~Prologue~
Alphys slowly opens her eyes still heavy with sleep. She glances at the clock, only to see that it is three A.M.
"Ugh, stupid insomnia," she sighs, slowly climbing out of the warm dungeon that is her bed and trudging through the dark labratory in desprate search of a light switch.
"Oh, up already Dr. Alphys?" a rich, sort of demonic voice asks, lisping on his S's.
Alphys nods as her hand searches up and down the wall until she feels a switch and presses it, "uh-huh, insomnia again." She looks up at the man in front of her.
Light glints off of the green, shimmering scales that are untouched by a fine, white lab coat. Purple hair, longer than that of Hatsune Miku's; who is something called a Vocaloid that Alphys is a big fan of.
"The question should be, Gaster, what are you doing up so late?" Alphys questions. The Royal scientist grins to himself, as he places his webbed hand on the machine in front of him and lets out a sigh of contentment.
"Because, my dear Alphys. I have finished it." He says.
Alphys lets out a gasp as her eyes widen, "Y-you d-d-d-d-don't mean the D-d-d-d-d-determination Extractor d-do you?" She stammers in fear, "B-but Lord Asgore t-t-t-told us to wait a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a month to finish it.
Gaster turns around and looks at the shivering Otaku with his pale yellow eyes, "Why yes, yes he did. But we don't have to tell him right away now do we?"
"W-well I guess," she admits, "but, what if he comes down a-a-a-and wants to inspect the progress?"
The scaled, fish-like monster just grins at her, "well, we'll just say its too dangerous at the moment."
"O-okay," Alphys lets out a small sigh of relief, but tenses up again, "b-b-but how do we know that it works? I mean, we can't just test it out on unsuspecting monsters can we?"
"No," Gaster replies, "and we won't have too. I'll just use it on myself."
Alphys eyes widen with terror at the sudden declaration, "B-but G-G-G-Gaster! You can't do that! What if the King finds out? B-but most importantly what about your daughter, Undyne? About Sans and Papyrus?"
The royal Scientist laughs, "why of course, they're already here!"
Soon, a certain magical spear knocks down the door and three figures stomp in. Alphys immediately hides her face within five seconds of seeing Undyne.
"Hey dad!" Undyne greets Gaster before looking around to find Alphys, who has taken to hiding behind a half-full bag of dog food, "huh? Where's Alphys?"
"she's right here," a bored, and lazy sounding voice says plainly, pointing to the bag of dog food. Alphys' face immediately turns into a deep crimson red.
"S-Sans!" She shouts at the Skele-bro. Undyne giggles as her cheeks start to assume a light pink (if thats possible).
"Hey Alphys," she says calmly before turning to her father.
"SANS! GET BACK HERE AND PICK UP YOUR SOCK THAT HAS BEEN SITTING ON MY HEAD FOR FOUR WEEKS NOW!" Papyrus yells at his brother. Sans walks up to him, picks up the sock and then sets it back down.
"there, i did it."
Papyrus fumes before errupting like a volcano on steroids, 'THIS IS JUST LIKE THE SOCK IN THE LIVING ROOM! JUST FORGET ABOUT IT!"
"ok bro." sans says quietly.
"Okay, thats enough shenanigans for now," Gaster says, calming the group down, "now, everyone knows why they're here. So lets get started!" and with that he hits the switch on the Determination Extractor.