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Under the Spotlight: Chapter 12

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The next day, Sans received a call. With the start of the weekend, Sans only received phone calls if there was an emergency. So, when his phone buzzed, he groaned, levitating the device over to him without leaving my side.

 

“…’llo?” He greeted huskily.

 

“Sans, how are you, dear?” A motherly woman greeted cheerily.

 

“tori? what’s up?” Sans sat up, his sleepiness forgotten.

 

“Well, word around the grapevine is that you are involved with a mage. Is that true?”

 

Sans sighed. “damnit…”

 

“Language, Sans.”

 

“sorry. and yeah, she’s my soul mate.”

 

“Oh, that’s fantastic! Well, we’ll be over sometime later today, so please make sure to get up and be ready for our arrival.” Her tone made it clear she suspected what our most recent activity was.

 

“wait, who is we?” He questioned in a rush.

 

“Who do you think, dear? Undyne, Alphys, Papyrus, Frisk, and I will be coming over.”

 

“hang on! i didn’t invite you!” He cried defiantly.

 

“How rude! Well, good thing your brother can open the door should you be unwilling.”

 

“tori, don’t you fucking dare!”

 

She sighed. “Be ready to greet us!” She hung up right after.

 

“damnit, woman!” Sans growled, throwing the phone across the room. It bounced once and safely landed on a pillow across the room. “you can’t just do that!”

 

“So, some people will be visiting?” I inquired, despite hearing the whole conversation.

“yeah, toriel is a bit much sometimes. guess we better get showered and dressed.” He glowered at nothing. “the last thing i need is any of them teasing me, or you, because of our recent activities.”

 

I grinned, kissing his cheek as we both stood up. “Will they be mad if they find out we’re sharing a bed and making love without being married, or Soul Bonded?”

 

“it’s not that. they would only be ‘mad’ if i got you pregnant and we weren’t bonded. they would immediately demand i marry you if that happened. normally, i would have no problem with having kids with you now, but with sandy and the rest of her family still being an issue, i can’t afford to deal with any additional things.”

 

I blushed and nodded, completely understanding where he was coming from. It was also at that moment that my stomach growled.

 

He chuckled, pulling me against him and stroke my belly lovingly. “okay, quick shower and then we’ll eat breakfast. unless you want to shower right after breakfast.”

 

“Shower first. I can wait.” I didn’t want Toriel to come in when we weren’t ready. We showered together, taking about ten minutes working together, and got dressed before heading downstairs.

 

“what are you hungry for?” Sans asked, opening one of the two refrigerators.

 

“Um, I don’t know.” I paused. “Why do you have two fridges?”

 

“one of them keeps things heated while the other keeps things cold.” He explained. “the heated one was alphys’ invention.”

 

I whistled. “That’s pretty smart.”

 

He nodded. “how does eggs sound?”

 

“Sure, but I’m cooking them.” I replied defiantly. He gave me a surprised look before shrugging.

 

I finished up five helping of eggs, Sans having set the table, when the doorbell rang. Sans gave me a look before going over to the wall and opening a key pad. After inputting several codes and using his DNA to unlock everything for the guests waiting outside, he closed the key pad and went to sit down.

 

“Shouldn’t we greet them?” I asked worriedly.

 

“you can if you want,” He said around a mouthful of food. “but i’m not. if they’re gonna come by uninvited, then i’m not gonna greet them.”

 

I sighed exasperatedly, leaning over to give him a kiss on the cheek. He hummed gratefully and watched me as I walked into the foyer, smiling politely as the front door opened, four monsters and one human stepping inside.

 

“Hello!” I greeted, my nerves making it come out a little shaky. But given the stature of the monsters in front of me, I don’t think I could be blamed for being nervous.

 

“Hello, dear. You must be _____.” The female goat monster whose voice matched the woman in the call from earlier greeted back. I nodded, extending my hand to shake. She took it sweetly. “No need to be nervous. We are here to support you and Sans.”

 

“i didn’t ask for help!” Sans called from the other room.

 

“Sans Aster, if you want to join the conversation, you can stand up and join us like your Soul Mate has graciously done. You are being very rude by acting like this.”

