Chapter Twenty One

Ending the War and the Aftermath

"Aw, I wanted to play with our toy a little. He's pretty good looking for a monster. He'd be so much fun to play with, just look at this hottie." The girl giggled. Rose Midknight smirked at the trio and pulled Grillby to her, she slowly licked up his neck making a show for them.

Sans and Undyne were glaring while Shadow had a stone cold look. She knew this feeling, the feeling of forcibly doing something she didn't want to do. She didn't know how she knew still. Shadow took in a deep breath and spoke, "Let him go we're here."

"So you are", Rose chimed snapping her fingers. The whole place was swarming with N.M.O.E members. They were surrounded. Rose threw Grillby over to the trio and Undyne went about cutting the ropes that bound him.

"I see you want a fight", Shadow replied.

"Let's hear your speech first. I want to see how many minds you can change. The minds you don't change you have to fight. If you beat all of us with your tiny group then we'll stop our activities. Deal?" Rose walked up to Shadow and held out her hand.

Without fear, she took Rose's hand and shook it. It was time for the final battle. Or at least they were hoping it was the final battle. With any luck, no one would get hurt.

Shadow felt that this wasn't going to end well though. She knew this was a trap so her speech better be amazing to fight as little people as possible.

"Hello everyone!", Shadow's soft voice brought to the crowd to silence, "I am Shadow Knight, the ambassador to monsters. I'm here to tell you a story of a girl and a boy."

When Shadow said that the crowd erupted into whispers, Shadow continued on silencing them once more, "She had lived in a world of only hate. Getting pelted by it day in and day out. Looked down upon because of how she looked. She was white, and straight, so that must mean she's a racist homophobic asshole. Although she was a kind soul she still got harassed for one reason or another. One day she met someone different though. She could feel the hate from him, but she soon got to watch it wash away from him and his friends. The hate was gone leaving pure kind souls, souls of acceptance. These souls were the souls of monsters. The most understanding and kindest people I've ever known. Although I only got to meet some of them once they feel like a family to her. These 'monsters' aren't monsters. They're people like you and me. I know we always will have some racism. We still have problems with colors. People this is a whole new world. I know you're scared but trust in me, in us that we are willing to let you into our hearts if you're willing to drop your hate. There's no need to hate anyone here, we're all just people in the end. We breathe, eat, sleep, live and someday die. We all feel sadness, happiness, anger, regret, and empathy. We're all just people, so why fight?"

The area was quiet. No one spoke a word. Shadow looked onto the crowd with a gentle gaze. Soon enough some people started dropping their weapons. They turned around and left. Only a handful of people and the leaders stayed.

"That was something, I almost wanted to walk away", Rose said wiping away an imaginary tear.

Shadow just stood there and waited for them to say more, "I suppose it's time to fight. Get ready to say goodbye!"

Soon enough the handful of people all brought out guns. Shadow wasn't stupid though, she knew they would play with guns and she knew they had no defense against it. The police however did.

Cop cars started pulling in and surrounding the place. The officers outnumbered what was left of the N.M.O.E members. Shadow smirked a little, "You see, you said nothing about who could come after I showed up. I don't want any bloodshed just peace. Drop your weapons, let's just end this stupid war."

Rose started laughing evilly, and pointed the gun at Shadow, "You're coming down with me!"

Guns were fired and when the smoke let up Shadow was on the floor clutching her stomach and Rose was lying dead on the floor. Gunshots littered her body. Blood and brains had gushed out everywhere and you could see an eyeball roll around not too far from the body. Andrew and Markus were horrified. Their leader died and for that… "For Rose!" And more guns fired.

Shadow was laying on the ground, barely staying alive holding her stomach wound. Sans and Undyne were on the ground with her. Both in bad shape, multiple bullets were lodged into them. Looking around her she saw that the area was littered with bodies. Bodies of N.M.O.E, police officers, and what could be the three of them if they don't get help.

Most of the M.N.O.E members were dead. Andrew and Markus seemed to have survived but the police took them and the remaining survivors in. One officer called for an ambulance and started heading over to the three.

Shadow started crawling to Sans. They weren't dusted so both of them were still alive for now. Shadow knew Sans would be mad at her and that this could possibly kill her but she didn't care. She grabbed his hand tightly and focused at a healing light leaking from her to him. Everything started to get blurry for Shadow and she collapsed onto Sans.

