White: okay, for any future reference. This plot bunny was Kage's fault! HE INTRODUCED ME TO UNDERTALE!

Over with that little bit, this will be a one shot unless you guys want me to continue it. This happens to be a little side story to my Snow Storm In The Desert fanfic.

Cover is a picture from an animation slide that is part of my Shimeji program. its quite entertaining!

Enjoy!

Ps. There will be small POV shifts, sorry if it's confusing.

PPs. if you find her OP, just wait until the sequel, you shall see~

Edit for Kage: i had a good time playing and watching it, but you gave me another online addiction. just saying. didn't mean anything negative at the beginning, :P

Warnings: implications of dark themes and triggers for dark memories.

Snowstorm knew this was a bad idea, but what was she to do? She couldn't call her Kaa-san because the humans would see the giant Cybertronian.

And so, this is why she was running up a mountain, a mob of humans chasing after her.

She heard the humans slow down, and so she sped up, hoping to get away.

And then it happened.

She didn't pay attention to where she put her foot, and ended up tripping over a large tree root and into a pit that was just inside of a cave.

Twisting herself as much as she could, she tried to land on her feet.

She landed on her feet… but broke her lower left leg and right ankle in the process.

Snowstorm bit her lip to keep herself from screaming, as it would probably draw attention and make the humans follow her and kill her.

Blood trailed down her cheek, her canine teeth having pierced her lip too far.

After the pain dulled, she stopped biting her lip (which in turn let the blood flow more freely, but was already starting to clot) and looked around, tilting her head from side to side where she lay upon the ground.

Snowstorm was lying with her back flat against the ground, which was covered in golden flowers, her long white hair ran in rivulets through and over the flowers; her left leg and right ankle were swollen and bent at odd angles. The grey, almost black stone, made her skin look paler, almost as if she was a ghost. Her arms spread out as if wanting to give someone a hug but were lying against the ground.

Thankfully, her visor was left without any damage. She mentally thanked her Oto-san for making it so resistant to damage, or she would be getting burned at that exact moment.

That's when she noticed something, or rather, her visor pointed out movement.

A single flower was bigger than the rest… and had a face.

'…. Flowers are not supposed to have faces….' She thought, confusion lacing her imaginary voice.

"Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower!" the flower said in a high pitched voice.

Snowstorm winced. 'okay, one: flowers should not be able to talk, two: that voice hurt.. 3: HOW DOES IT KNOW CYBERTRONIAN?!' she stared at the flower in confusion her eyes wide.

"Hmmm, You're new to the UNDERGROUND, aren'tcha?"

She gave no response to the flower, after all, how could she? Bad things happened when she spoke…

The flower gave her a confused look "I know you're awake, why don't you say anything?"

'okay, okay, I can't ask Kaa-san or Oto-san for help… the area is too small…. ummm… I need to figure out a way… AH! I know! I can act as if I'm mute!' Snowstorm thought quickly.

She carefully moved her arms to sit herself up, accidentally jolting her broken bones she fell back to the ground, once again biting her lip.

'okayyyy, not a good idea to move right now….' removing her canine teeth from her lip once again, she raised her hands this time, not intending to sit up.

She shakily held up her hands and formed signs.

'The only human language I know…. Hopefully… it understands' her thoughts somewhat fragmented due to the lingering pain.

[Not able to speak] she signed shakily.

"Hmmm, you can't speak?" it asked,

'I-it understood sign language!' she exclaimed, her mind working a mile a minute.

"Golly, you must be so confused. Someone ought to teach you how things work around here! I guess little old me will have to do." The flower gave a very gleeful look.

She didn't trust the flower, when she saw that look on any humans face; it meant trouble… but this was a flower, what harm could it do?

But first… she just HAD to ask.

[How can you talk? Are you something the humans made?] the last part more shaky than the first, she dropped her hands down and wrapped her arms around her torso, memories of that past still far too fresh.

Flowey, at least that's what she thought its name was, as that is what it called itself, gave her a confused and horrified look.

"Me? Created by humans? Never!" pause, as if wondering what to say. "Why do you refer to your own kind as if you are not one of them?"

Snowstorm flinched, she wasn't expecting that question.

She hugged herself tighter, tears streaming down her face, frost forming on the flowers.

Flowey's eyes widened confusion and fear written all over the flowers face.

"It seems our time is up for now, someone is coming. I shall find you later."

And with that, the flower dove into the ground; disappearing.

With the flowers disappearance she let her arms fall to the ground; the frost disappearing.

She never even registered what the flower said about someone coming.

Snowstorm was about to let herself drift off to sleep to let her body heal when she heard the footsteps.

They didn't sound human… but sounded as if they were fur covered paws?

A surprised gasp was heard "Poor child! I must heal you!" a female voice exclaimed softly in worry.

Snowstorm felt confused, she understood the flower, but not whoever was talking?

She felt soft, fur covered claw like hands pick her up; wincing as her leg and ankle were moved from their previous position.

Snowstorm looked up a bit and saw who- no, what, had picked her up.

It was some sort of goat… bunny… something, that picked her up, snowstorm guess they were a female by the pitch of the voice.

Snowstorm tensed, she didn't know if this… person… would hurt her.

The person looked down at her, and Snowstorm saw that they had long furred ears, a snout with two small, sharp teeth poking out from under their lips, and angelic blue eyes staring worriedly at her.

"Do not be afraid my child, I am Toriel, caretaker of the ruins."

Snowstorm looked around as the person led her through the cave, which was beginning to look a lot more like ruins.

Snowstorm sweat dropped, 'why are there traps throughout these ruins?'

"The ruins are full of puzzles."

Snowstorm looked up sharply at the last word; she knew that word, no matter which language.

'PUZZLES!' she exclaimed excitedly, all traces of fear gone at that one word.

"Ah, you like Puzzles?"

Snowstorm tilted her head, only knowing a small fraction of the sentence.

The person chuckled, "let's heal you up before you do anything, child."

