Okay, so I'm a HUGE fan of Undertale. Just now realized that it had a fandom to write in. So here you go, a little short I wrote after listening to an amazing soundtrack. I DO NOT OWN UNDERTALE, NOR THE SONG (That goes to Sans the Skelton on YouTube), NOR THE COVER IMAGE. The song is listed in the title. I hope you enjoy.
Snowdin was deadly quiet. Every monster had gone in their house and locked their doors, fearful of the human that killed so many of their kind. Only one stood, resolute in facing this monstrosity.
His name was Sans the Skeleton. Sans faced a human in the snow, knife bared, ready to kill. Sans smiled.
"hey, kid. can I ask you a question?" A nod.
"actually, two. can I ask two?" Another nod.
"did you kill the lady in the ruins?" A long pause, and then a single nod. A tear ran down the skeleton's eye. Sans nodded solemnly, his plastered smile seeming fake.
"and if you had the chance, would you murder every monster, no, every thing in the Underground and in the human world?" A step forward was his only response.
"ya know, kid, if my brother was facing you, he'd probably think you could be forgiven, that if he spared you and offered you friendship, you'd stop with everything. would you?" Another step forward. Sans looked to the sky.
"that's what I thought. i am not my brother. i know what you will do. and I will stop you." All the while, the plastered smile never wavered. The skeleton's eyes closed.
"papyrus, if you were an idiot and didn't run like I told you to, run. i don't want you to see this." No sound. Sans sighed in relief.
"papyrus, never lose your innocence. believe in good. don't let this human distract you, make you like me. you don't deserve it." Sans looked back at the human.
"now, let's begin." A flash, and then the human's… no, whatever it was… heart showed, red against a black backdrop. No music playing.
"it's a beautiful day outside. the sun is shining, birds are singing. on days like these, kids like you… Should be burning in hell." An eye glowed, ethereal in its quality. Sans' arms shot up, and the human hit a barrier. He saw bones rushing towards him, and jumped. Sans' arm shot right, and the human jumped again. Sans' arm shot left, and the human jumped. Various Gaster-Blasters shot pure white beams at the human multiple times, all dodged. Sans' smile never wavered.
"huh, always wondered why people never use their strongest attacks first."
"here we go." Music started. A swipe, and a dodge. An eye closed, another open.
"what? you think I'm gonna just stand there and take it? papyrus would hug me to death if i didn't live." A blue heart. Bones sent at varying speeds, all jumped through. Another swipe, and another dodge.
"our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting..." Three moving layers of bone, all over a sea of white. One layers struck, and the human recoiled, strength draining. Waiting until the last second, and then eating a piece of snow. Bones sent at various speeds. All dodged. Another swipe, another dodge.
"until suddenly, everything ends." Three layers of white, hard platforms, thin Gaster-Blasters firing at each layer. All avoided perfectly. Another swipe. Another dodge. Sans closed his eyes.
"heh heh heh…" He opened them, voids.
"that's your fault, isn't it?" A deadly obstacle course, jumping long and short, over a vast array of bones. All evaded. Another swipe, another dodge.
"you can't understand how this feels." More moving layers to dodge, a platform the only thing from death. All evaded. Another swipe. Another dodge. Eyes tilted in worry.
"knowing that one day, without any warning… it's all going to be reset." More bones sent at various speeds, all misses. Another swipe, another dodge.
"look. I gave up trying to go back a long time ago." Dodging bones in different directions, hopping between perfectly. Another swipe. Another dodge.
"and getting to the surface doesn't really appeal anymore, either." Another obstacle course, backwards this time, all but one dodged. The human waited, then ate. The moving platforms of bones arrive and the Gaster-Blasters fired. All dodged.
"cause even if we do… we'll just end up right back here, without any memory of it, right?" Bones sent at various speeds, all misses. Another swipe, another dodge.
"to be blunt… it makes it kind of hard to give my all." Layers of bones, a moving platform, no damage. Another swipe, another dodge.
"… or is that just a poor excuse for being lazy? Hell if i know." Bones coming from top and bottom at different directions. All dodged. Another swipe, another dodge.
"all i know is… seeing what comes next… i can't afford not to care anymore. Not if i want to see my brother again." More bones sent in various speeds, all avoided. Another swipe, another dodge.
"ugh… that being said… you, uh, really like swinging that thing around, huh? … listen. i know what you answered before, but… somewhere in there. i can feel it. there's a glimmer of a good person inside of you. the memory of someone who once wanted to do the right thing. someone who, in another time, might have even been… a friend? c'mon, buddy. do you remember me? please, if you're listening… let's forget all of this, ok?" A pause, and then the knife was thrown on the ground towards him. Sans' eyes widened in shock.
"… you're sparing me? finally. buddy. pal. i know how hard it must be… to make that choice. to go back on everything you've worked up to. I want you to know… i won't let it go to waste… c'mere, pal." The human walked towards Sans, and as Sans was about to embrace him, the human grabbed the knife and slashed Sans. No dodge. Sans' eyes widened.
