Chapter 7
And so they sat in that cell until the next day rolled around the corner. They were all sitting on the floor. Finally Stayne comes with a creepy smile at the cell.
"Good morning my lunatics...and my favorite toy~~" Frisk gets up and smiles at him.
"Stayneee~~ What a PLEASURE to see you..." She says with a smile. Stayne was stunned at how beautiful she looked smiling...until she spat on his shoes and smirked. He scrunched his nose up in disgust as the other three in the cell started laughing.
"SHUT UP!! tsk...Get them out of there and set for the decapitation!! Bloody whore....." He grumbles as he leaves them alone. Sans smiles michevously behind her back. Now that's his girl, alright.
"What a bummer...they're all 'roud the bend..." Says one of the Knights escorting them. Frisk scoffed and looked at the three skeletons behind her. They were so tense and scared...she needed to do something about that.
"If only it would have been the first time i was cuffed and told im boonkers..." The other three seemed to relax at her overly confident nature. In reality? she was scared out of her mind...The Hatter. Ches, The skeleton alchemist and herself walk toward the executioner with their heads down. The Mouse, Mk and the White Rabbit blend in with the crowd. The Queen and Stayne watch from a balcony.
The Hatter and Dormouse stand on the platform. The Hatter steps forward, pushing Frisk behind him. The Executioner attempts to take off his hat. He mumbles.
"i would like to keep that on.."
"Suit yourself. As long as I can get at your neck." Frisk norrows her eyes at the Executioner. Dumbass...Didn't even notice a thing...
"I’ll be right behind you..." Frisk says with fake sadness in her voice. Asriel coveres his and Mk's eyes.
"Ohh...i can't watch this..I-it's too much!!!" The Executioner raises his sword. All is quiet. The sword comes down. But the accused’s body disappears. The Queen and Stayne gasp. The sword hits the stone, jarring the executioner. The Mouse stares in disbelief.
"..it's gone..."
"Oh he was such a nice fellow--i..wait what did you say?" Asriel asked as he and Mk both looked. Mk jumped up.
"Hell yeah!! Go Papyrus!!" The Rabbit looks up to see the floating hat with no body attached.
"I can’t behead nobody if there’s no body!" Frisk snickers as the hat lays on her head and Ches stops being invisible. The other Ches becomes smoke and Gaster sighs in relief.
"so much magic...sheesh.." He says as he wipes off the sweat.
"Chess, you dog!" Mk yells. He winks at him then smiles at Frisk. They hear the Hatters tell-tale laughter. He’s standing on a balustrade above the balcony where the Queen and her right hand man are standing alongside the Courtiers.
"MAJESTY..I DO BELIEVE YOUR COURTIERS ARE PLAYING YOU FOR A FOOL!!" He tugs on Lady Long Ear’s ear. It comes off in his hand. Long Ears screams. The Hatter holds the long dangling ear up. Chara gasps.
"I-I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE YOUR MAJESTY!! LOOK!!" She grabs Big Nose Woman’s nose and pulls. It comes off revealing her real nose beneath.
"A counterfeit nose! You should be ashamed!" Says the big belly man.
"Me?! What about that big belly you’re so proud of?!!" She pulls up his shirt to reveal his fake belly. Frisk slams her binds into the executioner's sword and they snap. She quickly dashes to the side and body slams the monster holding The Vorpal sword. She jumpes on his head and on the roof of a smaller corridor connection two towers.
"Liars! Cheats! Falsifiers! Off with their heads!" The Queen screams. Frisk laughs as Papyrus comes down and she gives him his hat. She points the sword at Chara.
"To the abused and enslaved of the Red Queen’s court, stand up and fight! Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid!" Different monsters looked at each-other before they chantted as well.
"Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid!" Frisk smiles in triumph but suddenly the woman screams.
"RELEASE THE JUBJUB BIRD!!" Another beast?! Damn it!! However as the bird was hurling towards them they heard a very very well known scream.
