The Soul of Bravery

== UNDERTALE Fanfic: The Soul of Bravery ==
(a prequel to most of the events of Undertale if they took place in an alternate universe)
=== Prologue: ===
As the war between the humans and the monsters raged on, King Asgole was forced to retreat back to the world beneath. Meanwhile, the paranoid humans implored mages to seal the barrier between Earth and the crust with magic and spells and since then, the humans have always stayed in “The Surface” and the monsters in “The Underground”. A kid named Falco who was 14 years old was destined to become a cook, while his friends became awesome dudes who killed monsters and he hated his life. His parents had been killed by one of the monsters and he was to become a cook, like his uncle. He wanted to find a new home in which people cared about him or at least gave him a better job and so he went missing for a day. He decided to go hiking as a fugitive on the move and accidentally saw Mt. Henshen, the forbidden mountain. As he ran away in fear, a red-thorned vine “grabbed” his ankle and he fell down a hole near the mountain...
=== Chapter 1: The Ruins: ===
Then the crash came, a falling mix of stalagmites, stalactites, debris and himself. He landed down in a pile of autumn leaves scarred and scraped and tumbled off a bush as he launched off of it and fell onto the helm of a wooden bridge. He proceeded to pick himself up as suddenly, the bridge gave way and he plunged into the unknown in front of a lone sunflower in a patch of green grass. Suddenly, the flower was torn off it’s hedges by a eerie creature, landing in the freezing cold waters nearby. 
Falco thought, “Oh my gosh, what is this place?”, and tried to run as the green-red striped jacket-wearing maniac grabbed Falco as well and tossed him into the icy water. He fell unconscious as the cold engulfed him and woke up shivering on a bed inside a house. He carefully tread out only to be jumpscared by a weird goat-like creature at the door. It beckoned him to go back in and said, “Hi, welcome to the Underground, fallen human! You will be staying here for your own safety! PLEASE do not attempt to leave this house!” (or I will have to kill you). The goat-like creature said that she was Torient, the caretaker of the Ruins, a part of “The Underground ''. 
Falco decided that he had to find his way back home and he couldn't stay here for long, so he pretended to motion towards the kitchen. Torient interpreted this as her guest wanting her to bring him some food, so she went to the kitchen and opened a cupboard, searching away for canned food. While she was distracted, Falco quickly rushed past Torient, but she turned around from the footsteps and noticed him, however he juked her and ran for the exit to the Ruins. Suddenly, he ducked as a frying pan missed his ear and landed on a purple section of the wall, which turned from purple to blue and revealed a door. Torient yelled and charged at Falco who dodged a kitchen knife set and a heated iron solderer. It hit the door and burnt through the lock, leaving a gaping hole that one could see through to the other side. Falco tore open the unlocked door and jumped into the dark abyss in front of him without a second thought as Torient chased and threw a spatula at Falco, which missed him by an inch...
=== Chapter 2: Showdown at Scoville: ===
Falco barely landed on the snowy ground before a huge, armored creature picked him up like a twig, yelled “Why are you here, you intruder!” and tossed him into the ice cold water which was near a patch of ice. Falco climbed out onto it, only to see an army of dogs cascade him and toss him back into the water, he noticed a hole to duck into an a tunnel underneath the patch of ice just in the nick of time before his breath ran out. He thought I have to get out of here soon!, as he was losing his breath while an army of dogs was trampling over the patch of ice. Luckily, he was pulled out by a short, mummy-like skeleton with red eyes who had dug a hole in the ice below Falco. 
He thanked the skeleton, who introduced himself as Talle and dragged Falco gently to a brick-laden, decorated house with red ribbons and pulled the door open. It was a messy house in which a taller skeleton in armor sat on a sofa watching T.V, as Talle moved Falco up to his room and set him down on the floor. Falco got up and Talle asked “Hey. You awake? It seems to me you are. So anyways, why don’t you tell me WHAT YOU ARE DOING HERE!!! This is no place for humans! You should have stayed with Torient or gotten a disguise at least to BLEND IN! Watch out though, the leader of the Royal Knights, Undyce, hates humans and is currently searching for you! So be on your way without letting my brother see you and get to Hotlands, maybe over to the Royal Palace too, and leave the Underground A.S.A.P! Ok nice meeting ya! C’ya!”. 
