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Flowey: 'Cause you're so stupid!

...I'm ashamed.

Chapter Start!

"Annnnnnd...done!" Asgore said with a puff of breath, wiping sweat off of his brow as he gazed up at the sign hanging above the school doors. He's been working on it for quite a while as he was working on the garden. This groundskeeping was actually quite relaxing for him to do, at it allowed him to work outside in peace and quiet. Plus he's all for helping his wife's school look great every chance he gtes, as much as he possibly could. Though the one thing he jut couldn't seem to get right, was the name. Toriel has given him a couple chances to try and name the school, and so far he's been unsuccessful. It was a shame, because he was really trying his best.

"Well, what do you think, Tori? Sans?" Asgore beamed brightly as he sees his wife and friend passing up to the doors to observe the sign. Toriel and Sans looked up towards the sign that Asgore has set up, and the name placed above the doors. There, in clear detail: 'MonSchool'

The duo sweatdropped simultaneously at the name, while Asgore's eyes were sparkling cheerfully, and full of pride. Toriel was trying to think of something polite to say, while Sans just stared at the sign with disbelief filling his now dark eye sockets. He was adjusting his jacket in a rather poor attempt to distract himself, while Toriel coughed aloud and patted down her skirt. Both of them were trying their absolute best to say something that wouldn't hurt his feelings on the matter. Though he seemed to read their body language easily enough, as his smile immediately dropped from his face and his eyes stopped sparkling. They were then overshadowed by his golden hair as an awkward silence passes through the trio. It was even accompanied by a whistle provided by the breeze flowing past them.

"...It's terrible, isn't it...?"

"No! Fluffybuns, no no! Of course not!" Toriel panicked, shaking her head rapidly, causing her ears to flop around freely. "It's not terrible at all!" She exclaimed, lightly playing with one of her ears while trying to think of something to say. "It's...i-it's...um...I must admit, it's significantly better than the last one, that's for certain! It just doesn't...sound very fitting, is all. It's because this is a school for both humans and monsters. So just calling it 'MonSchool' will give the impression that it's only for monsters, when this is not the case. You understand that, don't you?"

"yeah, dude. if it was just a school for monsters, then it'll probably be a much better fit. so what we're tryin' to say is...you're close. not too close, but close enough for the progress to be noticeable. know what we're sayin'?" Sans said while scratching his skull.

"Yes, Sans...Tori...I understand..." Asgore quietly whimpered, weeping silently at his failure. He couldn't help himself though, and embraced Toriel in a comical sorrow-filled hug. Once again, he has let his precious Tori down with his bad taste in names. "I am so sorry, my dear! I thought for sure I would have come up with something better than that!"

"Now now, Asgore. It's alright. I acknowledge that you're trying your best..." Toriel cooed, petting the top of his head softly. "It's okay, Fluffybuns. maybe it'll be better if I just name the school?"

"Noooo...I wanna do it, Tori! I want to be the one to name your school!" Asgore whined slightly. "I know that sounds selfish of me, but you've been working so hard to set everything up, the very least I can do is name your school. I really want to take care of that part for you!"

Toriel sighed softly as a tired smile formed across her muzzle. "This really means a lot to you, does it dear? Well...alright. We do need an official name at some point, though. We can't stay nameless forever, I hope you know this. At some point, we'll need an official name."

"i know dear, I know. I'll come up with something! I assure you!"

Chara, Asriel, and Frisk could be seen approaching the school grounds, where Sans noticed them coming. Chara stopped a few paces behind to see Toriel trying to comfort the weeping Asgore. He stared for a few moments, trying to comprehend the scene before him. Dad's crying. Mom's trying to comfort him in her arms. Sans looks like he just pulled through an awkward situation...Dad must have come up with a crappy name for the school again. Chara then looked up to see the sign above the doors, and the name inscribed on it. ...Yep. Called it. Thpough at least Asgore seemed to acknowledge it a lot sooner than he did last time. Though that doesn't really mean he took it better, either.

"huh. hey kiddos. you're just in time to see fluffybuns flip out over the fact that he messed up naming the school again. he really wants to get this thing down for tori. ya could say he's pretty determined." Sans informed them. "anyway...what are you all up to? ya look like you're up to somethin."

"We were hoping to get a chance for Muffet to sell her sweets to get herself noticed, and that people will come to her parlor more often. So I guess she's trying to raise money for her parlor and for the school, since she likes helping the school out too." Asriel explained. "It's to help jumpstart her business, and help out the school. But she's also doing it for fun, and to prove to the humans that her busniess can be trusted despite being a spider.

