Chapter Nineteen

Speeches

"Um, hello ," Shadow said walking into the office.

President Trump had a stern look on his face but offered the young women a smile regardless, "Hello, Miss Knight was it?"

"Um yes, it is." Shadow had a nervous blush on her face.

"I take you are the ambassador to the monsters?"

"Yes, I am sir."

"Alright tell me, Miss Knight, why should they be citizens?"

"Well, they're people just like us."

"So are Mexicans but if they cross the border illegally they should get deported."

"They were underground, under our soil actually. Therefore they've always been here. We just need to make them officially citizens. They were born here on our soil and I believe that makes them citizens already. We've explored the Underground and all of it is within U.S territory." Shadow said with a serious face.

He nodded, "Alright Miss Knight, you do have a solid point there. I'll allow this. However, how do we know they're safe?"

"We don't."

"That's an honest response but lacking. Wouldn't you like to fight this?" He asked.

"No, I would like to tell you why we should take a chance on them," Shadow responded.

"And why should we give them a chance?" He asked, like a true businessman he listened to her pitch.

"Humans are a danger to others as well. So asking if monsters are safe is meaningless. Yeah, there are going to be bad monsters just like there are bad humans."

"The real question then is how many are bad?"

"Few, not nearly as many as there are bad humans. The one problem is monsters can't even protect themselves. I've been almost taken a few times and my monster friends could do nothing but watch because if they laid a hand of my captor they would get sent back to the Underground." Shadow frowned.

"I see. Alright, monsters are allowed the right to fight in self-defense, they shall be tried like any other. I'll allow them a chance since you speak so strongly for them." The President smiled at Shadow, "If strings of murders start happening from their hands though that's it."

"Yes, sir!" Shadow bowed and marched out. Once the door shut behind her she tackled Sans in a hug.

"I take it went well?" He asked.

"Yes, yes it did. Now, I think it's time to go home now." With that, the trio headed home. A long plane ride later and they were back in California. When they got there what transpired was already on the news, the fight was on for monsters to become American citizens. It was amazing.

The next day at work Shadow was met with thank yous and plenty of cheering. It was a good day till a knife was pressed into her back by the one and only Markus, "They'll know a human killed you but at least you'll be dead."

"Not this time…" Grillby said with a fireball in hand. "We get to protect our own and ourselves now. So let her go or become charred."

Markus growled and threw poor Shadow to the ground before running off. "Ow, he's gotta stop that."

Shadow looked rather annoyed as she got up, "I'm going after him. If I do not come back have Sans teleport to me."

Grillby nodded and Shadow ran after Markus.

"They aren't bad people!" She shouted.

The man paused and turned around. They were in a crowded area meaning that Shadow was safe. "You had the balls to follow me?"

"Yeah because I have an important message." Shadow continued.

"A message?" Markus scoffed, "Really now?"

"Yes really, I want you to stop this," Shadow said firmly.

"You're telling one of the co-leaders of the N.M.O.E to stop their activities?" Markus raised an eyebrow.

"N.M.O.E?" Shadow asked.

"No Monsters On Earth. I'm part of the anti-monster group." Markus clarified, "You must really know nothing."

"I've been trying to learn about your group for a long time. Thank for you the lead!" With that Shadow turned tail and ran off, she was going to change their minds just they wait.

When Shadow got back Grillby gave her a smile, "How did it go?"

"I found out he's part of the anti-monster group!" Shadow cheerfully chirped, "I finally have a lead!"

"I suppose that's a good thing…" Grillby frowned.

"It is because now I can learn more about them and try to convince them otherwise. It turns out he's one of the co-leaders."

"That means more than one person is leading this group." Grillby mused.

"Exactly! We now know that they're called N.M.O.E and they have more than one leader, more than what I've found out in my weeks of searching." Shadow cheered.

"What have you found out in your weeks of searching?" Grillby asked.

"That they're the ones throwing the bricks. That's it though." Shadow frowned.

Grillby nodded and had a frown of his own. That seemed to be the end of the conversation.

