Sans showed his hand´s palm to him, making him know that there was a farting bag on it and that he was a victim of a prank.
Marcus started to laugh too and said with his face full red: "Oh god, this is really embarrasing, you really are a comic, Sans. Sans started to laugh at his comment and said: "Good one boy, as you see, I´m pretty humerus." After see Frisk and Sans laugh for his comment, and he realized that the last words Comic and Sans were refered to a font of letter, added to his pun about bones, he exploded in laugh, and said: "Oh my god! That pun was terrible!" Sans and Frisk giggled, and he kept talking: "Tibia honest, I didn´t expect that!", Sans laught at the pun as Frisk´s face was red of laughing and she was starting to cry and had to lean on the bar to stay up, and said: "God, Marcus, Really!? That pun was terrible too". Watching the tears that were descending over Frisk´s cheeks, used that to make another pun. Giggling, he said: "Don´t you mean Tear-rible, Frisk?", she pleaded for mercy to Marcus and Sans to stop making punjs, and so, they did.
Taking their seats back on the bar, Sans asked Marcus what did he wanted to eat, and he answered his question while cheking the menu: "Hmmm... I don´t know, I will take what Frisk choose". He nodded and called to the waiter made of fire and told him: "Hey, Grillby, give us 3 burguers!". After taking the order from behind the bar, that fire guy that resulted to be the owner of the place, went silently to what it seemed to be the kitchen, and after some seconds he was back with 3 hamburguers in 3 different dishes, and served the food to each one. Before start to eat, Sans said a pun, "Bone apettit", and Marcus replied to his comment: "I never heard that phrase as a pun, and less coming from a skeleton. I will save it for future uses.", and so, they started to eat.
Frisk and Sans were talking during some minutes about some friends like a girl called Undyne, while Marcus were eating his burguer silently, enjoying every bite, "Holy shit, this is the best burguer i´ve ever ate in my whole life!", The boy though.
The situation kept like this until Sans started to talk about his borther, and said the name "Papyrus". Frisk and Sans jumped when they heared someone choking, who resulted to be Marcus, and when he was able to swallow the bite he had in his mouth, he cryed excited for the name Papyrus, and yelled: "WHAT!? PAPYRUS IS YOUR BROTHER!?"
Sans and Frisk looked surprised at him, and the short skeleton answered his question: "Yeah, why so?
Marcus got up from his seat excited, and yelled: "OH MY GOD, DUDE! I´M A HUGE FAN OF YOUR BROTHER ON THE INTERNET! I HAVE TO MEET HIM!"
Sans and Frisk seemed glad to know he was a person who admired Papyrus, so Frisk told him: "After end here our food, we were thinking on hang up with Papyrus. I didn´t expect you were a fan of him."
Marcus laughted a bit and said: "Well Frisk, when I say I´m a HUGE fan of something, I really are! I follow him around the internet since he started to upload videos on VideoTube!"
Everyone around looked a bit confused and impressed to the new human in the town yelling about Papyrus and flattering him, what caused a good impresion to the monsters that though about him as a person who hate humans in the first place. The ambient was less tense,
After ending their food and pay the tab, they left Grillby´s and went to the house of the skelebros. When they arrived the place, they went inside. Sans´s house was exactly like their house in Snowdin before leave the underground, but obviously, Marcus didn´t know it, he felt relieved strangely of know that not every house in New Home was exactly the same on the inside.
Sans told them to wait down while he called his brother going to his room, probable we would be recording a new gameplay for his channel on VideoTube. Marcus took a seat with Frisk on the couch from the living room, and waited silently with Frisk some seconds until Marcus heard Sans´s voice followed by another voice that sounded familiar to him going downstairs following the short skeleton: "THE NEW HUMAN IS HERE? WOWIE! I´M EXCITED FOR MEET HIM!"
After hear that, he saw Sans and behind him, was Papyrus. Marcus screamed excited "OH MY GOD! IT´S REAL!" when he saw him, thing that made Sans and Frisk laugh after see their friend full of joy, "Wow, Marcus looks like one of those girls from Alphys´s animes", The girl though, and Papyrus approached the new human who was trembling a lot.
When the tall skeleton reached him, he offered his hand to Marcus for a hand shake while saying: "HELLO HUMAN, I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS! I HEARD YOU ARE HU-"
Papyrus didn´t have enough time to end his phrase when Marcus hugeed him tightly, thing that surprised Papyrus, and made Sans and Frisk be filled with tenderness. "OH MY GOD1 THIS IS SO CUTE!" Frisk though.
