Pappy-Poo
Calming down some, Fay stretched her arms above her head. After hearing a small crack, Fay let out a relieved sigh. Sans said to head out incase Papyrus came back. So following the current prompt, Fay started walking off with Frisk leading the way. However, to no one's real surprise, Sans called out again to ask for a favor. Fay stopped walking and gave a sidelong glance down at Frisk. It was ultimately up to them. Frisk seemed happy to oblige the skeleton and tuned to hear him out.
"i was thinking... my brother's been kind of down lately... he's never seen a human before. and seeing you both might just make his day. don't worry, he's not dangerous. even if he tries to be. thanks a million. i'll be up ahead."
And without waiting for a response, Sans walked away, in the opposite direction no less. Giving a light laugh, Fay looked over to Frisk to see them smiling. They explained, in as few words as possible, that they wanted to play along. Fay happily agreed. The two once again started walking off when Fay thought of a few questions.
"You seem to like everyone here very much..."
Frisk looked over to Fay questioningly but nodded in confirmation. Smiling to herself, Fay hummed a bit before asking her other question.
"Are you going to save them? Free the monsters I mean?"
Frisk once again looked over to Fay, but this time with a hint of wariness. Fay sensed the unspoken question and gave a hollow laugh.
"I know about everything here. Maybe even more than you. I guess it's a side effect of swapping universes. I've managed to see quite a few timelines from beginning to end. That being said, I know about Chara, Flowey, and Asriel... I know about Gaster even... And the experiments... I know what Chara made you do..."
Hearing this, Frisk froze and stared at Fay in fear. Frowning, Fay shook her head.
"Oh, I don't blame you for anything! Not at all. Time travel corrodes even the best of intentions... It can be a maddening experience. But you managed to find your resolve, right? I just want to see a happy end. I'm here to help as much as I am able to get away with. I don't expect you to trust me Frisk. But please don't push me away... I won't tell anyone anything unless they meet certain criteria. And I won't tell anyone about what you did. That's your business and I have no right to tell others about it. Sorry I got all serious there. Didn't mean to dampen the mood. I just thought you should know. Let's get going. Papyrus and Sans are just up ahead. I wanna see the look on their faces when I cheat with all the puzzles~"
Still rather wary, Frisk nodded. They were nervous knowing that Fay knew of their violent past. But she had so easily forgiven them and even promised to keep it a secret. It made Frisk wonder what kind of things Fay had to do and experience before she made it here. Frisk would have to ask her sometime. The two marched onwards and came across the skelebros rather quickly. Papyrus seemed to be arguing with Sans when he noticed the humans. Actually he noticed the rock behind them first, but Sans quickly cleared things up. Papyrus gave a little victory talk before actually addressing the two.
"HUMANS! YOU SHALL NOT PASS THIS AREA! I,THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL STOP YOU!!! I WILL THEN CAPTURE YOU! YOU WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CAPITAL! THEN... THEN!!! I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S NEXT! IN ANY CASE. CONTINUE... ONLY IS YOU DARE!!! NYE HEH HEH HEH-"
Fay smiled throughout the whole monologue, but she didn't really listen. Actually, she started spacing out right after he introduced himself. Her distracted smile went unnoticed by Papyrus as he talked until running away. Frisk ended up having to poke Fay to get her attention. Raising a brow at her Frisk motioned towards Sans and the absent Papyrus. Fay blinked then turned to Sans, who was watching his brother walk off.
"well, that went well. don't sweat it kid. i'll keep an eyesocket out for ya both."
"Ooookay... Oh! Sans!"
"...what?"
Fay quickly scoops up Frisk into her arms and hold them above her head. Frisk make a little squeak of surprise and Sans just looked on in mild curiosity.
"From the day we arrive on the planet. And blinking, step into the sun. There's more to see than can ever be seen, More to do than can ever be done! All hail the hero of the monsters! Frisk will bring da fweedoom!"
As Fay finished her little speech/song, she made the sound of a cheering crowd. Frisk was completely embarrassed and hiding their face in their hands. Sans on the other hand, just had a completely straight face, before letting out a hiss of laughter. Shaking his head, he walked away wondering what the hell was wrong with that girl. He also wondered why she said that. It was a little creepy, like she was foreshadowing... But this wasn't some crappy fanfiction, so she was just crazy. With Sans gone from sight. Fay placed Frisk back on the ground and held back a fit of laughter. Frisk spun around and placed their hands on their hips. Narrowing their eyes, Frisk pouted.
"Why?"
"Why NOT!? Did you see his face?! Priceless~"
Shaking their head, Frisk spun around and started walking off. Fay quickly followed after with a dorky grin on her face. The two had a few run-ins with monsters. Frisk "battled" them and quickly solved things peacefully. Fay on the other hand took no part in any of the so-called battles. It was almost as if the monsters couldn't even see Fay. It made Frisk a little worried. As they passed a knife wielding dog, Frisk turned to Fay.
"Why don't they notice you?"
"Hmm? Oh, they probably couldn't even see me. I find I'm very good at not being noticed. Another side effect I suppose? It comes quite in handy. Why?"
"Creepy..."
"Heh, I guess... But you get used to it. It's not like I can't talk to them though. I just have to make them notice me first~"
Frisk nodded, kind of understanding what Fay meant. She just kept surprising them with odd abilities. Frisk was willing to bet that anything strange about her, she was going to pin as side effects of dimension jumping. Not that Frisk minded. She probably couldn't explain it herself. The two continued to walk until they found themselves approaching Sans again. Fay smiled and waved to the skeleton, managing to catch his attention. Walking up to their boney friend, Fay shifted from foot to foot.
