Author's note: Before I start this chapter, I just wanted to give a huge shoutout to emeraldlazers! They gave me a lot of advice on how to properly write a story and were overall a huge inspiration to me. And they even allowed me to use their OC Melusyne in this chapter, even if it's just a mention. So if you find any kind of enjoyment out of this fanfic, you will absolutely love the stories, they put out!
Undyne couldn't believe her eyes as she stood there, her spear falling to the ground. The one and only hero, the legendary hammer of justice stood right there in front of her, giving her a stern glare.
"Gerson! I can't believe you're here!" She exclaimed with beaming eyes, completely ignoring the fact, that she just beat up an innocent monster.
The legendary hammer of justice however turned away from her and helped the mailman get back on his feet, who was still in the shock of his life, eyeing the red haired girl in fear. Gerson gave him a reassuring pat on his back and spoke.
"I'm very sorry for this misunderstanding, this girl was a bit quick to jump the spear and probably thought you were a bandit" He turned his head back to Undyne "As to you! Get here already and apologize for your hasty actions!"
Undyne finally realized the magnitude of her actions and nervously grinned, before slowly approaching the two monsters, as her mind was already going crazy Oh no, I'm so gonna get in trouble for this! Ahh a heroine isn't supposed to attack civilians, but rather protect them! I messed up! I messed up! I messed up soooo badly!
"Um...I'm very sorry for beating you to a pulp, Mr. uh Mailman" she apologized meekly and scratched the back of her head, as she looked towards the ground.
"I-i-it's fine. N-now I'll have to g-go back to work, nice d-day!" The yellow monster grabbed his heavy bag and ran as fast as he could away from the turtle and the fishgirl.
"Huh, that didn't go so bad!" Undyne commented and made her classy smile, showing all her deadly yellow teeth.
Gerson however just gave a lasting sigh from himself and started walking along a path, leading away from the houses. Undyne followed him.
"Kid, I get that, you wanna be a hero and all, but you're still just a young snapper. You should watch and learn from those before your generation, before you'll be able to make your own decisions. Those who don't know the past can never make their own future" The turtle monster explained wisely.
"But…how am I supposed to do that? Should I just sit back and watch innocent civilians get in danger, just so I can do nothing and wait for someone else to finish the job?" Undyne questioned annoyed.
"Exactly. You're not strong enough to make a difference anyway and would probably only get away" Now this hit Undyne hard.
She opened her mouth to protest, but nothing came out and ended up just crossing her arms, mumbling words of disagreement under her breath. She spent so many weeks and months training and improving her abilities and was always the winner, when she brawled with the local kids. But it was always the same annoying saying I'm too young, I'm not experienced enough, I only get in the way, I'm a worthless piece of unusable garbage, yeah yeah, they just have NO idea! I'm determined enough, that nothing get in the way of my hopes and dreams!
"Fuhuhuhuhu!" She laughed loudly, when the sudden realization hit, that she wasn't alone. Gerson eyed her with confused eyes, probably thinking she went crazy or something.
"Hehehe I was just thinking how much I'm gonna learn from sitting on the sidelines and doing absolutely nothing!" She smiled again, but then tripped over a conveniently placed rock and marked the second faceplant of the day.
"Wha ha ha that's why you shouldn't lie kid!" He laughed it off, but then helped her get back up, when suddenly an imploring voice was heard from way back at the village.
"Somebody help! These thieves have stolen my previous stock of shellfish grapes!" Both Undyne and Gerson turned around to the voice and towards their direction were three monsters heading, all carrying a giant bag over their shoulders.
"Undyne step back, I'll handle this!" Gerson assured and gripped the handle from the weapon on his back and revealed his entrusted hammer. It was very obviously self-made, as it was carved to a hammer from one of the many purple crystals, that lighten up certain parts of the waterfall. The head however was additionally decorated with a few green lilypads, making it kinda look like the shell of a turtle.
The three approaching monsters took a stop, seeing their way was blocked and gave intimidating growls from themselves. To the left was a rather small rat monster with gray ruffled hair, that almost covered his entire face. To the right stood a large, red eagle monster with a pretty muscular body and a ridiculously long beak. However the one in the middle appeared especially dangerous to Undyne. He was an orange furry monster with very long brown hair, that simply fell on his back. He had an overall very humanoid appearance and seemed to be crouching all the time.
"Who the hell are you two?!" The monster in the middle scoffed, before the rat gave a tap on his shoulder and whispered something in his ear.
Undyne and Gerson both looked at eachother, but could only manage a shrug. Sure they looked kinda frightening, but Undyne was more so curious than anything.
"Hammer of justice eh?" The furry monster asked and slowly put down his bag, seemingly ready to brawl "Ya gotta know, my name's Shakal and I don't really approve of ya silly wanna-be hero shtick. The world's a lot more complicated than just good or bad guys, so move out of our way, before it gets ugly"
Undyne wanted nothing more at that moment than to just smack that guy's face in and was about to charge him, when Gerson gripped the back of her tank and held her back, before managing the talking "That may be true, but some whippersnappers don't have to be completely evil to deserve a beating"
Shakal however had enough of this crap and dashed with an impressive speed towards them, while creating little balls in his hand, which he simultaneously threw at the two. Gerson knew immediately what the balls were and protectively stood before Undyne, his shell towards the balls, which simply exploded by contact. It did only little damage, which gave him enough time to turn around and smack his opponent away with a powerful hit from his hammer.
