Last chapter. Gonna wrap things up and set the basis for the sequel I MEAN...pretend you didn't read that yet.
Once we've dropped off Azalea and Whimsalot at her house, we drive over to my house, where Knight Knight and I get out to begin my return home. And I am freaking scared. A little less scared than if I were alone, but still not ready for my mom to scream at me. Usually when my mom gets really mad at me, it's because my grades are bad or I didn't do my chores or something. Getting kidnapped is like at least two levels higher on the scale of bad things I could do.
"Wait," Knight Knight says, stopping me. "How were you captured?"
"Well, I was about to call my mom to pick me up from tutoring, but then I thought I saw a hundred dollar bill outside the school, so I chased after it, and then someone chloroformed me," I recap.
"Then it is not your fault," she tells me. "Anyone else would have done the same thing."
"Oh...well, thanks," I say back. I guess I feel a little more confident now. As soon as Knight Knight is hidden behind the wall next to the porch, I ring the doorbell. The door opens after about ten seconds.
"XAVIER! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE PAST EIGHT HOURS!?" my mom yells.
"I...was kidnapped," I say quietly.
"What?! Who did that? How did you get home?"
Oh...this isn't quite how I expected her to react.
"Uh...a guy from Stirlington...he got arrested...and some friends drove me home. I could have one of them talk to you if you want."
"The radio said that someone from Ohio got arrested in Stirlington for murder and thievery...whatever, who are your friends that brought you home?"
"Um, just...please don't freak out when you see her, she's...not what you'd expect."
I motion for Knight Knight to come out, and she steps up onto the porch.
"Whoa! What is that on her stomach?" Mom asks, referring to Knight Knight's torso-face, and clearly surprised.
"I don't know, she's a monster, and they can look like pretty much anything," I explain.
"A monster?"
"Beings made of magic, yet completely civilized and morally equal to humans. I'm not lying, Mom, magic is real, and this is living proof. Uh, I mean...Mom, this is Knight Knight (that's with Ks, as in medieval knight), whose reasons for being around here will probably remain confidential, but she is a pretty nice person. Knight Knight, this is my mom, who, well, is a mom, which I think is saying a lot. In a good way."
Mom holds up her hand to let me know to shut up, and starts talking to Knight Knight. "How did you meet Xavier?"
"Xavier..." Knight Knight mutters to herself. I guess I never did tell her my real name. "My company was searching for humans to help us with something, and we believed that your son and his friends were the ones we could trust the most. The world cannot be alerted to the existence of monsters, after all."
"Why would you choose him, of all people?"
"He was the strongest monster supporter we had met outside of our hometown."
"Xavier, where on Earth did you hear about these creatures?" Mom asks me. (Uh, hopefully Knight Knight won't take that as an insult.)
"Mom, Undertale is all about monsters," I tell her. "My friends and I talk about it all the time."
Mom turns back to Knight Knight. "Did you get my son kidnapped?"
"I can assure you, we had no way of preventing it from happening."
"Xavier, how did it happen?"
I tell her what I told Knight Knight. Mom sighs. "Tomorrow morning, I'll have to call the school and talk to them about perimeter security, then. You're not hurt, are you?"
"Nah, I'm fine. The guy who kidnapped me wasn't too bad. And he did get arrested."
"Do you have homework due tomorrow?"
"Oh, uh, yeah, I guess I do."
"Go get to work on that while I finish talking to Knight, please."
I head over to the kitchen table and get my homework out of my backpack. All I have tonight is a chemistry notes video, so it shouldn't take too long, but I really just wanna go to sleep already. Eh, I'll do it. I could use some time to do normal stuff that won't get anyone killed or anything.
Well, things didn't go too bad. My mom wasn't really mad at me for getting kidnapped, though she did end up grounding me for a day for lying about the time I went and hung out at the Shadow Guard's apartment for a few hours. She also asked me some more questions about monsters; I answered what I knew about their biology, but then I told her for the thousandth time to play Undertale to learn their history, which I think she may have actually started.
If anyone, Azalea's the one who got lucky. From what she told me, it sounds like her mom was even happier that her kid was saved by monsters than my mom was. Neither of our moms found out that both of us were kidnapped though.
