Well better late then... well no. I honestly didn't want this chapter to take 3 freaking months to finish, but I found a way. Despite the long time I had to work on it I'm actually on the fence with how this chapter turned out. But I guess that's up for you readers to decide. So enough chit chat lets get to the Story.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT!" Papyrus complained to sans as the taller skeleton finished setting up his latest puzzle. sans shrugged as Papyrus put the last tile on the 6 by 8 floor structure.

"i think ruby was ok with it." sans responded with a relaxed blink. Papyrus finished setting the last tile and turned his disapproving stare towards sans. "what?" sans awkwardly glanced at the snow.

Ruby absently looked down at the word search. "This is sans' puzzle!?" Chara complained as sans and Papyrus stood a few feet away waiting (and panicking a little) to see how Ruby would react. Ruby glanced at Chara with a tinny smile that made them only angrier. "Oh your thinking the same thing! At least Papyrus created an invisible and electric maze, this has literally zero effort put into it."

As Chara continued to complain Ruby looked over the word search for a few seconds. Both brothers watched Ruby with either nail biting stares or blank shrugs. A few seconds later Ruby looked up. "Here you go sans." Ruby walked up to sans and passed the paper to the shorter skeleton with a cheery smile.

Papyrus' jaw dropped when he realized that sans' puzzle was just a random junior jumble and that Ruby didn't even mark the paper. Chara meanwhile glared at sans out of spite for his laziness but then they felt something off about the cheery skeleton but they couldn't tell what.

"SHE DIDN'T EVEN CIRCLE ANY WORDS! SO SHE CLEARLY DIDN'T LIKE IT!" Papyrus continued to voice his frustration at sans. Who just shrugged.

"well she didn't have a marker or anything." Papyrus' eye sockets widened in surprise.

"THEN YOU PROVIDE THE HUMAN A MARKER SANS!" Papyrus lectured his bro on proper puzzle educate. "IT IS NOT FAIR TO THE SOLVER IF THEY ARE NOT GIVEN ALL THE PROPER RESOURCES BEFORE STARTING A PUZZLE!"

"huh, i guess that makes sense." sans turned neutral smile changed to his pre-quip smile. "i guess it's not that big of a puzzler why you're the best puzzler in the underground."

"SANS!"

"so i should just get a marker for my next puzzle?" sans was surprised when Papyrus rested his gloved hand on top of his head.

"THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY BROTHER." Papyrus clenched his other fist in a determined manor. "IT IS CLEAR THAT MY PUZZLES AMAZING QUALITY ARE THE ONLY PUZZLES CAPABLE OF MATCHING THE HUMAN'S SHARP AND INTELLIGENT MIND!" sans' smile widened at Papyrus' happy mood.

'that's… good.' sans again internally kicked himself for thinking of hurting Ruby. 'papyrus deserves to be happy like this,' But sans couldn't get the thought of Ruby's soul out of his head. 'even if her soul could be a match for… Him, she deserves to be happy to.'

"THERE IS SOMETHING THAT BOTHERS ME SANS." sans turned away from his internal struggle and looked up at Papyrus who was now crossing his arms and tapping his foot as he talked. "FROM THIS PUZZLE THERE ARE 2 OF MY PUZZLES FROM HERE TO YOUR PUZZLE," Papyrus then turned around and continued his monologue. "AND 2 MORE PUZZLES FROM HERE TO SNOWDIN."

sans glanced in the direction of Snowdin then back to his brother while he contemplated the word puzzle. "well in total that's 5 more puzzles then i had ready today." Papyrus gave an 'are you serious bro' look. "hey i'm never serious, but um… continue with your point… if there was one, i'm not really digging up what your plan-ting." Sans winked at the word ting just to emphasize the joke.

"WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS…" Papyrus' voice trailed off and his arms fell to his side. "I'M RUNNING OUT OF PUZZLES… AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF THEM WILL BE ABLE TO STOP…" Papyrus' voice started to trail off as he scratched his chin.

"uh… bro?"

"SANS WHAT WAS THE HUMAN'S NAME, AGAIN?" sans snorted and almost fell over. "SHE ONLY SAID IT ONCE SANS! GIVE ME A BREAK!" sans waved his hand in an attempt to recover from Papyrus.

