Italics are thoughts. Sans doesn't use capital letters and Papyrus uses them all. Wish me luck.
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Whispers In The Dark
Chapter 1
The Human had moved on past Snowdin, Alphys had spotted them on her cameras just as they had left the Ruin's Door. She had watched what the human had done after and she wanted to help them, to be useful...to maybe be part of something that could remove a tiny part of her guilt over her failure to Monster-kind. The guilt over what she had sealed away in the True Lab was crushing her. Her experiments into Determination had failed and she had done everything that she could to try to reverse the damage the DT had caused to the Monsters who had Fallen Down. Nothing had worked and she'd sealed herself away too, not responding to the texts, letters, emails and phone calls she was receiving.
Booting up her computer she knew that she couldn't ignore them forever so Alphys resigns herself to reading the emails. Their existence eating away at her, even if she never responded she needed to read some.
Only one new message, Strange, she thinks. A large file containing video clips from an address that just slips from her memory as soon as she reads it she puts this down to lack of sleep, if she even thinks about it.
Opening the first video on the list Alphys gasps as a humans face appears on the screen and starts talking,
"God I'd been so stupid" the human started.
Curiosity increasing Alphys watches the first video in silent interest only for it to turn to shock as the human, Wolf, starts talking about Sans and Papyrus.
By the end of the first recording Alphys was eager to watch the rest the video journals so she clicks on the second attachment.
At the end of the second she had a lot of notes on this Wolfs attitudes, the fact that she was Perseverance and the relationship she was building with the skeleton brothers.
"I w-wonder why they've never m-mentioned her before?" She wonders aloud.
After the end of the fourth instalment Alphys wondered what had happened to this Monster/Human hybrid, who was keeping them there and how Sans had never mentioned he'd gone up against the Justice SOUL.
Alphys spent the rest of the night watching the remaining videos.
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"knock knock," Sans called through the ruin door.
"Who is there?" a feminine voice answers.
"whoo,"
"Whoo who?"
"i didn't think you were that excited to talk to me" Sans chuckled as the voice joins in.
Sans sits with his back to the door as he always does when speaking to the Lady Behind The Door, watching the cave slowly become darker as the day cycle ends. They both sit in silence. Even though Sans cannot see the lady on the other side of the door he feels their company calming him.
"I am sorry to ask you this, but have you seen the human yet?"
Sans sighs and rubs his neck before his hands find the pockets of his blue hoody as he stands, his calm mood vanishing at that question. "yeah, kept paps entertained for a while. good kid."
"Thank you."
"please don't. i made a promise right?" He didn't wait for her answer, "i gotta go. paps gets cranky if i don't read him his bedtime story"
With that he takes a shortcut back to his quaint Christmas light decorated cabin.
"heya papyrus i'm back."
"WHERE WERE YOU BROTHER? I CHECKED YOUR OUTPOSTS AND YOU WERE NOT THERE!"
"heh, just dozing off paps. you know me" He replies as he removes his barely wet slippers and moves further into the room. "ready for your bedtime story bro?"
"YES. THE GREAT PAPYRUS IS ALWAY READY!" With that Sans watches Papyrus run up the stairs to his room. Sans slowly follows, not as hyper as his younger brother.
As Papyrus settles himself into his red race car bed Sans smiles and grabs Paps' favourite book. He then sits himself down on the end of the bed and begins to read. Five pages through the book Papyrus is asleep but Sans continues to read. He always finishes the story. After he is done he rearranges the covers on Papyrus, shuts the window and leaves his bro to sleep. Taking a shortcut to the kitchen he retrieves a bottle of ketchup from the fridge.
Another shortcut and he's in his bedroom. He looks distracted as he sits on his bed, chugs the ketchup and then throws the empty bottle into the self-sustaining trash tornado at the end of his bed.
"welp kid, ya better behave yourself" He mumbles to himself "...this time" he adds, rubbing his chest as he lays down and falls in to an uneasy sleep.
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Flickering lights, scorch marks on the walls and two spectral lavender wolves running around the large mostly trashed room.
"You still can't catch me Freak!"
"I told you to LEAVE ME ALONE WEED!"