Undyne was left there, trying to process what the hell just happened, but pulled herself together and watched the unfolding battle in awe. Shakal quickly back-flipped to regain his footing and threw another barrage of bombs at his opponent. Gerson hid his head in his turtle shell to block the damage and soon dashed forward to smack Shakal's head once again to the ground, even creating a little crack from the impact.
It took the furry monster several minutes, before he managed to get back up, but immediately started, staggering around. His two companions were not about to watch their boss get trashed by a random turtle and charged Gerson as well with slicing claws and powerful wing attacks, which despite being blocked pushed the fighter back a bit.
"Hey! This is cheating!" Undyne protested and quickly threw two spears at them.
The two bandits backed off from Gerson to dodge the spears and glared at the monster child "This ain't your business, punk! Go back to your parents and let the adults do their business" The eagle monster said, surprising Undyne, that the monster had a very feminine voice.
Gerson wanted to interfere and help, but was already occupied with Shakal, who was able to fight again, already attacking with deadly bombs.
"I'm not afraid of you! A real heroine isn't afraid of anything!" Undyne proclaimed and shifted into her fighting stance, spears ready, as the two monsters approached her.
In a blink of an eye, the rat guy was already in front of her and slashed his claws violently, breaking through a spear, Undyne used to protect herself and pushed her back. Summoning another spear and ramming it to the ground, she came to a stop and glanced forward. Not letting up she repeatedly shot spears at her opponents, again and again, but the eagle girl simply slapped the projectiles out of her way with a big wing attack. Undyne was baffled, giving the gray haired monster enough time to sneak up behind her and give a devastating kick to her back.
She was forced to the ground once again and even after trying to get back, the pain just kept her down. While Undyne was panting for breath, her two opponents stood tall above her and were contemplating what to do with her now. However before a decision was able to be made, Gerson effortlessly smacked the two away from her and then crouched down to pick up the girl.
The two bandits and especially Shakal were heavily wounded from Gerson's attacks and slowly stepped back from him "Urgh, whatever! The shellfish grapes aren't that much worth anyway, but mark my words, I WILL fulfill my task" Shakal scoffed, before taking his leave, his two companions close behind.
Undyne was put back on her feet, but she didn't say anything and just looked away. She placed on her back, where she was kicked, since it did hurt a lot. But she didn't really care about the pain and just sighed deeply.
"Yeah, Yeah, you don't need to tell me. I'm gonna go hang out with Onionsan now.." Without another word she walked off, leaving Gerson to just nod understandingly, before going on to carry the shellfish grapes back to the village.
How completely pathetic Undyne thought to herself, while walking the path towards her friend down. She started the day with the task, of fighting the bandits and after beating up an innocent civilian, that's exactly what she got. But Undyne didn't even think of the possibility of getting completely trashed on and much worse, get in the way of someone, who actually knows how to fight. Maybe I really should have sticked to those piano lessons.
But as it was always the case with Undyne, after the phase of depression, the phase of pure anger was about to follow. On her way, she randomly bench pressed boulders or just down right impaled them with a barrage of spears Stupid Bandits, Stupid age thingy, Stupid everything!
She kept ranting about every little thing, that had happened today, but especially herself until she finally reached the rocky path, between the two rivers, where her friend lives "Onionsan? Are you here?" She called out.
After a few moments of silence, thin yellow tentacles appeared one by one out of the water. Undyne smirked when the big onion like looking head with the goofy smile and ridiculously long eyelashes showed itself over the water "Hey...I noticed….you were...calling out for...me?" Onionsan silently spoke "Yep! Sorry that I haven't been visiting you a lot lately...I've just kinda been busy lately" She tried apologizing.
"It's fine, y'hear! So are you already a heroine, I wanna hear!" They told her expectantly.
"Um well..." She scratched the back of her head nervously "I'm stuck on the name! Y'know like everyone calls Gerson the hammer of justice, I need a name like that too, before I can become a real heroine!"
"Oh...but what about Melusyne?" They asked back. Speaking of which, Undyne was never really sure what gender Onionsan had, since the long eyelashes always threw her off a bit.
"The head of the Royal Guard? I'm don't know, if she even has a heroine name. But it's probably something super amazing like: Three armed Ultrafighter of Death!" She smiled widely, imagining how cool it'd be to have such a cool title, while Onionsan just kept his derpy smile "Pfft, you're right, it's way too short! Besides I heard, she was going into retirement soon anyway. Oh! I forgot to ask, but how's your dream of making your own band going?"
There was a little bit of a silence until Onionsan finally spoke up "I...think I have to go now, it's getting late, y'hear! Um….enjoy your stay in Waterfalllllllll" Stretching out his last world, as he disappeared back under water.
"Enjoy my stay? But...I live here!" Undyne just shook her head and walked off. They were right on one thing, it was kinda getting late, simply judging by the fact of how much it's been, since she left her house Huh wonder how they're gonna react, when I'm back home.
She pondered for a moment, but quickly switched her thoughts to what she believed were much more important matters These bandits...I don't know what they're up to and I don't care how young or weak I am...I'll stop them!..somehow.
She shifted her left hand to a clenching fist and summoned a spear in her other one, which she held up to the sky "I, UNDYNE will strike them down!"