A Night Walk

Sans Pov:

I was very glad that there was a way for us to keep our normal bodies instead of having to live the rest of my life as a pony. I'm also like ninety-nine percent sure that Undyne would've murdered someone if she had to be a pony forever. When we finally came to terms with the fact that we were now in a new world, we all decided to put off everything else for tomorrow as everyone was pretty shaken up with the events of the previous day. I was perfectly fine with that. It meant I had an excuse to sleep without Paps yelling at me. I took a shortcut to a random empty room with a bed and claimed it as mine for the night. I know rude, but hey, I was bone tired. At least, that was what I was planing to do, before the kid tugged on my jacket to get my attention. The kiddo seemed to have gotten younger when we passed through the portal. Chara did too, Frisk seemed about eight now and Chara looked about ten. No one else seemed to have changed this way which was weird.

"yeah? what is it kiddo?" I asked them.

"Do you want to take a walk around with me? Please?" They asked. I was about to say no, that I was too tired, but they pulled out their ultimate weapon. The look. I succumbed before their power and conceded to their demands.

"sure thing kiddo, i don't see why not."

They smiled up at me before leading to who knows where. I decided to look around the building we had ended up in when we came through that portal thingy. From what I could tell, we were in some sort of crystal castle palace thing. Neat, I was a friend of a friend of royalty. Well more royalty, anyway, considering I was in a relationship with the Queen/Former Queen/Leader again of Monsters. We were walking for the longest time, it had been ages since we left the group and the kid still didn't seem to have a destination.

"kid, where are we going? it's ages since we started walking." I voiced my concerns.

"I'm trying to find the way out of this place and look around outside. Also Sans, it's only been ten minutes since we started walking." The kid giggled.

"yeah, well they were long minutes." I insisted. They rolled their eyes before we spotted another resident of this castle. She was another purple pony, her fur was a darker shade of purple than the other one's.

"Hello Lady!" The kid greeted, getting the mare's attention. She gaped a little in surprise when she turned around and saw us.

"Uhh."

"hi there." I waved. That seemed to snap her out of her stupor as she shook her head violently to the left and right.

"Sorry, Sorry, I just wasn't expecting to see a bipedal walking talking skeleton and a bipedal...." She trailed off.

"I'm a human." Frisk finished for the pony.

"Sorry, I just wasn't expecting you to look so different."

"heh, don't sweat it. it's tibia expected after all." I said, cracking out one of my signature puns. That seemed to cause the...byzantium? Screw it, going with byzantium. That seemed to cause the byzantium Unicorn to snicker. She seemed to enjoy puns, so that made this pony alright in my book.

"anyways, i'm sans. sans the skeleton. this adorable little ball of determination is frisk. frisk the frisk." I said holding Frisk up by her sides.

"Howdy!" She said before making a finger gun at the unicorn.

"Bang!" She grinned.

"Hello there little one. I'm Tempest, Tempest Shadow!" Tempest greeted with a smile as she leaned to Frisk's level. (She was pretty tall.) This pony seemed to also like kids. That made her even better in my book.

"That's an awesome name!" Frisk said with an adorable gasp. They were nailing the excitable eight year old act to the point I was starting to think they might've mentally reverted to an eight year old. They seemed to remember everything, though, so that was good.

"She is quite adorable like you say, Sans." Tempest said. I was about to correct the mare but Frisk did it before I could. They blew a raspberry at the mare before screaming;

"THEY!" They screamed before sticking out their tongue at Tempest.

"I'm afraid I don't follow." She said confused.

"frisk here is non-binary. they don't like being referred to with a specific gender, aside from the lone exception of the word 'sister'. only their sister can call them sister, though and vice versa." I informed the mare.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to offend you, little one!" Tempest exclaimed as she bowed her head low.

"S'okay, you're nice so I forgive you." Frisk said. This entire exchange happened with me holding Frisk by their sides. I was trying very hard not to laugh. good thing i'm so good at hiding my feelings from people (and ponies, now).

"Thank you, little one. I'm glad you won't hold it against me." She said happily.

