So here's an interesting chapter. At least I think it will be. Hope it will… Might not… It's a chapter?

Frankly I just wanna see what I can get out of his idea. We'll move on afterwards.

Hope you enjoy!


ProtectorTale, Life Above Ch.8


The Internet.

Not including the UnderNet, if you just go to the right place in the Internet, you will find just the worst, most heartless, angry, rude people on the planet.

Some would say you couldn't find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

The thing about being famous, well known, or just generally a public figure, is that there's never just terrible people. Thankfully there are always some that are sympathetic to you or your cause, making being on the internet much more bearable.

"Heeey guys! So uh… sorry for not posting anything for so long. I meant to just take a break for like a day, but then I just got busy with life and stuff and ended up forgetting. So… how's everyone's day been going?" A random post was made by the admin of a facebook page titled "The Tall Human".

"Good. You?"

"Heeey he's back!"

"Great until you came along."

"*Insert chain-comment here*"

A large amount of comments flooded in, and AJ sighed as he muted his phone to avoid constant messages. "Welp. Time to join the internet again…" He deadpanned as he wasn't sure if he should be excited for this or not. He liked a couple of nice comments before things got too overwhelming and he decided to move on from that. He read as many comments as he could as well as other posts people made about monsters and what they thought of them.

Being one of the two humans who freed monsters was a big deal. It wasn't just people who lived in the city near Mt. Ebott that followed the page, it was people all around the world that wanted to know more about these monsters and the humans that know most about them. There was also Frisk, A.K.A. "The Fun-Sized Human" since the two decided to go with a theme, and some monsters that had created social accounts on the human Internet followed him as well.

"So would you mind explaining this?" Someone asked in the post. Along with that text, the comment included a picture that was clearly taken from in someone's backyard. The picture showed two familiar humans mid-jump as they went from one floating platform to another.

AJ responded. "She had missed her bus and was going to be late, so I did what I could to make sure she wasn't. This meant using my magic to create a path over all the roads and houses to head straight towards her school."

Someone else commented after that. "So basically this is what it looks like when a mage is late for school."

"Honestly, I don't understand the people who hate monsters when they don't even live here. Like I can kind-of-sort-of understand people who live here and like their best friend moved away to get away from monsters (Not that that's the monsters' faults), and I can understand if people are bothered by a monster in particular that they have as their neighbor and they're one of the noisier monsters, but people who aren't being affected by monsters have no good reason to hate them." AJ posted.

Then immediately followed up in the comments with "Well in the end I can't understand anyone that hates all of monster kind, but my point still stands."

"I actually made friends with that skeleton Papyrus. He's pretty nice!"

"They are annoying. They should have stayed in their mountain."

"Well I mean if your friend left to get away from monsters than your friend is kind of a racist so maybe it's better that they leave."

AJ responded to that one. "Well actually I can kind of understand people fleeing in terror of the monsters despite our best efforts to show how nice they are. That's a fear of change I won't call you stupid for having."

"I just don't like em."

The teen responded to that. "Now THAT'S a fear of change I'll call you stupid for having! You do not get to just dislike an ENTIRE RACE without a reason!"

"As someone who lives on the other side of the country, all I can do is look at pictures and stuff on the internet. They look odd, but they really don't seem that bad."
"Well you obviously don't know what it's like to live with them!"
"Yeah, like I said, I live far away from all this monster stuff."

That argument continued. The classic angry person and calm person who did nothing to deserve the hostility.

"Honestly I've had more problems with the people antagonizing the monsters living next to me than I've had with the monsters themselves."

AJ made another post while he read these and many other comments. "Looking at all the comments on my posts and all the things people say about monsters made me remember something I realized. Don't just immediately believe what someone says about something. Always look at what many people have to say so you can make a smart decision on a topic. It's so easy to just say a bad thing about anything and it will seem true. And yes I know you can say the same for the reverse."

"So basically it's the "Don't believe everything you see on the internet" stuff that we all should know already?"
"Pretty much, yeah." He responded.

"Hey what's it like to have magic?" Someone asked randomly in another post.

"Someone asked me what it's like to have magic and it seems like a good thing to answer in an actual post.

The answer is: honestly not much sometimes. Today I just had to use my magic more than I ever have before. The two days before that I didn't use magic at all if I recall correctly. Though I guess it might depend. Alphys, (the monster scientist for those that don't know) she said that different soul traits will lead to different magic abilities, so you people may get more useful magic than mine. I just make barriers and can heal people, so I don't have that many reasons to use magic daily. Actually, I probably should be practicing with my magic more than I currently am."

"I will now be messing around with my magic while posting and reading stuff for these next few hours. Unless I forget of course." AJ posted immediately afterwards.

"I still can't wait till we get magic! I wanna know what I'm gonna get!"
"My advice on life, don't get your hopes up. Expectation leads to disappointment." AJ responded to that. "We have no idea how this magic stuff is gonna work. Everyone might get magic eventually, or maybe only some will for some reason, like genetics or something. I hate to be a downer, I just don't want you to be disappointed over something you may never have been guaranteed to get."
"How did you get your magic?" The person asked.
"I fell into the place where all the magic was trapped. Frisk and I were surrounded constantly by massive amounts of magic, so I'm not surprised that we got magical abilities."