"hey, here's something important to remember."
Frisk nodded and listened politely while Sans explained about blue attacks. He said an easy way to remember them is to think of a blue stop sign. At this Fay frowned.
"Wouldn't it just be easier to "freeze"? If you see blue, freeze... Cause blue reminds me of the cold... So much easier than mixing up stop sign colors..."
"if that's how you wanna see it, then that's snow problem at all"
"Yeah I think it's much easi-... Really?"
"what, come on Fairy. don't give me the cold shoulder!"
Hiding her face in her hands, Fay starts laughing at the horrible puns.
"Ohmyfuckinggod... Sans... This is why you're everyone's favorite..."
"everyone's favorite?"
"Uh... Yeah!... Favorite comedian! Right Frisk? Common, back me up on this one!"
Fay gave a nervous smile as she quickly tried to make something up. There was no way she could tell Sans that he had a whole fan base waiting to get him in the bone zone. Looking down pleadingly at Frisk, she was visibly nervous. Frisk looked up at Fay then slowly started nodding their head in agreement. Smiling now, Fay looked back to Sans.
"SEE?! You're just that punny! Heh... Oh! Lookie dat! We better get going! Wouldn't want to have Frisk here catch a cold from the... cold... Yeah... BYE!"
Not giving Sans, or even Frisk a chance to say something, Fay quickly picked up the child and ran off. They soon reached ice, but instead of falling flat on her face, Fay just kind of slid across the ice epically. She continued to hold Frisk in her arms until they came to a cliff side. Oddly enough, no monsters attacked, or even took notice of the two while Frisk was being carried. A fact to file away in their mind. At the end of the cliff, Papyrus was scolding Sans... about sleeping... As Fay neared the skelebros, the finally took notice of the two newcomers. Fay shifted Frisk so that they were both more comfortable as Fay held them.
"OH-HO! THE HUMANS ARRIVE! IN ORDER TO STOP YOU... MY BROTHER AND I HAVE CREATED SOKME PUZZLES! I THINK YOU WILL FIND THIS ONE QUITE SHOCKING!!!"
Papyrus continued on his spiel about the invisible electricity maze and making bad jokes. When he finished, he dared Fay and Frisk to try the maze. Fay just rose a brow at the tall skeleton.
"Um... For one thing, even if we go back... We can't re-enter the ruins and just go away. And even if we could, there's no way back to the surface there... We're forced to go forwards... So... In a way this is cruel and unusual punishment towards a couple of children that fell down a hole and managed to not die from it..."
Sans and Papyrus just looked at Fay and Frisk silently for a moment, absorbing this fact. Sans raised a boney brow at Fay, while Papyrus looked completely baffled. He however quickly got over it.
"WELL SINCE YOU ARE HEALTHY AND WELL! IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS' JOB TO GREET YOU TO THE UNDERGROUND. BUT I STILL MUST DO MY JOB AND CAPUTRE YOU... SO-"
"And for another thing... We're supposed to be the ones holding the orb, right? You'll get hurt if we move forwards... Though that really is quite a design flaw on your part... If there was no one here, there would be no guarantee that a human would even pick up the orb... So the maze would be useless..."
Fay held a straight face as she explained this to Sans and Papyrus. They both just looked at her in shock then down at the ord. Realizing she was right, Papyrus grumbled to himself and looked to Sans for an explanation of any kind. Sans however was glaring daggers at Fay.
"How did you know about that?"
"Um... OOPS! I TRIPPED!"
Rather dramatically, Fay fell towards the maze and made a big show of regaining her not so lost balance. Of course, Papyrus was zapped. With both skeletons rather stunned now, Fay rolled her eyes.
"Okay, we have obviously solved this puzzle, thought not in the normal way... So put down the orb and let us cross... Please..."
Fay added the 'please' as an afterthought and smiled sassily at the skeleton brothers. Sans only narrowed his eyes more but Papyrus seemed to think of Fay's words.
"YOU! TALLER HUMAN! YOU ARE WELL VERSED WITH PUZZLES. YOU OBVIOUSLY TAKE GREAT JOY IN SOLVING THEM. ALMOST AS MUCH AS I! AND DESPITE BEING ENEMIES, YOU TRIED TO CORRECT MY MISTAKE! HOW CHIVALRIOUS! AS A SHOW OF RESPECT, I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, SHALL LET YOU AND THE SMALL HUMAN PASS. BUT DO NOT THINK YOU HAVE GOTTEN THE BEST OF ME! THERE ARE MORE CHALLENGING PUZZLES AHEAD! I AWAIT YOU HUMANS!"
Papyrus sauntered off to ready the next puzzle. Fay just smiled and shook her head. Still holding Frisk in her arms, Fay walked through the puzzle, in the correct manner I might add. Sans' suspicion grew, seeing Fay already knew the way through the maze. She walked up to him and put Frisk down. Now not only Sans was staring at Fay, but Frisk too.
"What?! He didn't put the orb down, and I didn't want to chance zapping Papyrus again!"
"Fay, no."
"AW! But Frisk! I already said I was going to cheat didn't I? Heh, I think I'm doing pretty well!"
Frisk gave an exasperated sigh and shook their head. Pulling at Fay's dress, Frisk pointed to a rather confused and upset Sans.
"Oh..."