"Masayoshi, you still with me?"

"Yes sir!"

Undyne straightened her back in the passenger seat of her supervisor's patrol car. She passed the police academy in record time thanks to the recommendation from Kai and her skills and general know-how from her time as the Royal Guard Captain. She was a brand new cadet at the lowest possible rank, but was confident she would climb the ranks to captain in record time thanks to experience.

"Wow, chill out. I just wanted to know if you wanted a drink."

"Sure?"

"Cool. Be right back."

Her supervisor left the car to walk into the small store they were parked in front of. Undyne felt it difficult to relax. The vehicle she was in was a foreign concept to her. She walked everywhere in the Underground so sitting idly in the human contraption didn't sit right with her.

"Help! Somebody save me!"

Undyne quite literally tore through the door with her magic and ran to where she heard the voice. A man holding a baby was defending against a woman with red skin, sharp teeth, bright orange hair, and monstrous claws. Undyne threw two spears in front of the man and child, creating a sort of forcefield to protect them. She put herself in between the humans with another spear in hand.

"What is going on here?"

She was pissed, but called upon her years as captain to not strangle the human in front of her. The woman growled at her and lept over her and her spears to get to the man and child. The man got slashed across the back as he turned to shield his child. Undyne ripped the woman away and reached for her new taser. The woman went down in spasms and Undyne had to hold the child while her supervisor applied first aid while they waited for paramedics. The child had burnt orange hair, light red skin, and the biggest green eyes ever. He was definitely the woman's child, but she seemed to only want to maim the child and the man.

"Daddy?"

"I'm here Daichi...Daddy's okay."

So the man was the father.

"Your hair is so red! Chichi's hair is orange! See see?"

Undyne sat on the sidewalk with little Daichi in her lap. She laughed and playfully messed with his hair.

"Really? I thought your hair was green. Orange? Are you sure it's not not pink? Maybe blue, like my skin and scales."

Undyne gently tickled his stomach and carefully swayed his head from side to side. Her theatrics made the child giggle and squeal. She often babysat for the child in the Underground when she wasn't on duty. Her supervisor was shocked at her interaction with the child. To the onlookers, she was goofing around while he did all the work, but she was keeping the child's attention away from the gruesome sight of his dying father. Keeping the three year old from crying so his father could hear his child laughing before he passed.

Undyne could see the man's life leaving his eyes too quickly for healing magic. At this point, using her healing magic on the man would only prolong his pain. She shot Alphys a text to see what needed to be done to adopt children or house them. This human-run world was vastly different from the simplistic ways of the Underground. So much red tape over what should be simplistic tasks.

"Chichi wants to see the stabby!"

"Oh? You mean, a-this?"

Undyne made an incredibly dulled and tiny version of her spear and handed it to him. The tip was well rounded and made a cute boing sound when it hit the ground.

"Time of death; June eighth, 12:28pm. I'm going to rip the paramedics a new one. Where the heeeeck are they?"

A menacing glare from Undyne cut his cussing short. Undyne felt incredibly bad and covered the man's face with her jacket. She took a chain necklace from the man's neck and rinsed it with a small bit of water magic.

Daichi watched his father lay on the ground with scared eyes, now beginning to understand. He sought Undyne for comfort as he sobbed his heart out. It was strange. She was getting a strong sense of deja vu.

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Undyne was excited. The ceremony to make her a member of the Royal Guard was later in the day. Gerson was unbelievably proud of her and gifted her her first spear. She trained with Gerson's fishing spear until her magic started forming spears out of solidified magic and water. Right now she was getting used to the colder climate in Snowdin. Being a mutated fish monster, she had more resistance to the snow than most fish and what-have-you, but she still preferred the warmer climate of Hotland.

She was young and prideful. She never had anyone to train with, so her social skills were severely lacking. She planned to work on that as soon as she possibly could. Gerson used to tell her stories about the land beyond the Underground when she was a child. How happy and peaceful everyone was. Her ambitious hope was to get everyone to feel that hope and sense of peace once more.

