Once the four of them were all finally ready, they met up once more before heading out along the trail, following Snowdrake's directions. Eventually, they reached a mountain range, right on the coast. In fact, it was literally right up against the ocean, just high enough so that the waves couldn't reach the path.

"C'mon already! We've already wasted enough time, we can barely afford to waste any more!" Tsunderplane said, floating above them as they climbed up more of the rocks. "We're nearly there!"

"I think we need to take a break, Tsunderplane!" Monster Kid yelled. He had fallen behind, even more so than the other two, most likely due to his whole….well, lack of arms. "We've been traveling for a while now, can't we just stop for, like, a minute, yo?"

"Yeah, I think we need to rest for a bit, Tsunderplane!" Snowdrake agreed. "Besides, we wanna check where we are right now too!" Tsunderplane made a clicking noise, but floated down to where the other three were as Snowdrake pulled out his wonder map and even pointed to a cave, right on the coast about where they were.

"'K. So we should be right about there, right?" Monster Kid asked. "Where's the base camp supposed to be?"

"I'm pretty sure it's right about here." Snowdrake said, pointing quite to a place that was rather far from the cave. "It's this place right outside an abandoned laboratory is. I thought I heard people say that's where all of the fog comes from."

"Tch. Whatever. But since the base camp is, like, extremely far from here." Tsunderplane pointed out. "So, if possible, we might want to aim for here." She tilted one of her wings down to the map, pointing to a rather high mountain not too far from where Snowdrake had pointed. "We might as well try for there. With...With inexperienced rookies like you three, I bet we won't even make it to over here before nightfall."

"Geez, no need to be so rude about it." Snowdrake said, rolling the map up once more. "Extremely cold, to be honest. Anyways, we'll need to head through a mystery dungeon in order to get to the place you pointed out, Tsunderplane."

"Nice! Let's go then!" Monster Kid said excitedly. He was the first of them to rush off, stopping right by a nearby hole in the wall. Snowdrake and Tsunderplane weren't far behind. Frisk purposely fell behind a bit, noticing something about Monster Kid. The younger monster seemed to be a lot more confident than they had ever seen him. In fact, it seemed as if he was acting like a leader. The former human couldn't help but feel a bit of pride, watching their friend grow from a coward to...well this.

"Oof. Looks like a split path." Snowdrake suddenly said, snapping Frisk out of their thoughts. "Which way do you think we gotta go? Right or left?"

"Hmm….I dunno." Monster Kid shrugged, before he turned to Frisk and Tsunderplane. "What do you two think we should do? Left or right?" Tsunderplane huffed and turned up her nose.

"Obviously we need to go left, the mountain is further north after all." She said. "Therefore, to go north, we need to go left from here!" Snowdrake tilted his head, observing the left path.

"You sure about that? It looks like a super easy time, if you ask me." He pointed out. Tsunderplane didn't even say anything in response. Frisk tried to pipe up, saying that maybe it would be a better idea to try the right path, seeing as how it looked more rugged anyways.

"You've got a point there, Frisk!" Monster Kid agreed. "The cave might lead us right out to the mountain!" Snowdrake nodded his agreement. Tsunderplane looked rather annoyed that the others thought the other way, until Frisk noticed something flare up in her eyes. Something other than anger or annoyance.

Was it relief? They couldn't really tell.

The right path ended up being a mystery dungeon, filled to the brim with water and ice-type monsters. There was even a dragon-type monster, which was certainly said to be one of the most rare types of monsters. It took a while to get through, but that was only due to Tsunderplane (being a, well, plane) sometimes getting her wings stuck in the hallways or getting stuck on the ceiling.

But, with enough patience and determination, the four finally made it out right on the side of a tall mountain. It was nearly sunset by the time they emerged from the dungeon, casting harsh, rather dramatic shadows over the jagged rocks. A huge gaping hole in the middle of the mountain loomed ahead of them, pitch black and ominous.

"Well, looks like we made it!" Snowdrake said as they stopped right in front of the hole. "Or….I think we made it…..I can't be sure…." He dug around in his bag for a moment, pulling out his Wonder Map and setting it down. The four all gathered around, as Monster Kid suddenly pointed to a small cave off of the coast with his tail.

"Yo! This was where we were before, right?" He asked, getting a nod from Snowdrake. "Then….we had to have made it to the mountain, right? I can't imagine we made it anywhere else."

"Yep, looks like we made it." Snowdrake agreed, pointing to the mountain as well. "Nice! We did it all before dark!" Tsunderplane suddenly gave a "Hmph!" at that, prompting the ice and flying-type monster to give her a questioning look.

"Well, isn't it obvious?" She snapped in reply. "It's already dark out, it would be literal suicide to go into a mystery dungeon at night! We might as well just make camp here and rest until sunrise." The three all looked to her, a bit taken back. "W-What?! I-It's not like I care enough about any of you enough to tell you to rest! It's a better i-idea to just wait until morning!"

"Er….Ok? Guess we'll be camping out here for tonight then!" Monster Kid said, eyes lighting up. "Then we can make it to the base camp tomorrow! I seriously can't wait!"

A few moments later, they had a fire set up thanks to Frisk's Ember attack. They spent a few moments, talking and preparing their food together in high spirits. Soon enough, night completely fell and they all got to sleep. Well, except for Frisk.

They sat up, discovering they just couldn't sleep. Sighing, they just looked up to the sky, silently musing to themselves. Maybe they were just too excited. After all, this expedition could reveal many secrets about them, such as who they were or why did they transform into a monster. They just had that feeling that during this expedition, something about them was about to be revealed. It just would, although they don't exactly know how.

They sighed and rolled back over once more. They really needed energy for the next dungeon.