Chase almost crashed into a sign.

Keyword is almost. Instead, he landed flat on his face (again) onto cold, hard ice and skidded across the frozen lake. He could hear Ethan laughing from a distance before a yelp and the sound of something falling to the ground, followed by Angela laughing louder.

Hannah came over to pull him up, chuckling from his show of embarrassment. "I don't think your boots are going to last long if you're gonna be skating like that."

"Don't worry about him, Anna, he can't skate even if his life depended on it." Ryan commented as he half-slid across the lake on his school shoes, stopping at the sign Chase almost crashed into at the middle of the lake. (Don't ask, we don't know how that happened either)

"North, ice. South, ice. West, ice." He read. "East, Snowdin Town.... And ice"

"Well," Chase carefully walked off the frozen lake, careful not to slip and fall. "I'm guessing Snowdin Town is where we're heading to, right?"

"I'll bet." Angela commented while somehow skating across the lake in her ballet shoes, completely ignoring the laws of physics.

"Can we stay here for a while? I like skating." Sophie requested. She was too, like Angela, making a big show of ice-skating on the lake despite wearing coth shoes that were definitely not made for skating. Even if Chase could skate (which as Ryan said, was just another word for impossible), his cowboy boots would not survive long.

Chase scouted the place, making sure that neither skeleton brothers were anywhere nearby, before his eyes wandered towards the two paths beside the lake, one going north and the other heading east.

"I guess we can mess around here for a while," Chase reported. "Or at least until either of those skeletons come around."

"I'm gonna go check out whatever's at the north first," He added, pointing towards the direction. "Anyone want to follow?"

"Me!" Frisk called, sliding across the ice towards Chase. Everyone else continued skating.

Making a mental note to learn how to skate after getting the heck out of this insane mountain, Chase took Frisk's hand and they both headed north.

The path to the north lead to a dead end, with the only thing there other than snow being a snowman that stood right in the middle of the path.

A voice appeared out of nowhere. "Hello," It spoke.

Chase was rather startled by the introduction, while Frisk didn't seem very fazed. Looking around, he narrowed his eyes on the snowman suspiciously.

"I am a snowman," the snowman standing in front of them didn't move its mouth, yet both Chase and Frisk could hear it clearly. "I want to see the world... But I cannot move."

"If you would be so kind, travellers, please.... Take a piece of me and take it very far away." It requested. Chase raised an eyebrow, but Frisk simply nodded in agreement.

"Thank you... And good luck!" The snowman said as Frisk gingerly took a small piece of snow from the snowman and into their pocket. Chase smiled at the snowman before the two of them headed back to the lake.

When they got back, the two of them were greeted by some loud cheering, not directed to them, though.

Angela was making a scene skating around the lake while dragging Ethan along with her, who although had been skating since forever (according to him), was trying his best not to fall again. Sophie was at the back following the two of them, while Ryan and Hannah cheered at the side.

"Just because I can dance doesn't mean I can figure skate!" Ethan complained while almost losing his balance.

"Same thing!" Angela simply replied, twirling around like she was doing her ballet practices on ice and more or less catapulting Ethan off the lake.

"No it's not!" Ethan yelled, obviously tired of being pulled across the lake multiple times. Sophie skated up to him and pulled him back in again, earning her a groan of frustration from him and some more cheering from Ryan and Hannah.

"Hey, Ethan!" Ryan yelled from the side, rather enjoying the performance. "Didn't you say moving around will help warm things up?"

"You know what I mean!" He yelled back before being pulled into the lake again.

"Um, guys?" Hannah called for the group, who all turned to pay attention to her. She was looking her right, which was the path leading to Doggo's sentry station.

At the side of the path stood the short and cubby skeleton Sans, who always reminded Chase a bit of Winnie the Pooh. He stood there with his permanent smile and shrugged, offering the group to come closer.

"hey, here's something important to remember," Sans said once everyone came to him. "my brother has a very special attack. if you see a blue attack, don't move and it won't hurt you."

"Would've been handier earlier." Ethan grumbled. Chase silently agreed with him. If Sans had warned them just a few minutes ago they might've just avoided Ethan's breakdown.

Either Sans didn't hear Ethan's complain, or he chose to ignore it. "here's an easy way to keep it in mind. imagine a stop sign. when you see a stop sign, you stop, right?"

"stop signs are red, so imagine a blue stop sign instead. simple, right? when fighting, think about blue stop signs."

Chase tried to conjure up an image of a blue stop sign, but his imagination failed him. Anyways, the group decided it was about time to get going, perhaps they could make it to Snowdin Town by the evening if they were lucky, and hopefully find somewhere to rest.

