Frisk awoke with a cloudy head. They weren't sure what to think of Chara. They had been a cold-blooded killer. They killed everyone Frisk cared about. They hated all of humanity. They were evil….right? And who could say any of this dream was true? Maybe Chara was just messing with them…
They sat up and wiped the sweat from their forehead. Their shift caused sans to let out a loud snore and roll over. Frisk stood up and walked to the bathroom. They looked in the mirror, it's me, Chara, a voice echoed in the back of Frisk's mind. Perhaps it was the light or Frisk's imagination but their eyes looked almost...red. They looked down and clutched the sides of the sink. They swallowed hard and looked back at the mirror, despite everything, it was still Frisk.
They turned on the faucet and splashed cold water on their face and dried off with a towel hanging nearby.
They walked out of the bathroom to be greeted by Toriel, "Hello, Frisk! Good morning! Are you ready to go trick-or-treating tonight?" She was always smiling. Seeing her instantly made any bad feelings left over from the dream vanish. Frisk gave her a big hug in which she did not question. She returned the hug and kneeled down to Frisk's height, "Now, what would you like for breakfast?"
Frisk thought briefly before the idea popped into their head, "Pancakes!" Toriel chuckled.
"And would you like to help me, my child?" Frisk nodded enthusiastically. Frisk wasn't a particularly good cook, but pancakes were easy enough. Why would Frisk need to cook when they're pampered with Toriel, Undyne, and Papyrus' cooking… well.. maybe not Undyne.
Frisk grabbed some eggs from the refrigerator and a bowl from the cabinet underneath the sink. They cracked the eggs into the bowl, "Eggcelent" Toriel snickered as she began measuring ingredients at a skilled rate and pouring them into the bowl. Frisk laughed, as always.
sans was standing in the doorway chuckling to himself, "tori, you're cracking me up over here. c'mon kid, i can see that eggspression, i know you wanna join in." His grin turned shit-eating and he winked at Frisk. Frisk regained their composure and was just about to say a grade A pun when Papyrus came into the kitchen moaning.
"ARGH HOW CAN THE GREAT PAPYRUS HAVE SO MANY GREAT FRIENDS WITH SUCH HORRIBLE SENSE OF HUMOR?!"
"i think you're over eggxagerating, bro. just give it a shot." Papyrus looked from side to side tossing the challenge in the air.
"I CAN'T! I SCRAMBLING FOR MATERIAL OVER HERE. NYEHEHE. HEH!" The entire room burst into tears. Papyrus was standing tall enjoying the positive response to his pun.
"woah-ho-ho nice one bro! i wasn't eggspecting that" sans replied. Frisk was wheezing trying to catch their breath in between fits of poured the mixture of pancakes into a pan that was lit with her fire magic. They sizzled and filled the house with the aroma. Almost as if on cue Asgore entered the kitchen.
"Ah..! It smells amazing!" he made his way over to Toriel and gave her a hug and kissed her cheek. Her face turned bright red and she immediately returned her full attention to the stove.
"-Oh! Good morning Asgore!" she stumbled over her words slightly. He chuckled a little and took a seat at the table.
-2 hours before trick or treating-
Frisk put on their skeleton costume, it was a bodysuit, skin tight, it was black with the white skeletal system. Frisk painted two spinal disks on their neck (the surrounding area they painted black). They painted a wide smile from ear to ear, they drew an upside down heart for their nose, and colored in their eye hollows. When they were done they looked in the mirror with a satisfied smirk, they looked just like sans, right down to the lines under his eyes and shit eating grin. They put on sans' back-up hoodie, a pair of gym shorts, white socks and pink slippers. They ran out to show Toriel their work.
She was standing in the living room with Asgore by her side. She was wearing a long black dress and hat a pointy black hat and she was holding a broom. Asgore's fur was dyed green with a line of stitches drawn on his forehead, he had tried to represent one of the monsters he saw as a decoration in one of the New Hope shop windows, Frisk recognized it as Frankenstein's monster.
"Oh! Hello, sans have you seen my child?" Toriel inquired putting her pointer finger to her chin. Frisk giggled and walked over to the two, they were holding a rather large pillow case for candy.
"Silly, Tori, this is our child! Although you fooled me at first! It is a very good costume, you did an excellent job on the face," Asgore nodded approvingly at Frisks costume as they did a spin to show it off.
Toriel's phone made a beep, she pulled it out of her bag and unlocked it, the text was from sans, it read:
"hey we're meeting at your house right? we'll be over in, like 20 mins."
"Okay! :D"
Toriel looked back to Frisk, "sans and Papyrus will be here soo-" her phone beeped again, it was a text from Undyne:
"Ayo we're almost done be there soon"
"-along with Undyne and Alphys."
sans had snuck into his brother's room and stolen one of his spare outfits. He tried it on and it was way too big on him. There was no midsection to his outfit, the two pieces of armor clanked together on each other every time sans tried to move. It was a good thing he thought of a back up plan and had also stolen his "cool dude" outfit he used on his date with Frisk.