They navigated through many twisting tunnels, past switches, water falls, rocks, and spike paths where you needed to know the correct direction the move or you would get hurt by the spikes.

And soon, they appeared at what looked to be a purple house.

'Why in the world is there a purple house underground?'

To her surprise, the inside of the house was cream-tan in color; everything had a friendly pastel like look.

The person brought her to a bedroom and set her on the bed, and walked over to a cabinet. Reaching in the person pulled out a first aid kit.

"Let's see if we can set that bone straight, shall we?"

They continued by having Snowstorm lay completely flat on the bed, and realigning the bone.

Which, again, made snowstorm bite her lip. At this point she was sure she was going to have scars on her lip.

"Oh! I'm so sorry child, it will be alright soon!" the person exclaimed.

Snowstorm didn't even acknowledge what was said though, her body riddled with pain.

Ignoring what the person was saying she allowed darkness to take hold of her, pulling her into a dreamless sleep.

"oh dear… I hope they will be alright.." Toriel murmured as she began wrapping bandages around the broken bone and splint.

When Toriel finished, she grabbed a piece of paper and made a note, saying she would be back later, but she wasn't sure if the child could read it.

Quickly pulling the blankets over the child she walked out of the room and quietly closed the door behind her.

Making her way through some more tunnels, this time underneath the house, she reached a large purple gate like door.

Leaning against it she called "You there?"

"Yeah, you know I'm always here at this time." a muffled male voice replied.

Toriel sighed, "A human child has fallen into the underground."

A vaguely surprised sound came from the other side of the door.

"You want me to protect them if they ever pass through this door?" the male asked, vaguely remembering a promise.

"Yes, but…" Toriel started.

"But what?" the male voice asked, curiosity and humor in his voice, almost as if he was joking around.

"This child, a young girl, does not seem to understand English and has not made a single noise… she flinches at the lightest of touches, sudden movements scare her, and… and.. " she paused, breaking down into a mess of sobs.

"And what?" the male voice asked, a tint of fear and worry hidden under a joking manner.

"She had wounds all over her that could not have been caused by the fall, there were deep knife like cuts, stab wounds.." she continued to detail what was wrong, spilling her heart out…

Meanwhile, Snowstorm was waking back up, frost all over her body melting slowly.

'Owww… at least now the pain is a dull ache…' she thought, rubbing her head.

'Let's see…' she began unwrapping the now very loose wraps.

The area looked healed, she touched it and flinched, it was still sore.

"I see you heal quickly."

Snowstorm paused in her movements, looked to the right, and saw Flowey in the window.

'Gah… considering that Flowey is the only one I understand I will have to play along..' Snowstorm thought with annoyance, she wanted to get out of this place, wanted to go back home to her Kaa-san and Oto-san.

She waved her hand at Flowey and tilted her head, curious as to what the flower would say this time.

'Flowey doesn't need to know how I heal so quickly…' Snowstorm thought as she gently put weight on her feet, testing if they were healed enough to walk.

"I guess I should pick up where I left off," Flowey said as soon as Snowstorm stood successfully on the ground.

"You asked how I was able to talk, correct?"

Snowstorm nodded, a small smile spreading across her lips at the thought of learning something new.

Flowey sighed, "I am known as a Monster," you could just hear the capitalization of the word, snowstorm flinched, "no, not as the curse word humans use it as today, but a kind of being made of Magic." Snowstorm was now giving Flowey her complete attention.

Flowey chuckled at how Snowstorm was hanging onto his every word.

"Toriel, the one who brought you to this room, is also a Monster."

Snowstorms smile grew just a bit, 'so I was catching on before Flowey even explained that bit..'

"Though, we both may be Monsters, we have a difference. I have no soul; I am just a flower which gained the will to live."

Snowstorm's head snapped up, staring through her partial visor at Flowey.

[You have a soul] she stated simply, her sign language no longer shaking.

Flowey frowned, "no, I don't."

Snowstorm shook her head. [Everything is made of energy, the soul is made of energy, and therefore, you have a soul.] She stated, it took quite a while to explain it in sign language.

A lone tear ran down Flowey's face, "I-I never thought about it that way… you really think I have a soul?" his voice shaking.

[You do.]

Two, simple words, sent Flowey into a breakdown, tears of happiness ran down his face.

Footsteps were heard again, "I will see you when you leave the ruins, do not tell Toriel that I was here." Flowey said quickly before moving out of the windows view and diving into the ground.

Snowstorm sat on the bed again as she finally paid attention to the footsteps.

'I wonder if that's Toriel coming..' Snowstorm wondered as she idly looked around the room, taking everything in.

The doorknob turned slowly, and then the door opened quietly.

The person from earlier, Toriel, walked in.

Her eyes widened the moment they were set on Snowstorm.

"You're already awake I see, let's check on that broken bone, shall we?" Toriel stated softly as she moved forward.

"You took off the bandages?..." confusion laced her voice, snowstorm only tilted her head in response as she didn't understand yet again.

'I wish Flowey stayed… probably could have translated what Toriel is saying for me…'

"Hmmm… your bones are already completely healed…" Toriel murmured in surprise.

'Since I'm going to be down here for a while… I might as well tell her a name to call me by… but what…' Snowstorm questioned 'Yuki, I shall use the name Yuki!' she decided, after all, that name fit her pretty well, as it was a Japanese word that had multiple meanings, the first is happiness or snow, and the second is reason combined with valuable or chronicle.

She created snow often, so it fit pretty well, didn't it?

When Toriel stood up and was about to turn around towards the medicine cabinet, Snowstorm raised her hands.

"What is it, child?" Toriel asked.

[Name is Yuki.]

"Yuki? Well alright Yuki, let's see about wrapping those bones again just in case."

Snowstorm tilted her head, and Toriel was beginning to pick up it meant one of two things: Curiosity, or not understanding what's being said.

Toriel sighed; it would have been much easier if Snowstorm understood her.

Little did Toriel know, Snowstorm had the same thought.

'These bandages remind me of shoes… but it's not as… annoying?' Snowstorm thought confusedly.

