With a huff, Asgore dropped the two logs he was carrying, gently dabbing a wet washcloth against the fur on his forehead from his pocket. Undyne stuck out her tongue at him from where she was sawing, teasing him. They both knew it was out of fun, after all, Asgore had been working all day, two logs were nothing for his strength.

The demon proxies sure had done some damage to the underground in their attack, that was for sure. Not to mention how, despite Sans and his new family moving underground, a lot of it wasn't able to be maintained. Asgore had taken care of the many vines scattered around the throne room with Toriel earlier, and now he was helping Undyne fix a house in waterfall.

The King pulled out his phone after it dinged, taking a look at the notification.

'Back on the surface! The children are a delight, they were really sad you were busy! They told me to give you lots of nose nuzzles to the nose champ for them! - Toriel'

Asgore gently chuckled, swiping away the notification to look at his new background. He was in the background, hugging Toriel from behind. However, there was two new additions in the picture. The first was obvious, the large white wings sticking out from behind her back. Chara was hugging the both of them, large smile on her face with her red eyes wide open and looking at the camera with genuine happiness. The second was Flowey, his vines tangled around the bunch.

He was so proud of his children. Sure, Chara was an angel and Asriel was trapped in a flower, but he still loved his children. And he was glad that they managed to get such a good gig for the rest of eternity.

~~~~~~

"Someone's going to need to run hell, to become the new demon lord."

Sans crossed his arms, looking over the debris of the battle as his tail lazily flicked behind him. The machine would never work again, it was busted. But now hell needed someone new to run it, and he knew just who.

"Chara." Sans turned to the angel. "Do you want to run hell?"

"I- me?" Chara asked.

"Yeah," Sans said.

"Why not Lazari?" Chara asked, "She's technically in line to the throne, like you."

"But you're the better option," Sans said, "You know hell pretty well, heck, you made my life hell before. I'd rather leave it to you than someone else I don't know very well."

Chara blinked, caught off guard. Someone would have to become the new demon lord, and Sans was asking her to?

"I... yeah," Chara said, "But I'm not doing it without Flowey."

"Me? Why are you getting me involved?" Flowey cut in, "I'm not cut out for this!"

"You always said you wanted to be the Prince of the new world," Chara said, "And I'm not doing it unless you're helping."

"... Fine, fine," Flowey said, tone suggesting he was mad. "I guess I don't have a choice."

Sans could tell both were hiding their smiles.

~~~~~~

Toriel and Asgore had both obviously broken down crying when they saw their children. Toriel apologized several times for attacking Flowey in the underground, unaware it was her son in disguise. Either way, they were reunited, even though their children were both ruling hell, Asgore and Toriel could see them again.

Thankfully, since Chara and Flowey were now the Prince and Princess of hell, they had control over the bus that could travel between the worlds, which they used to visit their parents, or to pick up their parents. They had managed to get a steady balance on the underworld, even after the events that took place, and now had control over the demons and dead.

Sally kicked her legs back and forth as she watched them, blood dribbling down her face with a juice box in her hands. Asgore walked towards her and picked up his own water, taking a sip from the glass.

"Don't you have bedtime now?" Asgore asked her.

"Twenty minutes ago," Sally said, "But I'm not tired! I'm dead!"

"Even the dead need sleep, come on," Asgore told her, nudging the child out of her seat. "Go to bed. Don't you want your Dunkle to read you a bedtime story?"

"I only sleep when I want to, I don't need sleep!" Sally said, "And I wanna stay up and help you guys!"

"Yeah, she's helping me a lot," Undyne said, "She's holding my measuring tape."

"See! Helpful!" Sally said, holding up the object in her other hand proudly.

Undyne grinned at the girl, her own thoughts drifting towards her wife. They both had originally agreed that neither wanted children, but after seeing Sans' little ones, the woman was starting to rethink their agreement. Maybe they would need to talk it over again.

~~~~~~

Undyne was back in hell. They were alive? How were they...

Addy!

She had done it! The girl actually managed to save the world! That was amazing!

The machine sputtered and made clinking sounds from where it sat, the runes starting to flash different colors. Tondra and Wayne, who had been in the middle, started to scatter off, both of them noticing the machine was malfunctioning. The runes on the machine started to scratch themselves out, the magic within them proving ineffective as the machine started to die.

"No!" Zalgo yelled, falling to his knees as his claws dug into his head.

At this point, Undyne could see that Zalgo was starting to lose his cool. The jagged spikes on his tail started to poke out, and the mouths scattered across his body all started to move independently. Oh no.

He was p*ssed.

~~~~~~

"Don't eat too much," SeedEater commented from where he sat in the living room.

