Chapter 24: Altister
A new day, another new world.
It was Father's day...you didn't mind...okay that was a lie, you did mind but you tried not to show it, Ink though saw through your little act, he'd gotten good at that...
He actually asked you for a favour, there is a Sans that is alone...that needs company, you took up the opportunity to go to a new world.
So Ink took you to the portal world called 'Altertale', all that Ink told you was that it was like Underswap somewhat with the monsters swapped but personalities the same, so you went through the portal.
Your vision cleared up and you noticed you were not in a snowy forest, but in a sort of cave you looked up and saw an opening, you guessed this was the entrance to the underground, looking down you noticed you are standing on a bed of golden flowers, you carefully avoided stepping on them any further as you headed toward a door.
You saw a black petalled flower, well...this looked evil "hello...I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower" Flowey said with a wide smile, but with the small fangs...yeah this was certainly evil..."bye" you said trying to go around him but he just popped up in front of you making you jump.
"Now now friend, don't go walking off, your new in the underground and I your best friend, should teach you how things work" Flowey said, you groaned "listen...I'm not stupid, your a black petalled flower, with little fangs...your whole 'innocent' act doesn't really work" you replied as you once again tried going around him.
You fell as you felt something wrap around your ankle, you turn your head "then I guess you should know, in this world...it's kill, or BE killed" Flowey said as his vines held you down and a bunch of dark petals were above your head "DIE!" Flowey yelled, you closed your eyes tight as he laughed you were waiting for Reaper to show up and save your life.
...
But nobody came...
You heard a strange noise, you opened your eyes and saw this worlds Sans, he wore a black robe and black pants, he still had the pink slippers and over the black robe was a dark blue...vest of some kind?
There was also a darker blue symbol on the chest, you saw a bunch of blue bones destroy Flowey's vines and a bone knock Flowey away, "what a disgusting creature, torturing such a poor, innocent girl" he said as you carefully sat up.
"Do not be afraid my friend, I'm Sans, Sans the skeleton" he said as he held out his hand which you accepted as he helped you up "your...older than the other humans, ah well what's your name?" he asked, "I'm Y/N" you replied "nice to meet you Y/N, come I'll guide you through the ruins" he said you quickly followed him.
You came out of the cave to the sight of a ruin like structure up ahead, it looked quite beautiful, you noticed Sans was waiting for you as you quickly sped up not wanting to make him wait as he led you into another room.
You noticed a closed door and buttons on the floor...good lord it's a puzzle, "welcome to the ruins, Y/N" Sans said, "allow me to educate you to these puzzles" he finished before he walked over the four buttons that weren't in the middle then pressed the switch which opened the door "the underground is full of puzzles, but there is always a tip near the puzzle which makes them easier to solve" Sans told you as you sighed with relief that you wouldn't have to do puzzles.
You followed him out of the room, he pulled a switch, then another which lowered more spikes you felt relieved since you were not interested in doing puzzles...not that you hated them, coming into the next room you spotted a dummy "as a human in the underground, monsters may try to attack you" Sans said which of course made you worry "do not worry, it is quite simple...when you encounter a monster, you will enter a fight...while you are in a fight, strike up a friendly conversation"
Sans finished as he blocked off the hallway to the next room.
"Try it out on this dummy" he said, you nervously walked up to the dummy as you stared at it...god this was stupid..."uh...hello" you said, of course the dummy didn't reply but Sans seemed happy "very good" Sans said walking out as you quickly followed him, "there is a puzzle in this room...I wonder if you can solve it" he said as he walked on, you followed unsure since you couldn't see the puzzle.
Suddenly a frog jumped into your way making you jump and yelp in surprise, Sans hearing your call glared at the frog, one of his eyesockets turning black and the other bright blue the frog smartly fled.
You sighed in relief but Sans chuckled "didn't know a human could be so scared of frogs" he said, it was your turn to glare "I'm not scared of frogs" you replied, "really?" Sans asked holding back a laugh "because you almost, jumped out of your skin" he finished, which made you groan but also laugh slightly.
You soon noticed the spikes and grew nervous, "um...is this the puzzle?" you asked as memories of Horrortale flashed through your mind, Sans frowned "here take my hand" he said holding out his hand you carefully took it though obviously scared out of your mind, Sans put one foot forward as the spikes lowered.
He led you through the path of spikes allowing you to calm down "maybe puzzles are a little too dangerous for now" Sans said exiting the room which of course you quickly followed, but he had vanished "Sans!" you yelled as you ran down the long hallway, he couldn't be far.
You soon reached a pillar as he came out "hello Y/N, do not worry I did not leave you" Sans said causing you to glare while panting, Sans grew nervous "h-however there was an important reason for this exercise...to test your independence" he finished, "w-what do you mean?" you asked "I must attend to something and you must stay alone for awhile, please wait here I will be back shortly, I will give you a cell phone, if you need anything just call" Sans said.