"NAGHHHH!! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET DOODOO BIRD FOR KIDNAPPING MY DAMN WIFE!!" There was Undyne, standing next to a yellow lizard monster smiling and next to her was Mettaton.
"OH DARLING~~ THIS IS TOTALLY A FRONT PAGE~~" Mk, Asriel, Hatter, Ches, Mk, Undyne, just all of them gather at the gates as they are going to escape the troops of cards that are coming for them. Suddenly Frisk get's an idea.
"DO YOU TRUST ME SANS??" He nods as they were all running.
"GOOD....THEN RUN TOWARDS THE GATE!!" He looks dumbfound as she starts running towards the stables.
"FRISK?? FRISK!! GAHH!! THAT WOMAN!!" He teleports next to her as she opens the door. He shudders when he sees the beast emerging from it's inside.
"Hi bud...we need your help...you will get your freedom!!" The Bandersnatch lowers his head as she jumps on. Sans takes a step back. She rolls her eyes and pulls him on.
"Knock em dead, Bandersnatch. HIYA!!!" The beast lunches at the troops and Frisk uses the hairs of the beast to guide it, just like how she would ride a horse without a saddle when she was little. Frisk sees that the troops still didn't make it across the draw-bridge like them. She looks at the wheel holding it down.
"UNDYNE!! THROW A SPEAR AT THAT WHEEL RIGHT THERE!!" Frisk says as she points to the wheel. Undyne gives her a toothy grin.
"ON IT!!" The wheel snaps as the spear hits it and at a formidable speed the bridge raises taking down what was left of the troops. They all ran and when they got far enough they all cheered.
"WE DID IT, FRISK!! YOUR PLAN WORKED!!!" Frisk smiled as she saw all the friends she made down here were all together and finally safe. Frisk smiles and then feels some bone-y hands hug her.
"listen sweetheart...next time you pull a move like that..DON'T. jesus christ you almost gave me a heart attack..." Frisk smiled as she hugged the skeleton back. Undyne however was in cloud nine as she was hugging her wife and twirling her around. Mk and Napstablook were both hugging Papyrus and Mettaton, Asriel and Gaster were talking. They all looked so happy. She felt a bit of pain in her arm but she ignored it for now. It was bound to fade sooner..it must have been from the hard squeeze.
"Next stop? The White castle."
"Tori..are you sure they are coming?" Asked the King as he was waiting, while his wife was looking through a spy-glass.
"Shush Asgore!! We shall wait and see...OH LOOK!! HERE THEY ARE!! AND THAT'S FRISK!!" Asgore scrambled on his feet as he took the spy-glass and looked at all of them. He almost dropped it when he saw....
"ASRIEL!!" The woman took the spy-glass again and almost jumped. She put a hand over her chest.
"OH MY BABY!! MY SWEET CHILD!!" The two ran down the stairs as fast as they could to greet the new-comers. When Asriel, The white Queen and The King locked eyes the woman burst into tears.
"ASRIEL!! OH MY CHILD!!" Frisk looked as the three goat monsters hugged and she fell off the beast she was riding.
"Child?!" Sans laughed at her. She frowned and pulled him off as well. He fell face first in the dirt. The Queen looked at Frisk and smiled.
"Hello, my child. I am Toiel Dreemurr, The White Queen and this is my husband, Asgore Dreemurr. It's a pleasure to see you, Frisk." Frisk got up and brushed the dust off of her dress and did a bow.
"The pleasure is all mine." The queen smiled. The King came to her and patted her shoulder.
"Thank you for saving our friends and family... we were growing quite desperate..and when we heard our friends were all caught we got so worried." They all go inside the castle. The White Queen’s castle is light and airy in contrast to the oppression of her sister’s. The white knight's suit of armor stands in a prominent position. Alice bows and offers her the Vorpal sword. The White Queen nods her thanks. She places the Sword in the hand of the standing suit of silver armor.