The tall skeleton hugged him back, and Marcus said: "This is like the best gift someone could make me for christmast!", Papyrus then said happy: "NYEH HEH HEH! I MUST BE REALLY GREAT TO BE LOVED BY MY FANS LIKE THIS!", His brother nodded and said in agreedment: "Indeed you are bro."
After they stopped the hug, Frisk decided to talk: "Well boys, which is the plan for this afternoon?" Sans said while taking a seat on the coach: "We could stay here and spent the rest of the day watching TV or resting". Papyrus groaned in dissapointment and yelled at his brother: "SANS! WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SO LAZY? THERE´´S A LOT OF WORLD TO SEE AND YOU JUST WANT SO SIT ON THE COUCH AND SLEEP! I WANT YOU TO GET UP FROM THE COUCH RIGHT NOW AND HELP US THINK ON A PLAN!"
Sans put a funny face and said: "So, what are you gonna do if I don´t want to? A-Rest me?"
Frisk and Marcus giggled to the pun as Papyrus yelled angrily the name of his brother: "SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNSSSS!"
Frisk, suddently, though on something: "Hey guys! Why don´t we go to the park? Today the sun is brighter than the other days from the month, and it isn´t very cold outside."
Papyrus jumped full of joy and said loudly: "GOOD IDEA FRISK! LET´S GO TO THE PARK! THERE ARE SOME CUTE DUCKS I WANT TO SEE ON THE POND!"
Sans sighed, and said: "Welp, if there isn´t any other option..."
Marcus nodded, and told them: "Lead the way guys.", and so, they left the skelebros house to spend the day on the park.
When they arrived, the park was full of life, it was life everyone had the same idea that Frisk: There were monster kids like one that resembled a bear and other that resembled a bunny playing a game of catch, others monster kids playing the ball, and their parents were watching them full of happyness knowing their children were having fun. Other monsters were watching the pond where some ducks were swimming and enjoying the bread the monsters threw to them to feed them. Everything was pretty fun, they were having a good time.
It was 5:40 P.M. And the four friends were walking and talking about something funny around the park when suddently, Frisk saw someone familiar running towards them, it was monster kid, he looked really scared of something and approached Frisk when he saw her, and hided behind they four, to start to cry for help. Papyrus tried to calm her asking what was wrong when Frisk and Sans found the origin of Monster kid´s fear running towards them: A big group of 12 human teens, with face of non good intentions and armed with some baseball bats and iron pipes, probably from the same age of Frisk and Marcus, or with some more years than them, Sans groaned in anger at them as Frisk said: "Fuck, are they again."
Marcus was confused, and reached Frisk to ask her what was going on, she answered at him: "These people are just a bunch of bullies that enjoy hurting others. They discovered the city 2 years ago, and they always come here looking someone to beat up, but the monsters can´t do nothing against them because of the non agression rule imparted to the monsters about dont touch the humans with evil purposes.´But that rule is unfair! The humans can do whatever they want with the monsters!"
Marcus understood the situation, he felt really bad for the monsters, and went to monster kid to try to consolate him: "Hey, are you okay?"
Monster kid looked at him a bit confused about who was him, but assured that he was a good human thanks to Papyrus, andtold him with tears in his eyes: "This bullies are trying to hit me! Help me!"
He placed his look back to the situation, and Frisk & Sans were talking with what looked like the boiss of the bullies, a guy that seemed to be pretty strong, and had an imposing look. Frisk yelled at him: "HE DON´T DESERVE TO BE HITTED JOE! WHY YOU KEEP DOING THIS TO THE MONSTERS!?" The monsters around started to look confused and concerned about the situation. When they saw the humans and Frisk yelled at them, they knew something was going wrong.
That bully, whose name was Joe, smiled at her and told her in a superiority tone: "Oh sweety, don´t be so rude with me, we just want to have some fun. Or should we get some fun with you? After all, you are not a monster, and that means we can do other things..." He then was about to touch Frisk´s ass, but was stopped for Sans, who gave a step ahead while his left eye started to shine in a blue light that scared Marcus a bit, and said angrily: "Don´t try to touch her, you scumbag"
Joe gave a step behind a bit surprised for Sans and smiled back at him, telling him in an annoying tone of voice: "Oh, what are you gonna do, throw me a bone? Remember the non agresion rule from monsters to the humans, retarded sack of bones. Get back to your grave freak."
