Bonbon stared at her bandaged hands as she found herself sitting on an unknown bed. Her body felt so battered and beaten. Hearing the sounds of water dripping, and mechanical beeping, she noticed the needle embedded in her hand. Following the tube that was connected to it, her one opened eye soon took the room around her. She couldn't quite understand what was happening. From the shows she's watched, she could guess that she was in a hospital room...but why? On its own, her head started to face the IV bag. Looking closely at the reflective surface, she saw that she was back in the young human's body. They looked younger and their hair was longer. Looking around a bit, Bonbon noticed that they weren't the only one in the room. Splitting the room in half, was a white curtain. The curtan stired, moving it out of the way was an old woman wearing a hospital gown. Even though her body was connected to a machine, her wires were long enough to give her a bit of walking room.
"Oh huu huu huu, what a pretty little neighbor I have. Why the long face? I thought only horses had them? Whatever it is, it can't be as bad as relying on a piece of machinery to do all the work that the body is naturally supposed to do in the first place."
"There...are other animals with long faces..." The old lady smiled at the young child before sitting next to them. Placing her clamy hands against her lap, she asked them why where they were so sad. "...mother...hates..me..I didn't listen to her again." The old lady brushed their hair out of their face.
"No mother would ever hate their child, okay. You love your mother, don't you?" The young child merely looked at the old women in silence. "Just as the child loves their mother, the mother loves their child. They are a part of each other. A bond that can never be broken." Patting their cheek, the old women slipped a piece of candy into the child's hospital gown's pocket. Giving her a small smile, the old lady went back to her bed. The memory soon went dark and the door opened. A doctor came in with the child's mother. After saying a few words, the doctor left them.
"Mother...I...I..love you." The mother glared at them. "Mother...do you love me?" She didn't respond. "I'm...sorry..."
"You're...sorry?" The child stared at their hands. Flexing them a bit, they went back to looking at her
The mother drew closer to the child. Grabbing hold of her bandaged arm, she tighten her grip. Hearing the child give out a painful gasp, she slammed her other hand against the child's mouth. Shoving the child's head hard against the bed, she drew her face closer to their ear.
"If...if you were truly sorry. You would have done me the favor of dying when you 'accidentally fell' from those stairs." The child's good eye went wide open as they started to sweat. Their mother's hand grip tighten, relishing the feeling of the vibration of her child's scream through her hand. Letting out a sigh she faced her child. "You know something, you had it coming, you know that..." she let go of their arm and started tracing around their eye. "...what did I tell you about opening those little shitty eyes around me. Specially around my guests." Her fingers started to scrape around the rim of her eyes. "The last thing I want is MY guest to start talking about you!" Giving their head on last shove, she made her way to the end of the bed. The child laid motionless on the bed as their mother warned them about speaking to her. "You know your voice just gives me a headache." The mother's head made a sharp turn as she heard a small noise. She had noticed the old woman pretending to sleep. Walking around her bed, she pulled out the old women's machine cable and walked off. The machine soon started to go off. It took a while before the doctors rushed in, but it was already too late. They all stood around the child as they continued to stay motionless...apparently the young child's mother had told the doctors that they went crazy and unplugged the old woman themselves.
The memory began to turn shifting the world around Bonbon. She could feel the child's heart start to beat rapidly against their chest. All she could make out was a wide smile and the rancid heavy breathing that came with it. Bonon then felt a warm hand pulling onto her soul, tugging her away from the nightmare. Soon, she could feel somone patting her cheeks.
Prying her eyes open, she saw that it was Undyne. Groggy from her sleep, she saw that all four had slept against each other on the couch.
"Punk? You're awake?" She whispered as to not wake the others. Bonbon blinked slowly, letting out a yawn she nodded her head. "You were gripping me pretty hard there, didn't think you had that much strength in you."
"Soor*yawn'*rrry..." she slurped a bit as drool started to drip. Undyne gave her a side smile before ruffling her hair.
"It's cool. It's already morning anyway. Wanna help me cook up some grub before these boneheads wake up?" The thought of cooking with Undyne again gave her the energy to fully wake up. Nodding her head vigorously, Undyne tucked Bonbon under her arm as she marched towards the kitchen.