"you… you…" A chuckle came from the skeleton.
"ya know, i thought that would actually work. heh. welp, i'm going to grillby's. maybe papyrus is there. see ya." with that, Sans walked out of sight, and then a vanishing sound was heard. The human grew stronger.
All the while, a tall skeleton, red cape pressed against his backside, watched in horror as his brother died before him.
It continued, and Papyrus watched all of it. Mettaton, Muffet, any monster that human came across, destroyed.
Even Undyne. Boisterous, violent, and protective of all monsters in the underground. His mentor Undyne.
Dead. Papyrus's sadness only grew, until he found himself in the corridor before Asgore's throne. He turned around, and the human was right behind him. Smiling. Gleeful for what it has done. Papyrus' tears drew a blue line down his face.
"HUMAN. PLEASE DO NOT COME ANY FURTHER." A step.
"HUMAN. PLEASE PERSIST FROM DOING THIS. WHAT USE IS IT ANY MORE?" Another step. Papyrus started feeling an unknown emotion. It made him want to punch this miserable little thing until it bled out on the floor below. Papyrus recognized it. After all, his brother talked about it when he saw the human, knife out and bloodied, emerge from the door that told jokes in a woman's voice. It was rage, and determination to see this human die.
"HUMAN. IF YOU DO NOT STOP NOW, I WILL BE FORCED TO HURT YOU. DO YOU WANT THIS?" Another step. Papyrus' rage was building.
"HUMAN. IF YOU TAKE ANOTHER STEP… YOU WILL REGRET IT." Another step, the last towards Papyrus.
"VERY WELL. YOU WERE WARNED." A flash, and then the human's heart showed red, in front of a black backdrop. No music.
"HUMAN. YOU WERE GIVEN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE, TO BE LOVED. YOU REFUSED ALL OF THEM. MY BROTHER SANS WAS ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. YOU KILLED HIM. I DO NOT THINK YOU DESERVE ANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES." Papyrus reached his right hand out, and it went through a hole, a gateway to another realm, a space-tear, that wasn't there before. He pulled out a long staff made of bone.
"MY EXPERIENCE WITHOUT SANS TAUGHT ME A FEW THINGS. I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW THEM TO YOU. FOR INSTANCE, LIKE MY BROTHER COULD MANIPULATE TIME AND SPACE, I CAN MANIPULATE SPACE AS WELL. I CALL THEM SPACE-TEARS." Suddenly, the staff extended, and the tip went through a tear in reality. It opened next to the human's heart, and the human barely moved out of the way in time. The staff kept extending, and it entered another hole. The next hole appeared above the human's heart, shooting more of the staff at it. The human almost got hit, but moved out of the staff's way at the last second, and his eyes narrowed. There was less space to dodge now, as the staff had not yet disappeared. The staff went through another hole. It came out, yet again next to the heart, and the human was almost hit. The staff shortened in an instant, and in the next Papyrus unleashed a flurry of swings, each going through a space-tear, each going in a random direction. The swings would turn up, down, left, right, diagonal, it did not matter which way he swung, the space-tear would make it a different human barely managed to move out of the way After an intense bout of avoiding Papyrus' attacks, the skeleton stops. And music starts.
(Disbelief – Papyrus' Genocide Route Theme)
Papyrus no longer believes in you.
The human swipes, and a space-tear directs his knife away from Papyrus.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL ME, LIKE YOU KILLED ALL OTHERS. NO. I AM PAPYRUS, HEAD ROYAL GUARD OF ASGORE DREEMUR. IT WOULD BE A DISGRACE IF I ALLOWED MYSELF TO BE DEFEATED BY THE LIKES OF YOU." Papyrus' right eye flashed an ethereal shade of yellow and blue, and the human's heart turned blue. Walls of bone appeared on both sides, constricting the human's movement, as various space-tears opened in interval to shoot out bones at the heart from various directions. The human was jumping around, trying his best to dodge every bone, but failed several times. He did not feel any draining, however. A smile passed along the human's lips.
You are glad Papyrus learned the way of the world.
He swiped again, the result same as the last.
"I WAS FOOLISH, TO THINK PEOPLE LIKE YOU COULD EVER CHANGE, EVER BE NICE. IF I WAS THERE INSTEAD OF SANS, I WOULD HAVE DIED FOOLISHLY, CLINGING TO THE IDEA THAT YOU WOULD HAVE EVENTUALLY CHANGED." This time, there were several platforms of bones, but space-tears shot out spinning bones on the level the heart was on, and those bones boomeranged back to the hole they came from. They came both from the sides and from the top and bottom, depending on where the human was, and for all the human's dodging and moving between floors, it almost caught the human several times.
You feel your sins coming at you from every direction.
The human swiped, and Papyrus deflected it away again.