Frisk put a hand on his shoulder and squezed it softly to calm him while telling him "Leave it Sans, It´s not worth", and he left the conversation angrily to go with Papyrus to try to consolate monster kid.
Marcus was really angry for what was happening, and were about to go where Frisk was, but Sans took him from his arm, and told him: "Marcus, don´t do anything stupid, don´t go." Marcus freed his arm from Sans and replied him in a serious voice: "I know what I´m doing, calm down."
He approached Frisk and the bullies, and said in a serious tone of voice: "Stop this! Now! You, John or Joe or whatever your name is, go home and leave the monsters live their life." Frisk whispered at him: "God Marcus! What are you doing! Don´t get into this!", but he didn´t have on mind leave it, he felt something inside him that wasd telling him he had to do something to stop that situation, the though oh help his friend and resolve this filled him with determination.
Joe looked at him with a serious face, and yelled at Marcus angrily: "Who the fuck are you and who has invited to this? Get the fuck out nerd!"
Marcus didn´t seem affected for his words, and laughted at him: "Really, that´s the best you can tell me? Your insults are pointless, like you."
Frisk and the monsters seemed impressed and scared for what Marcus was doing, and Sans though for himself: "Oh my god kid, stop right now"
Joe looked at him angry, no one talked back the bullies like that before in New Home, and Joe, affected, for the Marcus´s reply, said in a low but furious tone of voice: "Fuck you, no one offends me like this, mother fucker, you´ve made me angry enough, leave now and let us kill that fuckiong monster, so we won´t do nothing to you at your friends, but if you don´t I´m gonna smash your fucking skull until your brain is splitted around the paviment, you little piece of shit!"
Marcus looked at him seriously, and said drily: "Try it."
Jon screamed furiously, and said: "I´M FUCKING DONE! GUYS, LET´S KILL THIS BASTARD. MAKE A RING AROUND US, AND PUT FRISK IN THE BEST VIEW POSSIBLE SO SHE CAN SEE HOW I SMACK HIS FUCKING HEAD FULL OF SHIT". As he ended of saying this, the bullies made a ring around Jon and Marcus, and Frisk was starting to beg for mercy to let Marcus go, but seemed that talk wouldn´t work anymore. Meanwhile, the monsters were really worried about Marcus and terrified about the situation, so they called the police to go to New Home and resolve this by law.
That was the first true fight that Marcus had in his life, in the beggining he was scared, but there was no returning back. He though for a moment, why he was doing that: He was doing this for his friends, to help someone who needed his help... he was able to fill his chest burning inside, he felt adrenaline through all his body, and a song started to sound on the background like if the song were for him, to push him to fight, like if it were one RPG he would play... he was filled with determination!
(The song that sounds in the fight is "You will know our names" from the game "Xenoblade Chronicles")
Joe tried to hit him a few times, and Marcus was able to dodge them all, his daily training of running 1 hour made him very agile with the pass of the time, he thanked that, and Frisk was smiling watching him being able to keep on the conflict without fighting back, watching him refuse to fight back reminder her the experiences and adventures she got in the underground, and the skelebros just waited with monster kid hoping Marcus ended victorious in the fight. Joe in some points of the fight yelled at him: "Why don´t you fight me back!? C´MON! FIGHT ME BACK!", but Marcus refused.
He then received a hit, a punch in the right eye, thing that made him fall for a moment, and left him blind of that eye for some seconds. On that moment, Frisk tried to get rid of the bullies that were taking her from her arms to reach Marcus and help him, but she wasn´t able to escape when he was up again.
Marcus got up and kept dodging until he received another hit, stronger that the first one, this time on the left side of the face, reaching his nose, but didn´t got broke, fortunately. That hit hurted him, and left him a bit dizzy, making him tremble a bit. From his mouth everyone were able to see some blood, this worried Frisk and tried to strugle again from her oppresors, but she went able. Joe smiled at him, and stopped for a moment to talk to him: "Heh, did that one hit hurt you, scumbag?"
Marcus laughed trembling a bit, and after split some blood into the ground, said perspiring: "I will be honest, it hurts, but doesn´t hurt as much as know that no one cares about you."
That coment hitted hard Joe, making him goes mad, and yelled: "I´M GONNA KILL YOU FOR THAT!"
Invaded by the fury, his attacks were less faster than before, letting Marcus have a major time of reaction to them, and making the dodging much easier.