 

“whatever, mom.” He growled back.

 

Toriel huffed, but shook off her frustration as she turned back to me. “I’m sorry if we have burdened you with our visit.”

 

“you should be.”

 

“But those of us who haven’t met you yet wished to meet you.” She continued like Sans hadn’t interrupted. “Since you are Sans’ Soul Mate, you have become an official part of our family, legally once you are bonded.”

 

“How did you find out?” I inquired worriedly.

 

“Oh.” The goat paused. “Well…you see. Um…”

 

“IT’S ALL OVER THE NEWS, PUNK!” The fish monster bellowed. I jumped, hand over my heart as I breathed deeply to regulate my heart rate.

 

“I’m so sorry.” Toriel blurted. “Why don’t we all calm down and introduce ourselves?”

 

“Um,” I cut in. “How about we do this while we eat? I made a lot of eggs, so you can help yourself.”

 

Toriel beamed. “Oh, how thoughtful.”

 

I led the way into the kitchen where a grumpy skeleton was currently stuffing his face with eggs. He glared at the group until his gaze locked with one of the monsters, a taller skeleton who, given what I had been told, must have been Papyrus.

 

“BROTHER!” Papyrus cried in a voice that was much higher pitched than Sans and had sounded almost cartoonish. “I MISSED YOU!” The tall skeleton bounded over to Sans and hoisted him up into a hug. Sans immediately latched onto his brother like a koala and nuzzled against his brother. The embrace was comical and precious all at once.

 

“That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed.” I breathed quietly, in awe. I had meant to say it without anyone hearing. However, in the silence that had settled, it was like shattering glass.

 

Sans flinched and immediately dislodged from his brother, face the darkest shade of blue I had ever seen. “pap, put me down, bro.”

 

“NO, BROTHER! WE ARE SHARING A BROTHERLY EMBRACE TO MAKE UP FOR THE TIME WE HAVE BEEN APART!” The gangly skeleton declared adamantly. “NOW RETURN MY AFFECTIONS AT ONCE!”

 

Sans groaned but obeyed, burying his head out of sight as much as possible. I couldn’t help grinning brightly as I took out my phone and snapped several pictures. The child, Frisk, giggled and did the same.

 

“Holy shit, punks! Send me those, please!” Undyne laughed. Toriel shot her a glare, but the fish monster didn’t see it.

 

Sans looked up at me in dismay just in time for me to snap another picture. “Yes! That was the perfect shot!” I giggled.

 

“babe, noooooooooo!” He groaned miserably.

 

“You are my new hero, ______.” Undyne cheered, clapping me harshly on the back.

 

With that, I traded numbers with her, Papyrus, Frisk, and Toriel as we all sat down and ate together. I explained the situation with the help of Alphys and Sans, the latter gaining back his wits as the embarrassment faded.

 

“That is terrible.” Toriel cried when we had finished. “I hope this Sandy girl and her family will be brought to justice.”

 

“yeah, same.” Sans grumbled. “while _____ is a powerful mage, i don’t want her to be in danger. if she is living with me, the chances of sandy or anyone else hurting her are far slimmer, but there’s always a chance.”

 

“I got an idea!” Undyne declared.

 

“oh boy, this is gonna be bad.” Sans grumbled sarcastically.

 

“Shut up!” The fish woman barked. “You gotta tie the knot with ______. It will make it easier to keep others off her, and if she is in trouble, you can sense her, and come to her aid. Or she can get legal help under your name.”

 

I stared at Sans, face flushing crimson as my thoughts raced.

 

“y’know, every time someone tells me to marry her, it’ll just take longer because i don’t like it when people tell me what to do in my personal life. so, unless everyone stops pressuring me, nothing is gonna happen. and i know for a fact that this lady wants to go to the next level, so everyone better stop being so damn pushy.” I gave him a whack on the ribs as I glared at his smug face. He responded by kissing me passionately, snickering as I shuddered.

 

“____ isn’t the only one who wants to get to the next level, nerd.” Undyne commented smugly.

 

Sans stared at her sideways, his pupil flashing brightly in warning. “very true. so i suggest you back off, fishbreath.”

