Author's Note: Where have I been for months?
School.
Yeah, I'm not happy neither. I wanted to get to work in May, but things took up my time and, well, now that Summer has hit I have more time. Therefore, I welcome you back to MoniTale.
Disclaimer: I don't own Undertale or Doki Doki Literature Club, however I do own the plot of this story and our Player
"Sure! Let's go, Papyrus!" She smiled, deciding that it couldn't hurt to stop for a moment or two more.
The trio (if she included her mostly invisible boyfriend) walked back towards town, and as they did Papyrus spoke. "WOWIE, A FRIEND! I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO WITH YOU! WE SHOULD GO SOMEWHERE REALLY COOL TO HANG OUT, SOMEWHERE I GO TO OFTEN... I KNOW!" He led them to a house she had seen earlier and stopped at the entrance. "MY HOUSE! COME INSIDE HUMAN!" Papyrus entered, and Monika and Player followed.
Inside was a decently sized house. It had a living room (which they were in now) with a couch, TV, coffee table, and entrance into the kitchen. Above that there were stairs that led up to a balcony overlooking the living room, and behind the railings she saw two doors. One that was normal and one that seemed... to be on fire.
Monika blinked and turned to Player, who frowned. "I'm not getting pranked from across Time and Space twice in a row, dear."
She opened her mouth to reply, but just chose to shake her head.
She stepped further into the house and reflexively bent down and took off her shoes- she was used to doing that whenever she entered someone's home. She left them a little to the left of the door and then walked over to examine the first table, there was something on it.
It was a rock..covered in sprinkles. "Hey Papyrus, what's this?" She pointed at the thing, and Papyrus turned and nodded his head.
"THAT, HUMAN, IS MY BROTHER'S PET ROCK. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE HE DOES HE HAS SHIRKED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FEEDING IT, SO I HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF IT FOR A WHILE." He explained.
Monika nodded. I guess that explains the sprinkles. These guys are so silly. She smiled widely. She moved toward Papyrus and glanced at a book on the coffee table. Seeing the title, she couldn't not look inside. "Do you mind if I look at this?" She asked, pointing at the book.
"I DO NOT! THAT IS MY BROTHER'S BOOK HOWEVER, I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT." He glared at the cover.
Monika opened the book and.. "What the?" She stared inside. Between the puns and jokes was a book about Quantum Physics. Behind her Player gasped.
"I KNEW it!" He got all excited. "I knew the book was a fake! It's hollow inside!"
Monika ignored her boyfriend's excitement and peered inside the Quantum Physics book.
Which had another joke book
Which had another Quantum Physics book
which had another joke book
which had another quantum physics book
which had another joke book
which had another quantum physics book
which had another-
Monika snapped the main joke book shut, looking very disturbed.
"ANYWAY!" She set the book down and shook her head. "Let's hang out! What do you usually do with friends Papyrus?" She wanted to get off the subject of the...books as fast as possible.
"I KNOW, WE COULD WATCH MY FAVORITE TV SHOW!" He rushed over to the couch and grabbed the remote, he clicked on the TV set and only received a glitch screen and a message: "We'll be back soon."
"OH, W-WELL THAT WAS UNEXPECTED! IT'S JUST A BAD EPISODE, THAT'S ALL!" He desperately tried to pretend that everything was still in his control.
"It's okay! What else do you like to do?" She smiled, cocking her head softly to the side and shutting her eyes. "I'm sure we'll find something we can do!"
"HMMMMMMM.. A GOOD IDEA HUMAN! WHAT SHOULD WE DO?!" He trailed off in thought.
Player waved his hand in front of Monika's face and gestured his head at the kitchen. Monika stared at him for a moment, and he threw his hands into the air. "No more hints." He said.
Monika couldn't help the small smile on her lips, he just couldn't stop giving her hints. "No, I'm not much of a baker like Natsuki." She whispered, hoping to not be heard by Papyrus.
"HMM? BAKING? I'M NOT A BAKER EXACTLY, BUT I AM A GREAT CHEF! WOULD MY NEW FRIEND LIKE ME TO MAKE SOMETHING FOR HER?" Papyrus, having heard her despite her best attempts, asked.
"No no no no no no no no no!" Player yelled, frantically waving his arms in a warning motion while shaking his head.
Monika rolled her eyes at his antics, surely it couldn't be that bad-right? "Sure!" She smiled at Papyrus sweetly.