"Now that that's done, let's get you some food, Yuki." Toriel said, motioning for Snowstorm to follow.

Snowstorm stood up, being careful with her footing again.

As they walked through the houses hallways, Snowstorm activated her visors communication link.

Only to be met with static.

'I-I… I can't contact Oto-san or Kaa-san... I must be too deep underground…' she thought sadly.

That's when it happened…

'Cinnamon?' Snowstorm questioned as she sniffed the air like a curious dog. She never even noticed that they had reached the dining room.

Toriel chuckled at Snowstorm's reaction to the scent, and proceeded to place a plate with some pie on the table.

Snowstorm's eyes widened. 'Pie? I-I never had any pie… they never let me hav- no, no, don't remember that…' shaking her head to rid herself of those horrid memories.

Snowstorm sat down quietly in the chair, once again making minimal noise.

Picking up the fork, she cut pie and took a bite of it, it almost immediately melted in her mouth.

'T-this tastes good! So this is what pie tastes like!' a large grin spread across her face.

She quickly then proceeded to devour what was left of the pie.

"You really liked that, huh?" Toriel chuckled.

Snowstorm clapped, it was louder than any other sound that she had made so far, but she couldn't help it. The pie tasted good!

"Why don't you go explore the house a bit?" Toriel asked, nudging Snowstorm out of the kitchen.

'….Does she want me to explore?... okay….' Snowstorm thought confusedly before deciding to do just that, as it might help her find a way back to the surface.

The sound of feet (one of which partially covered in bandages) padding gently across the floor could be heard.

Near the stairs that led down, Snowstorm stopped mid-step.

'I smell snow..' she thought as the sweet, crisp, scent of fresh snow met her nose.

Walking towards the chained off area (which, was poorly blocked by a single chain and two locks) she ducked underneath the chain and walked down the stairs; her footsteps ghostly quiet.

There was a very, very long tunnel at the bottom of the staircase.

Meanwhile… with Toriel..

Toriel was staring at the hallway floor next to the stairs; there were icy footprints on the floor, leading downstairs…

"why is there Ice…? no… no no no!" Toriel murmured, going over the chain and running down the stairs.

Toriel followed the footprints quickly, muttering things about Snowstorm not being able to protect herself.

Thoughts raced through her head, she wondered why there were ice footprints, but, at that exact moment, her mind was completely focused on Snowstorm, and what dangers the child would face if she got through the gate.

Soon, Snowstorms waist length, flowing white hair, and her small form came into view, each step Snowstorm took left an Ice footprint.

'The scent is coming from the other side of the door…' she thought pushing her hand flat against the door.

"Before you pass this door… prove to me you can survive!"

Snowstorm flinched at the loud voice, turning fast enough that it made Toriel wonder if Snowstorm got whiplash somehow from it.

Flames started appearing around the room, and Snowstorm backed herself up against the door.

She feared fire.

An ice barrier appeared; growing from the floor to the ceiling in response to both the heat, and her fear.

Toriel's eyes narrowed in suspicion.

"Magic? But you are human…" Toriel murmured while sending a barrage of attacks towards the ice barrier.

Toriel stopped the barrage, and fell to her knees as tears streamed down her face.

"Why? Why do you want to go out into the cruel world? Where you would be killed!" Toriel shouted to the ceiling above, a rainbow of emotions coloring her voice.

Snowstorm, in the meantime, was curled up against the pillar holding up the door; her head lolling, her mind on the edge of consciousness.

In a small patch of dirt in front of Snowstorm, that Toriel would later swear was not there before, Flowey appeared.

"Are you okay? What happened?" Flowey started firing questions at Snowstorm, asking quite a few more before sleep finally claimed Snowstorm, and Flowey turned around to see Toriel.

Toriel blinked, "A… Flower?..." she questioned.

"You dare to try and hurt the one who gave me hope?!" Flowey screeched at her.

Red energy began circling Flowey.

Flowey was screeching many things at Toriel as the red energy enveloped him.

Flowey's form began to shift, creating another form.

It looked disturbingly familiar to Toriel, but it made her feel horror, and hope.

The shifting stopped and the red magic shattered, disappearing.

What was left behind was a small child that looked like Toriel, but male in features. He wore a green and yellow striped long-sleeve shirt, brown shorts, and a single yellow flower pinned to his shirt.

"A-Asri…el?..." Toriel questioning in shock, hope swelling within his body.

Flowey, now presumable Asriel, looked around at himself, flexed his hands, and looked wide eyed at the world around him.

"She…she was right…." Asriel murmured in joy, tearing up at seeing his own body again.

"She was right!" Asriel shouted in joy as he turned around and hugged Snowstorm.

"Thank you…Thank you…thank you!" he murmured to the unconscious girl as he hugged her, Snowstorm flinched from the contact, waking up, even though tired.

She smiled sloppily through the haze of sleepiness at the sight of Asriel; her visor showing that Asriel was indeed Flowey by energy signature.

[See? You have a soul..] She signed slowly, before falling into a half-asleep state, barely aware of her surroundings; the ice barrier dropping.

Turning around, Asriel ran over to hug Toriel.

"It's good to be back with you mom! And no longer a flower too!"

"…this… this isn't a joke?..." Toriel sobbed as she hugged Asriel back.

"I never really left, I just…I just.." Asriel broke down, tears streaming down his face; they ran in rivulets through his fur before dripping down onto his shirt.

All they did was hug and murmur, tears streaming down their faces…

A muffled voice came from the other side of the door.

"Hey! What's going on in there!" accompanied by banging, but no one inside noticed it; actually, more like ignored it.

'Can't fall asleep now…. just can't…' Snowstorm thought as she battled against the darkness and sluggishly moved her right hand towards the side of her visor which covered her right ear.

She tapped it and a menu appeared on her visor, using the mental connection with the visor she scrolled through it looking for an item.

'Ah! I found it!' she thought with triumph, she selected it and it materialized into existence; it looked… like a pill?