He watched as Tondra and Cole continued with their eating contest, the two shoveling food down at a rapid pace. Jeff and Toby both cheered the two on, wanting to see their favorite win.

"Cole, kick her a**!" Jeff yelled, "Beat Toby!"

"Tondra, k-k-keep eating! Prove w-we are the s-s-superior genes!"

"No, Cole, prove we are!"

"B-But you guys aren't b-b-blood related..."

Jeff started at Toby for a moment before he lunged, grabbing the brown haired boy and dragging him down to the kitchen floor while yelling "He's my nephew you c*cksucker!"

"Wait, Da-" Tondra had said before she started choking on the food she was eating.

"Tondra's going to die from food again!" Smile Dog yelled, quickly running up towards her.

"I am the superior child!" Cole yelled, sticking up his arms into the air.

"I'll save Tondra!" Splendor said, quickly appearing behind her before he lifted her up from her seat.

"Oh no she's going to die in a hug!" Smile Dog said.

Trender and Offender stood idly by with Silky, the two Uncles looking over at the chaos around them. Trender gently pushed up his glasses and turned towards Silky.

"And we missed all of that?" Trender asked.

"You guys shouldn't have gone to Italy, but we handled it," Silky said, "What you really missed was Cole walking into a parked car. And meeting Sans' demon Father. And killing Zalgo. It was a very busy time."

"Darn it," Offender sighed, "Wish I was there."

"But how were the women in Italy? Open legs?" Silky asked.

"You don't have to phrase it like that," Offendor snorted.

"I'm simply trying to stay included in my Uncles lives," Silky defended herself, "But your tie is crooked, you likely had intercourse on the way over. Am I wrong?"

"No, he got hit by a bus," Trender laughed out.

"Oh my Toby Fox, will you please shut up about that? I got distracted by an ad I saw!" Offender said, turning away with embarrassment stained in his voice.

~~~~~~

Unsurprisingly, the more magical of the group stayed in front while the others stayed in the back when they resumed their fight with Zaglo. He still had some of the hits from before, so that thankfully gave them a slight advantage. They also outnumbered him, but he was pretty strong; it was a difficult fight.

But no one held back. Leonie used her attacks whenever she saw an opening, Silky and Bean jumped on him constantly, Hewey shot whenever he could, but Sans was the main one who attacked. His attacks were constant and strong, impressive honestly. Sally just took hits, latching onto the demons arm and holding on for her life to try and weigh him down.

However, they weren't exactly attacking without their own damage, either. Zalgo hit hard, and rapidly. His tail swung up and pierced Sally's back, using his spikes to rip her off and throw her to the side. The man had no remorse for her surprised yell as he tossed her away. He didn't care for anyone in the room who wasn't related to him, and those he did care he attacked with a twisted sense of love. By trying to disable them enough to where they couldn't move.

Zalgo had strong magic, that was for sure. Apparently, he knew fire magic, which Papyrus was not prepared for. He didn't expect to turn to see Bean on fire, yet still fighting strong. Of course, fire doesn't affect skeletons, but it caught him off guard.

"FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!" Bean had responded, pulling out a-

Okay why did she even have a flamethrower?

~~~~~~

"You b*tch!" Bean yelled, smacking the top of the oven. "Cooketh my meal, you slave!"

"It's... it's not turned on," Hewey said from his seat.

"Ugh," Bean groaned, tilting back her skull in annoyance. "I don't want to seduce an oven!"

"Oh my- what the-" Hewey couldn't contain his laughter, the boy snorting into his hand.

"You're a Sans child! You can seduce anything!" Laughing Jack said, "And if you can't, kill it!"

"Hell yeah Dad!" Bean yelled, sticking up her hand into the air.

"Wait, Bean no-" Masky had yelled, sticking out his hand.

It was too late. A pile of bones erupted out of the oven, effectively breaking it before he could stop her. Bean and Laughing Jack gave him both a goofy-faced side look while Hewey continued to die of laughter in his wheelchair. Hoodie stuck up his hands and walked out of the kitchen, muttering an "I'm out, I'm not getting in trouble" as he made his escape.

"I don't think killing will help seduce," Hewey said, "Maybe try giving it flowers."

"You're right!" Bean said, turning towards the oven before she pulled out a fly trap out of her handbag and placing it on top of the pile of bones sticking out of the broken appliance. "Boom, romance."

"This should be the plot of a romance movie," Hewey said, "Wait, isn't it? With Mettaton?"

"That was a toaster, and he didn't get grounded," Slender said, appearing in the middle of the kitchen.

Bean and Laughing Jack visibly tensed when they felt his presence, the two slowly turning around to face him.

"Heya there..." Bean trailed off. "Now, you see, let's talk about how you shouldn't ground me..."