With a burst of joy he ran into the kitchen and began to cook. While he did so, Monika took a seat at the couch and Player glared. "I meant that you two should cook together. Now you will face the consequences of your actions." He crossed his arms. Monika chuckled.
"C'mon, he seems nice, his food can't possibly be as bad as you're saying." She laughed, and Player's cold gaze melted.
"You're so nice sometimes dearest." He looked at her with love in his eyes for a moment, before returning to his previous position. "Anyway, Papyrus won't be long. I'd say he'll be done in.."
"HUMAN! THE SPAGHETTI IS FINISHED!" Papyrus said, coming out holding a bowl filled with noodles covered in pasta sauce.
"Now." Player smirked.
Monika stood and entered the dining room part of the kitchen with Papyrus, who walked over to a table and dumped the noodles onto a plate he'd set out previously. As Monika took what she presumed to be her seat, she picked up her fork, spooned some spaghetti onto the utensil, and lifted it to her mouth.
The taste is indescribable, reflexively her face tightens. Monika, using every ounce of class, dignity, and general good manners that she had, resisted the urge to spit it out. She quickly swallowed the bite, not enjoying a minute of it.
Player leaned in. Monika's glare had him quiet before a quip could even be thought of.
"WELL? WHAT DO YOU THINK?!" Papyrus' joyous face was something Monika desperately didn't want to ruin.
"It's amazing!" A tight smile came over her face. She had...experience in lying from her..plan, but that didn't mean she particularly liked doing it. "I'm full though, you see a goat woman gave me pie earlier." She kept smiling. "But this is really, really awesome! Too bad I can't finish it.."
"HMMM. I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONUNDRUM HUMAN, THEREFORE I SHALL ALLOW YOU TO TAKE IT WITH YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE! YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO BE HUNGRY AGAIN! I SAY THIS BECAUSE IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO GO I'M AFRAID!" He said, looking at the clock. "I HAVE TO GO SPEAK WITH UNDYNE ABOUT TODAY'S EVENTS, AND SO I WILL NOT BE HOME, AND FRIENDS CAN'T HANG OUT IF ONE OF THEM ISN'T AROUND!"
Monika nodded. "That makes sense, thank you for having me!" Her tight smile dropped into her softer, more Monika smile. "I'll take this with me." She stood up and passed it to Player when Papyrus wasn't looking, her love glanced around and slid it into her inventory without much questioning.
"THAT REMINDS ME!" Papyrus snapped his attention back to her from the clock. He then pulled out a scrap of paper with a number written on it in the Papyrus font. "THIS IS MY PHONE NUMBER, HUMAN! USE THIS TO CALL ME WHENEVER YOU DESIRE!" He handed the paper to Monika, who accepted it and programmed the number into her phone.
Then, they each left and went about the same direction, Papyrus rushing ahead of her by a lot.
Monika walked a calm pace, and tightened her Jacket around her as they went through the coldest areal. "I really have to wonder how it gets this cold down here." She cold see her breath and not much else in the dense fog. "..And how they have snow if we're underground." She said. Suddenly her vision was coming back, and she could see a much more cavelike area coming up. They walked a bit further and stepped across a small amount of snow and onto hard ground, immediately Monika noticed a change in temperature as her Jacket adjusted to be cooler. "Hmm? It feels warmer?" It wasn't exactly tropical, but it definitely felt closer to spring than winter.
"Yeah." Player replied as they walked deeper into this new location. "I have no real idea how these different biomes work, I just chalk it up the the CORE. It makes the most sense."
"Well I'm glad to be out of the snow. I was starting to freeze on my legs!" She kneeled down and rubbed them. "So this is definitely an improvement!"
They walked into a larger, more open room with a waterfall going down deeper into the Underground and Monika was immediately spotted by-
"Hey! Did you come to see her too?" Monster Kid. "She's the coolest!"
Monika squinted at the kid. "I thought I told you to go back home.." Her tone carried with it the responsibleness of a Club President, but it sounded closer to something a parent would say.
Monster Kid looked down. "Please don't tell my parents I snuck out.." He begged.
"Hmm. I have things that need doing first so.. you get off easy for now. Just don't get into too much trouble please." She said, walking past him.
She spoke to a fish man next. "This is an Echo Flower. It repeats the last thing it heard over and over again." He told her, gesturing at the small blue flower.
"Wow that's cool!" She said, examining it. "I wonder how it does it.."
"I wonder how it does it." The Flower repeated in exactly her voice.
"Probably Magic." Player said.