I noticed that she had some kind of uniform on, and I also noticed that her uniform had that Twilight Sparkle pony's...Cutie Mark? I think that's what they were called. Anyways, she had Twilight's Cutie Mark on the flanks of her uniform. Oh yeah that's right. Twilight was an..Alicron, as they were called and I'm pretty sure Sunset told me that Alicorns' were regarded as Royalty and Goddesses throughout Equestria.

"are you a knight or something?" I asked her as I put down Frisk, much to their charge in. They really liked being held it seems. The byzantium unicorn seemed to puff up in pride when brought this up.

"I'm the Captain of The Sparkle Royal Guard, as well as Twilight Sparkle's wife." She said, practically oozing pride at the mention of those two facts.

"Oooh, you're a Royal Guard Captain, too?! I'm friends with a Royal Guard Captain!!" Frisk spoke up. Tempest seemed a little surprised by this revelation and looked to me for confirmation.

"it's true. they're practically besties." I admitted. Tempest grew a thoughtful expression at this.

"I wonder how strong she is." She pondered out loud. I then thought back to one of many of the...forbidden runs as I'm going to start calling them now. Considering the fact that Undyne remembers the resets to some extent, too, it's probably safe to say that Undyne is probably the strongest Monster there is, if you don't count my admittedly overpowered bullshit powers.

"I bet she's stronger than you, Tempest!" Frisk bragged with a grin. Tempest arched an eyebrow at the kid's words.

"Really, now? We'll have to put that to the test." She said.

"Perhaps another time, though. You all just got here, yes? You should probably get settled in." Tempest said.

"that's the plan. the kiddo want's to go for a walk and we don't really know how to get out of here, so would ya mind showing us the way?" I asked the unicorn.

"Right down that hall." She said while pointing to the hall on her right.

"thanks. welp, we'll be seeing ya later." I said, the kid and I waving goodbye to the unicorn before heading down the hall she had pointed out. We had been walking through the hallway in silence for a bit before the kid decided to break the silence with more conversation.

"Hey Sans?" The kid asked.

"yeah kid?" I responded while looking at them. They looked up at me, directly in the eyesockets. They had a glint in their eyes.

"I'm glad you decided to come walking with me." They said.

"sure thing, kiddo." I said with a grin. They grew their own grin before continuing with what they were saying.

"I would just be so bonely without you."

Oh. My. God. This kid is perfect!!

I ruffled the kids hair, causing them to giggle.

"kid, i'm so proud of you." I said sincerely.

"Hehehe, Thanks, Dad!" They said happily. Wait what?

"uh, kid? what did you just say?" I asked in surprise. Their eyes seemed to widen as they just now realized what they had said.

"Uh, I uh, I mean, uh. I meant to say Sans!!" They said frantically.

"uh huh, sure." I said, a little more sarcastically than I meant to. The kid then clung to me in a desperate hug. It startled me a little, causing me to step back a bit. After regaining my bearing, I returned the kids hug.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! Please don't hate me!" The kid said desperately, tears threatening to fall from their eyes.

"Hey, Hey, Frisk. I'm not gonna hate you for calling me Dad, I could never hate you. Especially considering I've come to see you as my own kid." I admitted. That seemed to do the trick as they stopped squirming frantically and looked up at me with a hopeful expression.

"R-Really? You mean it?" They asked hopefully. My concerned expression softened into a smile.

"Yeah, 'course I do, Frisk." I answered truthfully. After everything I have been through with this kid, there was no way I couldn't think of them as my own child of sorts. Even if they don't remember most of what I do, which saddens me greatly, but it's better that they don't remember the things from the other timelines.

"Thank you for everything, Dad." They said before going back to hugging me. I grinned at them before chuckling.

"heh, no problem kid." We continued walking down the hall and finally came across the exit to the castle. We left through the doors and walk out a bit before turning around to view the building we were in from the outside. We were both surprised when we saw what that it they castle was an actual giant living crystal tree.

"as huge as that thing is, there is no way that thing isn't bigger on the inside." I said in amazement.