'Caffeine and vitamin B… will definitely wake me up the moment it kicks in…' she thought as she swallowed it, thankful that her Kaa-san had helped her create such a thing for when she needed to stay awake after using her ability to such an extent.

Tossing it in her mouth she swallowed it dry.

Waiting a couple minutes, she watched the scene before her with heavy eyes, and then she felt the caffeine and vitamin B kick in.

She felt the weight that was holding her body lift, making it much easier to move, and so, she stood up and stretched.

She walked over to Asriel and Toriel, and reluctantly placed her hand on Asriel's shoulder.

Asriel relinquished his hold on Toriel, and looked at Snowstorm, "thank you…eh…um… what is your name?" Asriel asked, a tad embarrassed he never asked Snowstorm her name.

[Yuki] Snowstorm replied not a second later, and had to resist grinning at the confused expression on Toriel's face.

"Asriel… what language are you speaking? And how do you know it? How does she understand it?" Toriel asked in rapid succession.

"Good point… I don't know the name of the language, but I will explain it later…" Asriel muttered under his breath.

"Ah, I guess I should reintroduce myself then, Hello Yuki, I'm Asriel." He laughed as he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

[Yuki, nice to meet you as well, Asriel.]

"If you don't mind me asking, what is the name of this language? It was never mentioned in the tablet I translated in my free time..."

This time, Snowstorm's reply was delayed.

'There is a cybertronian tablet here?!' she questioned in shock.

Slowly, she spelled out the name of the language.

[Cybertronian]

"Cybertronian?" Asriel repeated, carefully sounding out the word.

Snowstorm nodded.

"What is cybertronian?" Toriel asked, and Asriel translated it for Snowstorm.

Snowstorm didn't reply, but instead just looked away, towards the door where the banging could still be heard.

And that's when Toriel and Asriel finally paid attention to it.

"This isn't funny! What's going on in there?!"

Snowstorm walked towards the door and was about ready to open it when Asriel spoke.

"Mom, can I go with Yuki? Pleaseeeee?" Asriel begged, complete with puppy eyes.

A moment of silence stretched for quite a bit.

"Alright… son… just make sure you come back alive and in one piece, and not a flower this time!" Toriel joked a bit, trying to lighten the atmosphere.

"Guess what Yuki! I'm coming with you!" he exclaimed with a large grin spreading across his face as he ran up to the door and helped Snowstorm open the door.

"See you later mom!"

"Good bye…" Toriel murmured as tears ran down her cheeks.

Snowstorm, barefooted aside from a couple bandages, and Asriel, with fur covered feet, stepped into the snow on the other of the door.

Snowstorm smiled a wide smile, revealing sharp teeth she had made sure not to show before.

She ran through the snow, the person she heard on the other side of the door nowhere in sight.

The sweet, sweet sound of snow crunching beneath her quiet footsteps made her feel liberated knowing that it wasn't something she caused, but instead it was pure, natural snow.

Asriel followed; his footsteps much louder than Snowstorm's.

Suddenly, the barely audible sound of a twig snapping was heard.

Snowstorm flinched and stopped dead in her tracks.

"What's Wrong Yuki?" Asriel asked as he stopped as well.

Snowstorm raised her hand, and pointed at the tree line to the left of the door.

Asriel got the meaning well enough to get the general idea.

"Who's there?" Asriel shouted, Snowstorm flinched in response.

"Sorry…" Asriel murmured in response to her flinching.

"Ah, so the one she was talking about ratted me out." Said the voice that was from the other side of the door, by the voice pitch Snowstorm guessed they were male.

They stepped out of the tree line they were hiding behind.

Snowstorm stiffened, the person looked like a human skeleton, was quite a bit taller than Snowstorm, they wore a blue hoodie that was lined with white fur in the hood, a grey-white under shirt, black khaki shorts with a single vertical blue stripe running down the sides of his pants (they looked more like sweats…).

The thing that stood out to Snowstorm and Asriel the most though… was… the pink slippers upon his feet.

"Why is he wearing PINK slippers…" Asriel voiced both their thoughts.

Asriel, as a flower, was color blind, therefore never knew until that moment that they were… pink.

"So you know this language? To my awareness only me and a homicidal flower know if it." He stated.

Asriel froze and raised his hand.

"I'm sorry for all I've put you through, Sans… I just wanted my soul back… but… thanks to Yuki... I learned… I never lost it."

Sans expression changed to one of shock.

"You're the homicidal flower called Flowey? How?" Sans choked out.

Snowstorm sighed in annoyance; it sounded more like just exhaling of breath, than an actual sigh.

She was very tempted to be sassy right then and there, but knew it would make things worse… plus.. she could feel the power radiating from the skeleton.

[Asriel, your body was originally killed by humans, right?]

"Yeah… wait how'd you know that?"

Snowstorm shrugged.

[Just guessed,]

Taking a deep breath, she began signing a long explanation.

[If the physical body is killed in anyway, the soul can survive by finding another host while the energy of the soul –whatever isn't being used to sustain the soul- ends up going towards recreating the body, many humans called in reincarnation. But in Asriel's case, he took a flower as a host… which isn't the best idea as you saw.]

"Huh….what….." Sans said before shaking his head.

"That.. kinda makes sense!" Asriel said.

"Eh…. I might as well warn you guys, my brother, Papyrus, is a human-hunting Fanatic… I think that's him over there."

'Why do I have a bad feeling about this?' both Asriel and Snowstorm thought in sync.

"Go straight through this gate thing, my bro made the bars too wide to stop anyone."

They did so, as they could run if this.. Papyrus tried to capture them or it was a trap.

"Quickly, go hide in the stand!" Sans urged, as hiding behind that conveniently-shaped lamp would not be enough for two people…

They did so, and dove underneath the overhang of the desk…bar… outpost.. thingy.

A much, much taller and slimmer skeleton wearing odd clothes that where only white and orange came running up.

"Sup, bro?" Sans asked.

"You Know What Sup, Brother! It's Been Eight Days And You Still Haven't… Recalibrated. Your. Puzzles! You Just Hang Around Outside Your Station! What Are You Even Doing?!" the skeleton, Papyrus, Snowstorm guessed as she peeked around the stations walls.