Both Sans and Papyrus abruptly woke up from their slumber at the sound of crashing pots, pans and the sound of a small explosion. Opening their eyesockets, they let out a scream as their bones were tangled with one another. Jumping out of the the couch, they rushed into the kitchen. Side by side they stood at the kitchen opening as they stared in shock at the state of their kitchen. The whole place was filled with splattered gelatinous, doughy-like substance while Undyne was scratching the back of her head, scanning a book of recipes.
"Well that didn't work! Hey punk where'd you go-" Looking behind her she saw Sans and Papyrus with the look of bewilderment. "Hey guys! W...what's with that look?"
"U-UNDYNE...WHAT HAPPENED?"
"Making pancakes with the human, what else." She said as of it was the most obvious thing.
"...okay, but where's the munchkin?" Undyne looked all round her and shrug her shoulders. Which sent Sans and Papyrus into a panic.
"TINY HUMAN!"
"munchkin? where you at?" They both rushed around the kitchen, turning over everything they put their bony hands on. They searched under the table, in the diffrent cabinets, inside the fridge under the sink and even inside tupperwares. But they couldn't find her.
"Hey punk! Hurry and come out, these boneheads are going to turn the house inside out."
"Mhmpffff..." All three stopped moving as they heard a muffled sound. Listening closely they noticed a glooping sound accompanied with her muffled voice. Looking around, they noticed a large pile of hanging gloop of dough on the ceiling. With closer inspection they saw that it was Bonbon. She was in a pile of dough, hanging on the ceiling. Both Sans and Papyrus started screaming while Undyne was barking out loud with laughter. They hurried to get her down, which was harder then they would have thought for the dough that had her bound, wouldn't give.
When they finally brought her down, she was giggling...or trying to with her whole face being covered with sticky dough.
"munchkin, how'd you get up there?" Sans asked while whiping her clean. Papyrus and Undyne both grabbed a mop and started cleaning the kitchen.
"I don't remember~"
"so...what's she going to eat now? we don't really have time to make anything." Papyrus wiped his bone brow as he leaned onto the lamp.
"THAT IS TRUE, WE DO HAVE TO START HEADING TO WORK. UNDYNE AND I HAVE TO FIND OUT IF THAT WEIRD DYING SOUND IS STILL IN WATERFALL.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that! Thanks for reminding me, Papyrus." Undyne slapped Papyrus on the back.
"AND... WE DID BREAK THE FRIDGE WITH ALL ITS CONTENTS...So.."
"Which was AWSOME to watch by the way!"
"What about Grillby's?" Bonbon suggested. Sans stiffened a bit as Undyne agreed.
"I DO NOT WISH TO LOWER OUR STANDARDS BUT SHE CAN NOT START THE DAY WITHOUT BREAKFAST."
"What are you talking about Papyrus!?! That place is the BEST! I just love grease! If I could I would add grease to all my foods!"
"uh...paps. let's try to think of something else." Everyone stared at him as if he grew a second head, surprised that he was choosing not to go.
"SANS? YOU DO NOT WISH TO GO TO GRILLBY'S!"
"Yeah Sans, what the heck? If you're not at home or work aren't you always there or something?"
"just..uh...there's such a thing as having too much of a good thing, you know?" Papyrus and Undyne continued to stare at him, not entirely convinced with his reason. Oblivious to everything, Bonbon decided on something else.
"I do have a couple of monster foods in my pocket." Seeing how that was their only option left, they agreed that that would do for now. Finishing up with the cleaning, the three monsters started to get ready for work.
As the three were heading out they asked if she was going to stay home. Bonbon's eyes glazed over a bit which concerned her guardians a bit. Bonbon continued to stand still, not making a sound.
"Tiny...Human?" Bonbon turned around and looked around the room. Sucking in a bit of air, she looked up at her friends. Blinking a couple of times her eyes went back to their cheerful self.
"Can...can I visit that new place I found the other day. The one with a water cooler."
"YOU MUST BE TALKING ABOUT HOTLAND!" Bonbon stared at them with anticipation, hoping that they might agree. Papyrus looked over at Undyne. "DO YOU STILL HAVE THE HOTLAND GUARDS, GUARDING THAT PLACE?"