"It was Bean who broke the oven, I'm guessing," Slender said, directing the statement towards Hewey.

"And my bed," Hewey said.

"What? Please, I wouldn't cause that low of destruction," Bean said, offended by his statement. "If I destroyed your bed, there would be no bed left."

"Yeah, but I'm going to ground you for that anyway," Slender said, turning towards her.

"Abuse of power at its finest," Hewey commented.

"I can abuse my power and ground you too, Hewey."

"But I'm disabled, you shouldn't ground someone disabled."

"As far as I can tell, you managed to survive in hell alone, so I think you can handle a grounding. Roll away, Hewey."

Hewey gave Slender a smile before he rolled out of the room, waving Bean goodbye with a soft spoken "Have fun with your punishment" that had Bean making a face back at him.

~~~~~~

Ben jumped out of the phone for a moment to grab Wayne, pulling him to the side to give Leonie room to shoot another Gaster Blaster. BoBo took a stab to the gut from Zalgo before he grabbed the demons wrist, shoving him backwards into the beam of magic. Sans used a few of his own to add some damage, knocking Zalgo to the ground. A pentagram popped up under Silky when she had gotten close, a blast of magic knocking her backwards from him.

"No, my precious OCD sister!" BoBo gasped.

"Shut the f*ck up!" Zalgo growled, shooting an attack of red and black magic out.

"No, you!" Bean had yelled, grabbing his magic with her own and bouncing it back at him.

"Did she just pull an uno reverse card move in battle?" Hewey asked from the back.

"O-Oh my gosh," Alphys wheezed, looking over at him.

Wayne had taken the distraction and quickly ran behind the demon, sliding under his tail as his hands started to tap the ground in multiple places behind the demon. Red symbols started to glow on the floor, the magic of his traps sparkling with intensity, waiting to be triggered. However, Wayne hadn't managed to fully evaid the tail, it grasping around his ankle.

Honestly, what Wayne had done was brilliant.

The boy had no hesitation before he disconnected his magic that was holding together his bones, causing his foot to fall backwards onto the floor while he fell forward, effectively escaping from Zalgo before he started to roll away while Sans and Leonie attacked Zalgo some more, unable to walk now.

"Now you know how it feels!" Hewey told him as Wayne rolled into the wall next to him.

"I have no foot," Wayne muttered, looking down at his leg.

~~~~~~

"We want to w-watch Mew Mew Kissy Cutie!" Alphys stuttered.

"Ben, get out of the way!" Leonie said, throwing popcorn at the T.V. "We have to make Wayne one of us. A weeaboo."

"I-I'm fine with Ben being there, uh, maybe," Wayne said nervously.

"I'm just going to assert my dominance over you fools," Ben said from the T.V, starting to T-pose from within the screen.

"Oh yeah?" Leonie responded, standing up and t-posing herself. "Lets go, nerd!"

"No, guys, no my little gay darlings!" BoBo said, putting out his hands to stop them. "Let's make friendship bracelets! Or stickers! Let's do both!"

"I like friendship bracelets, or necklaces... they are bracelets, r-right? Necklaces are around the neck... or are they?" Wayne started to question his own knowledge, shaking the camera in his hand as he started to panic.

"Shhh," BoBo said, shushing him by placing a sticker of a thumbs up on his brothers face. "Stickers."

"Don't stay up all night again," Jane had said as she walked in with Bloody Painter, a painting under his arm that he was going to continue working on.

"Noooo," Ben and Leonie whined, looking over at her.

~~~~~~

"I had worked on that machine for years!" Zalgo yelled, using his magic to throw Bean to the side.

"Well, it's dead now!" Bean laughed from where she was lying, quickly bouncing up to return to the fight.

"Zalgo, you might as well stop fighting! It's over now!" Sans had said, dodging another magic attack.

"I knew it was a bad idea to let you get with Slender!" Zalgo groaned, "He messed up your vision! If I had managed to take you to hell, we could have been a family on the surface!"

"We all just died!" Sans said in disbelief, "The universe couldn't handle being collapsed. Your magic wasn't enough!"

"I'm not going to stop! The surface will be mine, or I'll destroy it! I'll lock you in a room again, and we'll try again!" Zalgo said, taking a few steps back. "Then I can go and kill him, kill everyone else! I can be the ruler of a new world-"

What Zalgo hadn't noticed was that he had stepped back onto the symbols on the floor behind him, which caused the traps to activate below his feet. A large volume of bones exploded out from the traps, each attack stabbing up through Zalgo's body. The demon yelled out from the pain and tried to escape, trying to pull himself out of the bones. Sans took advantage of his trapped Father and summoned one last Gaster Blaster, pointing the attack at his Dad.

"No thanks," Sans said, "I got the family I need."