"Staring at this lamp. It's really cool. Do you wanna look?"

Papyrus, in a fit of anger, began childishly throwing a temper tantrum. "No! I Don't Have Time For that! What If A Human Comes Through Here!? I Want To Be Ready! I Will Be The One! I Must Be The One! I Will Capture A Human! Then, I, The Great Papyrus…Will Get All The Things I Utterly Deserve! Respect… Recognition… I Will Finally Be Able To Join The Royal Guard! People Will Ask, To, Be My, Friend! I Will Bath In A Shower Of Kisses Every Morning." Papyrus ranted in a high pitched voice.

"Hmm… maybe this lamp will help you." Sans joked.

"Sans! You Are Not Helping! You Lazybones! All You Do Is Sit And Boondoggle! You Get Lazier And Lazier Every Day!"

"Hey, Take it easy. I've gotten a ton of work done today. A skele-ton." Sans said, finishing the sentence with a wink.

"Sans!" Papyrus yelled, Snowstorm flinched and curled in on herself due to the screeching and yelling of Papyrus.

"Come on. You're smiling."

"I Am And I Hate It!" Papyrus sighed after his small outburst. "why does someone as great as me… have to do so much just to get some recognition…"

"Wow, sounds like you're really working yourself… Down To The Bone." Once again winking as he finished off the sentence.

Papyrus yelled in rage, and exclaimed "I Will Attend To my Puzzles! As for your work, put a little more… backbone into it!"

Papyrus stormed off making an odd laughing sound.

"Okay, you can come out now." Sans said.

No Response was given to Sans.

"Oh great… what's going on now?"

Sans walked towards the booth, he saw Snowstorm was curled up in one of the corners of the Outpost, Asriel trying to comfort her.

It was then that Toriel's words came flooding back to him.

She is frightened by loud noises and sudden movements, flinches at the slightest of touches….

'Oh no…' Sans thought, bending down and very slowly and gently, touched Snowstorm.

She flinched and her muscles stiffened as if expecting to be attacked.

"She was like this when I first found her in the ruins… I thought it was just shock from what had happened.." Asriel muttered before letting his voice soften.

"It's okay Yuki… we aren't going to hurt you." Asriel murmured, gently taking one of snowstorms hands.

Snowstorm uncurled a bit and looked around as if asking if Papyrus was gone.

"Com'on kiddo, you should get going before Papyrus comes back." Sans said quietly, not wanting to make the situation worse.

Suddenly Sans got an idea, but he didn't know if it's the best…

"You like puzzles, don't you Yuki?" Sans asked, an internal smirk forming as her head snapped up at the word 'Puzzle'.

"You would have to deal with Papyrus.. But I can see if he can be quieter." Sans said softly before standing up again.

Asriel stood up and helped Snowstorm up who was still jumpy from what happened.

They walked down the path, further away from the door, and passed a fork in the packed snow road, but didn't go down it.

They saw papyrus, "Sans…" Papyrus started, "is that a human with you? And who is that?"

Snowstorm flinched at Papyrus' high pitched voice.

"Papyrus, lower your voice." sans knew that Papyrus couldn't lower the pitch of his voice, but maybe lowering the volume a bit would help.

"Remember how you love Puzzles Papyrus?" Sans asked.

"Yes?..." Papyrus replied back suspiciously.

"So does this Human, but, do not be loud." Sans cautioned.

"She likes puzzles too?!" Papyrus exclaimed.

Snowstorm flinched and hid behind both Asriel and Sans.

'I-I don't like Papyrus…' Snowstorm stammered in her mind.

Asriel stayed silent, not wanting to make things worse.

Sans sighed.

"See what you did, Bro?" Sans asked in a rather dark voice.

Papyrus made a shocked and confused sound.

Sans sighed, sometimes his brother was so dense a cannon ball would not break his head.

"I told you to be quiet, loud noises scare this human." Emphasizing the fact that Yuki was different from other humans, and should be handled with care.

"I'm sorry…" Papyrus murmured.

"I'm Asriel, and you shouldn't frighten Yuki!" Asriel said, finally speaking up.

If Sans could, he would have rolled his eyes right then and there.

"She will do the puzzles, just disable the electricity maze." Sans sighed as he tried to get Snowstorm to stop hiding behind them.

Papyrus looked saddened, but agreed to it anyways.

"We will follow you shortly bro, just go disable it."

"Alright…"

Sans sighed as Papyrus ran off, Asriel giving both him and Snowstorm a worried look.

'Heh, it's hard to believe that Asriel was Flowey…'

"Com'on kid, we better catch up with Papyrus." Sans said, walking off towards where Papyrus went.

They passed a piece of paper on some ice, passed a plate of inedible spaghetti, passed a pair of… very..tall…dogs… and to a simple puzzle.

"Alright Kiddo, all 'ya gotta' do is turn the X's into O's. And then press the switch there." He pointed at the rock like platform.

Snowstorm looked around, and saw Papyrus waiting on the other side of the spikes, but… she wanted to solve the puzzle.

She tapped the blue X on the left, turning it into a red O. and proceeded to do so with the right side before pressing the button.

"What? How did you avoid my trap?!" Papyrus stated, attempting to keep his voice down.

Still, it wasn't enough and it startled her.

She hid behind Asriel.

"Eh..um… alright.. I will keep my mouth shut…" Papyrus muttered, saddened that he had scared the human yet again. And so, Papyrus took off towards the next puzzle.

The puzzle was more complex than the last, but still just as easy to Snowstorm, but more enjoyable since it wasn't so simple.

This time, they walked over to a… multicolor pixelated path?

Papyrus proceeded to explain what each color tile does, but Snowstorm didn't understand, and so, Asriel translated.

"I think this is the one Bro broke…" Sans muttered.

Papyrus flipped the switch and the colors began switching around randomly.

Only for a straight pink path border lined with red to appear.

Papyrus stumbled away from the puzzle, as if giving up in the face of defeat.

