Sonic blinked. The deep darkness of the thinly made tunnel disturbed him, in the sense of curiosity, of why were the pathways were so dark? So fruitlessly he tried blinking away the darkness, though if anything only made it more darker, somehow. He waved his gloved hands around the room reaching around for anything to touch or to feel, but nothingness and air was all his fingers met. Sonic quickened his pace with his steps getting a little impatient of walking around a thinly small and quite claustrophobic hallway, before he began to sprint out. In a matter of seconds with his tunnel vision beginning to recede Sonic saw the next room clearly. He squinted his eyes from the sudden embrace of light and waited for his eyes to adjust as he made his way toward the lady. Toriel was waiting for him patiently and she offered up a nice welcoming smile at his form. Sonic felt the bubbling feeling to smile back and so he did, goofily as it would be. While he made his way for Toriel, he checked out the sight of the room noticing how vastly different it already was going to be in sheer length. Although majestic and mysterious as the ruins were becoming to him, Sonic was starting to feel a sense of patterns inside already. Purple brick walls and ceilings, purple tiles purplish grey marbles, it was sort of underwhelming to him so as he trudged his pudgy little legs forward unto the grasp of the lady he hoped there would be more sights to see in this rather small place. Stopping just a few short feet from Toriel Sonic felt it being a comfortable enough distance and position from her he reasoned.

Now secretly the real reason was due to a little shyness in his part, not used to having someone to care for him in so long. though he was never willing to admit that, he had grown much, too much however without family. Family was a bizarre topic.

"I see you are finished with that room, my little child. I hope you are accustomed well now, for it will unfortunately be much harder from here on in." Toriel warned Sonic ending off the sentence with an air of sadness, her eyes dropped at the form of the little blue and red hedgehog, but in an instant she gleamed proudly at him." But not to worry my child! You have done far more than I could have anticipated you ever could have." She spoke with an air of joy and pride leaving the little blue hedgehog beaming and blushing at her compliments." However still when we are done with these puzzles I will be by your side from now on." She reassured with such seriousness and hope Sonic couldn't help but smile a little bit at that proclamation despite knowing well he surely wouldn't need it."Now we must not dilly dally no more, I still must treat you from your previous...Injuries." Sonic nodded instinctively taking a glance at the scratches and trails of dried up blood around his fur, feeling it best to show that he agreed whether the lady really wanted that or not. She smiled at the humbleness the child gratitude her with, none of the children she had met before hand had blessed her with such fine manners.

All the more reason unfortunately as she thought that she worried of his past, especially the wear he was occupying, only shoes and perhaps those gloves but that was that unfortunately. No pants, no shirt, absolutely nothing else. Toriel frowned inwardly as a sad sigh escaped her. While the gloom of the eventual question soured her soul she knew despite it all she'd have the answer eventually, hopefully in better circumstances. Still she masked her worry as she graced upon him a small smile and a hopeful look as she walked toward sonic reaching for one of his gloved hands and wrapped her fingers securely with his in a firm but cautious grip. Sonic looked up to her, though what he was thinking he didn't show, the lady before him with a smile and a slight nod walked them both to the sign that was standing beside her not just a moment before. The lady glanced down at him her smile never faltering the slightest before she adjusted her sight to the sign." Now the journey truly has begun." She whispered so softly and so weak all Sonic ever heard from her was her murmurs. He gave her a worried glance though she paid it no mind.

Sonic slumped slightly and turned toward the sign, squinting his eyes to read what he could, though it was not easy. The words seemed to have been almost eroded off from years of, well, just being there. The only readable words were"...Read the sign!" he raised his brow curiously.

"In order for you my child to make progress, you must and will need, to trigger several switches." The lady spoke almost monotonously silencing the quiet. Sonic jumped, not expecting the lady to speak out loud so suddenly. In a daze of curiousness he looked up to her with a brow raised, questioning. She glanced down at him her eyes shadowed with a bit of worry before she turned to face him." You do understand. Do you not?" She asked, a frown placed his mouth as he pondered what she meant. As far as Sonic could tell there weren't any switches around the room just him, the lady and the sign. Before he could ponder an answer she placed her finger and brushed it against his nose stopping him."Hush now dear, it is alright if you are unsure. Because as you can see.." She glanced her eyes beyond the sign and toward the wall in front of them. Following her eyes, sonic leaned over aside the sign now noticing a switch to the far right side of it as well as some others plastering the wall along the way. Sonic "ohhed" silently."..I have labelled the ones that you are in need to flip." she finished her smile hopeful, wanting to make sure he understood her completely. Sonic nodded, an unsurely smile graced him but nonetheless he hoped that was the answer she was looking for. Toriel nodded joyous. Then a thoughtful look crossed her face as she pondered and thought bringing her free hand to rub across her chin adding more to her thinking posture.

