Sorry about the wait guys. I've been dealing with a lot in my personal life that has basically made me want to stop dealing with things until it was resolved. It still technically not finished, but the drama has cooled down enough for me to finally get enough energy to send this chapter out. I'm also hopefully going to update one of my other fnaf stories up soon, so if you are a fan of those keep an eye out.
Anyways chapter three is up! So far I haven't gotten much response yet, but I hope you all are enjoying this. I did get one question about the story so far, but it was in a PM and I already answered them, but I figured there may be someone else who has the same question so I will go ahead and put it in here.
Basically the person asked if the voice from the first chapter was Chara. And since I am pretty sure it won't be a spoiler, yes. The voice was in fact Chara. Both Chara and Frisk are going to be pretty important in this story, but that is all I will tell.
Now remember if any of you, especially people who have decided not to read my fnaf trilogy that this crossover is based on, have any questions, please ask. Like if you want more information on Nick, or any of the other ghost children in the fnaf universe. Or if you want a basic relationship status on the animatronics and how well they get along. Those are just some examples for people who haven't read the trilogy. And even if you have read them, still ask questions if they pop up. I may even respond to reviews in my author's note since I've always wanted to do that, I just always forgot to... -_-;
Well, we'll see. I don't think I'll start responding to reviews in this chapter since I technically only have one real review so far. I did have like two people say something in a PM, so I guess I could count them as well...eh, I don't know. I'll just have to wait and see what kind of response I get for this crossover first.
Well, now that I shared that information, I'll let you guys get on with the story. Enjoy!
Nick followed Toriel into a small purple room. He eyed the light violet walls curiously, taking note of how worn out the bricks were. "How old is this place?" he wondered. He then noticed Toriel walk up a flight of stairs only to stop at the top and wait for him. Hesitating only slightly he slowly began to walk forward, eyeing the red leaves that were piled up near the stairs. He approached them then looks up, noticing a dark shadow falling upon him. The shadow of the ruins looming above him, for some reason, fills him with determination.
Suddenly he felt a warm feeling wrapping around him. He closed his eyes, letting the calming effect steady his nerves. He suddenly felt much better than before. When he opened his eyes he heard a light chuckle. Looking up at Toriel, he noticed her giving him a motherly smile. He returned the gesture and quickly followed her up. The two then walked through a door and Nick got his first glimpse at the new room.
He first noticed six buttons on the ground to his right. He eyed them curiously, not sure why they were there in the first place. His gaze shifted to a closed door with a strange symbol at the end. Before he could question what this odd room was for, Toriel began to talk.
"Welcome to your new home, innocent one."
"New home?" Nick questioned softly. The idea of this place being his new home formed a deep pit at the center of his stomach. I don't want this to be my new home. I want to be with Mikey and Freddy. I want to see Sammy again. I want to play games with the others. I…I want my family back!
He bit back his tears and lowered his head slightly. Toriel seemed too noticed and gently placed a paw on his head to calm him down. She didn't seem to understand why he looked so upset. "There, there my child. There is nothing to be afraid of."
"I'm not afraid." The boy said stubbornly.
She smiled and chuckled. "Of course not. You look to be a very brave young boy." She turned to her head to face the buttons. "Allow me to educate you in the operation of the Ruins."
"Educate?" Nick pouted. "So I have to learn stuff!? Boring."
"Oh, I'm sure you will find education can be quiet fun, my child." Toriel said, before walking over to the buttons. She pressed down four of the six and then proceeded to flip a yellow switch by the door. Once she finished she looked back at Nick. "The Ruins are full of puzzles. Ancient fusions between diversions and door keys. One must solve them to move from room to room. Please adjust yourself to the sight of them."
"Oh I see…I think" Nick commented as he eyed the puzzle. It didn't look that hard for the child. And if the future puzzles were as difficult as this one, he figured he could handle them just fine. After all, he defeated a psychopathic killer…well technically it was mostly Mike who stopped Daniel, but Nick helped!
