Undertale fanfic : Stories From the Surface (1)

Chapter 1: A New Chapter





    The fight for monster rights was currently focusing on convincing humans to make experimentations on monsters illegal everywhere. Obviously illegal experimentations could still occur, however having the law on their side at last would help greatly. Also Undyne and her former colleagues (and Papyrus) were still patrolling Ebott to make sure everyone was safe. It’s not like they could count on the human police anyway.

The second part of summer was well-established now. Not a single cloud could be seen in the sky and the air was hotter than it had ever been all year. Monsters and humans alike were sitting in the park enjoying nice creams and cold drinks, children were throwing water balloons at each other…

A perfect day to go to New Grillby’s.

As usual, Sans was greeted by the other regulars as he entered. Sure, Grillby’s had moved to the Surface and gotten bigger than before with more and more new patrons (though on such a hot day not many were currently inside), but some things never changed. Like the smell of grease and ketchup and the same fire elemental serving him the same-

Wait, scratch that : Grillby wasn’t at the bar right now. Sans sat at his usual spot to wait for him, but a human appeared instead, the one he and the others had met right before entering D.I.E Laboratories a while ago.

“hey”, he greeted her. “’didn’t expect to meet you here. first day of work?”

“Hi!” she greeted back, adjusting her glasses. “And yes, it is. How did you know?”

“i’m a regular here.”

The human nodded slowly, then took the skeleton’s order. He hadn’t needed to actually order in a long time ; usually Grillby would just see him arrive and prepare his burger and ketchup right away.

“Monster burger or human burger?” the employee asked him.

“i can’t eat human food. ‘don’t have the stomach for it. literally.”

Sans winked and the human facepalmed at her own stupid question.

“Yeah, of course you don’t, why do I-”

She interrupted herself, muttered something under breath and then took off her glasses to clean her own fingerprints off of them. Once this was done, she disappeared into the kitchen, then soon came back with the skeleton’s order.

“so, how did a human get hired at grilly’s anyway?” Sans asked, grabbing the ketchup bottle.

“The boss wanted to hire actual humans to prepare the Human Food menu. I think. ‘Didn’t really say much. My brother makes most of it. The human food, I mean.”

“how’s he doin’?”

“Well he hasn’t literally lost face and he stopped randomly summoning dangerous weapons so it’s all good I gu…” she trailed off when the skeleton started to casually drink the ketchup from the bottle.

The look of confusion on people’s faces the first time they witnessed him do this was always priceless.

“Anyway, hum… what was your name again? I… IalwayshavetroublesrememberingnamesImsorry…”

“sans. and i don’t think i caught your name last time?”

“Call me Hisha”, the human smiled.

Another customer entered so Hisha had to cut the conversation short and take their order. While she was working, Sans finished his food and left a tip. Once outside, he took a shortcut home.

The house always felt silent and empty when his brother wasn’t there. The latter had been very busy patrolling the city lately and Sans just didn’t have the energy to join him. No-one had asked anyway.

The short skeleton picked up some stuff and left again to go to work. As much as he’d like to sit at home or Grillby’s and do nothing, someone had to provide for him and his brother.



Frisk was playing in the park with kids from their school when they stumbled upon a lemonade stand they were pretty sure wasn’t there before. Their friend Sans sat behind it, sleeping. Monster Kid, who was also there, called out to him, but Frisk new a more efficient way to wake him up.

They went behind the lemonade stand and gently shook the skeleton awake.

“hey buddy”, he said.

Frisk stopped shaking Sans immediately and he went on to add more ice cubes to the lemonade as though nothing happened.

“ice to see you. want a drink? it’s half off for you and your friend.”

The kids snorted at the pun then gladly accepted the offer. Soon, Frisk found themselves holding two plastic cups of lemonade with straws, drinking in one while they held the other for Kid.

Neither of them questioned where the lemonade came from. Given the familiar smell and taste, Frisk suspected Sans had just bought some at a nearby store to sell twice the price, but they said nothing.

They would usually buy something from him whenever they got the chance, just to be nice. Besides, store-bought or not, having something to drink was more than welcome with this heat.

If it weren’t for the constant attention of Asgore and other volunteers, the echo flowers of the park wouldn’t be able to survive this summer.

The two children said goodbye to Sans as they left to join up with the other children again. Kid even told the others about the new lemonade stand, which made Frisk smile. Looked like Sans would get new customers very soon.

The human child’s phone buzzed : it was a text from Toriel, who could no longer see them nearby. They texted her back with their exact location and soon enough the boss monster was in their line of sight again ; however she kept her distance for now to let Frisk enjoy their day off with kids their own age.

As the human was playing, they glanced at their mother from time to time as she watched over them from a large bench.

At some point, they saw that Asgore had showed up and joined her on the bench.The two seemed to get along a bit better now, but Frisk doubted their relationship could ever fully go back to how it was before… before…

“Yo, Frisk, look!” Kid called. “My sis got us more water balloons!”

It wasn’t long before all the children started chasing each other and throwing water balloons everywhere. Frisk shielded Kid from the attacks the best they could, but in the end everyone ended up soaked with broken balloon pieces stuck to them here and there.

Though, by the time Frisk came back home with Toriel, a large smile on their face, the burning sun had made most of the water evaporate.

They had barely stepped into the house when their phone (which was thankfully waterproof) buzzed again. This time, it was a text from Alphys :

“Did you see the news?”

Frisk frowned slightly, trying to guess whether what they were about to find out would turn out to be good or bad news. They went to sit on the couch in the living room just in case. They were about to reply that no, they hadn’t watched the news or TV at all today, but the lizard woman sent another text before they could finish :

“This country’s congress is willing to discuss the possible experimentation ban!”

The child’s face lit up. If the congress actually went through with this… This would mark a new chapter in the fight for monster rights.

The thought filled them with determination.