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In the morning you yawn and stretch out as you rub sleep from your eyes. You sit up and look over at the desk where you'd laid the book Toriel gave you. You get changed and grab the book putting it inside your pocket. Heading out to the living room you see Asriel and Toriel talking as they have breakfast. They both smile at you and say good morning. "Morning mom, Azzy. Mom I need to ask you something."

"What is it my child?"

"I know I promised you that I would work on my studies today in exchange to look over the book you gave me yesterday, but I'm wondering if I could have one more day to study it. This is the last day, I swear I'll study tomorrow, but I think I may know where I can get some information for translating what's inside it." Asriel gives you a look that he knows what you have planned, but you give him a look to not say anything.

"As much as I don't want you to get behind on your studies, this does pertain to understanding your magic. So I'll allow you to work on it today as well, but starting tomorrow I want you to work on your other subjects." You nod and give her a hug, "Thanks mom, I promise I will." Toriel gets up to make you some breakfast and after doing so, Toriel and Asriel head out to work on his magic lessons. Now with everyone occupied you finish breakfast and leave the note just in case you came home late.

You didn't want to leave Asriel with the burden explaining everything to your parents. Also if they did come looking for you they wouldn't find you in the underground, seeing as you would be on the surface. Walking back to your room you grab a gray hoodie jacket that Toriel made you, tucking your tail under it and pulling down to conceal it. You pull the hood up over your ears to hide them and finally you put on some gloves to hide the features of your hands.

You look in the full body mirror in the room to make sure nothing looks out of place. You didn't need to freak out anyone while at the library you just hoped no one bothered you. You head down to the barrier room and stare at it, "Well check off another promise I'm breaking. I'm really not good at keeping them, but I'll tell them the truth once I get back. I hope Asriel does a better job at keeping his promise then I have."

Walking through the barrier you emerge on the other side to feel the brisk morning air, "Well time for a leisurely run, but then again that would be contradicting myself. Should only take me a few moments to reach the city." Upon reaching the city you look around and now looking about you think this city looks familiar. You notice a few location you've been to when you were younger. We've been to this city a few time with your ex-parents. Its been a couple of years and you hope no one recognized you.

Asking some people passing by where you could find a library you get some directions and manage to find it. You never knew you had been so close to Mt. Ebott in the past. Though you really didn't have much of a chance to look around and the areas you visited blocked the view of the mountain. You make your way inside and get to work. Looking around you find some books on old languages and grabbed as many as you could taking them back to an empty table.

Pulling your book from your jacket pocket you're glad it was small enough to fit. You start cross referencing text and realized you didn't have anything to write down your findings. You pick up your book and head to the front desk asking a librarian if they had some spare paper and pencil you could use. The lady was polite and reaches under the desk retrieving the objects you requested. You head back to the table you were at and resume your task.

Time passed by quickly, you started around nine this morning and it is now one in the afternoon. You made some good progress and felt you had a baseline understanding on what is being explained in the book. You are glad for Toriel teaching you what she has, if you tried doing something like this a few years ago it would have been impossible. You put the pieces of paper of what you have manage to complete in the book and put back in your jacket pocket.

You return the books that you used back to their respective shelves and make walk around the library to look for some books Toriel could use. You grab five books and make your way to the front desk. "Excuse me, I would like to check these out, but I don't have a library card. I was wondering if I could sign up for one." The lady smile down at you, "Of course, you'll just need to fill out this sheet with the information required."

You manage to get by most of it, but the address would be a little difficult. You highly doubted Mt. Ebott was a valid address. You thought about it and remember your old address, but just barely. You hand it back and she looks it over before asking, "I see your live in Orusbridge that quiet a distance from here. Wouldn't it be inconvenient to check out books from this library and return them later." You think up an excuse, "Oh, I'm staying with an aunt and uncle, I felt having a library card for here would be nice while I'm visiting."

She didn't question it further and put a stamp on the form as she inputs the information into the computer next to her. She runs the card through a scanner and then scans the books through. She hands the card and books to you, "There you go sweaty, just make sure to have them back in two weeks okay." You nod and thank her as you carry the books out under your arm. You hold onto the books tight as you run back to Mt. Ebott, you walk calmly back through the barrier and head for home.