King Fluffybuns was supportive of her and helped train her for the Royal Guard, although he refused to push her to the top of the ranks. Annoying, but it gave her the chance to show off her skills.

<~>

"Hyah!"

Undyne swung her spear around at a large variety of snow-monsters. She wanted to keep herself occupied until it was time for her initiation ceremony. She attacked another snow-monster. Gerson described the ceremony as random. Something new for every guard. Something to show their loyalty to both the Underground and the monsters who inhabit it. And Undyne was terrified of whatever that something entailed.

"gilby? gilby ware yoo? gilby?"

Quiet, barely audible sniffles and cries drew Undyne's attention away from her impromptu training session.

"Hello? Do you need assiStance?"

Undyne felt her scales heat up in embarrassment. Of all times to have her voice crack.

"hi? athithance for sans? new fren halp sans?"

"Fear not civilian! The amazing Undyne will help you!"

The over excited fish monster followed the sniffles to a small child hunched in on itself next to a tree. They were in a poofy red jacket with a blue hat, mittens, boots, and a scarf.

"Uh, small child, are, uh, do you need my help?"

The small child lifted their head to show the bright blue tears running down a pristine white skull. A skeleton child, all alone, in the middle of the Snowdin forest.

"h-hi, nam is sans...sans wans gilby!"

A fresh wave of tears ran down the child's face as Undyne scooped them up and held them close. She'd never dealt with a child before let alone any monster who was near hysterical. She felt her heart go out to the kid.

"Shh. It's okay buddy. We'll find your, uh, Gilby. Then we can play some games, does that sound like fun?"

"sans liks fun..."

"I like fun too! My name is Undyne."

The skeleton flashed her the brightest smile and spoke in a tone only a pure and innocent soul could accomplish.

"hi! i'm sans! sans da skelton!"

"It's very cool to meet you Sans. What does Gilby look like?"

"gilby is relly warm and red and oange and yelow and -"

"Slow down Sans. I'm assuming you mean Grillby?"

"gilby has yummy coco-malk!"

"I bet he does. He's also probably worried sick. Off we go!"

Undyne ran toward Snowdin City making silly noises encouraging Sans to laugh. And boy oh boy did he laugh. He was laughing, squealing, and cheering with Undyne all the way to Grillby's bar.

"Oh, my sweet stars above, Sans!"

Grillby rushed out the door and snatched the giggling child from Undyne's hold.

"Where'd you go? You were in your room! I looked away for one second! What are you wearing?"

"nana gabe to sans!"

"Who...nevermind. I'm so glad you're safe. Hello miss. Thank you for finding Sans."

"It, um...It was no problem! Helping those who need it is the duty of the Royal Guard! Can I count on your attendance at my ceremony later?"

Seeing as I'm the one catering the event, I think you can. Hey Sans, say bye bye to Miss -"

"bye bye mis undin! sans hapy to be yous fren!"

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Undyne stood in front of the majority of the Underground with a look of pride on her face. Apparently King Fluffybuns thought it'd be a fantastic idea for her to ballroom dance with the young prince and princess Asriel and Chara for her random initiation. To show she valued the happiness of the Underground's future generation. Sans was going around the area serving food and drinks with Grillby manning the alcoholic bar and Gerson handling alcohol free drinks.

Undyne managed to snag a little dance out of Sans before calling it a night. She was beyond happy and proud of herself. Her first task as a Royal Guard, ironically, was to escort all the children through Waterfall to visit the recently established Temmie Village.

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"Finally! Last paper...aaaand FINISHED!"

Undyne held up a fat stack of paperwork with a look of pride.

"Masayoshi? What'd you finish?"

Her unit chief walked into the breakroom with his coffee cup.

"These damn foster parent forms. My partner's son dropped them off for me to sign."

"Oh? Congrats then, I guess."

Undyne made small talk with him until he was called away then she pulled out her new wallet. She had three pictures on the inside. One of Alphys in Mettaton's vegetable garden, one of both Alphys and Mettaton on the couch, and one of Daichi and her in front of an orphanage. She made him a promise that she would come back to get him and she never went back on her word.

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