The T-shirt fit him almost perfect (he liked his shirts a little on the bigger side) considering it was a bit short on Papyrus, the khaki shorts looked more like pants on sans, but the snapback and tennis shoes fit him perfectly. He shrugged, good enough, pap will appreciate it, he thought.
He picked up his phone from his bed and opened a new message for "Tori"
"hey we're meeting at your house right? we'll be over in, like, 20 mins."
He locked his phone and put it in his pocket. He felt it vibrate but didn't bother to look at it. He opened his door and found Papyrus bent over in the fridge.
"hey pap, what's up?" Papyrus was wearing a skin tight skeleton body suit underneath his normal armor.
"OH, HELLO BROTHER! I AM SIMPLY REORGANIZING MY SPAGHETTI WHILE WAITING FOR YOU TO FINISH-" he turned around and saw sans' outfit. His face instantly lit up, he drew both hands up to his cheeks and let out a gasp, there were stars in his eyes, "OH SANS! YOU LOOK LIKE THE COOLEST DUDE! WHO KNEW WE WOULD DRESS UP AS THE SAME PERSON! GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE."
"yeah well who's cooler than my bro" he winked at Papyrus and he made the "oh you" gesture in response. "ya ready?"
"OH WELL I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE HUNGRY SO I'M HEATING UP SOME SPAGHETTI" the microwave beeped and he walked over to the cabinet, retrieving two plates. He poured a heap of noodles on each plate and handed one to sans.
"thanks, bro, you're the best." and so the two ate their spaghetti to refill their magic which in turn energizes them and headed next door.
Alphys had asked for help from Undyne when she got tangled in her school uniform. Her arm was caught in the tie and her head was poking out of the arm hole, she whimpered quietly as she struggled until Undyne helped her put her outfit on correctly. Her scales on her cheeks were bright red and she was stammering, "I-I- u-uhm th-thanks o-oh!" Undyne shut her up by giving her a kiss which made Alphys even more flustered.
Undyne had a men's pirate costume on that seemed to suit her perfectly. She had a long brown trench coat with a white blouse underneath that was torn to shreds, revealing her blue stomach towards the bottom of the shirt. She tied a red belt around her waist. She wore her regular eyepatch and boots, but had her hair down and wore a pirate hat that had a skull and crossbones on it. Undyne pulled out her phone and texted Toriel to let her know they would be over soon.
Undyne looked up and down Alphy's outfit, "wh-what is it? Do you not like it? Do-does it look bad?" Alphys looked down, her hands started to shake.
"Your outfit is missing something.." she summoned one of her blue spears and handed it to Alphys. Alphys cautiously took it and picked it up. It felt like it weighed almost nothing. "Anime school girls always have massive weapons right?" Undyne smiled and gestured towards the door, "Ya comin'?" Alphys nodded and followed Undyne outside of the house. They walked next door, right before they knocked they saw sans and Papyrus leave their own house and they met up on the porch.
"OH UNDYNE YOU LOOK SO COOL! YOUR HAT HAS A SKELETON ON IT! IS IT A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT PAPYRUS?"
"Fuhuhu you bet it is Pap!" She pulled him close to her and noogied his head.
"AH UNDYNE PLEASE RELEASE ME!"
Toriel opened the door, "Oh my! Look at all of you!" Frisk poked their head out from behind Toriel.
"WOWIE IS THAT ANOTHER BROTHER OF MINE?" Papyrus asked leaning over trying to get a better look at Frisk. Frisk ran out from behind Toriel and showed off their costume, they stood next to sans and winked at the crowd and gave them a double thumbs up. sans followed their lead and did the same thing, "I CAN'T EVEN TELL WHICH IS WHICH!" Papyrus exclaimed eyes darting between the two.
"great costume, kid, looks like the three of us caught skeleton femur" his grin grew and his eyes squinted, he looked to Frisk and they chuckled heartily at his joke.
"I WANT NO PART OF YOUR SKELETON 'FEVER' I WAS SIMPLY DRESSING UP AS MY BIGGEST HERO, THE GREAT PAPYRUS!"
"sure, bro," sans retorted.
When they arrived at the village, the sky was dark but the town was lit with orange twinkling lights atop the roofs and jack-o-lanterns on every doorstep. Children littered the streets running from house to house like ants following a trail. Frisk and sans would go up to the houses while the group waited on the sidewalk for them to return. At everyone house the kids would say "Trick-or-treat" and hold out their candy bins and bags, sans would ask every house owner to pull his finger in which they were rewarded with a harmless zap before they chuckled and handed him candy as well discriminating against his height and labeling him as a child. sans wasn't complaining, hey, free candy!
