Undertale – Aftermath
Chapter 3: Memory
DISCLAIMER: Undertale belongs to Toby Fox
*At the kids bedroom...
While sleeping peacefully, Frisk is disturbed with yet another strange dream. It is shown that they're playing with the same human child in the previous dream at some kind of garden full of golden flowers, running around and frolicking.
"Geez, Chara..." they can barely keep up with the child' running speed, "Slow down a little..."
"Are you tired already?" the child giggles, "You're eating too much pie, no wonder you're so slow."
They sighed, sitting down on a bed of flowers, "What makes you run so fast?"
"I dunno." the child sits beside them, "Maybe because I'm slim?"
"I'm not sure if you're slim or just too thin." they smirked at the child.
"Hey, that's rude!" the child lightly punched their shoulder.
"Haha, are all human girls so sensitive?"
"Not funny." the child pouts.
"Oh, that makes me wonder, didn't you like eating chocolate? How are you not fat?"
The child just stares at them sideways.
"Heh, okay, I'll stop." they put up a smile.
Both of them just sits there, staring at the trees and bushes, before they decided to break the silence.
"Hey, Chara."
"Hm?" the child turns its head.
"What was the surface like?"
The child looks confused for a moment, but then smiles and started explaining, "First of all, we have this round thing called the sun."
"The sun?"
"Yeah, when it's up in the sky, it will light the surface, but when it's down, the surface will be very dark, maybe even darker than the underground."
"Watching it must be pretty cool."
"No, you can't stare at it all day."
"Why not?"
"It will hurt your eyes if you stare at it when it's up, so you can only stare at it while it'd dropping down."
"So it's like a giant lamp in the sky?"
"Hm, pretty much."
"I'd really like to see that..." they sound somewhat sad.
The child smiles, then closes and pats their shoulder, "Don't worry, Asriel. We'll find a way to get the monsters out."
"Chara..." they replied the child with another smile.
"Come here..." the child hugged them.
"Thank you, Chara..."
It never ends...
Once they woke up, Frisk finds out it was still nighttime.
Beside their own bed, Asriel is sleeping soundly on his bed, smiling. Could he be dreaming, too? Mesmerized by watching Asriel sleeping, Frisk didn't realize Toriel enters the room to check on them.
"Frisk? Why did you woke up? Can't sleep well?" the queen approached them.
"Weird dream." Frisk simply points at their head.
"Ah, I see. What kind of dream was it?" she sits on chair beside their bed.
"Chara." Frisk replied.
"Chara?" Toriel seems surprised, "Why, that's very odd..." then she thinks to herself.
Frisk waits for Toriel to say something.
"Ah." realizing that Frisk is staring at her, she smiles at the brown haired child, "Why don't you go back to sleep?" Toriel pulled the striped blanket at covered Frisk with it, "I'm sure we'll find an answer to your dreams."
Frisk lets out a yawn, its harder to keep their eyes open.
"Good night, my child." Toriel gave them a kiss in the forehead before heading out, "Sleep well."
*At the next day...
Noises from the kitchen woke them up, Frisk turns their head over to where Asriel sleep, he's not there. A sweet smell makes them to get up from the bed at head to the kitchen.
There, Asriel and Toriel is making fried eggs, with Toriel busily frying the eggs and Asriel trying to chop a potato.
"Watch your fingers, don't let it slip."
"I got it, mom." Asriel struggles when trying to slice the potato, "Stay still, you slippery potato!"
Frisk chuckles at Asriel' attempts.
Realizing that Frisk is watching him, Asriel turned around, "Howdy, Frisk!" holding a potato, "As you can see, I can't even defeat a single potato." he points at a bottle of ketchup, "I was planning to make fries, and then we can eat it with that ketchup Sans gave us this morning."
"Well, you almost cut yourself there." Toriel puts the fried eggs on a plate.
"Let me try." Frisk holds out their hand.
"Okay, just be careful with the knife." Asriel hands over the potato to Frisk.
Frisk puts it on the chopping board and pulls out the knife, and began to work on it.
To both Asriel and Toriel' surprise, Frisk managed to chop the potato gracefully, they can cut it into pieces quickly without any faults, and proceed to peel and chop the rest of the potatoes.
"I didn't know you have a skillful hand, Frisk." Toriel compliments Frisk' skills while picking up the bowl of chopped potato.
"What are you gonna do with it, mom?" asked Asriel.
"Naturally, self-made ingredients is healthier, but let's just use this MTT-Brand fries powder, to be quick." Toriel mixed the potato with a white powder, "This will make the fries tasty, for some reason."
"Is it just me, or does MTT makes almost everything in the underground?" Asriel observes the stove with a logo that reads "MTT".
"I believe so. Since your father supported the inventor, it's literally the best brand in the underground." Toriel replied while frying the potatoes.
"Oh, while we wait, why don't you open the gifts?" Asriel turned his head to Frisk.
"Gifts?" asked Frisk with a confused tone.
"Yeah, your best buddies sent you a lot of gifts since you recovered." Asriel grabbed Frisk' hand and dragged them to the living room, "Let me show you."
*At the living room...
At the table in front of the large sofa, some wrapped gifts are stacked on top of each other.
"Take a look at these." Asriel picks up the topmost wrappings and hands it over to Frisk.
The gift is wrapped in blue paper with a bone motif, there's a paper that simply says "sans". They shed the wrapping paper, revealing a red box. Frisk opened a box, wondering what's inside it. As it turns out, the box contains four bottles of ketchup.
Frisk had sudden flashes of memory, they can see when Sans is just sitting in his guard post, drinking a bottle of ketchup from a straw.