"The Vorpal Sword is home again. The armor is complete. Now all we need is a champion." Toriel said clasping her hands together. She looks at Frisk significantly. Frisk drops her eyes. She couldn't do it...she would let everyone down....she couldn't. She took a step back as everyone was looking at her. Why were they all looking at her? Turn away damn it...Suddenly the memories of the proposal flashed before her eyes and she took another step back. Sans looks at her confused.
"come on frisk...it's yours...right?" Frisk wanted to shake her head. The responsability was too big...she couldn't do it. She would let everyone down...she couldn't...The pain in her arm increased. She looked at the Queen and King, standing next to their son.
"I..i'm sorry..i need a moment..." She backed away some more and ran. Sans looked at her in surprise and then at the goat monsters. He sighed. Undyne however, seemed quite mad.
"THE HELL IS THAT BRAT DOING?! I'M GOING AFTER HER!!" Gaster raised a hand at the Blood Hunter.
"I think i should go!" Gaster says but Papyrus steps in.
"MAYBE I SHOULD GO!! I SHALL CHEER HER UP WITH SOME OF MY MAGNIFICENT TEA!! THEY ALWAYS SAY TIME HAS IT'S WAYS OF FIXING THINGS..EVEN IF FOR ME AT LEAST, HE WAS QUITE THE PRICK!!" Alphys looked at the taller skeleton.
"I-i would like to try to talk to her..i-if that isn't a problem.." Mettaton immediately stepped up.
"NONSENSE DARLING! I AM THE ONE SHE SHOULD TALK TO~ AFTER ALL THIS IS A GOOD STORY!!" Toriel frowned.
"Maybe i should go...she is only a child right??" Asgore huffed.
"She's a young adult Tori..." Suddenly Asriel noticed something.
"uhh...Where's Ches..?" He asks. They all look around only to notice Sans was quicker than all of them. He already went after the human. Mk was confused.
"When did he leave!?" Napstablook smiled a bit.
"...if you don't mind me saying...he always had a special bond with her.....or maybe i am wrong....sorry...." Toriel looked shocked at Mouse then smiled lovingly.
"You are right, Mouse. He always had..." And so they all waited. Sans searched and searched the castle but it was like she dissapeared. He was starting to grow worried.
"damn it, ches...get it together...where would she be?! she likes flowers...flowers....BINGO! BALCONY!!" He didn't wait another second as he teleported at the door of the balcony over the garden of flowers. There she was, Frisk over the marble railing looking at the garden in the moon-light. They spent the whole day traveling to the Ruins. Frisk was gently carrasing a flower's petals. Sans shoved his fists in his pockets.
"heya there, sweetheart. a piece of gold for yer thoughts...?" Frisk's eyes widened as she turned around to look at the cat skeleton.
"I’m so happy to see you are ok after all of that... I thought they were going to..."
"so did i. but they didn’t...here i am...still in one piece...and i’m rather glad about that now that i’m seeing you again normally...i would have regretted not seeing you again...especially now that you’re the proper size...it’s a good size...just right, in fact...a right proper frisk size..."Sans flushed as Frisk smiles and giggles a bit before she looks away, with a sad look.
"i....i'm sorry...i just can't do it...didn't you all establish already i am not that Frisk..?" Sans scoffed.
"well at first you were not hardly frisk. now? you are almost frisk..." Frisk smiled as they both sat down on the balcony looking at the moon.
"Even so, I couldn’t slay the Jabberwocky if my life depended on it..." Sans chuckled.
"it will so i suggest you try to do that." Frisk frowned even more. Ok that was a super dumb move...what the fuck were you thinking?!
"Why don’t you slay the Jabberwocky yourself? You must have the power...all of you are so powerful...I'm just..me.." Frisk says. Sans looks at her confused.
"and it's bad being yourself??" Frisk put her arms over her head.
"THAT'S THE PROBLEM I AM NOT MYSELF!! I... i don't know how to go back to being myself...that plan just came out of nowhere...i..i'm lost...i'm trapped. I want to show emotions..to be that kid that used to ride horses without a saddle and climb every tree... That knew how to fight and....that had a loving father....damn it, that asylum really messed me up, didn't it...?" Sans frowned as his ever-lasting grin wavered a bit.