"You're taking about 01 and 02? Yeah I think so. Why?"
"ANY WAY YOU CAN PREVENT THEM FROM CONFRONTING THE TINY HUMAN?" Undyne crossed her arms as she gave him a sympathetic look.
"Love to help you Papyrus, but I doubt they'd listen to me. They would think that the human kissed me and was now controlling my mind or something." Papyrus looked back at Bonbon, rubbing his gloved hands together as worry started to set in. Seeing his brother's predicament, he patted his back.
"don't worry bro, i'll try to keep an eyesocket out for her." Perking up, Papyrus clapped his hands together.
"I ALMOST FORGOT THAT YOU WORKED THERE!"
"heh, maybe this time i'll actually stay at my job, seeing how i might get a cute little visitor." Bonbon bounced on her heels as she saw them getting into an agreement. Sans petted her head, "i'll be in hotland close to lunch time. but call me when you're done eating breakfast, for then i can leave my snowdin's post early to take you there." Bonbon nodded vigorously. Her friends smiled at her before saying goodbye. Closing the door, Bonbon rushed towards the couch.
{WhAts wroNg?~...toO afRaiD to stAy hoMe alOnE~} The distorted voice laughed.
《sigh...I can only imagine why, with having you inside her head.》The soft voice sounded weaker than Bonbon remembered.
{HA! LiKe yOu caN do aNythiNg, yOu'Re so weAk nOw caUse yoU jusT haD tO saVe hEr frOm soMe hArMlesS litTlE dReAms}
《That's true, they wouldn't hurt her physically...but...sigh. Don't worry Bonbon, I'll try to give you hand as much as I can.》
"Don't worry about it, I'm not scared staying here, since I'm not really alone. I just remebered that I have to get Flowey."
{YOu'Re lyiNg~ I cAn fEeL iT!}《...Bonbon...?》
She didnt respond as she hummed to herself climbing on top of the couch. Settling herself down, she grabbed the remote nearby and turned on the TV. Getting comfortable, she dug into her pockets. Looking at her contents, she smiled to herself.
"I forgot I had this!"
Deep in Snowdin forest, Sans was slouched in his chair behind his post. Listening to the soft sounds of the wind, he closed his eyesockets. Behind the darkness of his eyelids? he could faintly see dark brown hair floating in the wind. Strands of it against his blue jacket. Flashes of memory started to wisp away from him as he tried to imagine the soft tan skin under his milky white phalanges almost feeling the warmth underneath them. His soul clenched as he saw a small soft smile...and the gentle laugh that came withit. But all to soon, the memories washed away. Clenching his fists inside his pockets, he pried his sockets open meeting only the bright snowy forest. Sighing, he dragged his phalanges across his skull before taking out his cellphone, his soul still feeling the pain of losing the memory. Looking at the time, he saw that it was almost time for his Waterfall shift and Bonbon hasn't called him yet. Starring down at his phone, he took a moment before going through his saved images. He smiled to himself as he noticed that so far they were mostly of Bonbon. Nearing the end of them, he still tried to scroll forward. But no matter how much he tried... your picture wasn't there. He knew they weren't there, the resets had erased them.
I ...can't see your smile without them...
His phone's alarm went off, early morning was over and it was time to change stations. Closing his phone, he shortcuted to his Waterfall post. He greeted the usual monsters before sitting himself down. Waiting for a few minutes, he decided to call Bonbon. After a couple of rings, she picked up.
"heya munchkin, did you finish eating?" She didn't respond. "munchkin?"
"Lubah lubah" Sans blinked a bit before talking.
"bonbon?"
"Lullla lullla la," he raised a brow bone, those werid sounds were definitely her's, but...why? "La la la lalula.."
"okay...are you home?"
"Blahhh!" Taking that as a yes, he went straight home. It was safe to say that he was confused. Why was she making weird noises, he wondered. Walking through the front door, he saw her sitting on the couch, wiggling her legs. She looked fine, so why didn't she speak?
"bonbon?" She turned her head around towards him and gave him a large toothy grin. "you...okay?" She only blinked a bit. Slowly walking over, he placed a hand on her head, gently stroking her hair. "uh...you in there, munchkin? not really saying much." She grin before opening her mouth wide.
