Sans stared at Papyrus, how could his brother gain ANY EXP, let alone get all the way to LV 10? That amount of LOVE, that's halfway to LV 20. It was strange, to say the least. "p-papyrus? what are you doing?" He stuttered, too shocked to say anything more. Papyrus jumped at the sound of Sans's voice, and turned around.
"...Sans?" He muttered, his eyes widening. All of a sudden, a golden flower shot out of the ground beside him.
"Papyrus, that's not your brother. The human took a monster SOUL, and is mimicking them. You have to kill them." Flowey said, glaring at Sans. "Kill him."
Papyrus hesitated, but he then summoned a large amount of bones. Sans only had seconds to jump out of the way before they flew at his head. He couldn't retaliate, Papyrus was still his brother. Sans ducked behind a tree, and took a shortcut back to the Ruins door. He frantically knocked on it, hoping that Toriel would be the one to answer. It slowly slid open, and a small head stuck out of the crack. It was the human. They were startled by Sans's presence in front of the door, and they slammed it shut again. "kid, open up! i'm in some real trouble here. i can tell you've not gained any LV! that makes you clear in my book, so open up!" He shouted, glancing behind him. The kid opened the door, and Sans shot past them. "where's toriel? i need her help." Sans waited by the door, while the human got Toriel.
Meanwhile, Papyrus stood where he had just seen his brother. "That… wasn't actually him.. Right? You're not wrong?" He stuttered, staring at where the bones had dug into the snow. Flowey glared at him.
"Have I ever lied to you? Come on, you've killed everything here. Waterfall's next." He growled, sinking into the ground.
Papyrus walked past where he had met the human. He didn't understand how he had gotten back to his house. He figured he had blacked out, but Flowey had mentioned "resets". Had the day reset? If it did, then was Sans alive? Was his revenge pointless-
No, he couldn't doubt his choices now.
He was almost halfway to LV 20. He had to get to LV 20 so he could take the human SOULs from Asgore. He was sure if he just ASKED the king, he'd be given them, but Flowey insisted on the killings. Hopefully he could still become part of the Royal Guard.
Suddenly, as he walked through a patch of sea grass, blue spears shot out of the ground. "Come out! Whoever you are!" He heard Undyne shout.
"Oh no.." Papyrus whispered to himself. He didn't want to fight Undyne. He and Undyne were "besties!" He quietly walked out of the grass, with his face down, which brushed the dust off of him. He looked up, and was face to face with Undyne, who was in a suit of armor. Undyne grinned, and hugged him.
"Papyrus! I thought something happened to you! You didn't answer your phone! Come on, we have to get you somewhere safe. There's been reports of people in Snowdin getting hurt." She shouted, practically squeezing him to death.
"A-alright." Papyrus choked out. He realized he would have to pretend that it wasn't him. "J-JUST DON'T BREAK M-MY RIBS!" He shouted, trying to act like nothing happened. She got the hint, and stopped hugging him. He took her hand, and followed her to the masses of evacuating monsters. Alphys was at the front, guiding everyone into Hotland. Papyrus looked down, trying to avoid eye contact. She looked at him, worried.
"Oh! Papyrus! I'm glad you're alright! My cameras didn't pick anything up, it seemed they were… covered by vines? I-I thought you had… had…" She began to trail off, as she noticed a gold flowey sitting beside him. Flowey smiled at her. Papyrus looked down where she was staring, and he smiled.
"Alphys, Undyne, that is my friend! Flowey, he's the one who protected me. He helped me get to Waterfall, in fact!" He subtly winked at his flowery friend. Alphys just stared at him, and she guided everyone to a floor in Hotland that was barred off by force fields.
"U-Undyne is going to stay in Waterfall and wait for the threat to show up. We think it's a human." She said, shuddering at the thought of a human killing monsters in Snowdin.
A few minutes past after Undyne had left, and Flowey looked at Papyrus. They were standing in the middle of a crowd of monsters. Flowey grinned. "Do it." He said, his face morphing into another disturbing look. Papyrus nodded, and his attack took out a good portion of the crowd. Alphys turned around in shock, as loud screams rang out from the crowd. Monsters tried to flee, but Papyrus would always get them with a barrier of blue bones.
"P-Papyrus?!" Alphys shouted.
Papyrus turned to her, and mouthed the words "get out of here" to her. Alphys nodded, and ran. She pulled out her phone, and called Undyne.
Papyrus turned back to Flowey. Flowey grinned at him. "What LV are you at now, with all those monsters you just killed. Each had to have given at least 30 EXP each!" He excitedly said. Papyrus checked his stats.
Papyrus
LV 15.
He didn't say anything as he turned back to Flowey. He felt very strange, having such high LV. In fact, he didn't feel anything at all. Flowey grinned even wider.
"You're doing so well, Papyrus. But, I can tell. You've become empty inside… just like me." He laughed, his petals folding back like he'd done many times previously. Papyrus stood there, he didn't really care what the flower said. He just felt like he needed to get more LV. No, scratch that. He WANTED more LV. He remembered what Sans had told him about LV, and how it warps your mind the more you get. Papyrus knew that was true now, but he didn't care. The only thing he cared about was getting more LV. He didn't even care about his brother anymore.
Suddenly, his thoughts were cut off as a blue spear flew past him. He turned around, and smiled. Undyne was standing there, and she looked like she was fuming.
"PAPYRUS, HOW COULD YOU! WE WERE FRIENDS!" Undyne shouted as she threw spear after spear at him. Papyrus expertly dodged each one. He didn't feel like holding back like he had done with all of her "training" sessions. Papyrus didn't want this fight to last very long, so he decided he'd use the attack his brother taught him, to dispatch her quickly.
He summoned six of his Gaster Blasters, as Sans had called them, and fired them upon Undyne from all sides. Undyne was directly hit by the blast, and she fell.
"Ngh… Papyrus… You're way stronger than I thought you were.." She muttered, as her form began to fade. "...I have to… stay strong…" Papyrus stared at her, she appeared to be melting? He didn't care. As he was walking past her, to the Castle, a spear shot past him. He turned again, and was shocked to see her standing again. Her body was still melting, however, so her stance was very shaky. Suddenly, there was a flash of light. Her armor and body were completely reformed. There she stood, in a form Papyrus didn't even imagine possible.
"You're going to have to try harder than that." She growled, holding a spear up.
Papyrus held his hand out, and summoned seven more blasters. Undyne stood her ground, and took the blasters' hits. She threw spear after spear at his head, but each one missed. Papyrus dodged every spear she threw, not even breaking a sweat. He didn't feel like holding back against her, he had too much progress to lose. Undyne was panting, she was overexerting herself. If she kept this up, she'd melt. Papyrus grinned, and kept dodging spears. It wasn't going to be long before her physical form gives out.
"Just give up, Undyne. You can't win. We both know this.." Papyrus taunted her, not even trying to attack. "...You're going to fail them all." Undyne's face turned bright red. It had worked, she was angry. She began throwing twice the amount of spears, all at full force. Papyrus calmly dodged every one. "I'm going to kill them, Undyne." He shouted at her as a spear whizzed past. "I'm going to kill Alphys, Mettaton, Asgore-" He was cut off as Undyne tackled him. He took his chance.
Papyrus impaled her through the gut with a bone. Her body went limp, and then began to melt atop him. He climbed out of underneath the melting woman.
"You know, Undyne, I never did enjoy your cooking lessons." Papyrus spat, but deep down he knew he was lying. He just wanted to make himself feel better for killing his best friend. He turned to Flowey. Flowey nodded, and they both headed off for the king's castle.
He had SOULs to collect.
