hOI! Temmie here!

This is my first story in a long time, so excuse me if my writing's a bit... well, you know! cx

Disclaimer: I don't own Undertale or Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Temmie, Napstablook and Alphys, but it'd be cool if I did.

This story speaks of five young monsters who, after a little incident, find themselves on the surface in the human world. There, they meet lots of new people- some of them are a valuable and perhaps vital aid to their mission of returning home, but others are a little less... friendly. Join Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys, Napstablook and of course, Temmie, as they journey through the world above.

SANS

Something was wrong, he knew that much.

But whatever that thing was, he just couldn't put his phalanx on it.

Oh, right, that was it.

He was awake, but he couldn't see.

On the other hand, he could hear. What he heard was not much, but he still gripped onto it like Tarzan grips his vine. All he heard was incoherent mumbling. "Mmmmnnnuhhh... RAH! DIE, PUNK!"

Decidedly, Undyne was there too.

Sans gave a large internal sigh. That just seemed to exacerbate everything. The dull throbbing in the back of his skull which he hadn't noticed before erupted into a plethora of pain. Thankfully, due to his famously laid-back attitude, Sans was somewhat an expert at equanimity. He steadied his mind as the pain dimmed down, a wave of relief surging through his bones.

He lifted his heavy eyelids, revealing the two glowing orbs of light residing in his sockets. Yet he still saw only darkness.

That's when he remembered the awkward position he was in. He was slumped against a... wall... with his legs sticking upward and his face pressed against the ground. He manoeuvred himself around until he was sitting up. It was still pretty dark, but he could now make out where they were. Some sort of deep ditch. Passing his gaze around the hole, he saw Undyne, in the same position he was in now. Her eyelids were snapped shut, yet she was murmuring angrily and waving her arms, as if to ward off an unwanted attacker. Leaning against her was Alphys. Something about that made Sans smile.

A pang of worry and guilt hit Sans like a freight train. Papyrus. Where was he?

Sans let out an unintentional maudlin sob. He'd sworn to always look after his little bro. So where was he? Sans didn't remember what the events were that had led to them being here, but he sure hoped it didn't involve Papyrus'...

He couldn't finish that sentence.

And then, he saw the light.

He saw a glimmer of white.

White bone. Red fabric.

Sans leapt up and saw that his baby bones brother Papyrus was squashed against the wall. He wasn't hurt. He just looked asleep.

thank you thank you thank you thank you

Sans kneeled down and gently brushed Pap's skull with the back of his hand, his bones rattling against it. Sans' eternal grin grew wider than ever before. His brother was safe. It was alright.

Papyrus exhaled gently and shifted himself against the wall. The light of the moon bounced off his skull. In this angle, Papyrus looked like the quintessence of childish innocence.

Waiiiiiit. The light of the moon?

Sans lifted his socket-orbs to the... sky?!

There it was. The big white sphere which every monster just dreamed of seeing. A dream which Sans might once have labelled as quixotic.

But it was there.

And the stars...

There were so many stars. All glowing bright like night-lights in a dark, empty room.

It was utterly beautiful.

The almost romantic silence was shattered by a cheerful yelp. Huh?

Sans knew that yelp. Of course. There was another monster here.

Sans' grin widened as Temmie the tem looked up at him, tail wagging incessantly.

"hOI sens!1" Temmie exclaimed. "wher r wE?"

"i dunno, tem." i just sure as hell hope we're not dead. Temmie jumped into Sans' arms, sensing his worry.

"don wORY sens!1" Temmie yelped, nestling into his bony thorax. "we oKAY huh!?"

"yep. i'll get us outta here. but we're in a real... hole-y mess."

"sens, if U mAK punz den u put tEM down."

"heh. i'll ditch the puns for now."

"SENZ!"

Sans chuckled to himself. That's when he knew he'd been lying earlier. He did know where they were. He had no idea how they'd got there, but he knew they were there. They were at the surface. The land of the humans. The world above.

"GNNAHH! DIE, PUNK!"

Undyne was stirring. She stopped attacking the air (even before her awakening her actions had been getting slower and clumsier) and opened a single yellow eye. "Huh?"

Sans walked over to her - not that there was a lot of space to move in - and grinned at her. "hey undyne."