Walking through the front door, you look around, and notice Toriel at the table with your note in hand. Asriel was sitting at the table as well and you sigh, "Well so much getting back before anyone notices." You head over and set down the books on the table and take a seat, "So I see you got my note, I'm sure you have some questions about it." She looks at you with a stern face, "I do, my child. The note was vague about what you meant about going out. You-"

You cut in, "I really wanted to have both you and dad here for this, but since this came up earlier then I planned." You look over at Asriel and the take a deep breath, but Asriel could see you trembling a bit, "Remember when I said I went down to the barrier room the other day." She nods, "Yes, you told us you went down there to get away and gather you thoughts." You gulped, "Um... To be honest I went down there to walk through the barrier and try to... kill myself."

She has gone completely livid once the words sank in and she isn't even able to say anything for a while. You decide to continue, "As you can see I'm fine and after I walked through the barrier I ended up outside. I was shocked by this and I had many question after doing so, but I sorted out the problem that lead me to do so in the first place." Toriel regains her composer somewhat, "I don't understand why you would do such a thing my child. Were you unhappy about something, what would make you want to... kill yourself?"

You look over at Asriel and he stands up seeing you're trembling even worst then before, tears welling up. He walks over putting his arms around you, "It's b-because I-I almost k-killed A-Azzy that day." Tears were now rolling down your cheeks and Toriel stands up and walks to the other side of you as she also embraces you in a hug. You do your best to continue to explain, "I-I heard this v-voice in m-my head a-and then b-before I knew i-it I was w-watching myself l-leap at A-Azzy and tackled him to the f-floor and..."

You are a mess at this point and couldn't continue, but Asriel chimes in at this point to help you, "When I saw him something didn't look right, his eyes were different and looked more cat-like and once I was on the ground I looked up his eyes as though he was struggling. So I instinctively reached out my arms, placing them around him, telling him it would be alright. As he lunged his are forward to strike he come back to his senses. Before much more could happen he ran out the door."

Toriel lifts her head up to look at Asriel, "What would cause this to happen and how were you able to walk through the barrier?"

"He only told me vaguely that it was something from his past that caused him to attack me and I didn't want to force him to explain. As for the barrier, I asked if I could look at his Soul and we found that he has both a monster and human Soul." She looks down at you, "Is this true my child?" You only gave a weak nod in reply, "But why did you both keep this from us until now?" You slowly pull back from Toriel's embrace, your voice still cracked, "I-I'm the o-one t-that told h-him to k-keep it s-secret from y-you and d-dad."

Asriel spoke next, "I did say we shouldn't keep it secret, but he went through so much that day and wasn't sure that he could repeat everything he told me again." The conversation went on a little longer Asriel doing most of the talking while Toriel picked you up and sat you in her lap. You just laid your head against her chest and closed your eyes while you listen for any information you may need to fill in.

After hearing everything she decided that you told her enough for one day and let you go to your room with Asriel. She'd have to tell Asgore everything that she was today and discuss what to do next. She then looked over at the pile of books you sat on the table and looks through them. The information intrigued her and she moved over to her reading chair to look them over more. She opens a little further in the first book in the pile a slip of paper fell out.

She opens it and it read, "Hey mom, if you're reading this then it means we had a talk about the barrier and I probably wasn't able to tell you about these books. I brought them back and thought you could use them to improve upon our current studies. I'm sorry about going to the surface and breaking my promise to not go near the barrier, but I found some information about the book you gave me. I just hope you understand and forgive me. I love you, Broderick."

She folds the paper back up and set it aside on the table next to her and continues to look through the books until Asriel come back noticing them, "What did Bro bring back with him mom?" Toriel places the book in her lap, "It seems he has brought back some books with him to help me improve both of your study lessons. The information in them is more current then what we have down here. So I'll read through them and add it to both of your lesson plans.

Asriel gives a groan, "Thanks Bro, It was already hard enough with moms current lessons and now you given us more work." Toriel gives a chuckle at Asriel current expression, "How is Broderick? I thought you would want to be with him after what he went through."

"I was, he said he felt tired and wanted to be alone. I'm sorry I kept this from you and dad, but I just felt it wasn't my right to tell you after he asked me not to."