"Perhaps I shall make an exception for one, as an example for you to follow. Now come along little one!" She asked the blue hedgehog hurriedly, tugging against his arm carefully as she walked over and around the sign, sonic following closely behind in step with her as they both walked the violet path. She stopped suddenly but careful, however despite her caution he ended up smacking against her anyways. A gasp followed her as she quickly turned around and, well snorted at the blue hedgehog's bashfulness as he dared not look up to her eyes. 'Fine manners indeed.' She thought in a playful tone. Toriel rolled her eyes in an awkward manner as she brought her free hand to cough in a slight awkward tone. She too could not look at his eyes. Bringing sonic's attention she leaned slightly on top him and pointed toward the wall, her eyes flashing between the little hedgehog and the wall." As you can see.." Toriel gestured toward the wall".. The first switch is right here on this wall." Sonic nodded vigorously taking in the information. Toriel opened her mouth and spoke." Similarly to the room beforehand all you must do is simply pull down the lever. Like so." Toriel demonstrated as she gripped onto the lever and pulled. A grunt of metal encased the wall before with just a little extra effort the lever pulled down just like toriel explained.

"And just like that, my child, is all you must really need to do. Do you understand now?" Asked Toriel a now hopeful tone replaced her instructing one as she faced towards sonic her hand still never letting go of his. He nodded again vigorously though he stopped as a stinging red hot pain shot threw his throat, a face of uncomfort shone upon him. Using his free hand he rubbed the spot tenderly and watched, in an uncomfortable silence, a line of red on his glove. He swiped his glove against his fur hoping to rid of it. As he was too busy with his still stinging injuries he hadn't noticed toriel had already begun to move on without him until he felt his arm tug on away from him. Sonic yelped without as sound as he quickly began walking with toriel, his previous injuries all being forgotten. As sonic caught up with the lady his sights caught him in a expression of curiosity as instead of just there being another lever to just pull on there were two left one with a path leading up to it and another instead with no paths leading up to it and below it the floor was cracking. Sonic turned his sights toward toriel whose face remained with a smile. As before she stopped this time more..Carefully as she slowly stood to a stop, this time Sonic didn't crash right into her again.

Toriel chuckled lightly, keeping her laughter to herself, her reasons being mostly in embarrassment. She twirled around slowly, sonic still gripping her hand. She leaned forward slightly looking down at him and he looked up for her, he felt her hand trembling slightly as he still held on and looked toward their intertwined hands." Now, just like I have shown you, my child, there are two levers on that wall.." Sonic glanced at the wall noticing that there were two yet to be pulled down."..I want for you to do the same to one, for one lever shall be the key to solving this puzzle and the other shall not. Can you..Do you understand my little one?" Toriel asked unsurely and hesitantly not wanting her child to rush in without a clue. Her brows etched closely and frowned slightly as she gazed upon the little hedgehog, waiting for his answer. Sonic looked up at her eyes and gave her a nod not wanting to try his luck with his damaged throat. He turned and faced away from her and walked up to the wall his vision meeting with two levers one with a path leading up to it, and one not, while it would have been a little bit troubling for sonic to figure out which one he needed to pull, one lever was marked with arrows and lettering all directing that they should pull the lever. So using a bit of common sense he chose the lever to his left, the path leading up to it. Stopping a few feet away from the lever he stretched up to his toes seeing as his arm length would not reach it and, feeling his fingers just barely grasping the surface of the lever, he clutched the little nob on top the lever, his other hand gripping ontop his other, jumping up slightly and pulling down with as much force as possible with a grunt escaping his lungs.

The room they resided in shook violently in a span of seconds as the sharp needles behind toriel collapsed on themselves revealing another corridor to follow. In the moment that the quaking of the room commenced sonic's grip on the lever loosened in the surprise before his grip went out on him he fell shortly after and landed quite uncomfortably on his behind. The impact disturbing the clusters of dirt that had resided and rested the floor. A small ring of the dirt escaped the seconds after he landed. Sonic tensed immediately, his slouched form stood straight up as sharp pain exploded through his legs and in his chest. Sonic looked down sharply, though as he looked down there was no blood nor the foul odor of it. Well there was blood but it was old, and there was no new wet trails. Though as he tried feeling out anything that he could've torn, the sound of feet shuffling toward him interrupted his examination. Sonic turned to look toward the sound but before he could even blink he was carefully lifted from his stupor as the lady slid her large hands under sonic and held him in an embrace.