"ah. a bake sale? that isn't too bad an idea." Sans rubbed his chin a bit, "...hey. tori. maybe you can throw your butterscotch cinnamon pie into the mix?"

"That's true. Muffet's good, though she can't really make pies like Mom can."

Toriel blinked as she gently releases Asgore, pondering the idea for a while. "Having her bake sale near the school? I suppose I can allow that if she's kind enough to share some of her contributions to the school. It helps that she's also doing this so that the humans can place a bit more trust in her, and buy her sweets more." She thinks about it further, and her eyes sparkled slightly. "When they begin to trust Muffet...then they'll begin to trust other monsters selling their products, such as Grillby, Mettaton, the kind Nice Cream Man, and more! They'll feel safer to buy what we sell! I must say, whether she meant to or not, Muffet has a truly remarkable idea there!"

"Indeed. It appears that Muffet will be providing monsters a great advantage, helping the humans trust enough so that they'll purchase our products and merchandise without having to fear the consequences. Yet another viable way to grow closer to the humans here." Asgore supported with an enthusiastic nod. "Alright. If it isn't too much trouble, we'll give this a try! Chara, you're going to help her set up, right?"

"Tch, of course I am!" Chara said with a huff, crossing his arms and blushing slightly. "She offered me chocolate...I don't wanna turn down a kind offer like that."

Toriel smiled brightly. "Chara...once again, you're reaching your hand out to help a young lady in need. And she managed to appeal to your infamous sweet tooth for chocolate to make sure you actually go through with it. That kind of relation somewhat mirrors myself and your father! All I have to do is bake him pie, and he's pretty willing to do whatever I ask of him!~"

wow. usually asgore is putty in her paws either way. the fact that she isn't exaggerating about this too much is what really sells it. so this relationship kinda repeats between chara and muffet. Sans grinned. that...is...hilarious. chara really has gone soft, if he lets her get away with something like that.

"Well, there isn't any use sitting around here on our tails. Let's get this started!" Chara declared, clenching his fists.

(Later that afternoon)

"Allllrrriighty!" Muffet cheered, stretching all six of her arms upward as her bake sale was set up nicely, just a few feet in front of school grounds. Spiders both big and small were crawling across and around it, each helpiing set up the finishing touches on the stand. Placed across the surface were various sweets that were baked by both Muffet and Toriel. Flowey was also sitting on the stand, his leaves folded and his face locked into an expression of intense irritation. There was a pretty pink bow wrapped around his stem, and many colorful stickers placed on his flowerpot. Frisk insisted that they were to stay for the duration of the bake sale. He chose not to resist, it'll be over quicker that way. And the quicker they get through this, the better.

"Well then, this seems to be pretty well set up, if I do say so myself!" Asgore said with a proud huff, brushing off his paws. "Hopefully the humans will be kind enough to giv the bake sale a try, and by extension, give Muffet a chance." Toriel had to go back inside the school building to continue helping teach the children, so supervising the bake sale was left up to Asgore and Sans for the time being. Thety've already made many sales from monster customers, yet no human customers have come up yet.

"Yeah. We worked really hard on this. It would be a shame if they didn't at least try her goods." Asriel said, while munching on a Cinnamon Bunny. "Chara seemed really intent on helping her with this, too. So he might just be a bit upset if they were to disregard his hard work by not giving Muffet a chance."

"Tch, I'm more mature than that. You think I'm gonna bust a lid because of a couple humans passing by Muffet's hard work?" Chara huffed, turning away from the others while crossing his arms.

"so...lemme get this straight." Sans began, palcing his hands together. "ya wanna talk about maturity...when the easiest way to bribe you...is with chocolate. i gott say, i see a couple inconsistencies here and there, bud."

"Shut up Smiley Trashbag."

"Regardless if this works out or not, what's important to me is that Chara took time out of his day to try and help my business get a bit more recognition." Muffet said as she turned towards Chara with a toothy smile. "So I'll just thank Chara-Dearie for at least helping me when I needed him, whether I offered him chocolate or not. He's a real sweetheart when he really sets his mind to it, and not be such a grumpy bar of choclate."

"Don't call me a grumpy bar of chocolate..." Chara grumbled, fighting off the growing blush on his cheeks.

Sans chuckled at the exchange, shaking his head in disbelief. Asgore and Asriel simply laughed, while Frisk gently smiled. It was a wonder, seeing these two interact sometimes.