Falco was pushed out of Talle’s room as his door slammed and Falco recovered and set down the stairs, behind the sofa, and out the door. Suddenly, a knight in platinum armor threw a light blue energy spear at Falco which nearly pierced his head, he quickly grabbed at it and ran for the door to Hotlands. Out of options, Undyce took off her helmet revealing a pirate patch and a fiery mohawk and threw it at Falco with force, which landed a direct hit and he flew off the path to the door and landed on a boat clutching the spear. 
The hooded, purple-cloaked boat creature on the boat took off its hood and the eerie creature's face from earlier showed only for a second, revealing a girl with short brown hair, because Falco yelled out and struck it as hard as he could with the energy spear he was clutching that she flew off the boat bleeding with the spear embedded in her face into the now blood-red waters. Falco jumped out of the boat, recovered the energy spear before the eerie girl sank into the waters and threw the spear at Undyce, who got hit in the heart and collapsed almost instantly, giving way for Falco to leave Scoville through the door, as Talang taking a stroll found the bleeding Undyce and sought vengeance on Falco...
=== Chapter 3: The Monstrous Dance-Off: ===
Falco ran to the front of the lava-streaked lab in front of him and banged furiously on the elevator door, hoping it would open in time, as a menacing Talang reached over to Falco with one arm and thrust him into the lava. Falco threw his energy spear at the lava and slingshotted off of it onto Talang and kicked him into a rubble of rocks. The energy spear started to melt and Talang was knocked out for barely a moment before he regained his composure as Falco smashed a window with the remains of the energy spear and jumped into the lab, which was pitch black. 
Earlier, before Talang had tried to kill Falco, Falco had barely reached the other side of the door when two armored guards grabbed him and dragged him toward a rusty iron cage saying, “Yes, we caught the human! Lets see how long he can survive being a laughingstock for the others!!” and walked away locking the rusty door to the cage. Falco cut open the door with his energy spear which he had been hiding and killed one guard as the other ran for his life out of Hotlands when Talang appeared and struck Falco a devastating blow with a flurry of orange bones. 
Bleeding and with holes strewn across his torso and his clothes, Falco staggered off to the edge of a lava-streaked lab as Talang followed closely behind and banged on the doors. As he thought of the events that had occurred, he tripped on a metal pipe that he didn't notice and stumbled down a staircase into the middle of what looked like a “monster dance-off”. Falco searched for the exit as a metallic computer bot grabbed him, pulled him into the disco ball lights, and yelled “Hey it’s a HUMAN! What should we do with him?”, and smiled as monsters yelled ``Kill HIM, Make him DANCE, and Let him GO!” The majority of the crowd decided on killing him and the robot who said he was Metallon stabbed him with a sharp and long spike extending from his right arm and Falco crumpled like a piece of paper as he stumbled onto the exit door, half-dead and bleeding. 
After blacking out, Falco woke up chained to the exit door and looked forward to seeing a black/red trident slice through hundreds of monsters as Metallon pulled the chains off Falco and ran out the exit. The trident shot like a rocket into Metallon’s chest causing him to explode and the trident-wielder; a goat-like king who looked similar to Torient wearing a purple cape to pick up Falco and throw him into the door that led to the Royal Palace entrance…
=== Chapter 4: The Royal Emperor: ===
Falco woke up to the sound of thudding feet as a clearly disappointed Talle and a begrudged Talang helped him up to his feet. He was in a golden throne room where Talle started blabbering about something to Talang and Falco walked down the hallway alone as he noticed seven coffins hung up on the walls. They opened by themselves as he walked past them, revealing five heart-shaped souls, but the orange and red one’s coffin was empty and Falco’s chest glowed when he passed it although he shrugged it off as a hallucination. 