Sonic turned to look up at her. She looked down at him with a prideful smile oblivious to Sonic's internal pain." You have done very splendid indeed. I am proud of you my little one." Toriel cooed giving him a warm and needed embrace nuzzling his nose with hers affectionately. She stopped and rested his form in between her two arms." See! I told you that is all you really must need to do." She happily explained. Still looking down at him with pride shining her eyes she turned." Come now child, let us move on to the next room. It awaits us." With her thoughts out she begun making her way through the new corridor.

The corridor this time was far more shorter than the last one that Sonic had went through, which he was glad for. The corridor itself wasn't nearly as dark either so he could see where they were even going this time around. Though fortunately for him it was unneeded as the lady did the work going through. Soon before he even could think about it they passed through the corridor to find themselves in another room this time a wee bit more wider in width. Though what stood out to Sonic however was the seemingly innocent looking training dummy of sorts up just ahead of them. Almost seeming as if it was waiting for him, to sucker punch it that is. However to the confusion of the little blue hedgehog the lady of the ruins seemingly disregarded the dummy with a single glance before shrugging off and continuing down the path.

Sonic tugged on her vest lightly garnering the attention of Toriel who stopped to look down at sonic, her face was inquisitive and slowly harboring in worry." What is the matter my little one?" Toriel asked, patiently awaiting an answer, though not expecting a verbal one. Sonic stopped tugging at her vest and pointed his hand in the general direction of the training dummy that toriel was intending on leaving behind. She turned around curiously staring at the only other person in the room besides them two. She turned back to face sonic still cuddling nicely in her arms." You would like to know what the purpose of the training dummy is for, am I correct?" Toriel asked him in a questioning matter. Sonic nodded propping his head up enough to see the dummy just being a dummy.

"Very well then, I shall tell you. The training dummy is used when Humans fall down here. Monsters may attack them, out of fear of the unknown, or by mere accident. So I bring them here to train to defend themselves enough from harm. However since you are not a human but a monster like me there will be no need for the dummy. Which is why I had intended on leaving it like that." She explained memories of the children before bore into her eyes at their innocence and their love for her. She shook her head yielding away the memories from her." Come now child. Let us make haste." Toriel ushered Sonic as she walked away from the lonely little dummy.

Sonic peered down the silhouette of it as they left.

It never moved. It never said anything, it was probably not even alive, and yet to his utter and complete confusion, it frowned. Almost seemingly offended for being ignored.

Sonic shifted, his form settling in Toriel's arms more fittingly. He turned his vision back forward, the passage ending before he knew it. Toriel stopped, Sonic looked up from her arms and processed what the small but wide room had to bring. the same purple brick walls met him though now he saw moss littered and scattered about around the corners of the rooms. Setting the room in a sight of a lost land. Tugging herself as she craned her neck to face the pink pathway lain before her Toriel pondered as she stared, her eyes glossed over for a moment. Gone long from the world, her red hue snapped back out of their reverie. She took a step to her right and continued from there passing by the room without another glance. Only the faint pattering of her footsteps was all the room had to offer. They passed by fairly shortly after as another passage greeted them though this time it had corners to turn around to.

As she continued walking forward, the sound of rushing distilled water became ever more evident and clear as she trekked further. Though in the midst of her calm yet tensed stroll she felt something squishy and slimy on her furred foot as she took her next step stopping her in her place. She Looked down almost immediately as she took a step back wondering what in the world did she step on. As she did a faint and angry ribbit yelped under her.

In the blistering snow carrying wind a small figure slowly made their way for something, deep deep in the dense and thick part of the forest that surrounded their little village, they moved surely and steadily never creeping off their path, never missing a beat of their step. It seemed as if they were on some self-fulfilling mission. Their thinly grey gloved hand reached out to grasp the branch of an unsuspecting tree and pushed themselves further just a bit more faster. The small figure reached out to grasp their hoodie covering their face and pulled down.

The small skeleton looked up. Sans hoisted his hands, he felt around his face til he found his eyes. He reached in the holes of his skull almost forcefully and pulled out just as strongly. Two large cylinders of ice popped from his eye sockets and flew a few feet away. He looked down at the two cylinders with a morbid curiosity.

He turned from them and faced behind himself looking down at the path he made.

"ok paps' now that we, or rather i actually, got back into the right track, we are here." Sans spoke out to an unseen figure. He stopped shortly thereafter in the middle of the path that they were walking towards. It seemed as if he were waiting almost expectant of someone to follow through with him. He trailed his little white orbs around the area. The trees that make up the infamous snowdin forest had succumbed and ended its expedition just before sans' form.

