Undyne stood next to Gerson on the undersupplied post of Mt. ebott. Undyne watched the setting sun and the countless human just below. She couldn't care, they were dead even if she tried to fight they would cause more suffering. Not to mention Muffet, who was vastly crippled in the last fight.
"I see that look in your eye, you think hope is lost." Undyne nodded before getting slapped behind the head. "Of course it isn't! Anything is possible, maybe we can have peace with them?" Undyne looked at the old turtle and scoffed.
"You mean, surrender?" Gerson just shrugged as Undyne looked behind her, the camp is still awake with torch light.
"Call it what you like, but it means the same thing no matter what words you use." Undyne slumped losing incredible face. "It's our best option." Undyne kept watch with Gerson's words in mind.
A bony hand touched Gerson's shoulder. "All the wounded are taken care of." The Doctor said to the tortoise with a weird gleam in his eyes. "It was a nice test of my knowledge of bone amputation." Undyne glared at Aster. "Your spider friend is fine, a bit disoriented from the pain killers, but fine." Undyne tried to resist the urge to go to the medical tent. "You can see her, I have something private to discuss to Gerson." Undyne then bolted to the temporary encampment.
The turtle chuckled before brushing Aster's hand off. "What's this 'private' business, Aster? This old mouth doesn't do well with secrets." Aster rolled his eyes at the turtle before making a hand sign. Gerson's eyes widen before it was narrowed again. "Ah, king's seal. Okay, what does Agore plan to do?"
Aster then pointed to the army. "A peace talk, no arms of war, no bodyguards. It seams that Asgore wants council with the six wizards of Aldon." Aster took a grim look. "I just hope he isn't on the same level of idiocy like his suicidal plan."
Aster was heavily patted on the back. "Don't worry, you old bonehead. When the king does something, it's from his heart." Gerson lifts his giant hammer to prove his point. "Devil-cracker, my indestructible hammer of justice was forge by Asgore himself! It was only because he doesn't want a close friend, like me in the dirt of a war-torn battlefield."
Aster rolls his eyes. "Now I know why the queen is the brains of the throne." Gerson sighed at his friend, he always had more bone then empathy. "It's tomorrow at mid day. Make sure your guards don't muck this up, for all our sakes." Aster then vanished into darkness, one of his shortcuts no doubt.
Gerson chuckles at the fact that Aster never told him what a 'shortcut' is. "Me too, Aster, me too."
At the medical tent, Undyne saw Muffet with bandages wrapped around her torso. Muffet's eyes were looking all over the place due to the drugs. Undyne wasn't sure if Muffet was even aware of her surroundings.
"U...Undyne? Is that you? I can't see anything but blurry colors." Undyne sat next to Muffet who looked like she wanted to panic. "I can't feel most of my arms, except a pain in my sides..." As she ended the sentence she whimpers in pain. "I feel cold...or felt? Like I saw death before pushed away from it." Muffet tried to stand up, but Undyne immediately forced her to lay down.
"No! You shouldn't move yet. That creepy doctor says that you're fine, but disoriented from painkillers." Undyne's hand was pressed down on Muffet in order for her to stay down. "I don't want you to get worse..." Muffet then closed her eyes as she blacked out from the drugs.
Then the doctor himself came in. "I see that Miss Muffet is well, now I must ask you to leave." Undyne gave him a murderous glare. "I just have to make sure nothing went wrong, a last minute check of her health." Undyne left with her one eye still tracked on him.
The rest of the day and night went by as guard and civilian tried to help one another.
The daybreaking sun rose above the land as the human army came closer. Undyne was grabbing her gear for the approaching army until Gerson came.
Undyne smiled at the turtle. "Hey, are you ready to teach the humans a lesson!" She summoned her spear, ever since her rage broke it was way more easy to summon them.
Gerson frowned as he crossed his arms. "Undyne, I'm afriad I can't let you or anyone in the guard out today." Undyne's smile fell at the words. "I can't tell you why, but it's imperative none of the guards approaches the humans."
Undyne's only emotion now was anger. "What! The humans slaughtered monsters, friends, and...families." She pointed her spear at the turtle. "I will not be denied justice!"
Gerson snapped, which was a first. "Justice!? What you're thinking is an eye for an eye, bloody vengeance!" They stared at each other. "True justice, is commending those for their crimes without any malice!" Undyne stared at Gerson in hurt confusion. "Until you learn that, you will never be a hero for those who need them." Gerson then backtracked out the door. "I honestly feel the same Undyne, but it's those words of truth I follow till the end." Gerson left as Undyne slammed a table in rage.
Near the entrance, King Asgore waits for the six wizards. The only one besides is the doctor, who is Asgore's advisor for the peace meeting.
"It's a beautiful day. If we were not at war, a game of ball would sound nice." Asgore mused only for Aster to ignore him. "What do you feel when you see the sun, Aster?"
Aster didn't move an inch. "I would feel dread as death draws a day near for us all." Asgore frowned at Aster's negativity. "That does not mean it's today. Which is why it's best to spend that time with the things you care about." Aster had the weird way of bringing people down before raising their hopes.
Asgore smiled as six portal opened up before them. "That's why you're the grand scientist." He complemented as the six mages stepped out.
The orange one, bravery, brought a fist in the air. "I'm surprised you upheld you're bargain you cowards!" Aster then remembered that the six wizards are pure embodiments of their soul. "Unless that numbskull is a fighter?" He subconsciously challenged the skeleton.
Aster shook his head in defense. "No, I'm just here to make sure what Asgore says is clarified."
The purple one, perseverance, lowers their or her traditional hood. "That's a smart move, death is brought by stupid mistakes." She looks at her comrades. "Lower you're hoods, we want to show them we're equally as tactful." The wizards did so, after all perseverance was the smartest one.