Toriel smiled when she notice the boy looking to calm down. She figured he was over whatever ordeal he as suffering through and decided to start leading him out of the now unlocked room.
Nick watched her go as he approached the already pressed down buttons. He curiously stepped on one of the buttons Toriel ignored before walking over to the switch. "Yeah, this will be easy for me. Golden always said I was a smart kid after all. I can figure this place out and find my way back to my real home no problem." Feeling confident of his plan, the child walked over to a sign that was on the other side of the door. "Hmm, 'Only the fearless may proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road'." He read. He puffed out his chest and crossed his arms. "Well I'm brave! Mikey said so too. Now I know I can get through this weird place!"
"~Are you sure about that Nick?" a voice spoke out.
He jumped and looked around. That voice…it was the same one that spoke out before he fell down here. He turned his head in all directions, but couldn't find anyone. "Wh-who's there?"
"My child?" Toriel spoke out again. "Are you alright?"
Nick looked over to see the goat woman walk back in, looking concerned.
"I…" the boy nervously looked around before running over to her and hugging her tightly.
Toriel looked down at him in shock, before smiling warmly. "There, there my child. Let's move on, shall we?"
Nick only nodded as he followed her out of the room. Maybe I'm not as fearless as I thought…
Once they were in the new area, Nick once again looked around to get a feel of the room. It seemed to be rather large with two small bridges over flowing water. Toriel let go of him as she began to explain some more to the child. "To make progress here, you will need to trigger several switches. Do not worry, I have labelled the ones that you need to flip."
"Um…okay?" He said as he watched her move to the exit of the room. He looked around again, his gaze landing on a sign he didn't notice before. "'Press [Z] to read the signs!'" The child blinked confused. "…okay…?" He then walked over to the wall, deciding to ignore the odd sign only to notice another one. "Stay on the path." This one read. "Well, at least this one makes more sense." Nick commented deciding to walk back to the lighter purple path.
He crossed the first bridge, his gaze shifting over to the wall where one switch was clearly labeled for him to press. He frowned, rolling his eyes.
"Well, you definitely did label them…" He muttered, going over to it and flipping the switch. He then walked over the second bridge and saw two more switches. He noticed only one of them was labeled and just like he did before, he flipped it, much to Toriel's approval.
"Splendid am proud of you, little one. Let us move to the next room."
"Okay!" Nick hopped away from the switches as he followed the woman out.
The first thing he noticed as he walked into the next room was a small white dummy, staring blankly at the wall in front of it. "What's that?" He questioned, looking up at Toriel for an answer.
"Just a practice dummy, my dear. As a human living in the Underground, monsters may attack you."
"Attack me?" He frowned deeply, thinking about Flowey.
"You will need to be prepared for this situation. However, worry not! The process is simple."
"Okay," He spoke up, nodding.
Toriel smiled at this before continuing. "When you encounter a monster, you will enter a fight. While you are in a fight, strike up a friendly conversation."
"…what?" Nick questioned, not looking impressed. He's been in tons of fights before. He knew a friendly conversation wouldn't solve anything.
"Stall for time." Toriel continued, not noticing Nick's expression. "I will come to resolve the conflict. Practice talking to the dummy."
Nick sighed. "Well, if I must, I must…" he said walking over to the dummy. The second he encountered the dummy, the same small red heart popped up in front of him again, just like with Flowey. Yet something else happened this time. Four different words popped up in front of him as well, floating carelessly while waiting to be picked. 'Fight, act, item, and mercy,' they all read. "Whoa! This is kind of like a video game." He said, looking over the different texts. Glancing over at Toriel, he saw the woman smiling at him patiently again, waiting for him to do something. She didn't seem to be affected by the strange words floating in front of him, in fact it was almost like she didn't even see them.