"ruby." sans eventually got out. Papyrus was about to say something but then sans rattled off another point. "you even confused her with a rock which is-"

"ENOUGH!" Papyrus shook his arms over his head for a few seconds. Eventually he calmed down and coughed into his fist. "MY POINT IS, I DON'T THINK EVEN MY PUZZLES CAN STOP RUBY!" Papyrus' tone worried sans a bit.

"well… is that a bad thing bro?" sans tried for a reassuring tone. "i'm sure you got-" sans words were cut off when Papyrus suddenly perked up.

"NYH HA!" Papyrus cried, pointed across his tiled puzzle and then turned to face the interface for his puzzle. sans followed his brother's point and saw Ruby standing on the other side of the puzzle. Ruby was looking over the puzzle with a bit of confusion. sans noted that Ruby now kept her 2 and a half long stick on her belt like a sword.

"Does he expect you to bust a move or something?" Chara said sarcastically as they stopped next to Ruby. Ruby somehow managed to give Chara a 'give him a chance' vibe without even needed to face her ghost. "You know the fact that you aren't going to talk to me when others are around is fine, but don't use that tone with me!"

Ruby smiled, both from Chara's now humorous ramblings and because she saw sans and Papyrus. "Hi you guys." Ruby waved patiently waiting for Papyrus to start up his puzzle. sans returned the wave.

"sup."

"HUMAN!" Papyrus bolted back up to his full height. "JUST AS I PREDICTED YOU PASSED MY OTHER PUZZLES WITH LITTLE RESISTANCE!" Papyrus then glanced at sans and then back at Ruby. A single sweat ran down his skull. "BUT… JUST TO BE SURE, THOSE NOTES I LEFT FOR YOU DID EXPLAIN WHAT YOU SHOULD DO RIGHT?"

Ruby inhaled.

Chara looked over the note the Papyrus left in the snow while Ruby made drawings in the snow a few feet away. Chara was surprised that Ruby asked them to read the note for her. But it wasn't that hard to figure out why. "You're scared of the snow because it resembles monster dust." Their tone was surprisingly neutral.

Ruby glanced in Chara's direction. "And I thought you knew my every thought." Ruby's voice had a hint of sarcasm as she walked over to the note and used her stick to move the snow that covered it.

"That's not exactly how our connection works…" Chara crossed their arms as Ruby read. "I mean yeah I can 'hear you' read that note right now. But I can't just know everything about you in an instant." Ruby sighed and turned to a smiling Chara. "I like to take time, knowing people."

"What about all those people you killed?" Ruby swished the snow off her stick and put it on her belt. "Or me, You were pretty quick to try and kill me." Chara shrugged.

"Well, ok I'm pretty reactive. But I thought I already knew everything about you that was worth learning at that point." Ruby raised an eye brow as she walked over to the puzzle and started to solve it. "Your mom inspired you to be a good person, she died, and being an idiot you want to follow in her footsteps. If you think about it me killing you would have actually helping you see her aga-"

Ruby slammed her foot into the snow and turned towards Chara. "YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MY MOM SO SHUT UP!" Ruby glared at Chara who gave back their own murderous stare. Ruby's eyes sparked between silver and red for a few seconds until she forced her eyes to close. "My… my mom wouldn't want to see me like this."

"Fine." Chara abruptly ended the conversation and turned away from Ruby. Ruby meanwhile left Chara to solve the puzzle. 'Now what was wrong with that skeleton?' Something about sans had felt off about him when Ruby passed him his 'puzzle'. But they couldn't put their finger on it. "Well I'm sure I'll see him again... nah that's probably a given."

"Chara?" Ruby had solved the rather easy spike puzzle and was ready to move on.

"You done crying yet?" Chara remarked as they turned towards Ruby who blinked some remaining tears out of her eyes.

"I wasn't crying…" Ruby sniffed. Chara groaned and rolled their eyes. "But you crossed a line Chara." Chara glanced at Ruby now standing at her full height. "You can hurt me, But!... Please, don't talk about my mom."

Chara smiled back at Ruby. "Don't tempt me." The Ghost turned and then continued down the path with that smile. 'and by the looks of your tone I won't have to~'

"It… was pretty enlightening, but I understood what to do." Ruby reassured Papyrus.

"WELL THAT'S GOOD." Papyrus started to turn towards sans to make sure he was noting down what to do for his future puzzles. But sans was already holding a small note pad and pencil like he was a reporter.

sans winked. "don't worry bro, just work your magic." Papyrus smiled then clenched his fist and turned towards ruby with determination.