The cyan one, patience, looked at the two monsters nervously. "So...you're surrendering?" She meekly asked as Asgore returned with a 'scary' nod. "Eek!" She brought her hood up, casting her in the same shade of cyan.
The dark blue one, integrit, sighed at the cowardly antics. "Well if it is peace you want, there is a heavy cost." She looks at her comrade, kindness.
He sighed. "Humans and monsters should have co-existed. This war was brought by the people own negativity and they want death. I don't know what went wrong." He started crying as bravery comforted him.
"Wait, we didn't start the war!? Then why come here and do a peace meet!?" Bravery asked dumbfounded
The last one, justice approched Asgore while looking at bravery. "Because you would have spilled what we are going to do." Justice looked at Asgore with and apologetic look. "If we said that you had surrender the people will not only continue to murder monsters, but themselves." Justice points at the mountain. "If we seal you in the mountain and tell the humans we killed you, no more death and sadness."
As all this was occurring Aster was processing all of this info. "You want us to seal our kind away from the sun and surface!" Asgore yelled while Aster weighed the options.
Justice nodded sadly. "Yes, if we did a lot less people, be it monster or man, will be spared." He offered a hand to Asgore. "This is the only way, I'm sorry we couldn't contain the hate between both parties." Asgore looked and saw the genuine sad smile on the yellow wizards face.
Asgore looked at Aster. "My lord, there is no way we can co-exist. If we do fight, even without the aid of the six wizards, would lose horribly." The scientist gave Asgore a frown. "The wizard of justice is right."
Asgore looked at the wizards and bowed his head. "Fine...but can you stall, there are injuried that need to be moved."
Kindess nodded. "I'm sure we can do that."
Asgore nodded, but before he could go. "Another thing lord of monsters." Asgore turned to the perseverance wizard. "It's optional, but it would be best not to tell the other monsters of this, ever." Ashore was about to retort when. "Like I said, optional, they're your people. If you said that you willingly let monsters be sealed, it would be the same thing, but with monsters." Asgore thought about it, looked at Aster, then nodded.
Bravery stepped up. "Okay so, pretend peace didn't go so well and order everyone to evacuate. Then my friends will do the rest cause I have no idea about the plan!" The rest of the wizards face palmed as the plan would go under way.
Meanwhile in the medical tent, Muffet opened up eye after eye. Then she had the world's worst headache ever and screamed in pain. Before her eyes got a more clear view of her area, she was held down again.
"You got to stop doing this to me." Undyne joked as Muffet relaxed despite the pain. "I had to avoid Gerson to come here, so don't scream now!" She quietly yelled at the spider.
Muffet looked at the empty space where four of her arms were. "Wh-wa-!?" Undyne grabbed her mouth in order for her to stay calm. Muffet calmed down as Undyne let her mouth go. "Where are my arms, and your eye!?" She asked with panic raising in her voice as she noticed the missing organ.
"You fought against three humans, they maimed you and two four arms before I could save you. One of them destroyed my eye, probably going to get an eye patch or something." Undyne explains as Muffet looked down on the bed she laid on. "Then I had to carry your dying ass all the way here, let me say that you're lighter then you look."
Muffet laughed and coughed from a dry throat. "S-Sorry, I thought you hated me." Muffet scanned the room for any consumable liquids. "I half expected you to join them and kill me. I remember how jealous and angry you were when we spared." Muffet lightly poked at Undyne's armor. "You could barely summon a spear while I could spin an endless magic web." Muffet twirled her fingers as a thin line of purple magic web, formed around her fingers.
Undyne frowned. "That was different kind of hate, I hated that you were better at magic. The only thing I was better at was strength and honor, everything else..." Undyne's one eye trailed off. "Then the first battle came, I thought that you would run away. You didn't and did the opposite of what I thought." Undyne took Muffet's small web. "Who cares who's better then who! All that matters is what friends learn from each other!" She got so passionate with that speech she couldn't control the volume.
Muffet saw Undyne wrap that tiny web around her wrist. "Undyne..." Muffet smiled a bit, a sad smile, but it was a start.
Undyne pounded her chest, not realizing how much sound she made. "We are now war buddies." Her eyes went from right to left. "Or friends...I thought the last one sounded cool!" They went into silence before they both laughed.
"I guess I would like that." The spider monster smiled until a loud sound occurred. "Wha-!?"
The skeleton doctor came into the tent. "The talks has been broken, evacuate into the caves!" Aster demands as Undyne summoned her spear. "You can't, it's the six soul mages that are attacking!" Undyne didn't look like she care, until she heard a grunt from behind.
Muffet was trying to stand up. "Undyne's there are injured monsters here!" Muffet grunted while holding her sides.
Undyne nodded and picked Muffet up without hurting her much. Undyne looked at Aster with a hateful glare. "Make sure everyone is evacuated!" She order with forceful intent as she exits the tent.
Aster sighed, he hoped this ruse will work out. He snapped his fingers and everyone that occupied any medical tents were teleported away. He then used his own little shortcut to the 'evacuation' point.
All the monsters were now inside the cave, including a hurt Asgore. Aster has to admit, the king sure knows how to convince people.
The six mages pointed their legendary artifacts at the cave entrance. "Monsters, as punishment for the crimes gains humanity we hereby seal you forever!" They yelled in unison as the artifacts fired their potent magic. The magic combine and exploded around the cave with a huge flash of light.
When it died down the monsters saw a barrior of transparent rainbow light. "May you rest here for eternity." Kindness said as they all opened a portal to Aldon. The monster couldn't bare to watch this tragedy of monsterkind. All but Asgore saw Justice turn slightly to mouth the words, 'I'm sorry'.
And so the tale of war ends and the tale of reclaiming begins.