When Frisk finally met Sans again outside the ruins, he did his usual routine with the whoopee cushion and they laughed, but she could tell his heart wasn't really in it.

Sometimes she wished that he didn't remember resets. She almost felt bad for being annoyed by having to reset, because for him it was less annoying and more...depressing. Having to repeat the same day over and over again would be enough to bring anyone down, she supposed.

Frisk completed her pacifist run with a bit less enthusiasm this time. She wasn't mean, but she didn't take the time to make friends with every single monster like she normally did. She did everything as fast as she could.

She even killed herself deliberately several times during omega flowey's fight just to make him skip his evil monologue.

Asriel's God of hyperdeath form had stopped being impressive after the first bajillion resets.

Frisk was DETERMINED to make this run count.

She had a good feeling that this time the surface would NOT be full of cats.

She wasn't wrong.

Once the barrier had broken, it revealed nothing more than solid rock with a small hole, much like the one Frisk had fallen through when she first fell into the underground, at the top. Confused, Frisk began climbing up to the hole. It was up a little ways, but not nearly as high as the hole she'd fallen through.

Poking her head through the hole, she grabbed ahold of the surface to hoist herself up and felt...sand?

Looking around, Frisk saw that the "surface" in this timeline was nothing more than a tiny, remote island of sand in the middle of the ocean. A lone palm tree grew by the hole.

Frisk wondered if anyone else would even fit up here.

Or through the hole.

Frisk knew one monster who would.

She carefully climbed back down to the others who were waiting patiently for her. She walked over to Sans and, ignoring his confused questions, grabbed his hand, and pulled him over to the rock wall.

"Follow me."

Once at the top, she helped pull him up through the hole, nearly laughing at his completely confused expression as he saw where they were.

Standing up, he looked around, trying to see if there were any other landmarks in sight. Honestly, the entire island was small enough he could've easily drawn a line from one end to the other. There was no way all the monsters were going to fit up here.

Not seeing any other islands, he sat down beneath the palm tree and said,

"well, this sucks."

As if just to spite him, a coconut fell from the tree and hit him on the head.

Frisk nearly fell over laughing.

That is, until Sans chucked the coconut at her.

Frisk yelped in surprise jumped out of the way, both of them watching as it flew straight down the hole.

"FRISK? SANS?" It was Papyrus, apparently he was standing down below the hole.

"CAN WE COME UP N-OW!-"

Frisk couldn't see down the hole now that her eyes had adjusted to the bright sunlight outside, but she certainly heard the resounding -bonk- as the coconut hit Sans' younger sibling on the head.

Sans heard it too, for he jumped back to his feet and ran over to the hole to make sure Papyrus was okay.

His answer came in the form of an angry yell, followed by a coconut being thrown back up the hole with very good precision, nearly hitting him in the head again.

This time though, he jumped back and caught it mid-air in the electric blue of his magic, letting it hover there for a moment before flinging it out into the ocean as far as he could. He watched in satisfaction as it made a loud -splash-, salt water blowing back at them in the breeze.

Frisk was still laughing.

Sans rolled his eyes.

"alright kid, you had your fun. now reset so we can get outta here."

Once Frisk's laughing had subsided, she pulled out the menu and hit the reset button.