All of the kids stared at the monsters in awe, they marveled at how good their costumes were, most didn't understand they were real monsters and not just dressing up.
The night ended when Frisk's bag was too heavy to carry and their legs ached from walking. They were on their way home when Papyrus spotted the monster kid in an alleyway being harassed by the same teenagers that harassed Grillby's daughter and her girlfriend. Frisk picked followed Papyrus' line of sight and saw the attack. One of the teenagers was holding a pocket knife and the monster kid was just barely dodging the attacks and stumbling over their feet, they were trying desperately to not lose their balance, but it was difficult without arms to assist them.
Frisk ran over to them and confronted the leader, "Hey, Nate!" They called remembering his name scrawled on the paper he had given them earlier.
He turned around sharply, "You again?!" He looked surprised and embarrassed. "Look, kid, you don't want to be a part of this, trust me. Stay out of it, I don't want you getting hurt…" Frisk took another step closer, "seriously, knock it off, I'm warning you, Frisk took another step forward, "I don't have time for this, boys, take care of them" the three other teens closed in on Frisk, they all drew a pocket knife of their own and flicked them open. They advanced on Frisk, but Frisk dodged. They looked one of the boys and blew them a kiss, their attack lowered!
The onslaught of attacks came once again, Frisk slipped up and a slash cut across their face, they stumbled backwards and the three took this as an opportunity and kept slicing Frisk as they fell onto their back, knocking the wind out of them. HP 8, another stab, HP 6, two more attacks that Frisk couldn't dodge, HP 2, Frisk was breathing heavily and tried to flee.
*Cannot escape
"enough!" sans teleported in front of Frisk, Toriel ran over to Frisk and began to heal them with their magic. Sans' flame was burning out of his eye, the flames licked angrily at the air around his skull as he drew the power to materialize two Gaster blasters, all three of the attackers stood in amazement, or more likely fear, as the blasters charged, Nate turned around after one last attempt of a stab at the monster kid to stare in awe at the light gathering in the mouths of the weapons. The monster kid took this opportunity to run away and hide behind Undyne and Papyrus, their two biggest heros.
There was a blast of white light, Frisk could see black and blue dots plague their vision at the immense brightness. When the light faded sans' flame died out, the four bodies all fell to the ground, a white heart hovering above every body, each soul began to drift towards sans. His lights grew wide in worry, "no one get near those souls, seriously," he said before he teleported away from them out of the alleyway and across the street. All the monster ran across the street to join sans. Frisk stood in front of the four bodies, a crowd began to gather, parents would hide kids behind them to shield them from the view. The souls hovered above the bodies for a few minutes before they began to drift towards the sky. They floated to the stars until Frisk couldn't see them anymore. The police pushed their way through the crowd to confront Frisk.
Immediately they saw the bodies and called out, "Who was the one who did this?!" Frisk turned around and looked at them but said nothing, the crowd made a path for sans.
"i did, but they were trying to kill these two kids, and they almost did and so i had to protect them-" sans said as he tried to explain before the policeman interrupted him.
"Oh, we know all about these kids. There was a warrant for arrest for them in several different states. They've already killed 6 people, including two children, in armed robberies. They were anything but innocent, and it seems there were plenty of witnesses to testify against your self defense, it's a shame it had to come to this, but you won't be in any trouble, don't worry, you did good, kid." The police officer gave sans a pat on the back, some paramedics came with body bags and began zipping the bodies up. sans walked over to Frisk, they were still standing in the alleyway watching the paramedics do their work.
"you okay, kid?" sans asked, putting a head on their back. They flinched.
"Y-you're so...powerful… you killed all of them in one shot… how did you get this way?" They had a horrified expression in their eyes. How could a monster possibly kill not one, not two, not even three but FOUR humans?! Humans were immensely stronger than monsters… there was only one explanation, and the reality of it made Frisk shake.
"You….you have another soul don't you? How else could you…?" Frisk started to mumble gibberish to themselves. sans' lights drained from his eyes leaving dark, empty sockets.
"...fuck i'm boned," sans took a few steps back, "look, kid, I can explain…"
Two policemen separated sans and Frisk to ask them questions about what happened for the police reports.
When Frisk was done being interviewed they rejoined the group to find sans missing. He was nowhere to be found.
The squad all headed back to Ebott in silence. Frisk didn't think the rest of the group put it together and they hadn't said it loud enough for the others to hear them. Frisk couldn't clear their mind. Just what had sans done to get that soul? He was basically a god now, did he have bigger plans for the overworld? is this what Papyrus was warning Frisk about when sans got too tired, how his power could make him go out of control?
These thoughts swarmed Frisk's mind as they reached their home and crawled into their bed for a poor night's sleep. Toriel read Frisk a story before kissing their head goodnight and leaving the room. She wished them sweet dreams but Frisk was going to have nothing of the sort.