Chapter 4: The Decision
Authors note: This is one I figured to add, inspired by a comic dub on youtube where frisk goes back to the underground and breaks the reset button in front of flowey/asriel, don't remember the name of it or its creator, but this was inspired by them.
Everyone went home after the music ended, after sleeping soundly through the night and into the next day, Sans got up, and went through the Usual routine of the day. Eat some good food, share some bad laughs, but Frisk seemed very preoccupied and not all there, once they were in a room to themselves, she spoke up "Sans got somewehre private we could talk?" Sans looked over at her "sure kiddo, got just the spot, come on, iv got a shortcut." Frisk grabbed his hand as they shortcutted to a nice empty field , not too far from home, Sans liked to go here to look at the sky " so kiddo whats been eatin ya?" Frisk looks over to sans " Sans…..I have a way to destroy the reset option…..I see you now finally feeling able to put effort into things, finally happy, and this stupid ability i have….would ruin all of that, and for what? To do something to save Asriel….when there may be a way right now that I haven't thought of yet? I don't want to put you, or me, or everyone else through all of that again, and I know that neither would he… so im going to make sure you never have to worry again." Frisk then brought out the save, load and reset options, and moved the save and load to the side.
Sans was staring at Frisk, and finally found his voice "kiddo...you know i wouldn't be mad atcha if you did that to save someone, so long as you tell me and i can record it so that me doesn't freak out…." Frisk looks over at Sans and smiles "That may be true…..but it also leaves me wide open to Her again… I don't want to put everyone through all that again, I don't want to risk being forced to go through it again, to wind up hurting you all over again….and thats not even the end of it, if it does work im going to have to face everything all over again, omega flowey's nightmare fuel bullcrap, probably dying a few times on the journey anyway….I don't want to redo all of that….i'm happy, here with you and mom and Papyrus." Tears sting her eyes as she makes a fist with her right hand.
"I want you to see this….so that you know everything is going to be okay now." With that Frisk pulls back her hand, and with all the determination she can muster, she punches just below the button…...and the screen cracks….the cracks spread…..the button falls into dust and Frisk stomps the living hell out of it, and gets interrupted by being pulled into a hug from Sans. Sans began to speak with tears in his eyes "kiddo…. you should never have had to go through all of that, any of that, hell kids like you shouldn't have to make decisions like these, god knows any adult would decide to keep it…...you have no idea how proud i am of you, even if you had to grow up way to freaking fast to do it." Frisk wrapped her arms around him crying into his jacket "I love you dad…." Realizing what she just said she gasped and backed away, crap she did it again, she called Toriel mom because how alike she and her mother were, it was the same with how alike Sans and her dad were.
Sans stood there a bit shocked, she just called him dad…..he never thought of himself as much of a father figure. Then again he and this kid have been through hell and back together, he felt a strong pulse vibrate through his soul, happiness welling inside of him, dad….Frisk...his….daughter….his kid, it sounded... right , so he regained his composure "heh dad huh? well you know what? i love ya too kiddo, and i guess that answers my question before i even got to ask it." Frisk blinked a couple times, blushing slightly "w-what are you talking about? Sans pulled out a small box from his jacket pocket "well kiddo, i was planning on asking tori to marry me at christmas in a few weeks, after askin you of course, looks like i got your answer anyway."
Frisk let out a squeal of excitement "OH MY GOD, THAT'S SO ADORABLE! Do you want to break the new dad news to Mom while I talk to Paps and the others? I figure we might just say that we went to go hang out for a while and after one of your jokes i laughed and then said i love you dad, not entirely a lie, just not the whole truth, I….don't feel ready to do that yet." Sans nods understandingly "i getcha kiddo, sounds like a good plan, and TIBIA honest it sounds good enough to work, and i'm not exactly wanting to drop all our baggage onto them anyway." Frisk let out a giggle and they went home, Frisk took Papyrus over to Undyne and Alphys's to talk to them about today, while Sans stayed and saw Toriel walk into the living room.
"hey tori, i got somethin to talk to ya about." Toriel looked over to him and smiled "Ah, Sans what is it dear?" Sans walked over and let his natural grin get wider "so earlier today the kiddo and i went out, had some good food, told a few jokes, the usual, eventually i told a real funny one apparently , 'cause she had a laugh that almost rivaled yours. after she was done laughing she hugged me…..and called me dad….tori, frisk actually called me her dad…." Toriel had a large grin on her face and tears in their eyes "Oh sans….that is truly wonderful that they think of you that way, so what happened next?" Sans sat on the couch "well at first she was super embarassed, guess it may have been for the same reason she called you mom right away, i reminded her of her real dad….and you know what? it felt right, frisk is over at undynes with paps to break the news." Toriel had her paws over her mouth, crying tears of joy "Sans this is truly wonderful, I am glad you two have grown so close." He was glad too, this kid has gone through a lot of crap, and he managed to be there for most of it, or to sooth the pain of what he wasn't there for, he felt his soul grow bigger, he felt the happiest he has ever been….he had hope…..he had the will to do anything he needed to…..and with the reset no longer a threat, there was one thing he needed to work on, a family member to be saved, and it just so happened that he figured when he went back to the machine…..it would be bring your daughter to work day.
Authors note: Hahahahaha ok so funny story, i originally did not plan for frisk to drop the dad bomb yet, that was going to be for the family chapter...but i felt that it would really fit well and i hope i made it fit well, so please tell me what you all think, or ways i could improve, also thank you somerandom guy, i am glad you enjoyed this, and thank you nadiahardar for following, i hope all of you are enjoying this story so far.