After a moment of hesitating, Nick turned back to face the options before he moved his hands over one word at a time. He was shocked to see them glow as he hovered his palm over each one. "Cool!" He smiled, looking back at the dummy. "Um, okay then…I guess I will…" He moved his hand over the 'act' option. "Act." The second he picked this, he mind was instantly filled with things he wanted to say. So with a quick pause, he opened his mouth to let all the words that suddenly filled his head come out. "Hi." ...Or word in this case...
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The dummy doesn't seem much for conversation.
Nick frowned after waiting for a while. "Why the heck am I waiting for a dummy to talk back…?" He wondered annoyed. He looked back over at Toriel who was still smiling that kind smile. "Well, at least she seems happy with me."
Just like before, the heart slowly faded away as well as the four words that floated in front of him. As soon as they vanished, Nick heard Toriel begin to speak. "Ah, very good! You are very good."
The child beamed at the praise. "I am good, aren't I?"
Toriel chuckled at the boy's confident attitude as she walked out of the room. "Follow me, my child."
"Coming!"
As they walked in the next room, Nick instantly noticed another puzzle awaiting them. "Okay, here we go." He said smirking. He felt very confident he could face whatever puzzle came his way this time.
Toriel looked down at him and smiled sweetly. "There is another puzzle in this room…I wonder if you can solve it?"
"Heh, sure I can!" the boy said confidently.
The two began to walk down the room, but as soon as they made it about halfway there, something small and green popped out at the boy.
"Whoa!?" Nick looked down to see a small frog like creature looking up at him. "Cool! Are you a frog?"
"Ribbit, ribbit." The frog croaked. "(Hello human. I am Froggit.) Ribbit."
All the child could hear coming from the Froggit was croaking, but for some reason, he seemed to understand the monster. "Froggit, cool."
"Ribbit, ribbit. (What did you say? I don't speak human language.) Ribbit, ribbit."
"…how can I understand him, but he doesn't understand me…?" Nick shrugged. "This place is weird."
Suddenly the heart returned as well as the four texts. Nick looked down at them, instantly understanding what he should do. He smiled back at Froggit as he decided to 'Act'. "Hello Froggit, I think you look really cool."
Froggit didn't understand what he said, but was flattered anyways.
Before anything else could happen, Toriel seemed to take notice of the two and approached, glaring sharply at the frog monster.
Froggit nervously bent his head down and hopped away.
"Uh…bye-bye Froggit!"
"Ribbit…"
As soon as the frog monster ran away, the heart vanished and Nick noticed Toriel return to leading him across the room. He took one final glance back at the Froggit who was now almost out of the room before running over to her.
His eyes widened when he noticed a long row of sharp spikes in the ground. "Uh…what!?"
Toriel nervously looked down at him. "This is the puzzle, but…" She glanced at the spikes before back at Nick. "Here, take my hand for a moment."
The child did as he was told, grabbing onto Toriel's large fluffy paw as she began to lead him through the puzzle safely. He pouted when he began to realize he wasn't able to solve the puzzle himself. "I could have done it…"
"Oh, I'm sure you could have." Toriel responds back with a chuckle. They reached the end and she finally lets go of his hand. "I'm sure one day you can solve all kinds of difficult puzzles, but…perhaps puzzles are a little too dangerous for now." She pats him on the head and begins to walk away.
Nick rolled his eyes. "Lady, trust me, where I'm from, danger is a common theme…" He begins to walk away, unaware of a small yellow flower watching him.
Flowey smirked in amusement at the child. "Jeez, he's just as hopeless as Frisk is...was?" The plant frowned. "Where the heck did that human go anyway? Are they dead?" He scoffed. "Oh well. Not like I really care..." He grew silent as he watched Nick and Toriel continue to walk away. "...still though...I wouldn't mind knowing where they went."
Frisk nervously walks around the old pizzeria. They had no idea where they were and didn't know how to approach these strangers. It wasn't like the child was scared to talk to them, but Frisk just didn't know how they would answer any questions these robotic animals would ask.