It turned orange and as Falco just realized that the missing orange soul was inside his chest, he turned back just as the red trident-wielding king appeared and spoke gravely, “I am King Asgole and many humans before have fallen like you too and I vowed to kill them all and so here are their souls. My wife, Torient, left to guard the humans, who all left the Ruins without hesitation, just like you. My stepdaughter, Charlan, died of an illness and my real son, Asrien, died from a human battle on “The Surface''. Now the time has come for your death like the others and I am sorry to say; goodbye.”. 
Asgole pulled off his purple cape and struck Falco into the wall with his trident as Falco recovered and looked around for anything he could gain an advantage with; he noticed the purple coffin was glowing, so he tore it off the wall and he threw the purple coffin at him with great difficulty, who dodged the coffin that then smashed out one of the windows. Asgole threw the remaining coffins at Falco who smoothly dodged them all as they fell out of other smashed windows, suddenly stopped, and fell to his knees in shock as a yellow marigold climbed through the broken window, grew a red-horned, big green arm and grabbed Asgole and said to Falco, “Hahaha, remember me; the flower that was ripped off at the entrance to the Underground?! So Asgole, you really need to improve at killing HUMANS as you have almost no experience! Let me SHOW YOU HOW TO KILL A HUMAN PROPERLY!!!” and grabbed Falco with another red-horned, big green arm, threw him out of a window, absorbed the six souls inside the coffins and transformed into an a large robot covered in green vines, red thorns and had a terrifying bright screen with a creepy smile on it...
=== Chapter 5: The Battle For The Underground: ===
Falco dashed at fast speeds on top of falling shards of glass and barely grabbed a ledge on a cliffside when the Royal Palace crumbled, spraying debris everywhere and a large robot covered in green vines, red thorns and a terrifying bright screen with a creepy smile on it emerged from it’s ruins laughing. The creature noticed Falco and laughed with even more psychosis, revealing that it was the monster his parents encountered. 
It recalled how it transformed with large green arms and ripped his parents to shreds just because they had come too close to the entrance to the Underground during a peaceful hike, which turned Falco's face to pure hatred and rage; he pulled himself up over the cliffside, leaped into the air and onto falling piece of debris, charged at the creature with the force of a thousand elephants, his head held high, and lunged at Flowey’s computer screen face, striking it with a flurry of flaming fists as it cracked, sparked and eventually turned off. 
The flower screamed in agony and discarded the large screen and revealed a monstrous face with two wide eyes and a sharp-toothed mouth with two large, red-thorned, plant-like arms at Falco and missed, cursed and chomped at Falco’s face with his pincer-like teeth. As Falco's rage dissipated, he barely managed to dodge the bite and fell onto his back on a field of shattered rocks. Falco got up bleeding through even more holes in his body, shattered rocks sticking out of his arms and legs, leaving trails of blood on the ground. 
Falco picked up a large shattered stone shaped like an arrowhead, crafted it into a spear with his bandanna and pieces of Asgole's trident(which had fallen among the debris) and threw the crafted spear into the creature's eye, but the creature inhaled with a great gust of energy and Falco barely grabbed the crafted spear before he was swallowed as he ripped through its insides, ignoring the agonizing pains and cries of Flowey, who was screeching with a shrill voice. 
Talang and Talle came out of the Royal Palace’s ruins injured and saw the creature get sliced like mincemeat, yell in terror, die instantly from severe blood loss, and see a victorious Falco come out; covered head to toe in crimson blood and the creature's remains. As soon as Falco came out of the creature's body, he collapsed to the ground and blacked out, succumbing to his injuries. 
After a long walk back to Scoville, Falco found himself in Talle's room; he woke up and realized his wounds were healed, so he cleaned himself in Talang’s home and took a shower. Then, he waved goodbye to Talang, Talle and an injured Asgole that barely survived the creature's attack. Falco set out for home at last as the six souls vanished and destroyed the barrier between the Surface and the Underground temporarily, paving a way for Falco to leave the Underground. Falco walked out of the dark tunnel after passing the barrier, experienced the natural warmth of sunlight, and ran down the same hiking path he took to get to the Underground and marched down Mt. Henshen proudly…
=== Epilogue: ===
As Falco marched down the path to his hometown, he crossed paths with his rival Galen, who revealed 4 months had passed as he questioned Falco as to where he had gone. Falco boasted and told him of his great adventure and how he saved the Underground, however Galen thought it was a bunch of lies and pushed Falco into a bush, then walked away muttering something. 