"Blahhhh!"
Sans stumbled back a bit as her tongue rolled out. Speechless, he continued to stare at her tongue. Last time he remembered, it wasn't bright blue with small sparks of magic flying out of it.
"Lalalulala..." she said as she wiggled the glowing blue tongue around.
"munchkin...w-what happened?!?" She closed her mouth, with the point of her tongue still sticking out a bit, she pulled something out of her pocket. Sticking out her small fist, Sans placed his hand underneath it. Bonbon uncurled her fingers revealing a glowing mushroom. "did...did you eat this?" She nodded. Sans wasn't sure if he should laugh or be concerned. All he could think of was ask her why. She blinked a bit before reaching a paper near her. Holding it infront of her, he saw that it was a picture of Papyrus.
"he told you to eat it?!?" She nodded again before making a small poot sound. Sans took out his phone, calling his brother. After the first ring, he picked up.
"WHAT'S UP! THIS IS PAPYRUS SPEAKING."
"bro, its me." Sans side glanced at Bonbon as she wiggled the small tip of her tongue up and down.
"SANS? WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME? UNDYNE AND I ARE BUSY."
"pap, there's something I need to know." Sans was trying so hard to sound serious without laughing , but it was getting hard as he kept looking at Bonbon as she continued to play with her new glowing tongue.
"IT ISN'T MORE OF YOUR DISTASTEFUL PUNS ARE THEY?"
" 'tibia' honest, not this time. look, did you tell bonbon to eat glowing mushroom?" In the background, Bonbon was doing a couple of raspberries causing the small sparks of magic to pop.
"GLOWING MUSHROOMS? HMMM...YES, I THINK I DID! WHY, WERE THEY GOOD?"
"i don't think they were, she's kinda blowing glowing bubbles right now." Bonbon had squished her cheeks with her hands as she continued to do raspberries making the magical sparks into floating bubbles. Sans heard a commotion over the phone when Papyrus was trying to tell somone about the human's situation.
"Bwhahahaha! What?!!! Man, I can't believe she actually ate those!" Undyne hollered out. Sans massaged the bridge between his eyesockets, keeping himself from joining in with her amusement. "Look, don't worry, okay? Those mushrooms are harmless. Well, to monsters...not too sure for humans. Especially for someone as small as her. Ask her if she feels bad or something."
"sigh, don't think she can talk. all she does is wiggle her tongue while making strange sounds."
"I can talk." Sans stared at her as she spoke. Seeing how Papyrus and Undyne weren't any help, he closed his phone, shutting Undyne's laughter with it.
"...so...why didn't you say anything earlier?" Bonbon stared at him before shrugging. He let out a loud sigh before crashing near her. "you shouldn't worry me like that."
"Hee hee." Bonbon stared at the tip of her tongue as it peeked out of her closed mouth.
"so...are you ok? you don't feel sick or anything like that...right?" She gave him a small glance before shaking her head no.
"I think the glow is wearing off now." She said, sounding a bit disappointed.
"well that's good. so, are you ready to go then?"
"Hmm? I wanted to take the boat, I left Flowey there the other day." Clicking his teeth, he almost forgotten about the weed.
"thought you got rid of it."
"Nope!" She jumped off the couch and ran towards the door. "Can I go now?" Getting off the couch he walked towards her, petting her head once more before telling her okay.
Locking the front door, he made his way towards his Hotland station. With a wide smile, he was eager to start his Hotland job early. (While skipping the rest of his Waterfall jobs in the process.)
Running through Snowdin, Bonbon made a sharp right turn, making her way towards the lake. Not looking where she was going, she tripped. Face planting onto the snow she gave a small grunt. Turning around, she looked back to what caused her to fall. On the snow there was a small dark shadow. Cautiously, she walked towards it. Sitting on her hands and knees she tried to touch it. As her small fingers brushed across the shadow, it began to crumble beneath her touch. She let out a small gasp as she brought her hand towards her chest. Just as fast as the piece of ground crumbled, static formed around it, repairing itself.