"Okay, let's go over what I do know…" They decided to start with. "Let's see, it was a normal play through basically." Frisk's mind wondered to the unfortunate actions they took while during the last run. "Well…as normal as that could be, I guess…But…then I met with Sans and then…"
Frisk couldn't remember.
Every time the child tried to remember what happened after their last encounter with the pun loving skeleton, their mind went blank.
"I must have reset, that's the only logical thing I can imagine." They looked around the building again. "But, somehow I ended up here. And from what it sounds like, this Nick boy is now suddenly missing…Does that mean…he's in the Undergrounds?"
The human began to cautiously walk around. They wanted to be careful, not wanting to be caught just yet. The whirring of the cameras caught their attention and the human instantly hid in the shadows to avoid being seen. Once the noise stopped, they continued to walk again.
"Okay," Frisk continued to talk their thoughts, hoping a plan will come to. "If this Nick boy is in the Underground, then that means he is in the Ruins. He hasn't met Sans yet. I wonder…would he be able to help Nick. I'm sure Sans will at least realize that he shouldn't be there. Yeah! Sans will be his helper. I know it!"
"Did you hear that?" a voice questioned.
Frisk gasped and looked around. They noticed a shadow looming behind them at the end of the halls.
"Yeah, it sounded like it came from over there."
Frisk turned around and began to run the opposite way.
"Hey!" the voice shouted, turning out to be Bonnie. "Stop!"
"Is it Nick!?" Chica's voice questioned.
"No, but it's some kid." The purple rabbit answered.
"I got this!" Foxy spoke up, breaking off in a fast run. "Wait! We won't be hurting ye child!"
Frisk stopped when they noticed another group in the direction they were heading. "Oh boy…"
"Huh?" Spring's voice broke out, as he noticed Frisk. "Who the heck is that?" He bent down and spread his arms out to stop the child as Foxy came up from behind.
Frisk sighed as they realized they were caught.
Soon all the other animatronics caught up, eyeing Frisk suspiciously. Freddy slowly bent down and looked over the human. "Child, are you okay? Did you get lost?"
Frisk looked up at the bear, smiling softly. "Uh…sorry. I didn't mean to sneak around."
"It's okay child. Would you like us to contact your parents?"
"No," Frisk sighed, knowing there was nothing they could do to stop this conversation, "you can't. I'm…not from around here."
"What do you mean?"
"My name is Frisk." The human decided to introduce themselves. They hesitated before deciding to reveal more. "And…well, I think I know where your friend Nick is."
The animatronic's eyes widened at the news. Freddy nervously cleared his throat. "Yo-you do?"
"Yes…but…where he may be is the real problem…"
"Please, Frisk…" Golden spoke up, also bending down. "Tell us everything you can."
The human looked around at the concerned faces of these robotic animals. They were all clearly worried for their Nick and it warmed Frisk's heart. They nodded their head in answer. "Okay, listen up."
Gah! It was hard not to call Frisk a girl in this chapter! I was seriously tempted to just randomly start typing "she" or "her". I know I still could have, but I wanted to keep with the idea that Frisk is genderless. But I've always saw Frisk as a girl, so this will be tricky for me. So basically what I'm trying to say is, if I accidentally give Frisk female pronouns, that is why. But Frisk will be genderless in this crossover.
Also looks like Nick is starting to get in the swing of things where he's at. And now Frisk has been caught by the animatronics where they are at. But just how did Nick and Frisk switch places? And what will a certain pun loving skeleton have to say when he finally shows up. So many question to be answered and unlucky for me, I have to come up with them! Gah! Pressure!
*clears throat* Anyways, that's all for now. Again, I'm sorry for the wait. I never planed on taking over a week to update this so soon. But drama likes to pop up in the worst of times I guess. Oh well. Things are getting better for me...sort of...so that just means my updating will hopefully get back on schedule. I think...
So anyways, until next time! Bye and don't forget to review!