They crossed and moved to the next, another X and O puzzle, this time on ice…

Not that Snowstorm had a hard time; she never had an issue with ice.

Quickly solving that one they crossed the bridge and headed towards Papyrus, and crossing a long rope bridge.

Papyrus ranted about something and brought out some.. Dangerous weaponry.

Sans stepped in front of Snowstorm.

"Brother, what have I told you about using those?" Sans asked.

"Not to use them…" Papyrus muttered before all the weaponry disappeared and Papyrus ran off again.

Sans sighed again, "I don't know what my brother's going to do now."

"These are more like Traps than Puzzles…" Asriel muttered.

When they got to the other side of the rope bridge Snowstorm felt her body get… heavy for lack of better word, her movements sluggish.

'Guess the caffeine is wearing off...' she thought sluggishly, unwillingly leaning against Sans.

Sans stopped mid-step, "you alright Kiddo?" he asked, turning his head to try and get a glimpse of what was going on, as he knew Snowstorm did not do well with touch.

It was as he turned his body that Snowstorm fell to the ground, no longer in the conscious world.

He quickly grabbed her, and she didn't even flinch as she was too deep in the darkness of sleep.

Sans looked around quickly, confused that Asriel did not say or do anything.

Asriel was missing.

"Damn, bad time for the kid to go missing." Sans muttered, he wasn't sure if Asriel could handle any of the guards that were wandering about the underground.

"Not like I can go after him now that.." then he paused and check to make sure his line of thought wasn't incorrect.

"Good, she's not sick… though considering her clothing she should have been running a fever already…" Sans muttered.

Picking up Snowstorm bridal style, he couldn't help but notice how light she was, she should have been much heavier than that for her size…

As Sans walked through the snow towards Snowdin, he continued noticing things that were odd about Snowstorm.

Her hair was white enough to almost blend in with the snow, her skin pale enough to almost be a ghost's skin, her body scarily thin as if she had been starved; many old wounds adorned the skin that was visible. Her clothing consisted of black shorts that went down to her knees, and bandages wrapped the upper torso with no proper shirt, and an odd marking on her chest peaked above the bandaging.

Then there were the sharp fangs he saw not long before being ratted out…

As he walked through Snowdin he couldn't help but notice all of those wounds were caused by human weaponry, mainly knives or blades of some sorts, broken glass… there were even some scars he could not explain at all.

Though, what puzzled him –instead of outright scaring and repulsing him of whoever did it- was still the odd marking at least half hidden by the bandaging, and then the visor she wore, covering her eyes.

Sans sighed, (also hoping he wasn't making a habit of it...) "Let's get you inside and warm you up."

Sans walked up to the small two story house, its porch decorated with Christmas lights and a wreath on the door.

Opening the door, the sound of someone in the kitchen could be heard.

But he ignored it and moved upstairs; clothing the front door behind him.

He opened the door on the right, and saw his messy roomy.

Shifting Snowstorm so that he was carrying her with only his right arm he held his left arm out and his left eye began to glow a bright blue.

"Should clean up this mess now…"

The seemingly self-sustaining tornado stopped moving, the spaghetti and trash going downstairs, along with the socks, which were thrown my his blue magic into the laundry hamper. The treadmill in the middle of the room turned off and the letter on the floor levitated onto the dresser. The bed made itself looking pristine and clean.

Aside from an annoying dog that was still asleep where the self-sustaining tornado used to be.

Sans shook his head and laid Snowstorm on the bed and covered the shivering girl up with a spare blanket.

The moment the blanket covered Snowstorm up to her shoulders she curled up, as if cold, but stopped shivering.

What sans didn't know, was that Snowstorm wasn't shivering because she was cold, no, she never felt the cold.

"Might as well tell Paps..." Sans muttered.

Leaving the room as quietly as possible, he went down the stairs and into the kitchen, where Papyrus was trying to cook Spaghetti, but was not doing very well.

"Hey, Paps." Sans said cheerfully, trying to not unsettle his brother by how dark his mood truly was at the moment.

"Nyeh? What is it Brother?" Papyrus answered distractedly as he tried to bring a pot of water to a boil.

Sans attempted to figure out how to word his sentence, but, could not… so he decided to be blunt.

"The human is here."

"The Human Is Here?!" Papyrus screeched.

Sans was so glad at that moment his room had soundproof walls… not that he would ever tell Papyrus that his walls were Soundproof in the first place.

Sans hushed his brother, saying "You need to be Quiet, remember Paps?"

Papyrus nodded his head, and then continued; his voice closer to what others would finally consider a regular volume, "Where is the human?"

Sans shook his head, a small bit of his dark mood showing through, "leave them alone Paps, they're asleep upstairs."

Papyrus sighed, giving the impression of a kicked puppy, and went back to work without even questioning which room Sans had put Snowstorm in.

Sans chuckled, sometimes he was thankful his brother was so dense… other times… not so much.

Walking back up the stairs, he entered his room again, shutting the door behind him he opened his dresser to grab a book he hid in there, and sat down on the floor to read it.

Only to hear a knock on the door.

Sans opened the door, to see Papyrus.

Internally grumbling about how active he was being.

"Someone is at the door for you Sans." Papyrus said before rushing off to attempt cooking more Pasta.

Sans went down stairs, of course closing his bedroom door behind him.

When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he saw it was Asriel, with something in hand.

"Sorry for wandering off Sans! I realized Yuki didn't have a shirt so I went to go ask mom for something Yuki could wear!" Asriel said cheerfully, not even mentioning how he knew where they went.

Sans shook off the odd feeling as he guessed Asriel just asked around.

"Com'on then, let's go upstairs."

Asriel followed Sans with a skip in his step.

Closing the door behind them, Sans went to his dresser and got a random book in Cybertronian and threw it at Asriel.

"Have fun reading while we wait." Sans said with a touch of a sadistic smile on his face as he sat down to read the book he had grabbed earlier.

They both sat in silence for a few hours, reading books, before Snowstorm began to stir.