In the end of the path of trees there was a large clearing ahead of him wide and welcoming for campers and hikers. In a matter of moments the unseen figure emerged behind sans, their cape... scarf... thing... blowing freely and epicly against the breezing wind as they stopped sharply just behind sans' form. Their face was neutral and blank through the little journey with an air of curiosity flowing through and about him. Though finally stopping, Papyrus's expression melted in the air of curiosity that flowed through him. He looked to his left, his right, the ground, sans' ketchup bottle but nothing. He slid san's ketchup bottle back in his pockets.

"..ERM SANS. WHERE EXACTLY IS HERE?" Papyrus questioned provoking sans to turn his skull up to him.

"here." He answered simply, his grin neither faltering or widening. He turned from papyrus and walked toward a part of the area. Papyrus stopped and brought a hand toward his chin bone. He thought and thought as he tried for an indefinite amount of time to think about sans words in his empty skull for brains.

"HERE IS HERE? OH WAIT A MINUTE, OF COURSE IT IS! HOW COULD I BE AN IDIOT? HERE IS ALWAYS HERE!" Papyrus exclaimed, now seeing the world before his eyes in a new light. He turned for sans, however as he did he found in his place a plump of snow, not noticing sans leave until he saw his form fading slowly away. Realizing his stupor Papyrus battered his feet in surprise as he quickly sprinted toward sans's slowly fading form. Papyrus stopped just a few feet ahead of sans and briskly slowed his walking, waiting for sans to now instead catch up to him. In a moments notice he did, the shuffling of his slippers was quite evident and loud even in the heat of a windy storm. Papyrus looked down at sans with an unsettled look.

"BROTHER, YOU ARE QUIET TONIGHT! IS SOMETHING THE MATTER?" Papyrus asked with a concerned tone, his eyes lowered in uncertainty.

"nope nothin's wrong here bro. i jus' don't have much to say really." Sans answered, finally glancing up at papyrus briefly with an nonchalant shrug before he continued his path. Papyrus raised a lone bony finger to object, his mouth opened to retort against Sans. Though, nothing came out his teeth and no sound was produced in his nonexistent voicebox. His finger slid down to the rest as he sulked unhappily in the fact that sans truly was not much to say or talk about. Unless they should talk about the fact that papyrus himself has the only other option of breaking the sealed barrier they've all been trapped in for much too long. Though he couldn't bother to speak about it. Still, seeing an opportunity to speak he spoke continuing what little conversation they had.

"I SEE..." Papyrus mumbled softly. Looking around, he noticed something peculiar.

"HEY BROTHER HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE QUITE THE AMOUNT OF YELLOW FLOWERS HERE?" Papyrus asked curiously, looking around the land before them slowly transition into a field of flowers.

"yep i put them there." Sans proclaimed in an exasperate tone. He rubbed his skull gently, remembering some unpleasant hardships." let me tell ya it was not easy, the snow here just loves to uh give em an uncomfortable time you know, kill them off as they say, and for a long while it was nothin' but trial and error.. and dead flowers. Though miraculously i managed, and now they're growin by the thousands." "a feet that still surprises even me, sometimes." He mumbled softly, continuing his train of thought. He stood to his side awkwardly as he glanced at the rows of yellow flowers. Papyrus stopped momentarily to gather his bearings as his eyes wandered around rather impressed at the size and girth of the production of yellow flowers.

"WOWIE, SANS WHAT IS THE OCCASION? A CELEBRATION? A SURPRISE PARTY? OR TO COMMEMORATE OUR ANNIVERSARY IN ARRIVING IN SNOWDIN." Papyrus asked genuinely curious as he caught up quickly with sans. Sans stopped and regarding him briefly. His white pinpricks dashed up to his skull as he pondered the question. After a brief moment he blinked and rolled his eyes back at papyrus.

"for a good friend, is all." He said with an air of ambiguity. Papyrus disregarded the tone of his voice.

"WOWIE THAT IS QUITE ADMIRABLE OF YOU SANS! I NEVER EVEN KNEW YOU HAD WHAT IT TAKES TO RAISE A GARDEN. LET ALONE GOODWILL FROM YOUR NONEXISTENT HEART! AND THAT'S COMING FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS!"

"gee. thanks paps." Sans sounded amused.

"YOU ARE WELCOME DEAR BROTHER." Papyrus returned.