They headed east. The group skidded into a halt upon seeing Papyrus yelling at Sans from a small distance, a patch of ground devoid of snow in front of them.

Wait, wasn't Sans standing behind them earlier? Chase turned behind him and found the spot Sans was at earlier empty. He decided not to question it. If boxes could teleport, so could a short skeleton.

"YOU'RE SO LAZY!!!" Papyrus yelled. Instinctively, Chase reached to his pocket in his jeans where he was holding his gun at. Though it was empty, he figured if anything it might give anyone a good scare and enough time to run.

Everyone shrunk behind Chase as Papyrus went on scolding Sans. One of the things about being the oldest is that you automatically become the leader and the protector of the group, which Chase couldn't decide whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"YOU WERE NAPPING ALL NIGHT!!" Papyrus continued yelling, seemingly not paying attention to the team.

"i think that's called sleeping." Sans replied, still grinning despite all the yelling.

"EXCUSES, EXCUSES!" Papyrus yelled back, before turned around and laying his eyes on the humans.

"OH-HO! THE HUMANS ARRIVE!" He spoke, unaware of how loud his voice was. "IN ORDER TO TOP YOU ALL, MY BROTHER AND I HAVE CREATED SOME PUZZLES!"

"Great," Angela muttered. "Just what we need, puzzles."

"I THINK YOU'LL FIND THIS ONE... QUITE SHOCKING!" Papyrus continued. Chase elected to ignore the pun. "FOR YOU SEE, THIS IS THE INVISIBLE ELECTRICITY MAZE!!! WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WALLS OF THE MAZE, THESE ORBS WILL ADMINISTER A HEARTY ZAP!!" He explained while holding up a handful of small blue orbs.

Chase was starting to doubt the chances of him and his friends getting out of the mountain alive. An invisible maze that gives out electricity? No thanks.

"SOUND LIKE FUN?" Papyrus asked. "BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF FUN YOU ALL WILL PROBABLY HAVE... IS ACTUALLY RATHER SMALL I THINK."

"See, he gets it." Ethan leaned towards the team and commented. It didn't take a rocket scientist to agree with him.

"OK, YOU CAN GO AHEAD NOW."

The group stood in silence for a moment, none of them daring to step into the maze. Of course no one did, who would want to get shocked by electricity?

"Guys," Ryan spoke, drawing the group's attention to him. "I think Papyrus will be the one to get shocked if we stepped wrongly."

"What do you mean?" Hannah asked.

Ryan gestured towards Papyrus, who was still holding the handful of orbs. "He forgot to give those things to us."

"Well, anyone wants to test that out?" Chase asked.

Cautiously, Frisk took a step into the maze. Sure enough, with a loud "zap!!" Papyrus jumped and dropped a few of the orbs, his cape smoking a little.

"SANS!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" He yelled, glaring at Sans.

"i think the humans have to hold the orbs."

"OH, OKAY." Papyrus said, before picking up some of the orbs he dropped and heading to give each kid in the team one of the orbs. Chase grimaced internally, knowing that their chance to get out of the maze without going through certain pain was done for.

However, much to the group's surprise, Papyrus for whatever reason chose to walk through the maze to get to them. Chase managed to stifle his laugh, glad to know that at least they had a chance. Papyrus seemed completely oblivious to the fact he just gave away his puzzle though, and rather happily arrived at their side of the maze.

"HOLD THESE PLEASE!" He requested, giving each of them a blue orb to hold. It looked like it was made of plastic, and was transparent enough so that Chase could see a small machinery inside.

When he looked back up, he noticed that Papyrus was already at the other side of the maze, leaving behind him a clear pathway to follow. "OKAY, TRY NOW!"

Chase felt a light shove from behind him. Turning around he saw Angela staring at him. "You first."

He sighed. Another downside of being the oldest: you're expected to go first in an invisible electricity maze. "Follow me," Chase ordered as he cautiously stepped into the maze, careful to follow the footsteps Papyrus left. The others followed tightly behind him, eager to get out of the maze as soon as possible.

It didn't take long before everyone was safely out and lacking any electricity-induced injuries. Papyrus's face changed into complete amazement.

"INCREDIBLE, YOU SLIPPERY SNAILS!" Papyrus wowed. "YOU ALL SOLVED IT SO EASILY.... TOO EASILY!"

"HOWEVER, THE NEXT PUZZLE WILL NOT BE EASY! IT IS DESIGNED BY MY BROTHER, SANS! YOU WILL SURELY BE CONFOUNDED! I KNOW I AM!"