"Then you'd be all alone and we both know you can't take much more loneliness," he retorted before putting on a mocking facsimile of Wolfs voice, "Please someone let me out! I can't do this" he makes a sad face as he drops the volume of his voice, "I can't" his high pitched laugh rings throughout the room and Wolf screams back in anger.
"Screw off Flowey. Don't you have anyone else to bother? Brother? Sister? Petunia? I don't care just go AWAY!"
The wolves both dash to where the tiny flower mocked their mistress but once again he disappears into the floor laughing.
This time he does not reappear.
The wolves trot over to the redhead as she slumps down sitting amid the rubble of the once pristine room. It's not just this room, the whole level looks neglected.
"Ganymede, Io, thank you" They are both then dispelled. She sighs "He's right though. I can't take this for much longer" She laughs, hiding her face behind her hands and mumbles, "I'm talking to myself again."
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"Darling! What HAVE you been up to!" A metal box with arms and one wheel calls to Alphys from the main door to the Lab. She squeaks and jumps, quickly changing Wolfs video to an anime with a neko girl as she wondered how she had not heard her friend enter.
"N-nothing Mett. I'm j-just... I'm just watching Mew Mew Kissy Cutie?"
"Alphys you promised me you'd get to work on my other body. I can't stay like this forever, my fans are just screaming for the big reveal. I promised them darling." he says giving the impression that he's pouting.
"I know Mettaton but I'm h-having trouble with keeping the power stable. This body burns through battery's very quickly. Then there is the fact that I can't fully waterproof it yet so you'll have to stay away from Waterfall...and Snowdin." she slyly looks over to Mett.
"That's okay Alphy, He'll jus...I mean I don't really go there much anyway." His square panels flash in a blush, Alphys giggles.
"I have to go Alphy, recording in an hour, I have to look just perfect. Bye Bye."
Alphys is still giggling as he leaves and goes back to the video Mett had interrupted, paying attention to the background.
White walls, cabinets...looks like blueprints? She pauses the video on these and tries to study what she can make out of them. Is that the core? A small portion of it! Oh stars! Excitement over more information on the core runs through her, Come on Alphys don't get too excited it's just blueprints, you were trying to figure out what floor she's trapped on. Okay...so it can't be the True Lab, I've been through there with a fine toothed comb looking for more information on DT...just normal stuff on the desk and I can't see the door from this angle though it looks like an office?
"None o-of this helps!" she exclaims aloud, quickly becoming frustrated so she checks all her notes that she'd taken, any and all observations from previous videos.. There is just not enough information in the background or in Wolfs description of her level.
"Maybe I s-s-should just press random buttons in the...in the lift? Could b-be a code?" she knew it was a ridiculous idea but what else did she have? Alphys stands, nervously fiddling with her tail as she tries to decide what to do.
"I have to feed the amalgamates first, t-then I can try," she says to herself finally making a decision.
She grabs a large bag of dog food and enters the lift, pressing the button to get to the True Lab. There were more buttons on the panel she had never pressed, one marked marked 'Storage' beside the True Lab one. Unfortunately it needed a key so she had never been in there. It's only then that she realises she doesn't know if it wasactually a storage room for sure.
Key has to be in the lab somewhere, She thinks, I'll check once I'm done here. I have to start looking for her somewhere.
The lift stops at her floor and she walks around filling the dog bowls she had left out for the amalgamates, she then calls them for food. Endogeny decides that he wants to play before food so Alphys throws a ball she keeps in her lab coat for just this reason.
After seven or eight throws of the ball the amalgamation moves to the food and quickly eats, vanishing off to wherever they go when not playing or eating. Endogeny seemed happy at least and Lemonbread would sometimes quietly sit with Alphys. The others kept themselves to themselves. Memoryhead, Reaper Bird and Snowdrakes Mother all only really engaging with Alphys at meal times. She always tries her hardest to do what she can for them. Its her fault after all that they're like this now.
They have told her that they forgive her, she was only trying to help and they were dying anyway. She doesn't believe them, how could she when she couldn't even forgive herself. Why wouldn't they blame her for their current state?
Alphys can't help them but maybe she can help the new Human and Wolf. So lets start looking for that storage key, it has to be in here somewhere, right?
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I can't help but hear Markiplier whenever I read Mettaton. Is it just me?
Endogeny is my favourite amalgamation and Alphys is my favourite character, what are yours?