"..it does i-" As it took in new sounds, the Echo Flower stopped repeated Monika's words and instead let out a distorted facsimile of Player's voice. "PrObAbLy MaGiC." It buzzed.
"Woah. It can even hear you Player!" She said, looking behind her at her romantic partner.
Player was silent. What he had heard, behind his distorted words, was something that genuinely scared him. The Gaster Glitch noises.
He gulped and looked around. "Monika let's move on." He mouthed at her. Monika saw his fearful look, and decided to listen to him.
"Hey Sans!" Despite her Player's fears, Monika wanted to say hello to Sans one more time before she left this part of the game, and probably him, forever.
"hey kid, betcha never seen a guy with two jobs before. having two jobs means i get two legally required breaks. as a matter of fact, i'm about to take one and go to grillby's, wanna come?" His relaxed smile was pretty enticing, and Monika really wasn't in much of a hurry at the moment...
"Sure!" She started moving back to Snowdin, but Sans waved her over to the right.
"this way kid, i know a shortcut." He led them into the next cavern and then-
They were inside Grillby's.
"fast shortcut, right?" Sans asked.
"W-what, but we were- way over- what?" The confusion was visible on her face.
"hehe, maybe i'll tell you one day, harmonika." Sans winked, Player laughed, Monika groaned. "heh, never gets old."
"You'd better quit it!" She warned, then her emerald eyes leveled onto Player, who gulped.
Sans led her to the front bar as his friends all greeted him. They took a seat and- "Hey wait a minute!" She plucked a whoopie cushion off the seat. "You can't fool me twice." She smirked and sat down.
"guess not, eh kid? anyhow, let's order. i know all the best stuff here. you want a burger or fries?" He asked.
Monika was certainly capable of ordering for herself... but she bet that he was right. "I'm a vegetarian, I'll have fries." She smiled sweetly. "Thanks."
"no prob kid. hey grillby, we'll take two orders of fries." He called to the bartender at the front, who stopped cleaning his glass and rushed off to the back.
Sans and Monika waited patiently for a moment, and Player tinkered with the files, trying to code something again it seemed. Sans scratched the back of his head in thought for a moment, then asked. "so kid, what do you think of my brother?"
"Hmmm.." Monika thought. "He's pretty silly, he reminds me of someone I knew back home.." She glanced, remembering the cheery, happy face Sayori would give to the world. "But he's pretty cool I guess." She looked at Sans again, and noted something... Terrifyingly familiar about him. The cheery, happy face she'd give to the world... "You kinda remind me of her too, y'know? She wasn't quite as funny as you, but.. you share a smile." Player looked up from his work with sad eyes. Sans being depressed was a mere fan theory, but... Well, he certainly didn't like some of the information he was privy too.
"i dunno anything about your friend, but she sounds like a real.. sansation." He pointed finger guns at Monika, who gave a giggle as Grillby came back with the fries. He set the plates down and went back to standing at the bar as Sans spoke. "want some ketchup?"
Monika shook her head. "No thank you, ketchup actually disguises the taste of.. Just about everything! I prefer my food without it, thanks though!" She smiled sweetly.
"suit yourself." He shrugged, then gave a wink. "bone appetit."
She snacked on her fries and was blown away by the taste, it was certainly better than Papyrus' spaghetti. By a mile.
"anyhow, silly or not, you gotta admit that papyrus tries really hard. like how he keeps trying to be apart of the royal guard." Sans paused to take a drink of his ketchup directly from the bottle, and Monika couldn't help but to be mildly disturbed. "one day he even went to the house of the head of the royal guard and begged her to let him be in it. of course, she shut the door on him because it was midnight-" both her and Player gave a small giggle at that but Sans just kept going. "-but the next day she woke up and saw him still waiting there. seeing his dedication she decided to give him some warrior training. it's, uhh, still a work in progress." He looked like he wanted to say something more important, making Monika pause in her meal.
The lights seemed to dim around them as though they were entering a battle, but Sans didn't move from his chair, nor did Monika's SOUL appear. Player glanced up from his file menu, but quickly returned to working.
"have you ever heard of a talking flower?"
"Yeah.. I met one in the Ruins.." Monika replied, unsure of where this was going.
"hmm. well, i bring it up because papyrus says that, when no one else is around, a talking flower sometimes shows up and whispers things to him. it flatters him, gives him advice or encouragement and some times..." Sans almost looked dead serious for a moment. "predictions." He lightened up again. "weird huh? someone must be using an echo flower to trick him. keep an eye out, okay?" Sans started to get up, but Monika stopped him.