He handed you an old looking cell phone, "be good" he said before walking out you sighed as you sat down, after a long while of waiting there was no call also you were still nervous about that flower, so you decided to leave the room that was when the phone rang which made you jump, you answered it "hello Y/N, it's Sans...you haven't left the room have you?" he asked.
You were thankful to have a good sense of lying, "nope" you replied "good, be good then" he replied as he hung up, you saw a frog nearby which didn't seem interested in fighting you, "ribbit, ribbit" it said.
You gave it a kind smile and walked off, you ran into some monsters which you fled from, you also found more puzzles which were easy to solve, of course Sans rang up now and then "hello Y/N, it's Sans...for no reason in particular, which do you prefer?" Sans asked "pepperoni or ham and cheese?" he asked.
You found that to be an odd question "uh...I guess ham and cheese" you replied "I see thank you" Sans finished hanging up, you took one step forward and the phone rang again "hello Y/N, it's Sans again...you do not dislike pepperoni do you?" he asked, "I know what your preference is but...would you turn up your nose if you found it on your plate?" he asked.
You sighed "no...I wouldn't" you replied "right, I understand...thank you" Sans replied hanging up, after a few puzzles and more rooms there was another call "hello Y/N" Sans said sounding worried, "I just realised that is has been awhile since I have cleaned up, I was not expecting to have company so soon" he said as you gave a soft smile "I understand" you said "well be good" Sans finished hanging up.
You arrived at a new room there was a tree in the centre and behind the tree was a cute little house, you noticed Sans walk forwards as he rang you, he saw you so hung up and rushed towards you almost excited, "Y/N how did you even get here?" he asked, you gave a small smile "the puzzles weren't that hard, and any monster I saw I just ran from" you replied.
Sans seemed to sigh "I shouldn't have left you for so long, but I have a surprise for you" he said as you blinked wondering if the question from earlier had any relation to the surprise "is it a sanswich?" you asked with a chuckle as Sans began laughing "oh Asgore that was a good one" he said.
"Follow me" Sans said leading you into the small home "do you smell that?" he asked you took a small sniff...what was it?
"Yeah what is it?" you asked Sans smiled "a pepperoni, ham and cheese hot pocket" he replied as you blinked almost shocked, "really...a...hot pocket?" you asked as Sans nodded "yep" he replied as you stared almost dumbfounded, "you microwave hot pockets, what took you so long?" you asked as Sans quickly looked away nervous "uh, um...b-because...uh, oh would you like to hear a frog fact?" he asked and before you could answer he began listing frog facts.
"Thereareover5000frogspeciesintheworldeachonehasauniquecallandsomefrogcallscanbeheardamileawaysomefrogscanjumpovertwentytimestheirownbodylength" Sans quickly began to say so quickly that you couldn't understand a word he was saying, after a long...long...hour, Sans was panting out of breath you stared boredly "...okay so back to the hot pockets" you said.
Sans sighed "I...I wanted to destroy the ruin door, so you can't leave...b-but I just...can't do it" he said, you stared "um...if I want to leave I'll go back to the flower room, since that's where the portal is" you replied, Sans blinked "portal...ohhhh, you must be the friend Ink told me about I-I'm sorry, I thought you had fallen like the other humans" he replied.
You gave him a kind smile "it is quite alright, but isn't there a human already fallen down here?" you asked since you had heard about this mystery child and how they are the 'last soul' for all monsterkind to be free, you really needed to do some research on this and play the freaking game at some point.
"No...you are the first in a long while" Sans declared making you almost surprised "oh well...I guess I might actually MEET this kid at some point, keep hearing so much about them yet I've never seen them" you explained, Sans chuckled "well if they come I'll ring you" he said which made you smile "thanks...still I don't know why Ink told me to come here" you said gently sighing, "maybe I should just go home..." you finished.
Sans seemed to frown "o-oh...before you do, here is your hot pocket" he said handing you a hot pocket which you took "thanks" you said, "m-maybe I should walk you back too..." Sans added as you nodded since then you wouldn't get attacked by monsters.
After a long walk back you reached the portal before leaving you just remembered "oh right...I should give you a nickname...hmm, Altertale, Alter...Alan, Alister...hm Alister do you like that?" you asked, Alister gave a small smile "of course, don't be afraid to visit I'll ask Ink to move it closer next time" he said as he walked away you passed through the portal back to home sweet home...wait a minute 'I'll ask Ink to move it closer next time', Alister planned it...*sigh* just how many hot skeletons am I going to have to date?
Here it is Altertale which is owned by Friisans.
So Altertale isn't a fully swapped universe, for people curious Sans is swapped with Toriel, Papyrus swapped with Asgore and Gaster swapped with Asriel.
Before people freak out shouting 'FONTCEST', NO it isn't.
They are still brothers and Gaster is (in this AU) considered their younger brother, no fontcest which means he is free to date *wink* plus besides from Storyshift he is the only other character with royalty (since his brother is King, that would make him a Prince ie next in line).