Her visor lit up, turning from black to grey.

She didn't even stretch; she just began to slightly move until she sat up.

It was as plain as day on her face that her mind was still clouded by the fog of sleep, even if she was on high alert, for some unknown reason.

"Hey Yuki!" Asriel said, excitement dripping from his words.

Snowstorm flinched and looked around wildly before realizing just where she was and that they were not enemies.

'Not enemies, they are not enemies…' she chanted in her mind as she took a deep breath.

Asriel held out the folded shirt towards Snowstorm or atleast, what Sans presumed to be a shirt.

"I noticed you don't have a shirt! Put this one!" Asriel said, still cheery.

Snowstorm took it, unfolded it, and saw it was a smaller version of what Asriel was wearing.

Blushing, she signed that she didn't know how to put it on.

Asriel and Sans exchanged looks before chuckling.

"We'll help you put it on." They both said, before grabbing the shirt over Snowstorm's head and carefully maneuvering her arms through sleeves, and pulling them straight so they weren't bunched up, and did the same with the rest of the shirt.

After it was successfully put on, and not backwards, it went down to just below her knees, making it look like she was wearing a dress.

Snowstorm moved around a bit and was relieved when she felt no restriction.

She smiled at them, even if it was a small smile, it made them happy.

'They are so nice… I'm starting to think the humans were complimenting me even if they meant to insult me!' Snowstorm thought, her smile broadening a bit, her fangs showing slightly.

Snowstorm's stomach growled.

She blushed. 'Why stomach…why now?...' Snowstorm thought.

Sans looked at her confusedly and Asriel… you could almost see the cartoon light bulb turning on over his furry little head.

"You're hungry! Let's go get some food!" Asriel almost shouted as he jumped up; Snowstorm once again flinched in response, but Asriel ignored it, and Snowstorm's smile never left her face.

It was as if it was an instinctive response even if she wasn't afraid.

Sans took note of that and filed it away for later.

Chuckling as he shook his head, Sans followed after them, only for Papyrus to stop them.

"Hey! Brother! Would it be alright for them to meet Undyne?" Papyrus asked, excitement filling his voice as he held his phone in hand.

Sans debated this, he wasn't sure if Snowstorm was up to it, but… she seemed to be doing fine, so why not? It would be best if her utter fear of every living thing and loud noise disappeared, or at least, lessened enough for her to do more than she did.

Asriel didn't know how Snowstorm would react to Undyne, as he had spent very little time around Undyne when stuck as a flower due to the fact… well, Undyne… didn't take kindly to him to put it lightly.

"Alright.. but me and Asriel are coming with." Sans said, a tone of finality in his voice.

"Alright then! Let's go!" Papyrus exclaimed, marching out the door.

Snowstorm didn't hide behind Sans and Asriel this time, merely flinched.

A sign she was growing used to Papyrus.

Snowstorm and Asriel played around in the snow as they walked through Snowdin.

Soon, the surroundings starting turning into a marsh, and waterfalls and wet grassy areas filled the path area instead of snow.

'Why…why is the grass purple?' Snowstorm groused.

To her, the only thing purple belonged on was her Kaa-san.

And maybe the dress she was wearing.

As she continued to wonder how much of the underground was actually purple, they came upon..

A fish shaped house.

'What in the name of Primus…?' Snowstorm said in shock, internally gaping at the huge fish house before her. 'It's almost half the size of Kaa-san!' she shouted, fear leaking into her voice.

Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, and Asriel were already taller than her… so how tall was the person who lived here?

Papyrus walked up to the door and knocked.

Snowstorm had to try hard to not gape at the sight before her, a tall fish person with red hair, taller than Papyrus by at least a foot or two, wearing a black eye-patch over the left eye, a black tank top, blue jeans, and gold and red boots answered the door.

"Hey Undyne." Papyrus said, unintentionally raising his voice.

Snowstorm flinched and inched behind Asriel and Sans.

Suddenly a scream was heard, coming from where they came from.

Snowstorm turned on the dime, she knew that scream, she heard it before.

She didn't know where from.

But she knew it wasn't good and it led to bad things.

And so, she bolted.

The bandages around her ankle began to unravel as they got soaked by the swamp water, oddly enough they had never gotten wet from the snow.

The Bandage wrap around her left leg also began to undo itself, a faint icy blue coming from it.

Following the traces of echoing across the walls of the cave system where the marshes lay.

The others were running behind her, but she never noticed just how fast she was running.

Nor did Snowstorm notice the icy blue glow coming from her skin, or the icy blue vein like strips weaving out in swirling patterns from the center of the mark that was partially covered by the bandages on her chest.

It wove itself around the natural marking, creating jagged spikes here and there, it wove up her neck, creating more and more jagged spikes and less swirls as it went up the next before ending on the underside of her chin.

The markings continued weaving in and out of themselves as they wove around her arms, lower torso, and legs, before ending on her heel.

As it had spread to below her knees the others took notice.

'NO NO NO! I WILL NOT LET ANOTHER CHILD DIE!' Snowstorm screamed internally.

Sans stared wide eyed as he forcibly sped up, using his magic to increase his speed.

But to no avail, he was still at least five yards behind Snowstorm, and was still falling behind, showing that Snowstorm was speeding up.

Suddenly Snowstorm came to a dead halt and jumped off of a cliff and down the water fall.

"NOOO!" Asriel, Sans, Papyrus, and Undyne-she had seen the signs that something was wrong, and so was worried.- yelled.

Suddenly, a distant, low, howling screech was heard.

Then it came again, louder.

And again, even louder, and accompanied by the sound of beating wings.

And then, the edge of icy, undetailed wings appeared from the edge of the cliff.

Another beat of the wings and Snowstorm appeared, carrying Monster Kid, who was bigger than her by a foot, before landing on the ground.

The ice wings shattered, and both her and Monster Kid fell to the ground.

The others looked at her in confusion, humans shouldn't have magic.

They all exchanged confused looked, even Asriel who had seen Snowstorm use a Snowstorm use an ice barrier before.