 

“I CAN AND WILL DESTROY YOU!” She roared back.

 

“is that a challenge?” Sans countered.

 

“You think just cuz you’re taller now and the richest dude in the world that you can beat me?” The fish spat.

 

“why don’t we go to the gym downstairs and find out?” He replied smugly. Undyne only growled as she tore down the hall, a door slamming in the distance.

 

“Sans,” Toriel began worriedly, “only Alphys and Papyrus have visited this residence before, so will Undyne be able to find the way?”

 

My Soul Mate smirked. “the door has a sign ‘convenient gym for the rare times i don’t wanna be lazy’ on it. it’s in my font, of course.” The goat, dinosaur, tall skeleton, Frisk and I deadpanned. Sans snickered and nodded in the direction that their aquatic comrade had gone.

 

Down in the basement was a gymnasium that was bigger than some of the local gyms. In context, this gym looked like it should belong to someone as active as Undyne instead of someone as lazy and laidback as Sans. Thus, the looks of shock from the others was understandable.

 

“Damnit, nerd! What gives?” The fish woman snapped as we joined her. “Why would you have a gym in your home? And why a gym this frickin’ huge?”

 

“part of it is so i can monitor my stats. over there,” he pointed to a ten-person pod like the one he, Alphys and my mother had used when evaluating my magic, “this is the same machinery as the ones at my company’s lab. i have a remote so i don’t have to go back and forth to adjust what is being scanned.”

 

“O-oh! That’s a new addition, r-right?” Alphys piped up.

 

Sans nodded. “i installed it about half a year ago, a few weeks after pap’s last visit.”

 

I gawked. “You built it, by yourself?”

 

He chuckled. “yup. i wouldn’t be where i am today if i didn’t do most of the building for my company and its products myself. everything gaster industries uses or builds was done so the first time by me, designs and all. yes, i got help from alphys, and went off some old blueprints from my father, whom the company is named after, but otherwise, i did everything from scratch.”

 

“Gaster…was your father’s name?” I asked quietly.

 

Sans nodded. “it’s the name he went by. his name was wingding aster, but he took the ‘g’ in ‘ding’ and put it with the ‘aster’. he told me he didn’t like how silly his name sounded. he also didn’t like that i called him ‘dad’. he was ‘gaster’ to everyone, though i’m the only one with memories of him after being part of the accident that took him and his followers. i was the only survivor and the only one who can see him when he appears briefly in the physical world.”

 

The others looked uncomfortable, and Frisk looked particularly shaken, like they understood Sans’ position better than the others.

 

A subject change was in order, “So, you two are going to spar, right?”

 

“yeah,” Sans agreed, sending me a grateful smile before turning to his opponent. “you ready, fishbreath?”

 

“I am gonna make you sorry, nerd!” The warrior replied lowly.

 

Sans retrieved the remote and, with a press of a button, all the equipment was put away in compartments in the walls or lower in the ground. It place of it was a giant arena. With the adjustment complete, Sans tossed me the remote and urged our audience to make our way over to the pod. With the door to the pod closed, Alphys began plugging in the data to monitor activity.

 

“R-ready when you are!” She called into the microphone when she was done.

 

“set the countdown!” Sans ordered. Alphys nodded, and sure enough, two timers appeared on the far wall. The first timer began counting down from ten while the second timer read 00:00 and would thus begin timing when the countdown was over.

 

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GO!

So this was done last week, but because of my move...yeah...I'm so sorry! Anyways...

Enter...other UT characters. So, I wanted to have the other characters and see changes. Granted, I feel like a lot of them don't have enough 'screen time' in my fics and that's mostly because I just feel 'meh' about them. Papyrus is actually really frustrating to write because he talks in CAPS and that annoys me. Frisk is a character that I end up forgetting about in fics because as the player, I just don't think about them as much. ^^; I added some stuff in here so that they would have a bit more presence, but I just...ugh, it sucks.

Sorry.

Reader, OCs, Under the Spotlight (c) RTNightmare 
Sans, Monsters, Undertale (c) Toby Fox

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