Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 11: Toward Grillby's with Papyrus

fun level 74 Original MC Sans and Frisk

Tiny little key for Chara's Part:

Bold: The voice she hears. Only she can hear it.

Italics: Chara is talking to the voice, but not out loud where others can hear.

Regular: She is talking to the voice, but anyone can hear.

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Where the Barrier Once Stood . . . 

The machine fire was gone. The door ahead, long gone, with a monster in the way Sans had never seen before. Some kind of Elk monster that stood on two feet.

No. No, no, no, no. Sans trotted ahead. "I did everything right." 

"Everything is just fine," the monster said. "You're free." 

"Saaaans!" 

"Papyrus?" Sans turned around and found himself getting lifted in the air and swung around wildly. "Hey, whoah, hang on a second!" 

"I knew it! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!" Papyrus shouted triumphantly. "You opened it with Frisk!" He waved his finger at him. "That was very wrong of you, Sans! Do you know how hard it was thinking you were gone forever? It wasn't until I kept running repeat tests of the timeline that I figured out what was happening. I am . . . cross. But, at the same time, the timelines showed we wouldn't be here now if you hadn't faked your death so . . . but still, Sans! You're alive, one hundred percent!" 

"Yeah, in the bone. Uh, can you put me down?" Sans insisted. The timeline machine, huh? He noticed Queen Toriel also coming forward. Uh oh. "Uh, hey, Tori? Nice day, huh?" She wasn't happy at all. Papyrus must have told her. "Go ahead, lock me up if you want, but I did it for freedom, Tori." 

Tori approached him carefully. "I'm not locking you up, Sans. You won freedom for the Underground. Take it." She passed him without another word. There was no smiled on her face as she moved toward Frisk, giving her a hug. "You are a strong, brave and cunning woman, Frisk. No matter what. Strong, brave, and cunning."  

Hm? Sans watched as more monsters were approaching, including King Asgore, who stopped right in front of him. "Hey, King Asgore." Not exactly something he did every day. Meet the king. So he fell to his usual greeting. "Sup?" 

"Howdy. You have freed the Underground," he said. "Every monster far and wide will know of your courage." 

"Yeah, but, I don't see how. I only passed like four tests," Sans said. "FIve out of a hundred?"

"We were given word out here that the reckoning had been paid, and that today would be the last day we would ever have to see the Underground again." He held his strong arm on his bony shoulder. "You are a hero forever to the Underground! Thank you!" He looked over toward Toriel. "Unfortunately, there is another reckoning. I don't know how Toriel is dealing with it." 

Another reckoning? "What do you mean, King Asgore?" 

"None of my concern." He simply smiled at Sans. "All of my citizens are free. A new world awaits us. Come! Let's go see this new world." 

"Yeah, sure, soon." He'd already seen plenty of it. Everyone was going through with ease, but he didn't like that last part. A new reckoning. 

"Sans!" Papyrus came back over from the barrier. "I am getting our stuff! There is an area, about three times bigger for all of us out there. There are plenty of houses. And, when we learn everything we need to know about the human's world, then we'll be freed from the next one. But, the skies, Sans. We can see the skies. Everyone can see the skies. Make haste, Brother! Let's go."