"Sans." She was serious. "That weed, that Flower... It's not an Echo Flower Papyrus is hearing. It's worse, scary even." She took a breath. "If you ever see a yellow flower that talks... Don't trust it. No matter what. Okay?" Monika wasn't quite sure why she reached out to warn him, if this was all a game and everything was preordained then it wouldn't matter...
But... she liked these video game characters. Sans, Papyrus, Toriel. All of them are so kind, so funny, so nice. They... They're like my friends were, in the past. She looked down and dropped her hand from his shoulder. Player looked up at her expression, seemingly reading her thoughts. She didn't notice it, but he smiled.
She's learning to be better.
"uhhh, sure kid, don't worry to much about it." Sans nudged her arm with his fist. "an' lighten up a little, you look like papyrus did when you ignored his puzzles." His smile seemed genuine enough, and she smiled back.
"Yeah, sorry about that." She replied, giving a sheepish look.
"it's no issue, you can make up for it by paying the bill. i'm broke. and don't worry, it's only 10000G." He said as if it was no big deal.
Monika's eyes widened in shock. "I can't pay that!" She knew that she only had a few hundred Gold left.
"hehe, just kidding. hey grillby, put it on my tab." He walked towards the door before looking back at the girl, who had resumed eating her fries. "hey kid, i was gonna say something else..." Sans caught Monika's attention again. "but i forgot." Then he left.
"He's nice." Monika said, snacking on her fries.
"Yeah." Player agreed, still smiling at her.
"What's so funny?" She asked him.
"Nothing dear." He replied, laying back and going back to coding. "Nothing at all."
Author's note: Genuinely sorry about taking so long. But we're back now, so please enjoy. Oh, and expect a surprise coming later this month maybe. I don't make promises I can't keep. Review time!
Remnant7:#plz don't t die... But thanks for your support. Unyne the Undying is very very hard. I'd rather fight Sephiroth again.
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Me: #I'm giggling evilly. No problem for the support, happy to give it! Undyne is my favorite character and Undyne the Undying is my favorite fight. I'd say good luck, but you've probably beaten her by now.
AliceCullen3: LOVE IT!
Me: LOVE YOU
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Jack54311: Wow, short chapter is short. Still a good chapter though. I guess with Yuri being a masochist, the usual draw a line via pen treatment would never work? I don't like that she still gets to cut, but I understand the logic. This is a way to hopefully wean her off of cutting. As she said, she has tried to stop before. It's an addiction, and addictions can be hard to break.
Why do I get the feeling that Chara will be controlling or replacing the mc? I'm calling it now. That bit about Frisk sounding like Toriel was great, it made me smile a little. I'm loving your version of Frisk, especially the nod to how flirtatious she could be. Squirreling a bit, but I wonder if Frisk and Player/Monika will end up interacting at some point? Now I'm wondering if Gaster is somehow watching them? Gasp! What if WE are Gaster!? Nah, that's ridiculous. If anything, Gaster is the cameraman/editor with Toby, the Annoying Dog, as the director. We are the audience lol.
Me: Yeah I'm sorry for the short chapter and long, unplanned, hiatus. Moving on to the chapter itself, Yuri being a masochist means that no, drawing a line with a pen will not help. Frisk rapidly matured, but even with her newfound intelligence she really doesn't have any way to help her friend outside of helping her quit it. With hope, she can do it. ^_^
*Joker laughter* Believe what you want too..
I'm glad you like my version of Frisk, I did my best to capture what I think they would sound and act like as both a teen and a Doki, while also staying true to the original Frisk who is a pretty flirtatious child. Player, Frisk and Monika interacting? Nooooooo that'll never happen. Gaster watching them? Us being Gaster? Well, this fan theory is very..very interesting. If anything he's the director, Toby and Dan are the screenwriters and I'm the producer and distributor!
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Anon: Nice chapter, been enjoying the story so far. Keep up the great work!
Me: Glad you like it! I will keep it up!
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Ender123: Well i have a question who do you believe hired muffet mettaton or flowey
Me: Neither. Mettaton wouldn't have passed up the chance to kill Frisk and flee to the surface live on TV and Flowey needed us to reach his goal of breaking The Barrier. I bet it's Asgore. He didn't want to kill anyone, much less a child. So he hired Muffet to do it for him so that he wouldn't have to do it himself.
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