"the hell are you saying?? you just got all of us out of that damned place? you are as you as possible...you are as much of you as possible.." Frisk norrowed her eyes.
"How do you all know how me i am? How do you know how i was..?" Sans scretched his skull.
"errr...that's a bit more complicated...do you-- frisk..?" Sans asks cocerned as he starts seeing just how tired she looks. She's hot and sweaty like she has a huge fever.
"frisk..? shit shit shit i forgot about the-- hold on luv let me see how your arm is doing, ok?" Frisk nods in pain as she feels her head is throbbing. He takes off the bind and sees just how infected the arm is.
"oh god...shit i forgot the bandersnatch has poisonous claws and the fact it's infected as well...oh god frisk...i told you we shoul have taken care of it..damn it hold on for me ok?" Frisk nods but she can bearly hear him as she's starting to lose conciousness.
"frisk? frisk!?! damn it frisk!! stay awake!!! come on you've gotten so far, don't give up now!! please!!" He is desperate to help her, but he can't. If he goes to get the Queen without keepin gher concious it might be too late. He can't teleport with her. He already used a lot of his energy. Suddenly he sees the same beast that gave Frisk the wound coming closer. He norrows his eyes.
"you touch her again and i am taking that eye of yours back you piece of sh--" But the Bandersnatch doesn't listen as he gets closer and starts licking her wound. Frisk sighs in relief at the soothing tongue. Sans watches with widened sockets as the wound start deswolloing and her fever goes down a bit. Ches sighs in relief as his ears are down and his tail wags from one side to the other. The beast looks at her with sad eyes.
"thanks i guess....but this is still your fault.." He says norrowing his sockets at the beast and he nods, leaving the two. Sans looks at her and traces her cheek with his thumb then he looks away flushing.
"damn it....im such a moron aren't i..?" However in Frisk's head something else was happening. Memories were coming, flashing back.
Laughter. She was laughing with her stranger friends. Two skeletons, a mouse ghost, a goat monster,another human, a robot, a lizard and a fish. They were all playing but sometimes it would be only her and her best friend, the cat skeleton. The others would always try to get them to be alone like they would kiss or something. The Underground or Wonderland, as Frisk liked to call it, was her favorite place and she wished it could be her home. She was around 16 when her father left for that expedition. Sans was the first to find out as she came crying through Snowdin.
"heyaaaa frisk-- oh god!! what's wrong?!" Sans asked, worried.
"He left for another god damn expedition and mom didn't let me say bye.." Sans came down from where he was floating and pulled her into a hug. He smelled like tea and cookies.
"awww buttercup...don't cry ok? he will come back." Frisk flushed at the sudden hug but gave in anyways.
"HEY BRAT ARE YOU HE-- oh. my. GOD!! Yes thank you god!! They are finally a couple!!" They both broke the hug.
"WHAT THE HELL UNDYNE!??!" They both screamed as the fish monster ran to tell the others.
"get her?" Frisk asked at the skeleton. He smirked.
"get her...and make her regret.." They both started laughing as they ran after the fish-monster who was now pleading and beggin gfor forgiveness.
"do you even remember the first time you came down here?" he asked as they were both laying in the field of echo-flowers in Watterfalls. Frisk laughed.
"When we both almost pissed ourselves bacuse we didn't know what the hell we were or who we were??" Sans snorted.
"i tried going invisible and my tail was still visisble..." Frisk then started laughing even louder.
"aw man we scared Papy so badly that day...he actually thought i was a goblin from one of his stories..."
"guilty.." Their fingers intertwined as they were looking up.
"i wish i didn't have to go back in the morning in my world...." Sans sighs and closes his sockets.
"me too...bet you've got guys all over you there.." Frisk chuckled.
"is that your biggest concern?!? ok ok sit up lazy bones." He sat up with his hands up in surrender.
"ok ok i'm up what do yo--" But he didn't get to say anything as he felt her lips on his teeth. His sockets went blank. She got back, flushing.