{WEll...tHat's nEw. WhaT dO yoU thiNk?}《...》{AwW, aRE yoU tRyiNg tO coNserVe yoUr enErgY? YoUr'e nO fUn.》
Not really knowing what had happened, she brushing herself off. Getting up, Bonbon continued her way towards the river. Waiting a bit, she soon heard dark mutterings along with her name. As if somone was trying to curse her.
"Little voices? Was that you?" They didn't respond.
She perked up as she saw the cat boat running ontop of the water.
"Tra la la. Human's, monsters...flowers."
"Hello Riverperson. Oh! Flowey, you're still there!" Flowey didn't respond as he continued muttering while glaring at nothing.
"Tra la la, do you want a ride?" Bonbon nodded her head as she smiled at the muttering Flowey.
"What was that?" She said with a cheerful tone. He kept ignoring her. Shrugging it of, she reached for him and placed him back ontop of her head. Letting out a small chuckle that she felt complete.
"Tra la la where would you like to go?"
"Hotland please!"
"Tra la la, Eat a mushroom everyday." Bonbon hopped onto the boat and sat near them. Laughing softly she tugged onto their robe.
"Pstt...I ate one."
"...Why?"
"Papy told me I could, hee hee."
"Ah." Sailing along, Bonbon dipped her shoes into the water, soon the air got warmer as she noticed the small crystals on the wall. "Tra la la. Why don't you sing with me. Tra la la."
"Okay, tra la la!"
"Tra la la. Tri li li. Tre le le." Bonbon closed her eyes happily as she swayed her head side to side.
"Tra la la. Tri li li. Tre le le."
"Tra la la. The piano plays the tinkling song. Hmm... tinkling." Bonbon tipped her head to the side as she tried to listen.
"You're right, there's no tinkling. Did somone stop the music box?" The walls soon radiated with heat. Sensing that they were near, Bonbon stood up from her seat. "Flowey, where almost here!"
"Mumble..mumble..."
"Hmm?"
"Tra la la. You can never have too many hot dogs... Sadly, this is not true."
"Hotdogs?!" The Riverperson parked his boat near an opening.
"Tra la la. Hotlands." Bonbon hugged the Riverperson's back making them hunch over a bit.
"Thank you." She said as she buried her face into their cloak. Letting go, she jumped off and waved at them.
"Tra la la. If it's hot or cold, you can count on me." Bonbon smiled at them, bowing her head, she ran off.
In another universe, where the snow is covered in soot and the forest's trees were dead and broken, stood a skeleton holding a brush.
"Helloooo?" Huffing, he placed his hand to his hips. "There's no one here? I thought I saw somone walk by-"
"Hey." Ink let out a short yelp, shocked to hear somone behind him. Spinning around he collided into the unknown monster, causing him to fall into the snow. Closing his eyesockets, he messaged his skull. "Sorry, bout' that. Here let me give you a hand." Looking up, he reached forward the outstretched skeletal hand.
"Thanks G."
"WhaT thE fuCk!? HOw diD I eNd uP heRe?!!" Error shoved his hands deeper as he buried his skull into his jacket. Gritting his teeth, he hesitated a bit as he made his way through the forest. The further he walked, the closer the sounds of the monsters moan could be heard hidden within the trees. Feeling a stifling heat behind his back, he could feel his soul give out a hard lurch.
"heya, there sexy. didn't think I would have gotten the chance to see you again."
"SHit." The monster's voice grew closer as his body stiffened. Frozen to the ground the monster's hand rested onto his shoulder.
"gonna use those strings on me again." He whispered, his voice dripping in lust. Error yelled out as he stumbled out of the way.
Core stretched out her body, letting the cold air seeping into her pale skin.
"Ok Bonbon, let's see if you're in here." Closing her deep void-like eyes, she stretched her arms out in front of her. Flexing her fingers, her senses began to spread through the forest.
"if it isn't the pale sweetheart. watcha' doing in these neck of the woods." Core let out a small smile as she lowered her arms. Opening her eyes? she placed a hand to her hip.
"Heard you've seen somone I'm looking for."
"yeah, and who would that be?"
"Boss." The skeleton let out a choked cough.
Bonbon let out a breath as she ran towards the shining yellow star. "It's really hot here, isn't it Flowey?"
"Killkillkillkillkillkill."
"Hee hee, silly Flowey."
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