"Why not let us go down there and see if we get magic stuff?"

"Because the Underground is considered private property, so you're not allowed there. Surprisingly, the government treated monsters as actual people and agreed to make their land private and off limits to the public. They're enforcing it too. I mean really, you've seen what we do to nature, and massive areas like the rain forests. The Underground would be torn apart and would lose everything that makes it great and unique. Besides, I fell when all the magic was still down there, but it's all flown out, so there is no place with where magic is densely concentrated."

"I hate to say it and make it sound like what we have is a good thing, but things have really gone better than I expected it to. I figured all the monsters would have been killed or at least treated harshly by everyone. Instead some people have even made friends with monsters!

Yeah sure, we definitely have a good thing in comparison to what I thought we'd have, but I'm not going to call racism, antagonizing individuals for things they have no control over, and general discrimination, a good thing." AJ posted.

"WHAT!? I can't even imagine why someone would want to hurt these monsters! It's like you said! They would never hurt anyone!"
"You really trust them with all that magic stuff? They could probably kill us all if they wanted to."
"They would never do that!"
AJ popped into the conversation for a moment. "I can see the monsters using magic for self-defense, but nothing more. Obviously the warriors would be exceptions."
"So you have nothing to say about their ability to kill us all?"
"Not only can they not 'kill us all', they wouldn't. They want to live peaceful lives just as much as you do. They aren't going to go out looking for trouble, unlike the HUMANS who throw things at houses owned by monsters." He responded.

"Would love to talk with you guys all day (totally no sarcasm there), but I have to go do life stuff! Have a good day!" He hit submit for that post before putting on his cloak and heading out.

Two hours later he would post one last thing that day.

"Hey, so… this is going to seem weird to people and I don't expect any of you to understand, but while she may not be legally my sister yet, she is my sister to ME. She is precious to me and is literally the most important thing in my life.

So think of me as the protective older sibling, and consider this your one and only warning:

Hurt my sister.

I BREAK YOU.

Alright? Alright."

He hated putting that as lightly as he did, but he was fully aware of a thing called "public image".


The next day, while eating breakfast, AJ decided to make a post real quick. "Not gonna launch into talks about morals with people right now, but I still figured I'd make a quick post to show that I didn't forget you guys today!" And then he muted his phone so he could ignore the comments. He had other things to do today, like be a guard for Alphys and Sans while they do lab work.

He spent the first two hours in that lab practicing fighting against imaginary enemies and using his magic. Then he got kind of bored of that and remembered the internet. He weighed the positive of being entertained against the negative of dealing with the people of the internet, and decided it was worth it.

A familiar profile commented on a post. "Alright I checked that official post about monsters again. So monsters have weak souls and can't possibly kill us all, great, but what about you? How do we know you won't kill us all?"

'They're still on about this?' The teen thought before responding to them. "I have a kind soul, and I'm a normal human being, believe it or not. Why the hell would I go on a rampage and just kill people? I don't even have magic that can do that!

You're just playing devil's advocate, right? Please tell me you're just asking this as a joke and that you aren't actually RIDICULOUS enough to think the monsters and I would just start killing people because we can."
"I'm just being safe."
"There's being safe and there's being irrational."

"I can't believe I never thought to do this before." The Tall Human posted, with a video directly below the text.

The video starts and shows white wall and the teen's silhouette on the wall. "So I've explained this repeatedly, but I never thought to actually just show you guys what my magic is and what I can do with it, so how about I just do that?" He asked rhetorically before a small see-through green wall appeared. "These are the barriers I've said I can make. I can make them bigger or smaller than that, but yeah, it's basically just a wall. But they don't have to be vertical, I can make them horizontal and have floating platforms and stuff." He suddenly pointed his phone camera down before jumping up and creating a barrier below him. "See? I'm literally standing like a foot above the ground on a physical object that I created out of soul energy. I just will it and I can create it." The platform faded away and he landed easily.

He held the camera up straight ahead of him and held out his other arm. "The other thing I can do with my soul energy is create healing magic." After a few moments his hand had green mist flowing from it. "Not much to explain here. Just put the healing magic near a wound and it will heal it. Not instantly of course, it kinda depends on the wound."

The mist faded away. "And the one other magic thing I can do is cover my hand in fire!" His hand was then covered in flame that was the usual two shades of green. "Obviously it's not actually fire. It's more like my soul energy taking the form of a flame and generating some heat. It's nice and warm actually." For some reason his hand could be clearly seen through the flame, and anyone could see he was unharmed by it. "And that's it! That's all I can really do with my magic! Well, that and make myself stronger obviously. But seriously, I have no mass-murdering magics! I can't create green barriers and throw them at people! I can't move them at all once I've created them! So… there! Now you have video of exactly what I can do." A voice was faintly heard in the background. "Oh! I gotta go now. Farewell!"

Yes I obviously left out swearing and improper grammar, I don't care THAT much about authenticity.

Well IMO the format of that chapter was terrible so I don't think I'll be writing any more internet chapters. Not that I planned to.

Oh well. Experimenting was fun.

Hope you all have/had a good day!