"there...now you can say my first kiss was with you. is that good enough for you...?" Sans finally shook himself from the shock and his sockets softened as his smile grew in size.
"i couldn't wish for better..."
"I shall name you Red...because you love red..have red eyes and, to top it off...WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING ALL THIS TOMATO SAUCE WHAT THE FUU--"
"BUAHAHAH!! it's that the reason you name me red??"
"duhh. best nickname."
"oh come on buttercup. it sounds like a pet na--" Frisk crosses her arms and he realizes.
"ok i guess doll, sweetheart, baby, angel and buttercup are pet names....fine fine...ya win."
"YEAHHH!! now let's go!! Undyne wanted to show us a cool trick. She wants to impress Alph."
"again..? i hope it ends up like last time..if not i can always interfere--"
"RED NO!!"
"red yes~~"
"you are worse than mettaton."
"HOLD UP I AM BETTER THAN THAT TIN CAN!! HEY DON'T JUST WALK AWAY!! GET BACK HERE!!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE LEAVING?! TOMORROW?!"
"i don't have a choice...they..they are takin gme to the asylum. they think i'm mad because i can come here..." Sans sockets widened.
"t-they are throwing you in the loony-bin....that witch of a mother--" She puts a hand on his shoulder.
"please i just....i just want to be happy..one last time....before i go there..."
"will you try to not forget us..?" Frisk nods and hugs the sad skeleton in front of her.
"i will do all in my power..and if i ever do...remember me and remind me who i truly am...please..."
"will you tell the others..?" Frisk shakes her head.
"i trust you not to tell them...until i am gone..." Sans nods.
"i'm happy you trust me..."
"what are best friends for...?"
"dunno....you are my first.." Frisk snorts and draggs the skeleton after her.
"come on..i wanna ride on the Watterfals one last time." He laughs.
"of course you would..."
"damn it i can't...i can't let you go.." Sans says with tears in his eyes as the sun starts rising.
"It will be alright..i will come back i promise..."
"i love you..."
"i love you too..."
Frisk jolted awake as she found herself being held by Sans in his arms. His sockets widen and he pulls her in a hug. They were with their backs against the Bandersnatch. His fur was warm. She looked at her arm and she saw how it was comepletly healed apart from the scars. She looks at Sans and smiles.
"didn't i tell you not to pull that shit on me again?! jesus christ woman you're gonna give me a heart attack.."
"just like the first time we met? pretty sure you almost pissed yourself as much as me..red..." Sans sockets went blank.
"f-frisk..?" Frisk hummed.
"oh my god do you..remember..?" Frisk smiles.
"and if i say yes..? what would you d--" This time the hug wasn't a hug...it was a kiss. Frisk froze. Her cheeks started heating up and changing color. He burried his head in her neck.
"i missed you so...so much...." Frisk smiled.
"flower you today Sans..?" She asks making a dumb pun as she places a flowers on his head. He chuckles. But she felt something wet on her shoulder.
"Oh my god...YOU ARE CRYING!!" He jolts up and shields his eyes.
"n-no!!! i just have something in my sockets!!" Frisk smirks.
"tears..?"
"tears...." They both laugh and look up at the moon. Their fingers intertwine and Frisk can't help but feel like it's just like old times.
"guess that fever actually helped with something...apart from trying to take my girl away from me-- AH SHIT I MEAN--" Frisk starts laughing.
"your girl..?"
"d-didn't mean that!!" The groan from the Bandersnatch said otherwise.
"oh my god....shut uppppp!!" Frisk smiles.
"I like that...your girl....heh. Has a nice ring to it, don't you think??" Sans flushes. Frisk smiles.
"welp...now that i have my 'muchness' back...how about i starts training how to slain that damned dragon?" Sans sockets widened as his smile grew.
"i knew you could do it."
"ok ok...now let's get oout of here...it's colddddd..." Sans laughs.
"fine. come'ere."
And the two teleport away leaving the Bandersnatch with the memories of their conversation.
A conversation under the moonlight.