Undyne snarled, revealing her sharp teeth. She opened her other eye. "UGH. It's you, punk. What are you doing standing over me anyway?! GET OFF!"

Sans took a step back, careful not to step on Papyrus. "yeah, there are kind of more pressing matters at hand."

"SUCH AS?"

"we're on the surface."

"WHAT?!"

Temmie looked up at Sans, a worried look on her face. "sENZ? r we on sURFIS?/"

"think so, tem. look up."

Undyne jumped up in one brusque and swift movement, causing Alphys to fall headfirst on the floor. The latter woke up with a start. "U-Uhh... Where are we?"

A little white ghost materialized in the midst of the impending chaos, causing everyone to give a slight scream in alarm.

"...oh...sorry...i shouldn't have come..."

Napstablook the ghost hung his head down in shame.

"don't sweat it, blooky. we're all a little jumpy right now."

Napstablook looked up at Sans. "...so i didn't shock anyone?"

"scare-cely."

"DON'T YOU DARE MAKE ANY PUNS, PUNK!"

"sENZ! nO puns!1"

"heh. i'm kidding."

Alphys took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes, sitting up. "W-where are we?"

"the surface, i think. look up. there's the ... the moon... and the stars..."

Everyone looked up and there was a collective taking of sharp breaths due to the beauty of the celestial world.

"W-why are we here?" Alphys asked shyly, putting her glasses back on to grasp a better view of the sky.

"that's anybody's guess."

"So it's me, Alphys, Napstablook, you and Temmie, stuck in a hole?" Undyne asked, leaning towards Sans somewhat angrily.

"nope. pap's here too."

Undyne rolled her eyes. "Naturally. You two skele-punks go everywhere together, don't you, huh?"

Sans just shrugged. The question didn't deserve an answer. "let's just be quiet, or he'll wake up."

"I-Isn't that a good thing?" Alphys questioned, Sans shook his head.

"he hasn't been sleeping very well lately. i'm kinda running out of bedtime stories to read him."

"You STILL read him BEDTIME STORIES?"

"he's little, undyne."

"When I was his age, I was suplexing BOULDERS, not following the adventures of fluffy bunny through frickin' fairy land!"

"that's just you, undyne."

"tEM hungry," Temmie suddenly announced. Sans then noticed how famished he was.

"me too."

"Meh. Yeah."

"I-I'm hungry too..."

"...don't worry about me..."

Sans looked back up to the opening of the hole. "if we get on each other's shoulders, we might be able to work together and get out."

Undyne snorted. "Good luck with THAT, shorty!"

"i am not short."

"Yeah? How come your brother's practically your height?"

"leave him out of this."

"What?! I'm not even-"

"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!1!" Temmie screamed, much to everyone's surprise. "we r al gona NEVR get out iF U KEP rguing!1!1!"

"she's right," Sans admitted. "let's concentrate on getting out. uh, blooky, you can float out, right?" The little ghost nodded. Sans gave a sigh of relief.

"ok, that's blooky sorted. right. i'm gonna wake paps up." He put Temmie down on the floor and walked over to his younger brother, who was curled up against the wall. He gently shook his shoulders. "hey, paps? d'ya hear me?"

Papyrus stirred. Sans shook his shoulders again. "paps? papy? you here?"

Papyrus' eyes opened. "Sans?"

Sans' grin widened. "yeah, it's me. it's ok bro. you're ok."

"SANS? W-where am I?"

"don't worry about that. just come with me, bro."

"O-OK, Sans. I'll come." Papyrus reached his arms out for Sans to pick him up. Sans hoped the tears in his eyes weren't visible.

He heard Undyne make retching noises in the background and decided to ignore them. He pulled Papyrus up to his feet. Undyne was right. Papyrus was five years younger than him, yet he was practically his height. Huh. Maybe he was a little short...

"ok, uh. alphys, you're gonna have to, uh, get on undyne's shoulde-"

Before he finished his sentence, Alphys leapt up. "I-I can do that!"

Sans tried to control his grin, but even his sense of self-control admitted it was pretty cute. "ok, um. you, uh, you do that, right? alphys, you gotta climb out then. wait, uh. take Temmie with ya." He picked up the small monster and passed her to Alphys with ease. "ok. blooky, you ok up there?"