"WELL HUMAN LET THIS PUZZLE BE YOUR GREATEST PUZZLE YET." Ruby stood at the ready and took a step back when the tiles started to flash different colors. "GET READY TO FACE MY MULTI COLOR TILE PUZZLE!"

"I wonder what he named the other two puzzles." Chara said offhandedly as they redirected their attention from the puzzle towards sans. "Probably something better then, 'Some random word search I found this morning'."

Ruby was tempted to tell Chara to shut it again but Papyrus cut her off. "ALL RIGHT HUMAN, THE RULES OF THIS PUZZLE ARE SIMPLE, AS I WILL EXPLAIN THEM TO YOU RIGHT NOW!" Ruby, Chara and sans all stood ready for Papyrus' explanation.

ONE 2 PARAGRAPH LONG EXPLANATION LATER OF COMPLEX RULES LATER!

Ruby's brain was doing loops in her head by the time Papyrus finished his explanation of his current puzzle. Chara was blinking a lot thanks to the constant flashing lights of the tiles. sans looked like he had written everything Papyrus had said in his note book.

"SEE I TOLD YOU IT WAS EASY!" Papyrus chimed with a little hop of victory. "NOW RUBY! ARE YOU READY!?"

Ruby managed to shake herself out of the brain tangle and looked at Chara for something. "I'm tempted to help you. Not!" Chara walked over the puzzle and stood on the other side in a clear taunt.

Ruby almost slumped her shoulders but a paper airplane landed at her feet. Ruby gave the paper airplane a weird look. "SANS DON'T THROW THINGS AT RUBY!" Ruby looked up at sans who was now shrugging at his older brother.

"i just wanted to make sure she had all the rules on an easy to access paper." sans put his hands in the pockets of his hoodie. "didn't a great skeleton remind me that everyone needs to make sure all information is given to the puzzle solver so they can solve the puzzle."

Papyrus gave sans a confused look. "WELL I DID SAY THAT. BUT WHY DID YO THROW A PAPER AIRPLANE AT RUBY THEN!?"

"because i wrote the rules on that airplane." sans said matter-of-factly. Ruby silently thanked sans for his infinite kindness.

Papyrus had stars in his eyes. "WHY YES HE DID! GOOD WORK SANS!" With Papyrus' positive attitude towards it Ruby figured it was ok for her to read it. So Ruby picked up the paper airplane and unfolded it. The following words were a bit jagged but Ruby could make it out.

Pink is ok to step on

You can't step on Red

Don't step on anything else or you lose

Get to the other side to win

"SO ARE YOU READY?!" Papyrus stood next to the controls ready to flip a switch that stopped the flashing colors.

"I'm ready!" Ruby clenched sans' note and readied for what she guessed would be the craziest game of hopscotch she ever played. Papyrus flipped the switch.

A single path of pink tiles lined up in front of Ruby and the rest of the tiles where red. Everyone stared at the puzzle's unbelievable probability. Even Flowey had a deep epiphany on the concepts of gambling in his hiding spot. Ruby looked up just in time to see Papyrus start to spin and then spin away like Vegetoid.

"Well… I know what we're doing when we get to the capital!" Ruby pointed their blank glaze towards Chara as they walked down the pink path. "Oh right you don't know what gambling is…" Chara puffed as they turned towards sans who had a similar stare as Ruby's.

"I think I broke your brother." Ruby could still see Papyrus spinning down the path.

"nah…" Ruby glanced towards sans as he continued to stare at what she assumed was nothing. sans winked at Flowey, who realized his hiding spot was compromised and he disappeared into the earth. After that sans turned towards Ruby. "i think he just didn't expect, that, to happen."

"Neither did I!" Ruby ran a hand threw her hair and shook her head. "I mean the electric maze seemed pretty solid, and the floor puzzle was nice because it reminded me of the puzzles in the ruins, but..."

"but this one was just too based on luck?" Ruby nodded with a reserved smile, because she was mentally yelling at Chara to stop 'examining' sans without his consent. "anyway, i actually have a gift for you."

Ruby tilted her head to the side in confusion while question marks rose out of her head. sans chuckled as he pulled out a small bag out of his hoodie's pocket. Ruby's confused look continued but Chara narrowed their eyes as sans started tossing the bag like he was juggling with one hand. He actually made it look cool.

"so i know we didn't put bets or anything on that golf match," sans started to explain himself a bit awkwardly. "but i figured that you could use some monster cash in case you get hungry or something."