Falco crawled out of the bush and headed back the same way Galen was going when a gust of wind blew by. He placed his hands in the pockets of his jacket when he realized there was some item inside his right pocket. He pulled out the item, uncurled his fist and found a paper roll with a red ribbon. He untied it and saw a photograph of Talle and Talang carrying him back to Scoville along with Asgole in the background, so he ran up to Galen and shoved it in his face showing the proof. Galen was in shock, having never fathomed that his immature and orphaned rival of his who was destined to be a cook had gone on a greater adventure than he might ever go on in his lifetime. 
In frustration, Galen rushed towards the town and called out to the townspeople, prepared to state the absurdity Falco had told him and how he was a traitor who was friends with monsters. A crowd of mages, warriors, and cooks marched down to Galen and asked why he called them all. Galen said, “Falco claims he “saved the Underground” and returned alive!”. They all gazed at him, the photograph in his hand, his tattered clothes, his hardened expression as if he had been through a harsh war and his scarred face. 
His uncle in awe, came out of the crowd and hugged him, his friends walked up to Falco and patted him on the back, and his culinary mentors shouted Well done! from the crowd. Falco gently pushed through the crowd towards his home as an envious Galen grabbed the a dagger from his waist, faced the crowd of people, and wore an emotionless expression on his face as he stabbed Falco through the chest from behind. 
Falco was so taken aback by the sudden injury that he staggered back and tripped onto the path to Mt. Henshen. Falco pulled himself up, bleeding off the path to the hiking way, and tripped on a vine as a he collapsed down a hidden hole in the ground that led to the Underground, landing hard on the now blood-red mud. 
Falco uttered one last phrase in his mind, Courage till’ the end, Falco. Good job..., watched his orange, heart-shaped soul drift out and away from his chest and vanish; Falco passed from the fall, minor blood loss and his heart injury at last. 
Torient walked out of her house with Asgole whom she had been talking to when she noticed Falco lifeless on the ground. She staggered over to Falco’s dead corpse and picked it up, set him in a stone coffin that Asgole had brought to give to Torient to store her cooking supplies, and carried it towards Asgole, who shed a single tear and applauded Falco's bravery while carrying his coffin to join the others on the new Royal Palace's walls. 
Meanwhile, on the Surface, Falco’s enraged friends without any second thoughts had grabbed Galen, dragged him up the hiking path to Mt. Henshen where Falco had staggered leaving a blood trail earlier, and found the hole in the ground. The friends shook Galen vigorously and questioned how he could kill such an honorable person while Falco's enraged uncle came from behind and with no words pushed Galen with all his might. 
Galen fell down the same hole Falco had fallen in and landed on the blood-red mud as well, his kneecaps breaking and his arms battered and sore. He could not move as he was paralyzed from the fall and his spine has fractured; he noticed a skeleton with a red scarf and red boots walk up to him, pick him up by the collar of his shirt, and walk towards the edge of the water. 
Just when Galen thought he was about to be saved, the skeleton tossed him like a ragdoll into the air, spinning and twirling, and unleashed a flurry of orange and blue bones, which struck him through the arms, legs, chest and his face. Galen's lifeless body flew through the air and landed with a splash into the water, sinking almost immediately with blood splattering upon the water causing mini-splashes and leaving the water crimson. 
As Falco's story came to a tragic end, his friends continued to live on: Asgole regained his honor as the king of The Underground and rebuilt the Royal Palace, Talle headed back to his house and left the photograph on the fireplace, Talang was promoted to the new leader of the Royal Guard, Torient headed back to her house where Asgole visited her often, and Falco's town built a statue of him honoring his valiant and victorious journey. 