"Golly, that guy sure likes ketchup." Asriel pulls out one of the bottle before putting it back, "You remember Sans the skeleton, right? Mom said he made a promise with her to watch over you when you exit the Ruins. I heard he like to hangs out with you at Grillby's."
"Here's another one with the funny picture." Asriel hands out a long box with a picture of a skeleton wearing a chef hat.
Frisk opened the box rather easily, revealing three packages of pasta, with a note in it that reads:
"Human! I am glad you recovered from your ordeal. Here are the pasta I used to make spaghetti back when you visited me at Snowdin."
- Sincerely, The Great Papyrus
P.S: Nyeh heh heh!
Frisk also remembers these, the almost edible spaghetti that Papyrus made, and his dream of becoming the Royal Guard to make himself popular and well-known among the monsters.
"Maybe we should try cooking these." Asriel points at the package of pasta, "Who knows, maybe I can improve my cooking skill."
Frisk closes the box and put it down.
"Papyrus is Sans' brother, right? I heard he wanted to became a Royal Guard by capturing you, but he end up befriending you instead. And now he decided to become a cook, even though Sans said his cooking is unbearable."
"Whoa, this one is pretty long." Asriel pulls out a box from the corner of the room, "And it's quite heavy."
On the box reads:
"Prototype Item – Energy Spear"
And a note on the side of it:
"Hey, heard you were up, so I guessed you need some practice after your beauty sleep. Visit me at Waterfall anytime if you're feeling up to it!"
- Undyne
Again, flashes of memory appeared, this time they see remember when they encountered Undyne for the first time. Dodging and reflecting the spears that Undyne throws at them while they attempted to flee from the raging knight.
"Uh, I think it's best if we keep that somewhere else." Asriel puts the potentially lethal item aside, "Oh, and don't let mom knows about this. Just in case."
"Hey, check this one out." Asriel grabs another gift that appears to be a disk case, "It has a picture of horses with different colors on it." he then hands the case over.
Frisk examines the front of the box, it reads:
"Magical Ponies Adventure"
At the back of the case, they find a scribbled note that reads:
"Frisk, since you said you like anime, I think you might enjoy this one. It's pretty cute and suitable for children, but I doubt Asriel would want to watch this."
- Alphys
The word "anime" reminds Frisk of someone, a brilliant doctor and an otaku, that has a shy personality, Alphys. They remembers when they catches her playing some kind of game with humans that has unbelievably large eyes.
"I don't get that one." Asriel scratches his head, "How can watching colored horses produce any kind of fun?"
"And here's another one." Asriel handed a small, rectangular gift to Frisk, "The wrappings looks futuristic."
After Frisk teared the wrappings, they opened the box, containing a handheld machine with a screen on the middle and set of buttons on the either side of it. On the back of the machine, a large logo of the MTT-Brand can be seen. This one must be from the robot, Mettaton.
"That looks cool!" Asriel exclaimed while observing the machine in Frisk' hands, "I'm not sure what will it do, though."
"This one looks normal." Asriel pulls out another long box that has the word "Snowdin Umbrellas"
As expected, when Frisk opened the box, it contains a yellow umbrella, and a small note that reads:
"Hey, Frisk! When I heard you were up, I thought I'd send you something nice. And since I know you like umbrellas, I sent you this! My parents decided to make it for you because you've been a good friend to me."
- Monster Kid
Frisk' mind wanders back when they helped the kid crosses through the rain by shielding him with an umbrella back at Waterfall. And when he helped them climbs up a ledge before encountering Undyne.
"I'm pretty sure it'll be useful when we go visit Waterfall." Asriel puts the umbrella back when Frisk hands ot over to him.
"Frisk, Asriel!" Toriel called them from the kitchen, "Your fries are ready!"
"Oh, boy!" Asriel jumped down form the sofa, "Let's go get some fries!"
*At the kitchen...
A warm bowl of fries is sitting on the dining table, beside it is a bottle of ketchup.
"Do not eat too much, your belly will grow big." said Toriel while she's texting on her phone.
"If I can hold myself." Asriel replied while eating two fries at once.
Frisk joined Asriel eating the fries with a side of ketchup, Asriel seems to love eating potato fries, and Frisk decided to keep that in mind.
"Who are you texting with, mom?" Asriel asked while still chewing fires in his mouth.
"Oh, I'm just asking Dr. Alphys about Frisk' strange dreams." Toriel replied while still focused on her phone.
"Dreams?" Asriel swallowed the fries, "Then I'm not the only one."
"You too?" Frisk turned their head on Asriel.
"Yeah, I dreamed about you last night."
Toriel puts her phone back on a table, "Can you explain the dream, Asriel?"
"Well, in my dream, I saw a skeleton with a hoodie, it kinda looks like Sans, but I'm not really sure."
"What did Sans do in your dream?"
"I dunno, but he seems pretty mad about something, one of his eyes glows blue and started throwing bone attacks at me." Asriel described the dream while holding his chin, "And when one of the bone hits me, that's when I woke up."
"So that's why you woke up early this morning."
"I mean, Sans would never attack anyone like that, he's a good guy."
"I think I need to text Alphys again for this matter." Toriel grabbed her phone and mumbles something while texting, "We need more doctors down here..."
"Speaking of dreams..." Asriel turned his head over to Frisk, "Since you shared your SOUL with me, most of the time my head is filled with you, Frisk."
Frisk' cheeks blushes pink.
"Honestly, there's this one time when I imagined I'm chasing you around a park or something."
Frisk gave Asriel a confused look.
"Um, n-nevermind I said that." Asriel tries to look away while eating his fries, his cheeks are turning red.
Frisk smiles at Asriel, they think they enjoyed it when he's acting so awkward, especially when talking about them.
Surely, it's not over yet.
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School is kinda in the way at the moment, but I'm still determined to continue this story.