Ruby's eyes widened in understanding. "Wait, your giving me money?!" sans winked.

"well i'm not just going to give you money for nothing." Chara blinked in surprise and then blushed when their mind rushed to the most 'naughty' result of a male offering money to a female. "i'll trade you one piece of paper for this bag."

Chara fell on their face from that request. Meanwhile more question marks popped out of Ruby's head most of them related to why Chara had blushed. "Well that seems like a weird trade, I don't even-" Then Ruby snickered and held up the cheat sheet sans made her. "Here you go sir."

sans juggle tossed the bag towards Ruby who caught it with her free hand. "thank you ms. ruby." Ruby chuckled as she placed the paper in sans' now empty hand. "my hand writings still ok right? i think that was the first time i've written in…" sans stared off into space as if writing was an old sport he hadn't played since preschool.

"I could read every word, and you summed up everything really well." Chara, who mentally read what the note said from Ruby's short term memory, gave Ruby a slow eyebrow raise. 'What?' Ruby mentally asked.

"Nothing…" Chara whistled in what Ruby would say an innocent manor. But it was Chara, so something had to be up. "Now that is stereotyping… well if there was more than one of me." Chara witted while still looking over sans like he was art and they would have to write a report on him later.

"well that's… uh you ok ruby?" Ruby blinked as her attention was drawn back to 'the canvas'. "you sort of lost focus on reality." Ruby blushed from embarrassment.

"Oh- Um sorry I just-"

"ah don't worry about it," sans waved it off as he put his note in his hoodie pocket. "I often daze out of reality too." With that sans yawned (without opening his jaw, or even changing his smile), closed his eye sockets and fell asleep right there.

"Wow! What a lazy bones-" Chara instantly hated themselves for saying that. "AH HIS STUPID JOKES ARE GETTING TO ME!" Chara continued to flail around in anger while Ruby tested to see if sans had actually fallen asleep.

After several subtle attempts to try and wake up sans didn't seem to work Ruby huffed. "Well… I guess… I'll see you up ahead sans." Ruby figured that skeletons weren't actually affected by weather by the way Papyrus' outfit was designed, so sans should be ok. "Just don't freeze." Ruby patted sans on the top of his skull and walked down the path.

"You should have tried to kiss him to wake him up." Chara said offhandedly as they appeared next to Ruby.

Ruby frowned as she put a hand up to her lips. "I've licked a flap poll in winter before." Ruby retorted. "It stung!" Chara was not amused of pitied.

"Well anyway, I've figured out what's wrong with sans." Chara stretched and Ruby gave them a confused stare just like they had with sans. "He's feeling guilty towards you. I don't really know why but it's defiantly suspicious."

"Or," Ruby held up a hand. "He could just have pity for a little girl lost in a strange land." Chara frowned upon Ruby's idealism.

"No. No monster, human, faunus or C.O.T.S. does anything without a reason or expecting to get something in return." Chara spoke in a bitter tone, although they knew from experience that those 'somethings' weren't always bad. Chara crossed their arms and grumbled at their self-contradiction.

Ruby was a bit confused as to why cots would want anything or why Chara would spell them out to begin with. But before Ruby could really ask she spotted Papyrus doing his best Chara impression next to what Ruby could only describe as a gigantic ice skate park.

"Um hey Papyrus." Ruby tried for an upbeat tone. Papyrus straightened up and turned towards Ruby with his normal Papyrus attitude.

"HELLO RUBY…" Papyrus' normal attitude started to fade as he started to poke his fingers together. "I UNFORTUNATELY HAVE SOME BAD NEWS." Before Ruby could ask what was wrong Papyrus held out a small piece of paper. "JUST READ THIS AND YOU WILL KNOW MY PAIN!"

Ruby took the paper and both her and Chara looked it over.

Dear Papyrus, Monster(s) who it may concern,

I regret to inform you that your 'enhancements' to the Snowdin skate park have been removed because of potential dangers towards monsters who will pass through the park as it is the only path that connects the Snowdin woods and Snowdin.

Sincerely, A caring substitute teacher.

