Wildcat

Surprise

The next morning came and you were once again jolted out of your sleep by the same dreadful alarm from yesterday. Once again you laid in your bed, heart racing from shock. It would probably take you some time until you'd get used to that.

Asriel greeted you with the same smile he always carried whenever you saw him, before he disappeared in the bathroom. Once he was done, you'd take a shower and get dressed for the day.

The morning continued as usual. You had breakfast together, ignored students gossiping, attended class and groaned at the amount of homework the teachers threw at you. After that you enjoyed lunch and passed your free time at the arcade.

You and Asriel were sitting in your room, working on your assignments while the TV was running as background noise. The sun was slowly beginning to set, but your day was far from being over.

"Well, I'll be off to evening class. See you later." You packed your things and got up from your desk.

"Alright, see ya." Asriel looked over to you, his eyes following you as you left the room.

As you walked down the hallways you could only think about how little you cared about the upcoming lecture on alternate history. It was all about how the world could have changed if only a tiny detail about history would have changed.

While some call it butterfly effect, you call it a waste of time. Why bother thinking about what could have been if what matters is the here and now.

Once you arrived at the lecture hall, you decided to take a seat where the teacher hopefully wouldn't be able to see you. The room began to fill with more and more people until the teacher finally decided to show up. Minutes later and the lecture eventually started.

Instead of starting the lecture with something reasonable, the teacher began to write something on the chalkboard and turned to the class.

"I would like to ask all of you to come up with a scenario in the past that could drastically change the future as we now know it." He started off with something so ridiculously stupid you began to wonder whether he's an actual teacher or just some quack that got lost.

Not a single student seemed to be too invested in this class, seeing that no one raised their hand.

The teacher, seemingly disappointed, decided to randomly call someone out. That someone, and how could it be any different, was you.

"Well, what if monsters, back in the human - monster war, had modern day guns and magic, instead of swords, spears and similar." You didn't even bother to put any thought in your alternate history scenario and just said the first thing that came to your mind.

The teacher, for reasons unknown, completely lost it.

"What a marvelous proposition. If monster had access to the guns used today, just imagine how far we would be today. Well, we would probably be all dead since monsters would have wiped out humanity with their superior arsenal. But just imagine if they wouldn't wipe us out. Could we live in harmony or would they enslave us?" The teacher began rambling and it didn't seem like he was going to stop anytime soon. You stopped listening half way trough.

Somehow, you ended up with an A+ for the day even though you stopped paying attention five minutes in.

Why do they even teach stuff like that? Actual history, like the human - monster war, was way more interesting than this joke. Maybe Asriel knows something that is actually interesting.

Once you were back in your room, you were immediately greeted by said goat. For some reason he looked really excited, his emerald green eyes sparkling.