"That's alright my child, you did what you thought was right, but just hope next time Broderick will be more forth coming in the future. Learning what little we have that he was isolated from the world, only to be treated as a science experiments is heartbreaking to say that least. Learn this just makes me wonder how much he still holding on to."

"I want to help Bro anyway I can, but I don't want to rush him into anything he's not ready to tell us."

"I think tomorrow you two should go out and enjoy yourselves, studies can be put on hold til he feels better." Asriel nods, "Thanks mom, I think that will help."

"It is late, you should get to bed. Your father should be home soon and I would like to discuss what has been said here today with him." Asriel was complaining and told Toriel he wasn't tired, but his yawning was saying otherwise. Defeated Asriel heads back to the bedroom.

A few moments later Asgore walk into the living room and Toriel sets aside the book she's reading to look up at him, "Gorey dear, we have some matters to discuss about Broderick that I learned about today." Asgore walks over to the couch and sits down, Toriel goes over the conversation she had with you and Asriel earlier. Asgore was indeed concerned about the matter, "Well that answer what he meant by being right under our noise when we were looking for him. I am sadden hear that he tried to end his life in such a manner. Though I can understand that the situation frighten him."

Toriel sighs, "I'm not sure what to do at this point. Knowing that he can go where we are not able to follow is very concerning. I think we need to talk to him about being able to go through the barrier and that he should be limited when he may do so. As much as I don't want him to think we don't trust him, I would feel better having the barrier room off-limits and with some guards posted."

"I feel the same way, I'll place guards on rotation until we can get a handle on the situation. Though do we have the right to keep him down here if he wants to leave? I mean from what I can tell he is a very capable child and able to care for himself. I went down to the barrier room and notice an imprint of a small fist that matches that of a child in the wall. If this belongs to Broderick then he has great physical strength."

Toriel look at him concerned, "I haven't seen this, how severe is it?" Instead of explaining it to her Asgore instead stands up and takes her hand as she stands. He leads her down to the barrier room, she walks over and runs her hand over the cracks in the wall. "As you can see Tori I don't think much is a threat to our new child. I think with the recent news he believed he was more of a threat to everyone down here."

She seems lost in thought, knowing that any normal human would be severally injured attempting a feat like this, but you showed no sighs of such. "Gorey I think we should learn more about our child. I think now would be a good time to have Gaster examine him, but only if he feels comfortable with it. I don't want to bring up any negative feelings that will remind him of his past. Asriel did mention something about him being in a Laboratory and I'm just afraid Gaster place will bring up such memories."

Asgore nods, "I agree, we'll only do so if Broderick is up to it."

"If he refuses then we'll drop this matter and not bring it up again. I think this poor child has been through enough for one lifetime."

"Now the next question is when we should bring this up to him? Should we ask him tomorrow or give him some time. The longer we wait the harder it's going to be. It would be less painful for them if we bring it up sooner and we can also bring up what we have decided on the barrier." Toriel gaze is downcast, "I feel bad if we go about telling him tomorrow. I told Asriel they both should take some time to relax and have fun."

Asgore walks over to Toriel and takes her hands in his, she looks up at him, "I think we should sleep on the matter and we'll decide on what we should do in the morning." They both give a final look at the wall before they head home. In the morning you and Asriel head out of the bedroom to get some breakfast, but notice both Toriel and Asgore at the table. They both have doleful looks on their faces, "My child we have something we like to discuss with you and if you say disagree to it then we let the matter drop."

You sit down at the table along with Asriel, "This has something to do with yesterday doesn't it?" They both nod and explain to you about seeing someone named Gaster and restrictions on the barrier. You ponder what they said and reply, "I'm fine with the restriction on the barrier, but those book I brought back need to be returned in a couple of weeks." They nod and agree to let you do so.

"As for this Gaster person, I'm not fond of the idea, but I'll do so as long as Asriel is present and with me the entire time." They again nod and agree to this, "So what will this Gaster person be doing? What kind of test will he be performing?" Asgore replies to you question, "We know very little about what these scientist have done to you. What we currently know about is your outward changes, your unique Soul, and your ability to cast magic just to name a few. If there is more behind it I think it would benefit you to know."