When they looked back at where Snowstorm had collapsed, she was gone.

A series of confused noises were heard.

Sans and Asriel exchanged looks and knew that it was best to send Undyne back with Monster Kid, instead of her searching as it might scare Snowstorm further if she somehow ran off in fright she would be rejected.

"Undyne, you go back with Monster Kid, we will search for Yuki." Sans said with a no-nonsense voice.

Papyrus straightened up, he had only heard his brother use that voice once before.

It meant anyone who argued against it was going to have a Very Bad Time.

Papyrus and Undyne exchanged looks, both nodding.

Undyne picked up Monster Kid and walked off while the others started running off in some random direction.

Well…

All except Sans.

While the others weren't looking, Sans took a deep breath, and surrounded himself with his magic.

And in a flash of light, he was gone.

Meanwhile… with Snowstorm…

'Someone… Someone hurt… not physically… but…' she didn't finish the sentence. As she came upon the door, her markings still glowing.

She stumbled as she walked; her body sore.

She came across a door.

She could almost feel the pain radiating off the door.

Clumsily, she reached towards the doors handle, and twisted it open.

Entering, there was a dark hall way, leading to a room.

She walked through the hall and into the dark room, only to see a figure that looked like a.. combination of Sans and Papyrus?... wearing a tuxedo with the lower half of his body melted, or at least, it looked melted.

The upper right part of his skull was cracked with his right eye looking like a lazy eyes. A crack ran down from his left eye to the edge of his mouth. His skeletal hands had a large hole in the middle of each palm.

His expression was one of sadness, pain, and he looked.. almost broken.

She slowly took a step forward, not wanting to scare the already.. tortured soul..

[Are you.. Alright sir? You look sad… also, I'm Yuki, what's your name?] Snowstorm asked, not wishing to bring up his appearance in case that was what was causing his grief.

The man, having previously been looking down at the ground, looked up at Snowstorms glowing figure in the dark.

His eyes seemed to widen in shock.

[You know this language? My name… my name is Gaster.] He signed shakily, spelling out the last part. A smile of relief forming upon his lips as Snowstorm nodded.

[Why are you sad, Gaster?] Snowstorm asked, tilting her head slightly out of habit.

[Lonely] was the simple reply.

[Then why don't you just go outside?] Snowstorm asked.

Gaster seemed to sweat drop before showing the palm of his hands again, pointing out that he can't turn the door knob.

[I can open the door for you!] Snowstorm answered happily, but then she paused, [why were you trapped in this room anyways?]

[Experiment gone wrong… he threw me in here…] Gaster, his hands staying firm when he signed the word "he".

This piqued Snowstorms interest, [Who?]

[Asgore, the king. he feared the other Monsters would find out what testing had gone on in the True Lab…] Gaster replied, trailing off towards the end, his hands staying still.

Snowstorm shook her head, and gently put her hand flat up against Gaster's open hand.

[Lets go outside, you shouldn't be trapped in here… I know what it's like...] Snowstorm said, accidentally slipping and signing the last part even though she didn't mean to.

Gaster moved forward, and.. fell down to his knees, hugging Snowstorm, silent sobs wracking his body.

Even though she still didn't like touch, she couldn't… no… wouldn't, let someone suffer the same fate as her.

Pulling away slightly, she tugged Gaster's right hand and led him towards the door.

Opening the door, she went out first, showing Gaster it was safe.

Gaster followed, a look of relief and amazement was as clear as day across his face.

[I should get back to Sans, Asriel, and Papyrus now… they are probably worried about me…] Snowstorm signed once Gaster had stopped looking at the world around him like Christmas had come early, which for him, it technically it did.

[You know Sans and Papyrus?] Gaster Signed hastily.

Snowstorm nodded.

[Could] pause [could you bring me to them? I… I miss them…] Gaster signed in an almost begging manner.

Snowstorm didn't answer, but instead, smiled and grabbed his hand, leading him back the way she came.

She would do anything to make sure that Gaster would see someone that was familiar to him, but not the one who had trapped him in that small black room. For she knew what it was like to meet the person who had done that after so long..

You want nothing more than to rip them to shreds.

They went through the marsh, Snowstorm making sure to avoid the water pools as best as possible.

Using her visors mapping ability, she took a path that was used less often, and therefore had less wear and tear in it.

Quickly, she led Gaster through the marsh and through the trees behind Snowdin, and to the back entrance of Sans and Papyrus' house.

She was thankful the door was unlocked, and led Gaster in. Closing the door behind Gaster, and leading him to the living room.

After that she tugged him upstairs, he took each step up the stairs with uncertainty as he wobbled and repeatedly almost lost his balance.

Throughout the whole ordeal of the stairs, Snowstorm helped him keep his balance.

Just as her Kaa-san did when she had to learn how to walk properly and not constantly hug herself in a corner as she had done in the orphanage.

She opened the door to the room she woke up in, which she assumed was probably Sans room.

Gaster sat on the bed, his half melted lower half moving oddly.

Snowstorm also sat down, her markings fading to a dull silver that barely stood out from her skin, and with that, she fainted from exhaustion, her body falling onto the bed.

In a flash of blue Sans appeared.

When Sans eyes landed on Snowstorm and Gaster his eyes widened in shock.

"Gaster…? Is that you…?" Sans asked, his voice barely a whisper and electric blue tears streamed down his face.

Gaster nodded his head, and gestured towards Snowstorm, a small, thankful smiled gracing his face.

"What…how….why..? How?!" Sans said in confusion, before pausing. "I Better call Paps…Gaster… you have some explaining to do…" Sans muttered.

Gaster sighed, his smile turning into a sad frown as he ruffled Snowstorms hair.

He indeed did have a lot of explaining to do, but they may not like his answers.

White: MWAHAHA~

Yeah yeah, you guys say "IT'S A CLIFF HANGER ON A ONE SHOT?!" well, guess what, this is only what I have for now! I plan on making a sequel!

After I finish that comic… so don't expect part two for a while.

And thank you Sun the man of Hope for the encouragement!