Chara was not amused by the 'tone' of the letter. But Ruby was just confused as to what the letter could be referring to by enhancements. "Um… what does it mean by-"

"THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR NEXT PUZZLE!" Papyrus stomped his foot in anger, he then coughed into his glove to show some professionalism. "BUT IF ITS FROM A CARING SUBSTITUTE TEACHER I CAN'T COMPLAIN; I MEAN THOSE ARE SUPER RARE NOW A DAYS." Papyrus slumped over at his incompetence. "BUT I GUESS NO ONE REALLY LIKES ICE PUZZLES TO BEGIN WITH…"

Ruby walked over to Papyrus. "Well this isn't your last puzzle is it?" Papyrus turned towards Ruby's reassuring smile with his own depressing one.

"…NO…I HAVE ONE LAST ONE…"

"Well just go all out on this last one." Ruby jumped to pat Papyrus on his armor. "And I'll just play around this super boring park while you 'improve' that last puzzle." Ruby saw that spark of child-like determination return in Papyrus' eye socket.

"YOU'RE RIGHT RUBY!" Papyrus returned back to his full height as his scarf flapped in the wind. "I WILL CREATE THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE TO CATCH YOU THANKS TO YOUR KIND WORDS!"

"Well what are friends for." Ruby said offhandedly but as soon as those words left her mouth Papyrus literally froze in place. Ruby could tell because Papyrus' scarf had frozen in place as well. "Um… Papyrus. You ok?"

"WE ARE FRIENDS?" Before Ruby could say anything Papyrus picked the little girl up. "YOU WOULD CALL ME YOUR FRIEND!" Meanwhile Ruby started to panic as Papyrus started to toss her up in the air.

Chara chuckled as Ruby flailed her arms in the air like a panicked chicken. "Yes! But you should really get to your last puzzle!" Chara then busted out laughing when Ruby crashed into the snow when Papyrus didn't catch her.

"OF COURSE!" Papyrus ran straight onto the ice park and using one of the ice high pikes rocketed himself off into the direction of him last puzzle. "SEE YOU SOON!"

Chara smiled as Ruby got back to her feet and quickly brush off all the snow on her. When she finished Chara did their best skater gangster impression by leaning next to a half pike. "Your own words are your undoing." Ruby was not amused by Chara's tone or attitude.

sans stood at the edge of a cliff looking at a piece of paper like it was an essay he was supposed to proof read. Meanwhile Papyrus had set up all the remaining parts of his puzzles to activate on a bridge that had connected the cliff sans was currently standing on and another cliff that Ruby reach anytime time now.

"SANS SHE SHOULD BE HERE ANYTIME NOW!" Papyrus was jittering from a mix of nervous-ness, anticipation and frustration towards sans for not actually saying anything the entire time he had been setting up the puzzle. "SANS STOP READING AND SAY SOMETHING!"

sans put the paper back in his hoodie pocket and looked up at Papyrus. "strawberry soup." sans made a finger gun and winked.

Papyrus started to stomp his foot into the snow. "SAY SOMETHING RELEVANT TO THE CONVERSATION!"

Sans thought about life for a few seconds. "well i say it's a real puzzler why your-"

"GOSH DARN IT SANS! I MEANT-"

"your puzzle's going to one for the record book." sans gave a thumps up and Papyrus let out a sigh.

"THANK YOU SANS." Papyrus responded with a cheery smile. 'NOW WHY COULDN'T HE HAVE JUST SAID THAT EARLIER?' Papyrus glanced towards sans as he pulled out the same paper and began studding it again. Trying his best to be stealthy, Papyrus leaned over sans so he could see what his brother was reading. "WHAT IS THAT?"

"it's the paper i threw at ruby so she knew what all those tiles meant." sans passed the paper to Papyrus. "i was going for as few of word as possible." After looking over the 4 lines Papyrus nodded in agreement.

"WELL THEN… GOOD JOB, ALTHOUGH YOUR HAND WRITING COULD BE A BIT LESS JAGGED." sans coughed which Papyrus misinterpreted for him to keep going. "SANS I'M JUST TRYING TO GIVE YOU SOME POSITIVE FEEDBACK!" Papyrus faced his brother. "DON'T MAKE ME RAMBLE WHEN RUBY-" Papyrus stopped when he saw sans pointing across the bridge.

On the other cliff was a very disheveled Ruby. One side of her hair was sticking up, the jacket sans loaned her was covered in large dog print and her legs were wobbling like she had just stopped carrying something. "Hey guys." Ruby waved weekly.

"wow."

"OH NO! RUBY WHAT HAPPENED!?" Papyrus' worried tone made Ruby smile. "UM? WHY ARE YOU SMILING?" Ruby chuckled weekly as she rose back to her full height.