Shadow when went home that night she decided it was time to do some research on N.M.O.E. It turns out the founder was a girl named Rose MidKnight. She was once an heiress to a fortune but disappeared after her grandfather died. It looked like she wasn't really that bad of a person. Shadow could tell from the picture she found of the other woman that she was a very sad soul. More research told her there were three leaders, Rose MidKnight, Markus Skywater, and Andrew Stonind. Looking at the three together Shadow couldn't help but shudder. It was like she knew them and she felt like they did something very horrible to her. She wiped away a few tears that fell from her eyes. She wasn't sure why she was crying but she had a feeling that if she wanted to save everyone it was best that she doesn't remember.

The next day after work Shadow called Sans, Undyne, and Grillby over. They ended up meeting at Grillby's so he got to stay where he was. Shadow gave them the rundown of what they were dealing with.

"So what's the plan guys?" She asked.

"We kill them!" Undyne shouted.

"That won't fix anything. I need to talk to them, change their minds. I think it's time to start talking harshly to lure them out." Shadow responded.

"Shad, you're not exactly the harsh type", Sans responded and Grillby nodded in agreement.

"I can be, you just haven't seen me mad yet", Shadow said.

Undyne nodded at the girl, "So you want to lure out the leaders and get them to change their ways without violence?"

"Yep!" Shadow chirpped.

"Alright punk, we'll try that plan, but if anything goes wrong they die." With that Undyne called the meeting finished and left leaving Shadow with Grillby and Sans.

"I'll do my best to protect you Shadow. I wouldn't want our shining star to get hurt." Grillby said making Shadow blush a little.

Sans narrowed his eyes at Grillby for a moment then looked back at Shadow, "Yeah, we got your back, Shad. Now shall we head home?"

"Yes we shall", Shadow replied and took Sans' offered arm. Soon enough the two vanished back to Sans' and Papyrus' place.

The rest of Shadow's week was rather quiet till Friday morning where another angry mob stood. Shadow looked rather livid seeing this after all the hard work and effort she's put into this as of late.

"I don't want to hear a word out of any of you", Shadow said glaring down the mob, "Get outta here. If you have time to be pissed off about monsters existing you have time to do something useful with your life."

The usual insulting shouts towards Shadow filled the air causing Shadow to look more pissed off. "Alright, I know who you people are now. N.M.O.E here to throw bricks and bully the people at Grillby's. I even recognize some of you from the last mob. I'm guessing a lot of members quit after my last speech. Let's have a new one shall we?"

Shadow was met with angry yells and screams, some people started to run at her. Before anyone could reach her a wall of fire appeared before her. She smiled a bit knowing Grillby was protecting her.

"My name is Shadow Knight, I am the ambassador of the monsters. I'm not here to fight, I'm here to talk and be listened too" Shadow said, "Now let me speak. You people are fucking monsters! Murders to be exact. You've murdered people, yes they were monsters but those are lives lost! You all really have a lot of balls to be a mob out here and tell us we're monsters? Go home and reflect."

With that Shadow slammed the door in their face and turned to Grillby with a huff. "We might have to stay closed today."

Grillby raised an eyebrow at her, "Why is that Shadow?"

"I might have pissed them off by calling them the monsters they hate." Shadow shrugged, "I'm sick of them hurting you guys. Besides, it's all part of the plan right?"

When Shadow finished her sentence a knife lodged itself into the door next to her head. The girl jumped away from the door in response and locked it shut. Soon though the door was kicked down by a very enragged looking man. Grillby had already called the police so it was a matter of staling.

"You really had to break the door? I mean you downgraded a bit since you prefer to murder innocents." Shadow scolded.

The crowd started shouting at her and a few begin to charge. Grillby snapped his fingers and a wall of fire surrounded Shadow once again keeping her safe. It was looking like everything was going to be fine until someone threw their knife. It ended up impaling itself into Shadow's chest. She stared down at the blade then crumpled to the ground. The last thing she heard before everything went dark was Grillby shouting and police sirens.

Sans appeared seconds after only to have his blood run cold when he saw Shadow. Soon enough the whole mob was surrounded by his skull blasters.

"Freeze or I will shoot, you won't survive if I do. Now drop your weapons, put your hands up and wait for the nice policeman arrests you." Sans shouted at the crowd.

The police came in and started arresting people when the last person was taken away the blasters vanished and Sans rushed over to Shadow. Her face was a pale white and she wasn't moving. Sans was fearing the worst. He slowly started to take out her soul to see if she was still alive or not.