"U-Um..." Asgore blinked as he and Sans turned towards the familiar sound of someone's voice. It was Helen, keeping her distance, nervously looking around with immense apprehension. "I...I really shouldn't be here...but...I saw this, and I'm wondering what you're doing..."

"Oh, this? This is a little bake sale set up by Muffet. It isn't something too serious or anything. It's just testing the waters and getting a head-start on getting Muffet's Parlor much more notieable, and we also hope to get enough money to gather support for Toriel's school. We're hoping that since many students and teachers will pass by in this new school, there might be a bit mor of a reaction from humans, since monsters already know all about it."

"That's right! I humbly ask for donations to help provide for my own business and Toriel's school." Muffet has learned that forcing someone to give up their money just because they didn't pay the first time, was not how friendly neighborhood spiders acted. And she wanted to be seen as a friendly neighborhood spider. "Plenty of monsters will play their part for sure, but it's the humans that we would like support from as well."

"Is...is that right...?" Helen said a bit nervously, twiddling her fingers. She really didn't know how she felt about a spider-girl running a bake sale...but she looked nice enough. And Asgore was obviously invested enough to give Muffet his assistance. So...maybe it wasn't so bad. Perhaps...? "Do...do I have to make a donation?"

"That is entirely your choice, Ms. Helen. No one is going to force you to buy anything, nor even just give away money if you don't want to give it away hre." Asgore reasoned. "If this doesn't worj out like we would wish, then we can always try something else to help both her and Toriel."

"...No...I want to at least try it." Helen said slowly. "...Um...I heard that some of your prooducts are made of actual spiders..."

"Not all of them, obviously. It really wouldn't do me a lot of good if I happened to make all of my sweets out of spiders when humans are uneasy around spiders as it is. So I just leave those specific sweets for my personal enjoyment." Muffet explained.

At first it was a bit strange to Helen, hearing Muffet admit that she occasionally eats her own spiders. Though considering how normal spides behave and act, she guessed that magical spiders were't very far off in that regard. She found it best not to think about too deeply. So with a bit of hesitation on her part, she takes one of the treats offered on the stand, an innocent looking, non-spider related muffin. Tightly closing her eyes, she takes a bite...and slowly opens her eyes a few moments later as nothing but the wrapper remains. She blinked in astonishment, not noticing that she had eaten it so quickly at first. There was something she needed to get out, first and foremost...

...This muffin...was delicious!

"Wha...how...how did you...?" Helen began, unable to respond to the sensation at first. her entire body felt tingly for a couple moments, then it went away and the taste remained amazing, followed by a great sense of rejuvenation. All of the stress and exhaustion she had felt earlier today has completely disappeared the moment she's eaten the muffin. "What happened to me...?"

"...maaaaagiiiiiiiic~" Sans chanted, wiggling his fingers around with a playful hum.

"Huh...?"

"You see Ms. Helen, monster food and human food work very differently from one another." Asgore brought up. "Monster food is made entirely of magic, unlike human food being made of mass. And also unlike human food, monster food has immense rejuvenating properties, no matter how small they are. Monster food being made of magic, it gradually or instantly turns into pure energy and rejuvenates the body. It not only works for monsters, but for humans as well."

"monster food can heal just about anything, even sicknesses. of course monsters can still get sick, from time to time."

"...For real...?" Helen thought in disbelief and amazement. "...So...Monster food...can basically heal just about anything?"

"...lemme rephrase that. anythin' within reason. injuries that are crazy severe, an example being a severed limb-" Helen gagged a bit, but knew he was serious. "-will need some serious healing magic, or even just regular human hospitilazation. monster food's healing properties are wide-ranging, but not limitless. which is why we've been easing it into human society instead of introducing it all at once. we don't want the humans gettin' the idea that monster food will be the instant problem solver for every single injury or sickness they get."

"Which is why easing magic food into human society instead of doing it altogether will be the best course of action. We'll see if they might be responsible enough to handle it." Asgore finished. Helen seemed to get a better understanding of how monster food works, even if it's only by a small portion. "...And even if we don't need them for healing, they're still delicious!" Asgore beamed.

"So, Ms. Helen. With this information in mind, will you be making a donation?" Muffet pressed gently, her smaller spiders banding together to form a 'Yes!'

Helen thought over this, tilting her head in a bit of wonder. After this, she nods, making sure to give Muffet a suitable donation amount. "Wait for me after school ends. I think I can help you out further." With a strong nod, Helen turns and leaves the stand, leaving the remaining monsters in a bit of a confused state.