Darius and Minerva wanted to know every detail of our encounter. They seemed pretty jealous that they weren't there, and I guess I can't blame them. Erika seemed like she was just happy she didn't have to sneak off on dangerous adventures anymore, though I know she enjoyed it as much as we did.
Now it's Wednesday, and I'm up in my room doing homework when I get another call from the Shadow Guard which I answer in a heartbeat.
"This is Whimsalot," says the caller. "I've got a few things that I'd like to tell you and your friends about."
"Alright," I reply. "Wait a second, I've got an idea. Do you guys have Google+ accounts?"
After about ten minutes of coordinating requests and addresses or whatever, I've got Whimsalot on a video call with me, Azalea, Minerva, and Erika. Guess Darius is busy or something.
"Alright, now that most of us are here, we can start," Whimsalot states. "You're all aware that Mason Richards was arrested, right?"
We all respond in some sort of affirmative fashion.
"Good, now on that subject, I've got some good news and, well, the truth."
"I'm intrigued, what's the truth?" Azalea asks.
"The truth is...there is no nuclear weaponry hidden anywhere in this town. There never was. We slipped Richards a false tip on the weaponry in order to separate him from the rest of the cult. And we told you that it was there because we were afraid you'd stop helping us after he attacked us all that night."
Honestly, I'd completely forgotten about the nukes, since after that night, it seemed that Richards was trying to hunt us down the whole time.
"Oh, come on!" Minerva exclaims. "Why does this town have to be so freaking normal?"
"What do you mean, normal?" I question. "There are monsters here, I don't know how much luckier we could have gotten."
"I'll tell you," Whimsalot says, "because that's the good news. Since we've just taken so many days off work, we're going to have to head back home soon."
Doesn't sound like good news to me so far.
"But since I've heard Spring Break is next week, how would you guys like to come with us?"
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That was my soul exploding. Because I literally can't think of anything else I'd rather do in my life than be in an entire city full of freaking monsters.
"Really?" Azalea says. "Yes! Yes! Yes a million times! I can't wait!"
"Get out!" Minerva shouts. "Uh, that's an expression of some sort, what I mean is HECK YEAH!"
"That would be a highlight of my life," Erika says. "Of course...Um, X? Are you alright?"
I'm looking down with wide eyes. "There's two more days of school left...I don't know how I'll make it now..."
"You'll be fine," Erika tells me. "It's the same amount of time, and the work won't be any harder."
"I know, but how can I care about school when I'm about to go to the most legendary place on this freaking planet?"
"We'll do it together," Azalea says. "I can't wait either, but maybe we can."
"You're right," I respond. "We got this."
"Okay, so where exactly is your hometown?" Erika asks.
"It's in New York," Whimsalot answers. "If we get up early and keep driving late, we should be able to make it in two days."
"Why don't we just fly there?" Minerva asks.
"Airport security. Enough said," I point out.
"Well, we'd need to discuss this stuff with our parents before we go," Azalea says. "And I'm not sure they'd let all of us go to Pennsylvania for a week without them."
"I could give them phone calls to convince them to let you go," Whimsalot says. "I'll even figure out some way to not tell them where you're really going and who we really are."
"Sounds good," I remark. "But seriously, what am I going to do until then?"
We take the next few minutes to give the Shadow Guard our home phone numbers just in case, until we end the call and I run off to tell my mom the news. Monday night was not an easy time, but it was freaking worth it if it means we get to visit the place where all the freaking monsters in the world live. Let's see, what kind of stuff would we do there? Stay at MTT Resort, maybe go to Grillby's or something and potentially meet Sans, tour the Underground, and HOLY DANG if I could actually meet Frisk in person, well, I don't know what I wouldn't give for that. One thing is certain, though: I'll never forget Spring Break 2016.
And that was Shadow Guard, in which several Undertale fans discover their favorite video game to have actually happened and find an opportunity to make the world a safer place. As you may have already noticed, this is only the first installment in a series. I'll start on the sequel soon, in which X and co. will head off to Ebott City for a whole week to basically fulfill all of their fanboy/fangirl desires.
And because one out of one people voted for an Ask involving this story's characters, which is pretty much a unanimous vote, I will be making an Ask very soon that you may want to check out.
Until then, remember to stay patient, brave, honest, uh...persevering, kind, just, and determined! Aaaaand I'm gone.