You slide your chair back with a grave expression on your face. Your voice sounding empty when you speak, "I need sometime to think this over." Without even waiting for a response you head to the front door and walk out. Asriel gets up to follow after you, but Toriel and Asgore stop him. Asriel gives them both a pleading look, "Please let me go after Bro. He looks like he was hurting so much and I don't want him to have to be alone like that." they both shake their heads.

"I think he need to be alone and sort this out himself." Asgore says to Asriel. Asriel in a huff stomps off angrily to his room and slams the door. "Well that went as well as expect." Toriel looks at him, "I hope they both will be okay after sometime to themselves." They both sighed as they knew the rest of the day was going to be gloomy. You head back to the location where Toriel and Asriel first found you.

You stare up to look at the hole you dropped down, a faint bit of light shining in, "It seem I'm going to possibly be hooked up to machine again. I know they just want to help me find some answers to what those scientist did to me, but it still makes me feel uncomfortable. Though at least I'm getting a choice in the matter and if I choose not to then they'll let it go. That's far better then when I was ten."

You're so frustrated and stressed about what to do you end up casting lightning repeatedly at the ground in an attempt to alleviate some of your stress. That went on so long that at the end of your onslaught of the ground you are sweating and breathing heavily. You relax your body and fall back to the ground. The bit of sunlight entering from above washing over you. The area in front of you is in shamble along with a newly crated hole.

You are going to have do something about the hole later. You didn't want anyway to come in here and get hurt by stumbling into it, but for now you let your eyes slowly close as you drift off to sleep. Asriel is stewing around in his room. He understood what Toriel and Asgore told him, but he still felt you shouldn't have to be alone. Hours went by and Asriel finally decided to leave the bedroom. As he heads out and down the hallway he hears the front door open.

He rushes towards the foyer to see who it is and sees you as you're just closing the door behind you. "Hey Bro, welcome back. Are you doing okay now?" Turning around mind still in a haze, your voice monotonous, "Oh hey Azzy, yeah I'm alright. Is mom and dad around?" Asriel shakes his head, "They went out a little while ago for a walk and said they would be back in an hour or so." You nod acknowledging what he told you and start walking past him in the direction of your bedroom.

As you're moving past Asriel he turns to wraps his arms behind you, "Bro, just know whatever you decide to do, I'll be there for you. You don't need to be alone like before." You turn enough to give him a smile, "Thanks Azzy, but I decided I need to start facing my past. I decided to go through with it and allow Gaster to run the test, but I'm happy to know you will be there f-for m-me."

Asriel noticed your voice is getting shaky and you're trembling. He looks up to notice tears welling up in your eyes, "I-I know y-you'll be there w-with me, b-but I-I'd be lying i-if I s-said I wasn't afraid..." You voice trails off and you turn to wrap your own arms around him, tears rolling down your face soaking into his sweater and Asriel hugs you tighter. "Shh, It'll be okay Bro. We'll get through this and I'll be with you until the end."

You both head back to your bedroom as Asriel continues to comfort you. You both lost track of time, Toriel and Asgore walk in returning from their walk. They call out for Asriel and they hear him reply from down the hall. They walk to the room and notice Asriel with his arm still around you, your head resting on his shoulder. Toriel spoke first, "My child are you okay? If you don't feel up to seeing Gaster then you..." You weakly speak up, "No, it's alright. I thought about it and decide to go through with it."

They both come over to join in comforting you and don't bring it up for the rest of the day. Your first day visiting Gaster laboratory is very nerve racking. Gaster was not happy working around Asriel, but knew this was the only way you'd agree to allow him to run any test. He made due and his interest about your Soul outweighed any annoyances he had to put up with. Days turned into weeks of work and you met another skeleton by the name of Sans during your time there.

He assisted Gaster with analyzing the collected data. The data they got wasn't making much sense to them and you asked questions yourself. Before long you developed an interest in all the information and got absorbed in it as they both explain what they believed so far, but it was still far-fetched. They showed you how to use the computers in the lab and you found yourself assisting with the work when not laying on the table as they ran test and your studies.