"Ah I just too excited to pet a dog and they got a bit too playful." Ruby scratched the back of her head as she continued to chuckle. "Luckily another dog helped me out and we just played fetch instead." Both Papyrus and sans gave Ruby a quizzical look.

"Yeah, the real luck was how you still have that stick." Chara scoffed at Ruby's summarization of what happened.

What had actually happened was that Greater dog had been playing with Lesser dog and both dog monsters tried to play with Ruby. Only Greater dog started to play rag doll with Ruby but Lesser dog stopped the bigger dog and explained (in dog language) that Ruby didn't like that. Then the three just played fetch.

"so I guess you could say that those dogs made you their treat." sans winked at the punch line and Papyrus started to stomp his foot.

"SANS WE DON'T HAVE TIME!" Papyrus changed his pose to his 'heroic' one as he continued. "BECAUSE IT IS TIME FOR MY MOST ELABORATE PUZZLE EVER!" Papyrus flipped a switch on a small control panel next to him and a loud rumbling sound started to echo through Snowdin woods. "BEHOLD! THE GAUNTLET OF DEADLY TERROR!"

Suddenly three things started to swing over the bridge like pendulums. The first object was a large fail on a chain, the second object was a large spear and the final object was a tiny puppy that yipped in excitement when it saw Ruby.

"That's not all." Chara pointed down and Ruby looked down in shock as three more objects under the bridge as well. In order they were: A flamethrower, another spear, and a large cannon. Ruby's eyes widened. "There's more." Chara pointed to Papyrus.

"BUT THERE'S EVEN MORE RUBY!" Papyrus said right on queue. Suddenly all the planks that made up the bridge started to flash just like the tile puzzle. "I'VE REPLACED ALL THE PLANKS OF THIS BRIDGE OUT OF MY MULTI COLOR TILE PUZZLE!"

"Um… ok." Ruby had droughts if she could complete the puzzle before but now she wasn't so sure.

"AND JUST BECAUSE I WANT THIS PUZZLE TO HAVE A BIT MORE PAPYRUS PIZAZZ," Papyrus pressed a button and plate of spaghetti appeared next to Ruby from out of a snowpuff next to her. "NOW MY ULTIMATE PUZZLE IS COMPLETE!"

As Papyrus continued to laugh at his own success sans, Ruby and Chara all looked at the thing in front of them with mild confusion. "Wow Papyrus you really went all out on this didn't you?" Ruby stepped forward so her next step would be on the bridge. "But I'll face it."

'YES,' Papyrus thought as he reached to hit the last button and stop the flashing tiles. 'THIS PUZZLE IS COMBINATION OF ALL OF MY GREATEST CREATIONS. IT IS UNSTOPPABLE, IT IS IMPENETRABLE, ITS…' Papyrus continued to stare at the button and everyone started to get confused as to why Papyrus hadn't pushed it yet. 'ITS NOT FAIR.'

"hey bro, you ok?" Papyrus turned and looked at sans. Sans didn't recognize the expression on Papyrus' face. "papyrus?"

"I'M SORRY…" Papyrus hit the reset button on the panel and all parts of the puzzle returned to place. Ruby gave a silent wave of sadness towards the dangling dog. It appreciated the gesture. "RUBY." Ruby redirected her attention towards Papyrus. "I NOW REALIZE THAT THIS PUZZLE ISN'T A PUZZLE EVEN I COULD COMPLETE." With that Papyrus turned and walked off.

"Wow." Chara raised their eye brows in surprise. "I think he just had an epiphany." Ruby thought that meant she did something wrong and made Papyrus sad, or even worse mad. So she bolted over the bridge using her semblance to try and stop Papyrus.

sans reached out and grabbed Ruby's arm with insanely fast reflexes. "Ruby." At first Ruby thought sans was made at her to and a look of self-disappointment started to spread over her face. But she was surprised when sans started to fix her messed up hair. "those dogs did a real number on you didn't they?"

Chara narrowed there eyes as they watched the following interaction.

Ruby's gloomy expression started to fade when she saw sans' smile. "There… nice, but a bit too active for me." Ruby glanced down the path but couldn't see Papyrus anymore. Her shoulders slumped. "I'm sorry sans."

sans gave his equivalent of raising his eyebrow. "why are you apologizing?" sans realized that he was still holding onto Ruby's arm let go so the girl could face him comfortably.

