Dogfather and Dogmother lay dying in their Snowdin family doghouse. Their five children, Greater Dog, the married twins Dogamy and Dogaressa, Doggo, and Lesser Dog, stood sobbing over their ill parents.
"Don't fret for us," said Dogfather. "We just made an arrangement with the Royal Scientist, Dr. Alphys, who told us she will bring us back to life." Dogmother pet her husband's head hopefully.
"This Dr. Alphys, can she also cure my Riddoch syndrome?" asked Doggo, whose inability to see static objects had led to an addiction to prescription smoked dog biscuits.
"Always thinking of yourself, huh, Doggo?" said Greater Dog, shaking his tiny head in shame. "You are too boring."
"Now's not the time for a family squabble," said Dogamy, rolling around on the floor with his wife and twin sister. "This experience should bring us together, especially if Dr. Alphys' experiments…don't work out the way she plans."
"How can you even put such horrible thoughts in our head?" asked Dogfather. "Dr. Alphys is an experienced, kind doctor. Oh, and that must be her now." He and his wife promptly expired with anxious smiles on their faces.
Dr. Alphys clumsily entered. "I'll have to bring their bodies back to my true lab," she said. "You there, forget I said anything about a true lab!"
"I'm one-sixteenth lab," said Lesser Dog, grinning obliviously as Dr. Alphys began to drag the dog siblings' parents out the door.
"Can you help me with my vision problems?" asked Doggo. "I can't see static objects, you see…"
Dr. Alphys stood and stared.
"Where'd she go?" asked Doggo.
"I have heard of a pair of cloudy glasses which the Purple Soul left in Waterfall. An old turtle is said to sell them in his shop near the snail race track," said Alphys, and promptly left with the two dog carcasses.
Greater Dog sighed. "I apologize for my rudeness earlier, Doggo," he said, "I was stricken with grief but now it looks like Dogfather and Dogmother will be fine."
"I accept your apology, wherever you are," said Doggo.
"Does anybody want to play go fish?" asked Lesser Dog.
"Go play against yourself," said Greater Dog, and Lesser Dog eagerly obeyed.