For the lack of technology, you are amazed in what they managed to scrounge up from the garbage that falls down here. You turned twelve and it was the first time you celebrated your birthday. Toriel made a delicious cake and you got some clothes made by her. Asriel gave you a robot figure that he found, it was a little beat up, but you liked it regardless. Asgore made tea to have with the cake and it was great.

You found yourself going to Gaster's place for what would most likely be the final test they needed to run on you. After the test are over with you asked if you could continue to come by, Gaster at first would have been against it, but over these last few weeks he was impressed in how much and how quickly you are learning everything they taught you. Even Toriel thought they would be great at teaching your lesson on science since you were spending so much time with them.

You spent time assisting them around the lab when you could, but at the end of the day you were still a kid and Toriel had to pick you up when you stayed out to late. You had fallen asleep at the lab and Toriel carried you back home and put you to bed. You awoke the next morning, but little did you know that today your peaceful days were about to get bumpy.

Asriel and you were walking through Snowdin to visit the ruins. As you entered all your hair was standing on end and you felt something was wrong, but was forgotten when Asriel called to you from up ahead. You continued to pondering some stuff as you walked on and didn't realize Asriel had ran so far ahead of you until you heard him scream. You rushed to him and as you entered the area you saw three-six legged robots with pincers and saw blade arms.

One of them was on top of Asriel as he tried to get it off of him. You run towards it and tackle it off of him and then threw it against the back wall of the cavern. While you are dealing with that one the other two made their way towards Asriel. He was trying to scour away from them as he worked to get to his feet. He managed to throw a couple of fireballs at them, but it didn't have any effect. You see this and attempt to make your way towards him when you feel something grab your leg.

You look down and notice the previous robot you thought you dealt with grabbing your leg. You sent a bolt of lightning down onto it and you did your best to guard yourself from the explosion as it sent you skidding back across the ground. You only suffered minor burns and cuts from the debris. As you turn back you see one the the robot strike Asriel in the arms with a saw blade, he screams from the injury, but was then grabbed and thrown against the wall by the same robot.

As he impacted the wall his eye went wide before he slumps to the ground laying unconscious. A dark cold expression on your face as anger welled. Your form changes as your features turn more feral, more fur growing over you entire body and you pupils change to look more like a cats eyes. In a heartbeat you were on top of the one that hurt Asriel and punch straight down through its body. As you leap off, the robot explodes and you land in front of Asriel to protect him from the flying debris.

Pieces from the debris embed themselves in your back and you flinch in slight pain, but shake it off focusing on protecting Asriel. You turn to set your sights on the last one and snap your finger as a pillar of fire surrounds it. You snap your finger again as a bolt of lightning shoots down the center of it and you hear it explode. The pillar seemed to contain the debris and explosion and once it was over the spell dissipates.

Using your claws, you do your best to remove some of the debris from your back. The wound heal almost instantly and you turn to check up on Asriel. Besides the large cut on his arm nothing seemed to be broken. You pick him up and in a blink of an eye you're both home. You walk in and Toriel looks up from a book she is reading to greet you, but her words drop off at the sight of you and Asriel.

The extra fur that had grown on you face, your eyes and your larger form has left her stunned. You ignore this as you make your way to the bedroom, you speak, but as you do you hear your voice was much deeper, "Mom could you get me the first-aid kit, I need to treat Azzy injuries and I'll explained what happened to us while I'm doing so." It took her a few moment to snap out of it, but she does as you asked.

A blood trail was left on the floor on the way to the room and you lay Asriel down on the bed. Moments later Toriel comes in handing you the first-aid kit. You clean up around the wound and keeping it brief you use a bit of healing magic to slow the bleeding. You bandage up the injury and then take care of any other nicks he may have. You explained to Toriel what happened at the ruins as she looked at the scorching of your shirt along with the holes in it.

She lifts up your shirt and notice a few pieces of metal in you back that you weren't able to reach. She does her best to pull them out a gently as she can. You notice this and winces a bit. She watches the wounds heal at an alarming rate and you notice the look on her face. "My blessing and my curse, if I could only apply it to others, but I'm stuck with a healing spell that I'm not very good at casting. But thanks to the information I learned from the book you gave me I think I'm getting better at it."