The humans lived on the Surface in peace and the monsters lived in The Underground in peace; unfortunately they did not come to a truce, much to the dismay of Falco's valiant efforts. The Underground went back to normal...(OR SO THEY THOUGHT. WASN’T THERE STILL THE EERIE GIRL A.K.A THE FIRST FALLEN HUMAN?!)            
==== Credits to the Following Undertale Characters: ====
Orange Soul’s Host/Falco: The most valiant hero EVER!!!
Sans/Talle: The funniest skeleton ever!!!
Papyrus/Talang: The fiercest skeleton ever!!!
Undyne/Undyce: The craziest human-hunter ever!!!
Mettaton/Metallon: The jazziest robot ever!!!
King Asgore/King Asgole: The best warrior king ever!!!
Omega Flowey/The Creature: The most ominous villain EVER!!!
Chara/Eerie Girl: The best cliffhanger-er EVER!!!
Credits to the Fanmade/Non-Undertale Characters:
Orange Soul’s Uncle/Falco’s Uncle: The most boring uncle ever!!!
Galen: The most cruel, inanimate villain EVER!!!
Mages, Warlocks, and Cooks: The best townspeople ever!!!
Toriel/Torient: The best caretaker ever!!!
Humans and Monsters: The best life-forms ever!!!
THANK YOU ALL FOR READING THIS TERRIBLE FANFIC, GOODBYE!!! :D
-by StealthJet
(hey there, feel free to leave any feedback but just letting you know this is my first fanfic so don't judge too harshly :D, also this is heavily based off the events of UNDERTALE such as the characters in The Underground, the two races Humans and Monsters, the fight with Omega Flowey if it took place a century earlier, the eerie girl; come on you know who that is, King Asgole's flashback, etc.)
==== Updates: ====
10/22/2021 - hey there! I actually wrote this fanfic like four years ago (2017) can you believe it?! I just didn't feel comfortable posting it at that time, but here it is now! Enjoy! :D
10/22/2021 - added the story, added image galleries with image credits :D
10/24/2021 - added image credits in the caption itself so that it is easier to view than in the more info section. I am working on creating a page for Falco. Thanks for the feedback Harvey7Demise. :D
Gallery of Events and Chapters:
File:Humans VS Monsters.webp|Humans VS Monsters (UNDERTALE), Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
File:The Ruins.webp|The Ruins (UNDERTALE), Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
File:Scoville (Snowdin).webp|Snowdin (UNDERTALE), Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
File:Hotlands.webp|Hotlands (UNDERTALE, Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
File:Royal Palace (Last Corridor).webp|Last Corridor (UNDERTALE), Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
File:The Creature (Omega Flowey).webp|OMEGA Flowey (UNDERTALE), Credit to Joke Battles Wiki Fandom
File:Souls.png|SOULS (UNDERTALE), Credit to Undertale Wiki Fandom
Gallery of Characters:
File:Falco (Undertake the Orange Soul of Bravery).png|Undertake the Soul of Bravery (Fanmade Pixel Sprite), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:Talle (Chill Sans).jpeg|Chill Sans (UNDERTALE), Credits to clipartmax.com
File:Revenge.png|Revenge Papyrus (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:Undyce (Undyne the Undying).png|Undyne the Undying (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com and the Creator: Keeganhefurry
File:Mettalon (Mettaton Base Form).png|Mettaton (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:King Asgole (King Asgore).png|King Asgore (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:The Sunflower (Flowey).png|Flowey (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:Eerie Girl (Chara).png|Chara (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:The Uncle (Chef Bruce).png|Chef Bruce (Fanmade Pixel Sprite), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
File:Galen (White Mage).png|White Mage (Final Fantasy), Credits to Final Fantasy and pixelartmaker.com
File:Torient (Toriel).png|Toriel (UNDERTALE), Credits to pixelartmaker.com
(Disclaimer: if there is no creator associated with the pixel sprite on pixelartmaker.com, I listed just the website name. There is one with a creator listed so I added their name in the caption, the rest are anonymous.)
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