Luckily this healed Sans enough for him to sit up. Looks like Shadow's plan worked. Sans glared at the fainted girl on him and went to work healing her. He knew he had to remove the bullet first though. His left eye flared a light blue and he used his magic to pull the bullet out. He flung it somewhere and pulled out Shadow's soul. There was a rather large chip in it from healing him and it was badly cracked and damaged. He quickly got to work healing it. Once he was finished he returned her soul to her body then went to Undyne.

"Sans…" Undyne wheezed out, "Tell Alphys that I love her."

Sans rolled his eyes, and simply started pulling out bullets ignoring Undyne's winces. When he's finished he fished out her orange soul of justice and started healing it. Once he was finished he looked at her with a frown, "I see at least ten bodies with blue spears impaling them."

"I see five that are missing limbs or their heads", Undyne retorted.

"Alright I had to kill them, they were aiming for Shadow." Sans defended.

"Hey don't think I didn't do it for the same reason."

Sans looked down at where the wounds should have been, the bullets had popped out earlier when Shadow healed him with her soul. He looked back at Shadow and went to pick her up, "Let's go home. It's finally over. We can live in peace."

"I'm sure that's wrong punk. People will still hate us. Treat us poorly. Do things like this again." Undyne told him.

"Let them then. We're ready to fight back one way or another. I believe in Shadow being able to change the hearts of people", Sans responded with a small smile as he looked at her.

"Okay lover boy. Let's get home." Undyne said with a toothy grin.

Sans smiled back and nodded. He held out his hand to Undyne and teleported them back to his house. Once he got there he placed Shadow on the couch.

It didn't take very long for Shadow to wake up. She suddenly sat up with a gasp, "Sans!"

"Yeah, Shad?" A smooth voice replied

Shadow turned to face him then jumped off the couch into his arms. "Oh thank god you're alive. I'm alive, Undyne is alive. We all made it! I knew it was worth the risk to heal you!"

Sans chuckled and pulled her closer to him, his arms tightly wrapping around her. "Yeah, Shad it was. You're lucky you made it though. Your soul is chipped quite a bit now. I mean I wanted to be with your heart and soul but this is too literal."

Sans was smirking at his pun but Shadow turned bright red, "Be with me, heart and soul huh?"

Shadow leaned back to get a good look at his face. To her response, Sans' face started going blue as he tried to stammer out an excuse. Shadow giggled at him and shut him up with a kiss.

Now, Undyne was still in the room during all of this and she was just letting them do their thing but she had to draw the line somewhere. "So punk I'm alive and well, I think I'm gonna go. I have a girl to propose too."

That broke the two apart really quick. Shadow was the first to react. "You're proposing?!"

"Yeah, punk this stupid race war is over. I think now is the right time to start a family with her." Undyne's face got red at the thought of a family with Alphys. "Anyways I gotta get going. I need to buy the ring. Later losers!"

With that Undyne left the two alone. "So Sans…"

"Yeah, Shad?"

"What now?" Shadow asked him with her eyes full of hope.

Sans grinned at her, "We date in peace?"

"I like the sound of that", Shadow giggled.

With that their days went back to normal. There were protests here and there about the monsters but Shadow nipped them in the bud. She even decided to travel around the country for a few months to give speeches about the monsters she grew to love. There were a few attempts on her life but Sans and Undyne stayed as her bodyguards.

"And that's why humans and monsters are alike. So put aside your differences and let's unite together for a better America!" Shadow finished her last speech for her trip.

Shadow ended up traveling for the rest of summer and finished early fall. She finally got back home after long months of traveling. The trio got greeted back home with a welcome back party.

"Surprise!" Everyone yelled as they walked into the house of the Skeleton's residence.

"You guys didn't have to do this", Shadow said with a grin.

"Fuck yes they had too!" Undyne yelled.

"U-undyne!" Alphys yelled and rushed at the fish lady.

Everyone smiled watching the two reunite. Shadow had left Sans' side and went about hugging everyone there. "I really missed everyone here. I really hope that my travels will help keep monsters safe."

"I'm sure you've done a lot, my child", Toriel said with a soft smile.

"Mom!" Shadow squealed and tackled the motherly figure.

"I'd like to remind you that's my mother", Chara said walking out with Asriel.

Shadow giggled, "I think we can all share. You get to live with her, I don't."

Chara frowned but dropped the subject. Sans and Papyrus finally got to reunite and everything was finally peaceful.