~~~~~~

That was it. Zalgo was dead, they were safe. The government had deemed the CreepyPasta dead, the demons and angels were ruled by people who were their allies. It was over. No more enemies, no more people to fight. They could live normal lives now.

Well, not normal, but Papyrus fully embraced that now. He liked this new life, and he liked hanging out with his nieces and nephews. They were all fun, and he loved them. Each were so unique, yet shared a caring for their family that Papyrus enjoyed.

The skeleton set down the box of new utensils, sighing with defeat. He loved those kids, they were his brothers kids, of course he did. But he couldn't stay. After all, Papyrus wouldn't be welcomed here for very long. It was ultimately up to Sans to decide if Papyrus was allowed near his children, Papyrus had no right to visiting them or his brother. Either way, Papyrus would respect however Sans felt.

Papyrus was the one who made the mistakes, and he was going to pay for those crimes. However long Sans deemed was worthy, Papyrus would understand.

He would have to go back to his house. He could continue to hang out with Undyne and Alphys, watch some more Mettaton movies. Maybe he could visit Chara and Flowey with Toriel and Asgore. Oh, right, he had lots of dishes to do. Silky hadn't managed to finish them when they had left for hell, she had been pretty upset about it. He'd keep up house maintenance, as usual, since Silky had practically rearranged everything to be more 'even'. He had more room now, since he had brought their stuff back underground, so maybe he would buy some more things. Papyrus could always pick up traps again, and he could-

"Hey."

Papyrus was caught off guard by Sans' sudden voice, turning to find his brother standing next to a box from his house, filled with childrens books. The short skeleton had ditched his hoodie, now wearing his plain white shirt with his normal basketball shorts. His tail lazily lingered behind him, one hand in a pocket while the other was picking up a book off the top of the pile.

Sans then twisted the book to show Papyrus, the old, worn book he was holding in his hands.

Fluffy Bunny. Sans was holding Fluffy Bunny.

"You wanna go help me read to Addy and Cole?" Sans asked, finally looking over at his brother.

"I-I..." Papyrus trailed off, too caught off guard to properly respond.

"Well?" Sans asked.

"I- yeah, yeah," Papyrus said quickly, pushing away the box he was near.

Addy and Cole were already waiting in the bedroom, and there was already a few chairs set up on the edge of the bed. It looked to be a shared room between Addy and Cole, which made sense, as they shared a bed on the surface, and Cole was protective over Addy. They were good siblings, but that was an understatement. All of Sans' kids were good siblings.

The book was old, and the two switched between reading the story, just like before. The same dialogue, the same action, the same pictures, it was all the same. Yet there was something different about the story. The ending felt different. Before, it had always gotten Papyrus, but now it simply felt natural. Like it was the truth path of the story, and it was coming to a close. Everyone in the story had gone through unconventional means to find the ending, and while it was surprising as a child, it felt natural now.

Addy and Cole were both passed out by the ending, Sans moving forward to kiss Addy goodnight before he kissed Cole's forehead as well. Papyrus sat awkwardly by, holding the old book in his hands. It was old and broken, but he was sure he could all a bit of tape and paint to fix it right up. After all, the content may have been falling apart, but it was still there. After all of these years.

"Here's the deal," Sans suddenly said, leaning back in his chair. "Leonie has soccer practice every Tuesday and Thursday, and Addy likes to go to the art store with her after her practices, so Addy usually comes and watches. You can pick up Leonie and Addy from the art store and take them to your house at six, I'll be there at nine to pick them up. And on fridays nights we have date night, so we'll drop off the kids at your house for a sleepover. Or you can come underground and watch them, either way works. The kids somewhat like you, and I'm not going to hold them back from their Uncle, it's their right to see you. Even if I don't like you, you've done a lot, and you can see the kids. And..."

Papyrus glanced over at his brother. Sans looked back over, face stern, yet thoughtful.

"And if you do good with the kids," Sans said, leaning against his chair again. "Maybe we can discuss you being a brother again."

"I..." Papyrus trailed off.

He didn't know what to say. Thank you? Sorry? There was so many thoughts and feelings running through his head, and he could barely contain any of them. Sans was giving him another chance! What could he even say?

"Well, I have a skele-ton of things to do," Sans sighed, moving to stand up. "You can sleep on the couch if you want."

Sans said a pun. Just like before, before all of this, when they had lived underground together in Snowdin. Sans had said a pun.

And Papyrus laughed.

He giggled at the pun, hand turning in front of his teeth to stifle his laughter. His body shook with the movements, and he couldn't contain the happy, goofy smile on his face.

What could he say?

It was a good pun.