"Maybe he'll go easy on us?" Sophie asked hopefully. Chase wanted to agree with her, perhaps Sans would cut them some slack. After all, he seriously doubted that Sans would put a lot of effort into making a puzzle.

"NYEH HEH HEH!!" He cackled his signature laugh again, being storming off east, the direction the group was heading.

Sans didn't bother to follow his brother. The group walked up to him, in case he had anything to say.

"hey, thanks. my brother seems to be having fun." He thanked. "by the way, did you see the weird outfit he's wearing? we made that a few weeks ago for a costume party."

"he hasn't worn anything else since, keeps calling it his 'battle body'. man, isn't my brother cool?"

"Um, yeah." Hannah agreed, probably out of kindness. The rest of them nodded their heads politely.

They decided to continue on. Just a short walk ahead, they saw what looked like an ice cream stand in the middle of the snowy weather.

"Hey, ice cream!" Ethan cheered.

"It's way too cold for ice cream Ethan." Angela commented, her normally tanned face started to turn a bit pink from the cold. Considering how cold Chase himself was wearing jeans and a polo shirt, he definitely didn't want to be in Angela's shoes.

The ice cream cart was sitting there in the cold, lacking any customers. Beside it was a rabbit with light blue fur wearing a yellow and red outfit leaning on the cart frowning.

"I don't understand why these aren't selling..." The rabbit grumbled. Upon inspection, Chase found that the entire cart was full of ice cream. "It's the perfect weather for something cold...."

"I beg to differ." Angela complained rather quietly.

The rabbit seemed to notice the group, however. He raised his head, and upon laying his eyes on the kids his eyes lit up. "Oh! Customers!"

"Hello!" He greeted. "Would you like some nicecream? It's the frozen treat that warms your heart! Now just 15G!"

Everyone checked their pockets. Chase himself had more than enough gold to buy half a dozen from fighting a bunch of monsters.

Oh well, who cares about the logic of eating ice cream in the freezing weather? Everyone was clean out of snacks to heal themselves. "Two nicecreams, please." Chase asked the rabbit.

Everyone asked for a few nicecreams themselves. Not long after, half the cart was empty, which seemed to had lifted the rabbit's spirits a lot.

"Here you go kids! Have a super-duper day!"

"Thank you!" Hannah said as she shoved a few of the ice creams into her pocket, leaving one to eat at the spot.

"Are our healing items ready?" Chase asked the group.

"Check!"

"And no one's dead yet?"

"Check!"

"Okay, let's get moving."

~~•~--•--~•~~

"FIGHT ME!" Ethan yelled while tackling a large snowball, only to fall on the ground while Frisk shoved it away from him.

"That ball is mine!" Angela yelled, stepping over Ethan and chasing after Frisk.

"Jerry's right, you guys suck at this." Ryan sighed, standing a safe distance away from the chaos.

"Anarchy." Sophie commented, like Ryan, she was too smartly standing a safe distance away.

"We do not mention Jerry!" Chase yelled back, chasing after Frisk and Angela, before somehow slipping (again) and falling onto his face.

"Are you okay?" Hannah asked, coming to pull him up again. In response, he swore really loudly, and with some pretty vulgar words that I would rather not mention, thank you very much.

By the time Chase was done swearing and got onto his feet, Frisk was cheering while Ethan and Angela were groaning loudly. Frisk managed to shove the large snowball into a hole the other side of the obstacle course, and a red flag rose up.

Frisk pulled out a small letter stuck on top of the red flag. Pulling it down, they opened it and read the note inside.

"Bravery. Justice. Integrity. Kindness. 
Perseverance. Patience. Using these, you were able to win at Ball Game."

"Hah, more like brute force." Ethan grumbled, rubbing his elbow where he fell earlier. Frisk turned to face him and stuck their tongue out.

"There's money inside." Frisk said as they stuck their hands in the envelope and fished out a bunch of coins. After some time counting, they found out they got a prize of 50G.

Frisk decided to spilt the money between the seven of them. They all got 7G with one coin left afterwards.

"You can keep the last coin, Frisk." Angela said as she picked up said coin and placed it in Frisk's hands. "You won the game, it's only fair if you got it."

Frisk grinned in pride, happy to boast they were the one to finish the ball game. Yet, before anyone else had the time to decide what to do next, the group heard Papyrus's loud cackling from a distance.

"Oh well," Chase sighed. "Fun time's over, let's go check what puzzle did Sans prepare for us."