A few hours passed, and the school hours hafve officially ended. Students have rushed out of the school with cheer on their faces. And to the surprise of the group, plenty of human teachers came out and made their donations to Muffet's Bakery, as a couple passing students and monsters actually went to eat some of her treats. Surprise hits Muffet most of all, blinking in astonishment at the amount of spport being shown from the human teachers. Asriel tilted his head, trying to wrap his head around what had just happened.

"Well...there you go. I told all the human staff about you, and what you told me about monster food in general." Helen said, running up to Asgore and panting heavily. "Although...someone obviously isn't happy about it..."

"Heeeeelllllleeeeeeeen!" Helen jumped as she was approached by a steaming Linda, which instantly made Chara and Sans groan. "Just what were you thinking back there, telling the staff all about the monster's food?! What possessed you to do something like that?!"

"One of the monsters said she needed help getting her business to take off...so I decided to make my own donations and have the other staff embers give her a chance...and as you can see...they're clearly glad I told them about it..." Helen explained meekly, twiddling her fingers.

Linda facepalmed. "Let me guess...Asgore explained it to you?"

"...Maybe?"

"Helen!"

"I'm sorry!"

"woah woah, let's not rant at helen for lending one of her own a helping hand." Sans said as he shook his head casually. "are ya really gonna rant at her for helping out one of her own? a fellow citizen of ebott needin' some assistance, and a donation that'll help both her own business and the foundation of this school?"

Linda shot her head towards him, her glare filled with intense irritation. "I wasn't speaking to you, Sans! And come to think of it, what are you even doing here?! You're too much of lazy bum to actually have a job here, so there's no way you're here bcause of that!"

"...Actually, Linda...he does work here now...in a way..." Gloria voiced to her with a bit of concern for how the woman might react. Linda turned to her, only to see Toriel walking alongside Gerson. Linda immediately straightened up at the sight of Toriel, though she was a bit confused by what Gloria meant.

"Here you go, Sans. This should be the last thing you need for your identification to be fully noticable." Toriel smiled as she slipped something around Sans' neck. Linda got a closer look at it, and her eyes widened in disbelief.

"...Y-You actually went through with it?!' Linda gaped in horror. "You officially entered Sans to join the PTA?!" She shouted, still watching in disbelief as Sans twirled his new I.D. around casually.

"my bro's been houndin' me to do somethin' besides go to grillby's, manage hot dog stands, and drown myself in ketchup. so, tori requested for my membership into the pta." Sans caught the I.D. in his hands, grinning widely. "and as you can see...i've also been accepted with open arms."

"T-This can't be!" Linda turned desparately to Toriel, who seemed a bit amused by her reaction. "B-But Mrs. Dreemurr! How can you be so sure that Sans can even qualify to be a member of the PTA?! He doesn't do a lot of work, he finds more effort in getting up in the morning than actually doing anything at all, and there's the mentioning of how unbelivably immature and childish he is! What makes you think he's fit to join the PTA?!"

"When given the right motivation, Sans the Skeleton will work his hardest to achieve the goal that's been given to him. The goal is to intergrate human and monsters together, and to give them the goa of coexisting peacefully, thus furthering their education." Toriel replied coolly, clasping her paws. "Plus, it is said that membership can be granted to anyone related to a student or teacher. Sans happens to be one of my closest friends, someone I can put a lot of trust and faith in. His loyalty is outstanding, and he tries his hardest to always live up to the promise he makes, as breaking them is the only thing he hates more. His promise to me is that he'll help my school see success, and I believe him. Just today, he's been helping Ms. Muffet raise money to provide for both her own business, and the monster-human community as a whole, which is something I approved of, along with the other staff members...sans you, Gloria, and Diana." Toriel and Sans snickered at the quick pun, befoe Toriel cleared her throat. "While Sans may not be the most mature monster I've ever met, and can be quite childish at times...it's like I said before, he is someone I can trust. And he's someone who's more than willing to lend a hand to help the human-monster community. That includes it's teachers, parents, and students, no matter who they are." Toriel nodded. "In my eyes, Sans is more than qualified to be a member of the PTA. Despite his shortcomings, I know he won't let me down. The PTA does not discriminate against anyone who simply wishes to help the community, Ms. Linda. I highly suggest you remind yourself of that guideline."

