Hello everyone! For those of you who are new, welcome! This is a Horrortale fanfic that's kind of a mixture of the two versions. It takes place several years after the neutral ending like in the Sour Apple Studios version, but it's also going to have some of the other version's characters mixed in. Mostly for characters that don't exist in Sour Apple Studios' version. This is what happens in the years between the neutral ending and Horrortale. It also recently underwent some changes because I used the wrong neutral ending XD. For you returning readers, this is the chapter that got the most changes. It being about Alphys and all. I hope you enjoy! ^^

~Dolphin~

~1 year after the neutral ending~

Dr. Alphys paced up and down the main hallway of her lab. The doors were barricaded with wooden boards, chairs, anything that would keep them closed, really.

"What do I do, what do I do?" She thought to herself. "How did it get this out of control?"

She slumped down against the pile of junk at the main door and sighed. After king Asgore had been killed, Undyne had been chosen to take his place. Since there had been nobody else to rule the Underground, She'd had to say yes. But, shortly after she had become queen, there had been an accident. Alphys wasn't quite sure what had happened. The mail system in the underground wasn't the best, and nobody had come in to tell her. She was really worried about her, but she couldn't go to the castle to check on her without being mauled or maimed. All she knew was that ever since the underground had been in total chaos. The Underground was now nothing but a savage group of… well... monsters, that were no better than most humans believed them to be. Alphys had stayed in her lab for the most part, but every once in a while, someone had come either trying to attack her, blame her for something she knew nothing about, or both. After one particularly bad incident involving an insane rabbit monster that had blamed her for something about their pet and attacked her, she had boarded up the doors.

That had been three months ago. And things only seemed to be getting worse. She would've tried making a cure or treatment of some kind that would help them, but they were too dangerous to get within even three feet of them. It would be untestable. Unless… no, she shook the thought from her head. Making herself go insane was not an okay way to test it. Besides, maybe it would end? Maybe they would go back to normal on their own? If she ever got to the surface, the first thing she would do is find Frisk and… she didn't know. She would do something. That is, if she ever got out of her lab.

She longed to leave. Even if it was just for a minute. It had been months since she had seen any of her friends. Sans, Mettaton, Undyne... boy she missed Undyne. If she had gone insane like the rest, then she basically had no one left. No, Undyne is strong. She's fine. Perfectly fine.

A loud thumping on the door shook her out of her thoughts.

"Alphys, are you there?" a familiar robotic voice called out. Alphys jumped up so fast that she almost fell over.

"I-I'm here! Hold on!" she shouted as she nearly threw the junk away from the door.

"Alphys, darling, please hurry." The voice said in a stressed tone. Alphys had already reached the boards on the door at this point, and was using all her strength to pull them away. She pulled away the last board and crashed through the door to find two deranged wolverine-like monsters holding Mettaton captive. One had brown fur with a white stripe across his back, and the other had white fur with a brown stripe across his back. In one of the Brown one's hands was what seemed to be… Mettaton's voice box? But it was connected to what looked to be his phone! The monster typed something on his phone and looked at Alphys with an evil grin.

"Alphys, darling, please hurry." Mettaton said with a mortified expression on his face. Alphys stood there, shocked. She knew Mettaton could be prideful at times, but not enough to deserve something like this! How had they even gotten ahold of that kind of technology?

"Hey Alphys! If you want your friend back you're gonna have to come get him!" said the monster not holding the phone. Alphys looked from him to Mettaton, who still looked absolutely terrified. She knew that it was a trick. If she got any closer, she would be torn to shreds within seconds. But they had kidnapped Mettaton! One of her only friends!

"O-ok I'll come to you" The two monsters laughed in satisfaction.

"On one c-condition."

"Oh yeah? And what is your 'c-condition'?" they said in a mocking voice.

"Y-you have to l-let me fix Mettaton."

"Sure. We'll let you fix him. But you'll have to come here first."

Alphys took a tentative step forward. Mettaton started shaking his head vigorously, making one monster hit him in the back of the head. Alphys cringed at this, but continued slowly coming forward. Once she reached the two monsters they lunged toward her, the one with the phone dropping it in the process. Alphys ran back inside the lab and stood in front of the door, blocking the monster's way. They slammed into the door, and then did it again, and again. She looked around in a panic for something to block the door with. Spotting a chair nearby she reached for it, but before she could grab it, there was a thump louder than the rest. A long silence followed that worried her. She peeked cautiously through the door to find the monsters gone, and Mettaton on the ground. She opened it up the rest of the way and pulled Mettaton inside. She rushed him to her worktable, and raced back down the stairs realizing she had left the door unblocked. She found as many things as she could to block the door with, blocked it, and ran back to Mettaton. He was a mess. Half of his face was torn off, revealing the circuitry beneath, his right arm was attached by a single wire while his left was torn off completely. His chest plate was missing pieces and had several scratch marks on it as well as being incredibly dirty.

"What happened out there?" she thought to herself.

"What have we become?