"yeah..." Napstablook replied shyly. "...i don't see anything... just trees..."

trees. maybe we're in a forest. huh.

Alphys was now balancing on top of Undyne's shoulders, blushing furiously. She grabbed the side of the hole, pulling herself up and hooking her leg over it. She lifted her other leg and stumbled back. "I-I'm up!" she exclaimed excitedly. "Y-You guys, I'm up!"

"It was still a stupid plan!" Undyne snarled, narrowing her eyes at Sans' grin.

"ok, undyne. get paps up now." He ignored Undyne's eye-roll. "just do it, ok?"

Undyne muttered unflattering things under her breath as Sans helped Papyrus onto her shoulders. Alphys helped the younger skeleton up. "H-He's up!"

"my turn now."

"What? No."

"undyne."

"No way!"

"undyne, just do it."

"What if I don't?"

"or else."

"Or else WHAT?!"

"or else you're gonna have a bad time."

The glowing white orbs in his eyesockets flared blue, but didn't burst into flame. Undyne eyed him and frowned. "Fine. But do it quickly, punk!"

"thanks a billion."

He started to climb up onto Undyne's shoulders, hoisting himself up onto the side with Alphys and Papyrus' help. He dusted himself off and looked around. Napstablook was right; all they saw were trees, and, well, the moon and the stars.

"HELP ME UP, PUNKS!"

Sans leant down and grabbed Undyne's hand He almost recoiled at the touch of the scales, but stopped himself. "alphys, paps, help me pull her up."

"I'm not THAT heavy!"

"you kind of are."

"Are you implying I'm fat? If I'm fat, what are-"

"no, you're just... stronger than everyone else."

"Huh! Get on with it, punk!"

Alphys held onto Sans' ribs and Papyrus wrapped his arms around Alphys' tail. They all pulled and with the collective force used managed to hoist Undyne onto the side with them. Sans looked back up at the trees.

"...i think i... hear something..."

"what is it, blooky?"

"tEM hear sumthin 2!1"

Sans strained his ears- or rather, that's what he would've been doing, had he possessed ears. Blooky and Tem were right, there was a distant sound audible in the clear night's silence. It sounded like... like music.

"maybe there's a party or something."

Papyrus gripped Sans' wrist. "Sans," he whisper-shouted. "Are humans dangerous?"

i don't know, bro. "nah, man. i'm sure they're fine."

"FINE?!" Undyne exploded. "THEY'RE EVIL! THEY GOT US STUCK IN THE UNDERGROUND IN THE FIRST PLACE! DID YOU EVEN PAY ATTENTION IN HISTORY CLASS?!"

"undyne, shut up!"

"I'M GOING TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF EVERY HUMAN WHO DARES TRY AND APPROACH US!"

"undyne, shut the hell up! and don't speak like that in front of paps."

"W-We shouldn't fight," Alphys reminded them. "I-If Undyne's right, then we should k-keep our voices l-l-low."

"...i think someone's... there..."

Sans whipped his skull around to see. He hoped, hoped, hoped that Blooky was wrong.

Papyrus' grip tightened. "I... Sans... I'm..."

"don't worry, bro. i'm scared too," Sans whispered back. He wasn't about to make some stupid act of bravado. He couldn't hide it.

"No... I'm not scared! I'm the Great Papyrus!" Papyrus whispered back with too much enthusiasm. Sans grinned back at him.

"you sure are, bro."

Sans turned his head back to the trees. He noticed that the others had gone deathly quiet, almost as if they were holding their breath. Amidst the silence, accompanying the faint music, rustling was heard in the trees. someone's there.

The rustling continued, then stopped abruptly, as if whoever it was realised something. The trees slowly parted, to reveal...

Everyone screamed.

Sorry it was so long. cx

For future reference:

Sans, Alphys and Blooky are twelve. Papyrus and Temmie are seven. Undyne is thirteen.

Thank you so much for reading. o-o

Constructive criticism is appreciated, as well as any feedback you have. If I get a few views/reviews, I'll continue it. cx Even if I don't, I'll continue- it's great fun writing this! :D

bOI!

~Temmie