"Que Tardis noises." Frisk joked, causing both of us to snicker. The sky was freaking beautiful in this world. I mean seriously, the sun was completely down but the sky was still a amazing shade of purple and there were so many stars! Papyrus would LOVE this.

"Wow, this sky is freakin' beautiful." I said in my amazement.

"It's so pretty." Frisk whispered, stars quite literally shining in her eyes.

"maybe we should get everyone together for this and go stargazing or something." I suggested to the kid. To my surprise, they shook their head negatively.

"No thanks, daddy, but right now, I just wanna share this moment with you." They said with a small smile.

"alright then, sure thing kiddo." I said before wrapping my arm around them. We then decided to walk around the town we were in and continue to sight see. The buildings around reminded me of rustic German architecture a little bit. Very nice. There was a building that looked like it was a giant cupcake, which was hilarious to me for some reason.

"Hey, dad, look! It's a gingerbread house!" Frisk as they pointed at the building I was just describing.

"oh jeez, kiddo. that's hilarious." I laughed. There were still ponies wandering about from here and there, but there weren't an over abundance of them. That was tibia expected though, it IS the middle of the night after all. There was a mountain in the distance in the east direction from the town and there was an other castle on the side of it.

'i wonder what that place is...' I thought to myself before Frisk pulled me along to somewhere. I saw they were directing us towards more ponies, most likely to talk to them.

I sighed to myself before preparing for more explanations and abusing Frisk's adorableness to diffuse tense situations. It's going to be awhile before I get to sleep, isn't it.

But as I saw the smile on my kid's face, I thought that a little sleep deprivation would be worth it.

??? Pov:

We've been walking for so long. This fucking sucks. She was leaning into me as we walked.

"I'm glad I at least have you." I told her.

"Me too." She replied with a small smile.

We still had each other, as cliche as that sounds. This was the one thing that was keeping the both of us going through all of this. Everyone we knew and loved before was now dead.

"I hope we can find a new life. If not in this place we're headed to, at least somewhere." She said.

"I know. I hope so too." I said as we continued walking. We had been walking for weeks now. Stopping only to sleep and eat and stuff like that. We had to resort to stealing food from places we had come across when we ran out of the little food we had taken with us from our hometown.

"I can't believe I used to like hiking when I was younger. Man I was an idiot." She said.

"Meh, it's kind of fun I guess, in a fucked up way." I said.

"You're an idiot now too." She teased.

"I can still drop you."

"...I guess hiking is fun in a fucked up way." She repeated. I rolled my eyes at my girlfriend's antics before deciding to carry her bridal style.

"The first thing we do when we find a place to stay is take a shower." I said.

"I didn't think you could still smell how bad we do, I thought we both went nose blind or whatever it's called." She said with a...look that I don't know how to describe.

"I never said it would be for just cleanliness, I just want a relaxing shower with my girlfriend." I clarified.

"You mean you want shower sex." She teased.

"....maybe..." I admitted.

"And you call me the pervert." She laughed. I gave her a playful condescending look.

"You're purposefully touching my breasts with yours right now." I said simply.

"....shut up." She mumbled. We shared a small laugh. I'm glad we were still able to laugh and crack stupid jokes after everything that happened.

I really hope we can start over in where ever we end up on our long journey. After a few minutes, she had fallen asleep in my arms as we continued to walk. Deciding to make a pit stop for the night, I found a small cave not far off of the road and placed her inside. I used my jacket as a blanket for her, and since I was almost twice her size, it worked pretty well. I sat up against the wall near the entrance to the cave and kept watch over her. I really didn't think it was a good idea for both of us to be asleep at once while we were in the wild forest. It's good thing that I can go so long without sleep.

"Another long night of creepily watching my girlfriend sleep....yay." I mumbled to myself.

Author's Note

The change between no capitalization to correct capitalization with Sans' words was on purpose. It was something that I think shows when he is being completely serious about something.

I enjoyed making this chapter yet again! I hope everyone likes it as usual.

Stay tuned for the next chapter sometime soon.