The fight reached a point on the which Joe was tired of fail all his attacks, and called his friends to help him. Before Marcus could know, he received a hard hit on the leg with an aluminium baseball bat, making him scream of pain and fall onto his knee. Joe used that to take him from the head and hit him in the face with his knee, letting Marcus trembling in pain and falling. Frisk looked at him horrified as she called Joe a coward for don´t be able to beat Marcus alone. Joe approached where she was and smacked her in the face, making her cry.
Something started to burn inside Marcus, it was fury, for see her best friend cry. He got up and told Joe, standing up as he could: "DON´T! TOUCH! HER! SCUMBAG! COME FOR ME! HOW CAN YOU BE SO DAMNLY COWARD OF CALL FOR HELP TO A FIGHT? AND THEN HIT A WOMAN? WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT OF ENEMY! I EXPECTED MORE FROM YOU!"
Joe looked furiously at Marcus and yelled at him: "SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT! YOU´RE WORTHLESS AND WEAK!" He returned his attention back to a reincorporated Marcus, that looked more determined than before, this gave Frisk hope.
Joe kept attacking him, but Marcus has determination enoughy to keep dodging, despite that some attacks hitted him around all his body, until Joe started to hit faster and harder, and some of the bullies hitted him with the baseball bats and the pipes in some ocasions, but he didn´t give up, he kept going ahead resisting no matter what attacks he received, he will stay up resisting, he had hope in himself. Before came to New Town he was weak, didn´t have much determination on him, but watching what friends he met here and the idea of protect them filled them with more determination than before, he knew they were supporting him to win.
Joe was fed up with Marcus´s resistance, and yelled at him: "WHY DON´T YOU FIGHT BACK!? WHAT´S WRONG WITH YOU!? ARE YOU A FUCKING MASOCHIST!? JUST GIVE UP! C´MON!" Marcus replied back with a loud "NEVER!" that everyone there would be able to hear it.
Suddenly, police syrens started to be heard near where they were, and one of the bullies cried at Joe: "DUDE, IT´S THE POLICE, WE HAVE TO LEAVE" All the bullies started to run out there as Joe insulted Marcus and left with them. And he felt on his knees weakly, before fall on the ground.
(From this moment on ahead, I recommend to read the text while listening the extended version of the theme "An finale" from Undertale, but isn´t obligatory)
As soon as Frisk were freed, she approached Marcus and, falling on her knees, lifted him slightly from the ground, enough to be able to hug him tightly. Crying, she told him: "Idiot! Why did you faced him? He could have kill you! I was so scared!".
Marcus groaned in pain and told her with a smile: "It´s ok, I did what had to be done, and don´t hug me that tightly, my whole body hurts, hehe". She cried harder and Marcus cried a bit too as he hugged her too. Monster kid, Papyrus and Sans approached them and contempled horrified how injured was Marcus. Papyrus cried for him, and Sans was full of anger watching what the bullies did to him.
Monster kid felt guilty for his condition, and apologized him, Marcus then placed a hand on his leg, the only thing he was able to reach in his condition, and squeezed it, and told him: You don´t need to apologize for nothing, dude. They were attacking you, and that´s unfair, you didn´t deserve to be bullied by them" Monster kid felt more guilty for his words, and tried to talk back, but Marcus told him it was ok, that he shouldn´t worry about it. He then sitted next to him and cried silently.
The cops reached the place to find Marcus on the ground, one part of them checked the status of the teen to find that he was severly wounded, and called an ambulance, as other part of the cops talked with the witnesses, the monsters told them everything that happened, and how he became a hero for them protecting monster kid from the bullies at any cost.
Marcus was really exhaust, he felt sick and was dizzy, so he said: "I need to sleep a bit...", Frisk begged them to stay awake with tears yet in her eyes, he in response rised his hand weakly until her cheek and cleaned it of tears, carresing her, she took his hand tightly and kept it with hers on her face.
It passed 10 minutes until the ambulance reached the place and, leaving the ambulance with a stretcher, two nurses approached quickly to Frisk and the others. She didn´t want to release him from her arms, but she had to. When she released it, it felt like a knife ripping her heart. She placed her hands on her face, she didn´t want to see Marcus being carried to the ambulance. She were exhauts of crying as well, and didn´t want to stand up, until she felt a hand touching her shoulder, it was Papyrus, who helped her to stand up, and so she did. The monsters and Frisk left full of saddness the place, as Marcus watched blurred how they were leaving from the stretcher, until suddently everything become darkness...
End of the chapter 4.