"Ah...ah...a-ah..." She was rendered speechless. Linda could see Sans now. He was peeking at her from behind Toriel, lightly clinging to her skirt. He grinned widely as he dangled his membership I.D. around and had one tiny Gaster Blaster stick it's tongue at her and blow a raspberry. She could hear him whisprering 'get dunked on' through his teeth. Her eye twitched violently at this, though it vanished instantly as Toriel stepped up to her, her arms folded under her chest.

"If you have any further objections to Sans joining, then you're more than welcome to take them up with me so we can discuss it in deeper detail." Toriel then leans forward, her eyes narrowed. "But if I notice a lack of justified statements to back your case..." Toriel left the silent threat hanging, and all Linda could do was nod dumbly. Once again, the hostility vanishes instantly, and Toriel smiles, giving Linda a genuinely friendly pat on her shoulder. "I'm glad we understand each other. I do hope you have a splendid day!" Linda nods dumbly again as she turns and walks away from the group, still shaking a bit.

Diana and Gloria soon catch up with her, noticing her shaking. "Looks like Principal Toriel has officially surpassed you as the scariest woman in the community. And she's barely trying."

"Shut up...LET'S GO, HELEN!"

"C-Coming!" Helen nods numbly. She waves a silent goodbye to Asgore, and goes to follow the group of woman as quickly as she could. She thinks back to what Asgore and Sans said about monster food, and it being made of magic, the main distinction between it and regular human food. Unlike human food, monster food doesn't really go anywhere. After a set amount of time, or even instantly, it's all completely absorbed, leaving nothing behind but pure energy, which gives great revitalization to the body of a human or monster. If that's the case, the number of sick and injured will go down IMMENSELY with this discovery. It also explains why monsters have very little need for bathrooms aside from simply cleaning themselves up, and anything the humans can make, the monsters can replicate easily with more magic properties. But if that's the case, then it doesn't explain...

...Her mind flashes back to Toriel's chest, and her eyes widen with shock. A blush spreads across her face. You mean to tell me...that she's ALWAYS been...?!

I'm sensing less than innocent vibes coming from that Helen woman... Flowey mentally commented.

"Wooooooah!" Muffet gasped in surprise, seeing the amount of money being smoothly stacked and collected and stacked by her spiders. "This was a complete success! Even I wasn't expecting such a positive outcome to this, at least not THIS positive It's ansolutely amazing!" Muffet smiled widely as she turns to Toriel. "And I'm a spider of my word. A good portion of this will be going to funding our school, Mrs. Dreemurr. I can assure you that."

"Mhm. I'm grateful." Toriel nodded, smiling kindly. "How does this sound: During the PTA meetings...you can handle snack concessions? You know, keep the members from going hungry while we're speaking of business and the sorts?"

Muffet blinked in surprise. Then her eyes sparkled and she began jumping cheerfully. "Another job that'll do my business a lot of good?! That's outstanding! I'll surely think about it, Mrs. Dreemurr! I surely, truly will!" She cheers again, her arms spreading in the air.

Asriel, Frisk, Sans, and Asgore were very pleased by this as much as Toriel and Muffet were. Chara simply folded his arms as a spider walks up to him, offering a chocolate donut as he was promised. He rolled her eyes at all of their cheerful depictions. They have a simple bake sale and they treat it as a noble accomplishment. It was incredibly silly of them...but he guessed that's just how they are in moments like this. Though he got a closer look at Muffet's energetic and gleeful face, and he turned away from it with a shy blush, and a small smile.

I've done what I wanted to do here. I helped make Muffet happy. Guess I've succeeded for today. He mentally stated as he takes a bite out of his donut, pride warmly swelling within him.

He could do this more often.

...Helen.

...Please.

Ya need to stahp, Helen. Appreciate your assistance, but you thinkin' in that manner is gonna give people the wrong idea, ya know?

Just...STAHP.

...ANYWAY, Muffet's bake sale is a success, Sans is an official member of the PTA, Linda get's told off again, and there might be a chance of humans getting into Monster Food, given their amazing taste, great healing properties, and a great lack of drawbacks. They also made it clear to the humans to not depend on it every time they get hurt or sick. It shouldn't be relied on as an instant healer, because it won't always be around your location. So that's something I brought up as well.

Asriel: Mhm.

Asgore: Indeed.

Muffet: Would anyone like some chocolate donuts?~ :3

Chara: *Snatches chocolate donuts* This chocolate is mine. ALL of it. *Chilidshly noms donut, glaring at anyone foolish enough to tell him otherwise*

...Give it up for Chara the Chocolatier, folks!

...*sigh*...wonder what other Surface shenanigans await us...?