"I think I made Papyrus mad… or at sad… or… or maybe both?" Ruby's conflicted face looked back between sans and the path. Chara sighed as they really didn't like it when Ruby got like this. But to both Ruby and Chara's surprise sans started to laugh. "What's funny?"

"i think, no i know Papyrus is just conflicted. kind of like you are right now." sans silently chuckled at the irony of what he just said. "listen, the way things are going right now… you might have to fight my brother."

"Oh yes!" Chara chuckled as a familiar hole began to form in Ruby's stomach.

"of course my bro, could just be conflicted about being friends with you." sans quickly mentioned trying to elevate the look of terror on Ruby's face. It kind of worked. Ruby looked at sans with an attempt of a reassuring smile.

But everyone knew she was faking it.

"Thanks sans… and don't worry if Papyrus…," Ruby looked down at her shaking hands. "I won't hurt him." Ruby started to walk down the path but sans stopped her again.

"just so he doesn't hurt you to… let me give you some advice." Chara scoffed in disappointment but Ruby looked at sans with an expecting glance. "my bro's special attack… well let's just say it puts him on center stage." Sans then gave his classic wink like he was telling a joke that she would understand at a later date.

Ruby didn't really understand what sans meant but she appreciated it. She turned and hugged sans which surprised the skeleton but he patted her back in response. Chara would have vomited from the kitty romance that was in going on. But then a thought hit them when Ruby broke the hug.

"Hey so remember when I said that sans is acting weird around you?" Ruby ignored Chara because she really didn't want to talk to them right now. "Oh fine, I'll tell you later." Chara mumbled as Ruby redirected her attention to reality.

"Well, I'll see you sans." sans nodded and Ruby walked off in the same direction Papyrus had. After a few more steps Ruby was surprised to find that she was able to keep her head up and not collapse into a pit of sadness or something. 'I… I can do this.'

Ruby had managed to while completely humiliate herself in front of Icecap, be completely over run by several dogs, and get through all of a tricky skeleton's puzzles. But she hadn't had to resort to violence, and she wouldn't with Papyrus or any other monster either. "I can do this!"

Just then Ruby saw Chara materialize a few feet in front of them and it slightly broke the super self confident Boost Ruby was giving herself. "Well here we are." They were looking at a large Billboard. "One step closer to madness." Ruby gave Chara her, 'shut up' glance as they turned to look at the Billboard.

It read, WELCOME TO SNOWDIN

Ruby sighed. "One road closer to home, Oh Chara." Ruby turned towards Chara who was giving their own version of 'shut up' look.

"I know, I won't touch you while you're fighting Papyrus." Chara said with their fingers crossed out of Ruby's view. "And you know that with your luck you're going to have to fight-"

"What did you want to say about sans?" Chara was surprised that Ruby cut them off with a simple question. "You figured something out right? I want to make sure I didn't hurt sans or something to." Chara scoffed at Ruby's attempt to keep up her goody to shoe stick.

But Chara was to tempted with how Ruby would react if she heard their thought. "Ok~ well after thinking about it I think sans, is in love with you." Ruby looked at Chara for a solid minute as her brain processed and then she fell over from shock. "Ok… not what I wanted to happen but whatever."

sansXRuby confirmed? Nah. Just thought it would be a fun way to end the chapter. But I hope you all liked that chapter and next time its one of the most memorable and comedic fights in Undertale. Next Chapter its Ruby vs Papyrus and the fight... shouldn't take 3 months to upload.

Anyway time to get some stuff that people have either PMed (is that a word) or said in reviews.

Alright, so first lets go over Red. So a few people question what impact Red will have on the story and honestly I just found the character interesting and I thought it would be an interesting character to show off in parallel to Ruby.

Next lets go over how strong monsters are compared to humans. So I'm a believer in the whole there are no power levels but its just comes down to each persons skills and abilities. But if we want to talk in general, if a single monster and a single human walked into a room and both of them entered a death battle with only their fists the human would win. But 'certain' monsters in the Underground are more than a match for hunters.

Finally... lore, Ok I admitted from the first chapter that I have a hard time understanding lore. However I have since understood I can not tell a story like this one unless I expand on the existing lore. So yeah I hope the expansions aren't negative to the over all story or in general.

And with that I'll see y'all next time, and please leave a review on your thought of the story so far. P.G.P. out.