You climb up on the bed and lay down next to Asriel, pulling the blanket over both of you, "I'm going to take a catnap this whole ordeal left me a little drained." Toriel gives you both a kiss and leaves to let both of you to rest. She sits back in her chair thinking about what you told her, "Why was such things in the ruins in the first place? I'm going to have Asgore restrict entry into the ruins until we make sure it safe."

A few hours passed and Asgore returns home and as he walks in he see's a troubled look on Toriel's face. "Tori, is everything alright? I recognize that look which tells me something is bothering you." She sighs, "Gorey our children have encountered some trouble in the ruins today. Asriel and Broderick got hurt, but they are safe and resting at the moment." Asgore moves to take a seat on the couch now concerned.

"I see, do you know what has happened?"

"They were attacked by some sort of robots. They were in the ruins, at the same area Asriel and I found Broderick. How or why these robots were there I'm not sure of, but we should keep anyone from entering the ruins until we can assess the situation." Asgore strokes his hand through his beard, "This is most concerning. I'll check out the area in the morning and post guards to the entrance of the ruins. I wonder if any of this ties to our child? Nothing has come to the underground since the barrier placement, first Broderick falls down here and a year later these robots."

"I wonder if the barriers magic has wavered or the barrier works differently then we have always assumed."

"Until we know we'll take precautions if anymore humans or machines fall down here. We should see if we can find out more information from the surface and the only one who can do so is Broderick. I don't like the idea of him beyond the barrier, but he is the only link we have to the surface. Beside he'll need to return those books soon and why waste a trip."

Toriel still doesn't look enthusiastic about this plan, but she gives a sigh, "I'll agree to this only because he needs to make a trip, but then I rather limit this to emergencies only. I don't like the idea of him being up there alone and having no way of knowing if he's okay or not."

Asgore nods, "Agreed, So how are they both doing otherwise?"

"Physically they both seem okay, but I'm worried how this maybe affecting them mentally. I sure Asriel will be fine after some time, but Broderick may see this recent trouble as his fault and blame himself for not being able to protect Asriel completely. It's amazing how he's been able to proceed forward all these years after what was a very painful upbringing. I like to think we have helped him to an extent over the last year he's been down here."

"There's isn't much we can do about the past and all we can do is help him have a better future. Even though it's disheartening for someone so young to go through such things, he still found the strength and determination to move forward. Not many would be able to do the same. I'm going to quickly notify the guards to post someone at the ruins entrance."

Toriel nods, "I'm going to prepare dinner, I'm sure they'll be hungry when they wake up and it'll help take my mind off this for a little while." Around this time Asriel stirred in bed, his eyes slowly opening and adjust to his surroundings. He noticed he is back in his bed and felt an arm draped over him. He smile as he looks at you sleeping peacefully, "I guess we manage to get out of another situation, but I'm sure we worried mom and dad again. Why were such things in the ruins in the first place?"

Asriel tries to wiggle out from under your arm, but winces from the pain in his arm, "Careful Azzy, you took a rather nasty hit and I wasn't able to fully treat the cut. I was going to apply another treatment of healing magic once I rested a bit." He looks at you and notice you are now awake with a smile on your face. "I'm sorry Bro, I didn't mean to wake you. Seems like you manage to get me out of another situation I walked into. My magic wasn't very effective in fending them off."

His eyes dart down at the bed with a look disappoint, "Hey it's not like either of us were expecting something like that waiting in the ruins and you tried your best. I think I lost it down there, between my sudden change of appearance and carrying you home in my arms I kind of freaked mom out." You chuckle lightly. Asriel looks at you slightly confused, "I guess her seeing me hurt would do that, but what do you mean about your appearance?"

"Let's just say, I was feeling more catty then normal. I really let the cat out of the bag." You chuckle at the bad puns and felt Sans has rubbed off on you a little from the time you spent in the lab together. Asriel was still confused by what you meant, "I don't get it..." You snicker a bit more before laughing louder. "You could also say, the whole situation really got my goat." Tears were forming in your eyes from laughing so hard as you roll over and fall out of the bed.

Asriel looks over the side of the bed and is thinking you finally lost it. Toriel comes in the room to investigate what all the laughter is about. She blinks as she notices you laughing on the floor and she looks at Asriel who shrugs. "Asriel, what is going on? What is Broderick laughing about?" Toriel didn't mind seeing you laughing after what happened today, but it did have her concerned.