"YOU KNOW, ODDLY ENOUGH BROTHER..SEEING AS IT FITS OUR CURRENT PREDICAMENT..I HAD DREAMED OF DAYS WHERE YOU'D FINALLY STOP TRYING KNOCK KNOCK JOKES ON MY FRONT DOOR EVERY OPPORTUNITY YOU HAD AND TO ME IT WAS A BLESSING TO SEE YOU NOT SHAMBLING ABOUT WITH THOSE INDIFFERENT GRUMBLES ABOUT WHO KNOWS WHAT..BUT IN THESE TIMES I'D RATHER PREFER YOUR HORRID JOKES RATHER THAN THIS OBNOXIOUS SILENCE. YOU KNOW?"

"well, now i do know." Sans remarked a chuckle escaped him.

"SANS, YOU DO REALIZE I WAS ASKING A RHETORICAL QUESTION, RIGHT?"

"yup."

"SO WHY DID YOU-"

"hey paps."

"WHAT?"

"we're here. like actually here this time." Sans stated, the sound of the snow crunched up by his steps halted, he slowed his steps to a stop and drew a breath. His skull peered down to the ground almost expectantly.

Sans exhaled, letting go the breath he held onto uneasily. His pinpricks for eyes dimmed slightly almost as if he was mourning. Papyrus stopped shortly after him looking around the area, watching around curiously as he tried to no avail to find the source of sans' silence. Looking toward sans for an explanation for his silence, all he found was the dim glow of his eyes. He was half expecting something to jump at them. Though as Papyrus turned around his premonition and his tense curiosity was replaced in an awkward silence as he saw what sans was referring to. Sans got up closer and leaned down on a knee, his thinly pale hand whisked out of the pocket that he had rested them in and reached out to grab ahold of it. He brushed off the snow that had been clattering on top of the stone. Nicely woven details and markings appeared as he cleaned off the snow.

Just below the intricately made markings on top of the stone, wording and lettering were present just below them.

"i'd.. uh, like for you to meet my good friend, frisk."

So my readers guess who's back! Actually never mind don't guess the chapter itself is pretty self explanatory, I suppose.

Oh and sorry for making this chapter so short but I felt as if I cannot make you wait anylonger for another chapter, even if it is short and sort of half baked.

Anyways to answer the burning question that's been lingering in your minds for quite a while, and this is me putting it bluntly. I sort of just lost interest in making this story, I know, big shocker right? I'll explain right now, no use beating around the bush as they say.

You see my sudden absence in leaving the story so suddenly and quickly while it was beginning to show some real progress goes all the way back to the main reason why I wrote this fanfiction to begin with.

And that reason is because there were practically no sonic/undertale crossover fanfictions back in my day from when the story was first published..Ok let me rephrase, there weren't a whole bunch of good or at the very least decent Sonic/undertale crossovers. And I frankly was getting sick and tired of waiting for a good story to pop in or if any were gonna be made at all. So one day I simply told myself "enough is enough." if no one is gonna do it then I'll do it myself. And soon I began brainstorming from there on in what the story was gonna be about, would it take place during the events of undertale after or before who's gonna be the main character and what would come from it. Once I had everything ironed out and the whole story all wrapped up in my gnoggin I made that story my personal mission to make the story very first good or at the very most, easy to understand and an enjoyable read of a Sonic/undertale crossover.

Then isn't now however, and now there's more than enough stories in this archive that are decent of a read have more chapters than me and is updated more regularly. That is also another reason too, I felt pretty discouraged to continue writing this story when now there are authors out here now making sonic/undertale crossovers with the same vigor I once had for this.

I was younger, naive, and ambitious so to say, and I hadn't a clue at just how hard it is write down an understandable story to keep the characters from becoming too OOC (Out Of Character) and the proper words to convey the message I tried to express during a given moment for the character whether with interactions dialogue sequences fight scenes etc,etc. The point is, is that I lost a lot of steam I once had for this story due to how a tremendous thought process is practically required to make a decent story. In other terms I genuinely had a bad case of writers block from it. If you readers whose been there since the first chapter wondering why I was on a roll the earlier chapters, to answer your burning question, it is because it was practically all prewritten. in some paper with my editor.

Hehe.. always wondered why such good authors almost never finish their stories in this website. At least I know why now. It is frickin taxing trying to write something worthwhile.

Now don't worry this isn't me saying goodbye with this chapter and story for good just rather it's an apology-letter-chapter made in response to my long absence.

I think i'm getting a bit rusty looking through this chapter and frankly I'm kinda disappointed with it but that's just probably me. Feels as if it were filler, nothing to really add to the story, to me at least.

Well if in any case the next chapter sure as, well something sure, is not gonna be that way, I hope.

Well until next time my readers.