"WHY DO YOU FIGHT? WHY DO YOU MURDER EVERYONE? WHY DID YOU MURDER MY FRIENDS, MY MENTOR… MY BROTHER. DO YOU EVEN HAVE A REASON?" A space-tear sends an enormous, orange spinning bone, the size of the space the human could move in, and the human's heart moved towards it. Almost immediately and with no more than a flash of blue in Papyrus' eye and a strange sound, the spinning bone turned blue. The human hastily stood still, and the bone passed through him. However, it boomeranged back, and Papyrus changed the color to orange and then, as it was about to hit the human, changed it back to blue. The human could not stop in time, and was struck. The human was starting to become fatigued.
You feel the spirits of every monster working with Papyrus to destroy you.
The human attacked Papyrus, and a space-tear redirected his weapon.
"DO YOU DO IT, JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN?" The heart was red again. Two space-tears appear next to the heart, and the human quickly moved diagonal to another space. Two long bones spearhead into the area where the heart used to be. The bones still continued, and two more space-tears opened up and spearheaded the bones at the heart. The human moved out of the bones' path, and a third set of space-tears appeared. The bones protruded again, but the first set was sliding away, into the hole. Another set appeared, and another, and for all of the human's efforts, the human was struck again.
Papyrus is visibly angry.
The human goes to eat something, but realizes he has no food. He attacks and is deflected.
"DO YOU FEEL THAT IS RIGHT? THAT IT IS JUST?" A circle of orange bones forms around his heart, closing in, making that circle ever smaller at an extremely quick pace, and the human moves through them. Almost immediately afterwards, a circle of blue appears, and the human stands still. There is an orange and a blue again, and the human is just about to move through the last orange only to stop as Papyrus changed it to blue.
You feel annoyance that Papyrus is still alive.
The human attacks again, getting annoyed at Papyrus' repeated redirecting of his attacks.
"OR DO YOU NOT FEEL AT ALL?" Papyrus' left eye flashed that ethereal glow again, and his staff extended in both directions, space-tears opening up next to the human's heart. The human barely dodged, and was hit when he dodged the second pair only to be hit by the third.
You feel the weight of the entire world on your body.
The human attacked, blow deflected.
"IF THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE, THEN YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE. I, PAPYRUS, WILL END YOU REIGN OF BLOODSHED!" The platforms appeared again, but a giant bone spearheading the floor the heart was on but a moment before appeared, in addition to the various spinning bones that boomeranged as they reached the boundary. The human dodged, weaved, and jumped, but was hit, and barely avoided death multiple times.
Papyrus is looking upon you with scorn.
The human attacked, feeling a sense of futility as he swiped at Papyrus.
"BUT DO NOT MISTAKE ME, HUMAN. I AM NOT DOING THIS FOR GLORY. I AM NOT DOING THIS BECAUSE I AM HEAD ROYAL KNIGHT OF ASGORE. I AM DOING THIS FOR MY FRIENDS. I AM DOING THIS FOR SANS. I AM DOING IT SO NO MORE MONSTERS HAVE TO GO THROUGH MY TRIALS, MY CHALLENGES. I AM DOING THIS SO THE WORLD CAN BE AT PEACE. AND TO DO THAT, I WILL END YOU, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!" Colored bones, height as tall as the boundary, shot out of space-tears on the sides from every direction, blue and orange, and the human was struck again and again. He felt that if he got hit one more time, he would die.
Papyrus is staring at you with determination.
The human attacked, desperately trying to hit Papyrus. He failed.
"HUMAN, I DO NOT SEE WHY THIS SHOULD GO ON ANY LONGER. I WILL PUT MY ALL INTO THIS NEXT ATTACK. IF YOU GIVE UP NOW, I SHALL MAKE YOUR DEATH A QUICK, PAINLESS ONE." Papyrus waited, but the human did not respond. Papyrus nodded.
"VERY WELL. I WILL RESPECT THIS DECISION. DO NOT EXPECT ME TO OFFER THAT AGAIN." Suddenly, the human was dodging colored bones, changing to Papyrus' will, then he was dodging and jumping between floors of bone in an effort to dodge all of the boomerangs flying through, then he was moving or stopping as circles of bone circled around him. He dodged pair after pair of bones piercing through space-tears, and he almost died as he dodged the final pair.
Papyrus looks tired.
The human grinned, and lunged with the knife at Papyrus-
-only to be hit in the back with a bone.
"YOU LIED TO MY BROTHER, AND HE DIED BECAUSE OF THAT. WHY SHOULD I HAVE TOLD THE TRUTH TO YOU?" Those were the last words the human heard as he collapsed onto the ground.
Papyrus looked at the corpse of the human, dead at last. The lone skeleton wandered back to Asgore, who greeted him with a smile that seemed joyous and sad at the same time.
"Hello, Papyrus. I assume the human is…" Papyrus nodded.
"Yes, Asgore. It is done."
Alright, so please review and follow if you like this. That way, if it's good, people will find this after the Undertale fandom becomes big. Um, PMDF Ch 10 is still in the works, although that nasty little cliffhanger has been resolved. See you next update!