"I don't know mom, he was telling me about when he brought me back. He said when you saw him that he looked different. That he was feeling more catty and he let the cat out of the bag. That the situation really got his goat. I really don't understand." Toriel put her hand over he mouth to suppress a snicker, but ending up laughing herself.

Asriel was still left in the dark, but as you manage to work yourself up off the floor enough you kiss him on his snootle. Asriel is taken aback, a blush forming on his cheeks. "I'll fill you in on it later Azzy, but your so adorable when you're confused." Toriel just giggles and follows up, "Well if you two are feeling well enough I made dinner."

"That sounds great mom. I just need a minute to take care of something for Azzy before we eat." She nods and heads back to the kitchen. You make your way back up onto the bed. You undo the bandages on Asriel's arm, "I'm sorry you got hurt back there Azzy. I felt something was off when we entered the ruins, but I just ended up dismissing it. I should have been on my guard and keeping a better eye on you."

Asriel shakes his head, "If you weren't there at all I'm sure I wouldn't be here right now. If the worst that came from all this is a cut on my arm and some bruises then I should count myself lucky." You hold up your hands as the green aura surrounds your hands. The wound on Asriel's arm closing more, but Asriel could tell it still took a lot of effort to cast and focus on the spell. You manage to heal most of it, but you stopped before the spell completely exhausted you.

"That the best I can do at the moment, but the worst of it is healed. I still got a long way to go before I master this spell."

"It's fine Bro, it feel better and hardly hurts anymore. I don't want you exhausting yourself on my account." You get up and grab the first-aid kit that was still by the bed and bandage his arm back up. "I'll finish healing your arm tomorrow, but for now I like to get something to eat." You both head out and take a seat at the table just as Toriel brings a couple plates over with dinner on them. Half-way through your meal, both you and Asriel hear the door open and shut as Asgore walks in.

He takes a seat at the table and joins you two, Toriel comes out with two more plates for her and Asgore. Now that your all at the table Asgore brings up the matters of today. He asks if you're willing the next time you head up to the surface to see if there maybe any information available about the barrier and possibly find out anything on these robots.

"I guess I'm fine with that. I want to know why they were in the ruins myself, something seemed familiar about them after I had time to think about it. I have to return those books anyway and I'll look around the library about any information they might have about Mt. Ebott that could give us a clue about the barrier. Are you both okay with this, I don't want to stay up there any longer then need be and have you worry about me."

They both nod as Asgore speaks, "We'll of course be worried about you, but this latest trouble could have lead to more monster getting hurt if you both haven't stumbled upon it first. Which is why we're permitting you spend the extra time on the surface. You're the only one able to pass through the barrier safely. If there was another way to allow us to go then we would, but even if we could go we'd stand out to much."

"That's a good point, I mean hiding my ears and tail is a little easier then hiding a goat monster." You look over and see the worried look on Asriel's face, "Hey don't worry Azzy, I manage to survive eleven rough years up there. I wish I had some money so I could bring back-" You are interrupted by Toriel setting a gold coin on the table. "Is this enough my child, I'm not sure what the currency is like anymore, but..."

Your face goes pale as you stare in disbelief, "I-I couldn't accept this. I wouldn't even know what to do with how much money I could get for it. I've never seen a gold coin of this size in my life and I've seen a lot of valuables come and go." You reach out with a shaky hand wanting to touch it to confirm it was real. You touch the metallic surface and pick it up in your hand.

They both look at each other with a smile, "You are most welcome to it my child, we want to help you in anyway we can. If you need let us-" You cut Toriel off, "More? I can't believe your letting me have this. I couldn't possibly ask for more, this one coin is more then any child my age should have. Are you sure your both fine with this?" They both nod and smile in approval. You examine the coin closer and then notice the picture of monsters on both sides which may raise questions.

"Um, could I possibly get gold equal to this in its raw state? The pictures of the monsters on this coin may raise some questions if I exchange it for money." Asgore replied first, "I'm sure we can manage to do so, but for now let us just relax for the rest of the evening." After dinner, the night winds down and you feel the spell you cast earlier catching up with you. You give a yawn and decide to turn in early.