Oooookay? I'm not sure myself of what's going on with this story. So, just to anyone wondering, there won't be any kind of apocalyptic event taking place…
Well, at least I'm pretty sure not in the near future…
Whatever, let's get this thing going.
Chapter two.
The sleepover.
Later that day, after Alphys had calmed down, they received an unexpected visitor.
Alphys went to open to the person, only to become still has a statue upon discovering Frisk, sweating heavily, an embarrassed smile on her face.
- H-hey Alph, I know I was kind of supposed to go quote on quote "fight" Asgore, but I just can't leave you all here, nor do I want to die, eh eh…
She anxiously played around with the collar of her sweater.
Shaking away thoughts of imminent doom, the nervous scientist invited the girl in.
- S-s-so, Frisk, why di-did you m-made the det-tour?
Now much more at ease inside the well ventilated lab, Frisk simply shrugged as she fooled with the ice cubes of the iced tea the lizard had made.
- Dunno, wanted to come see you…
She blushed, knowing she acted totally like a four years old and fooled around with the elevator before she went to the Core.
- Aaaaand it might or might not be my fault, but the elevator on the left is busted, o-o-f, you know, done, ded, like, bleh.
And her "bleh" was accompanied by her mimicking someone falling dead on the couch Alphys had installed in front of the monitor.
Her interlocutor snorted in amusement.
- Hehehe… Alright, I-I'll call t-the the-techn-nician asap.
The young human nodded gratefully.
- Thanks, my phone may too have busted during the fight with Metatton.
Frisk noticed the lizard eyeing her with round eyes, before she looked kinda mad…
You know… just a little mad…?
Yeah, not a little.
- OH MY GOD FRISK! I JUST C-CAN'T BELIEVE YOU A-ALSO B-BUSTED THE PHONE! ! !
Under the scowling, she retracted her head further down in her shirt, looking guiltily at the side.
- … sorry Alph.
The monster calmed down immediately.
- *sigh* Alr-right, gimme the phone, I-I'll rep-pair it.
After a few seconds, she came back, and after checking all functions, handed it back to the girl.
- Thanks, Frisk muttered.
She then drank what was left of the tea, and put the glass down.
- Alphys, I wanted to ask, would you like doing a sleepover?
Seems like she just told her she found something the small scientist didn't knew about Mew Mew Kissy Cutie (as said scientist had already played the game dozens, if not hundreds of times). Eyes wide open, a big smile creeping up slowly on her face, Alphys sure was ready to do one.
- You b-bet! J-just w-w-where exactly do you p-plan to go?
Frisk grinned happily.
- Well, pack up with a good coat, we're going to Paps and Sans' house, Undyne's still there since…
She blushed deeply and looked really bothered by what had happened.
- Y-you know…
Metatton justly chose this moment to interrupt them.
- Oh my, is it me or did I heard the word "sleepover"?
Without letting the two of them any time to answer, he retracted his arms, and using his reactor, flew to his house.
- …
Frisk was just not knowing what to say.
Alphys, her…
- …
Was really asking herself if the whole universe hadn't decided to make a prank without her knowing.
A couple of moments later, the robot was back in his EX form, carrying enough luggage to make any celebrity up there faint at the sight. Placed in an unstable state of equilibrium, the gigantic pile would go crashing down at any wrong move.
- Ungh, you should've made the telescopic feature able to go further darling, the amount of things I have to carry, how sad is that, a tragedy! Poor little old me having to carry so much, as the poor Atlas carries the Earth and the cosmos, aaah.
The only thing he got from Alphys was a roll of her eyes.
Frisk then made what was probably the greatest mistake of her life.
- Hey, can I help, she innocently proposed.
The robot gave the human a smile with teeth so white it nearly blinded the poor girl.
- Oh thank you, you just saved my life darling.
He happily handed her what was certainly a little two hundreds boxes and cases…
Everything turned to chaos.
As she tried to keep the pile into balance, she inadvertently brushed one with here nose. Now it wouldn't be so bad if it had been leather too, right?
Well, this one…
It just so happened to be entirely covered in the longest, fluffiest, adorable fur the girl ever saw.
Needless to say, it was a pure disaster.
"Oh no…", thought the helpless human as a sneeze tried to force its way to her mouth.
She fought valiantly, even tried turning her head away so she could do it without causing a mess, when her nose brushed again with the aforementioned case.
- aaaa… Aaaaa.. Aa-ATCHOUM!
First, she saw snot on the fluffy case, and she felt bad.
Next, she looked up.
And she REALLY felt bad.
- HAAAAAAAAA! ! !
Everyone screamed and tried to escape the literal tsunami that flooded the lab's floor, the enormous pile escaping Frisk's hands.
- EVERY DARLING FOR THEMSELVES, screamed the panicked robot.
With that, he flew away.
- JER-ACK! ! !
Alphys was unable to finish the sentence as nearly forty or so luggage buried her.
Fortunately for Frisk, only a few ones caught her…
At the same time, she was kinda the one who accidently threw said luggage.
As she got up on her feet, she rubbed the back of her head, feeling hurt since one heavy box had caught her right there. Turning around, she looked at the box in question, with had revealed its content to be the famous pure gold coins which served as money down there.
And saying she though it was heavy, she was lucky to still have her head in one piece!
The human spun on her feet, to see the small mountain covering the unfortunate lizard.
- Alph? Are you okay, she screamed to make herself heard.
With much effort, a yellow hand peeked out from the pile, the thumb up in the air.
Giggling, she went to help her friend. The content of most cases weren't so heavy, but the last few, how had she even held that kind of weight?!
Finally, Metatton came back, and lent the now exhausted girl a hand.
As they lifted the last few ones obstructing the view of the scientist, they had quite a surprise as the lizard got up.
Her scaly skin was glowing a bright green light, but only where the cases should've hurt her.
Without so much as a bruise, she dusted herself, thanking her friends.
- T-thank goodness I had the ref-flex to prot-tect myself, b-been years since I p-p-practiced magic.
Frisk looked in puzzlement at the monster.
- I thought you just had no magic power, she said.
- W-well, big n-news, I m-mastered pro-protec-tective mag-gic b-before I too-took this job, declared the still shaken scientist.
She then turned to the robot, who was gazing at his feet in shame, his bright pink eye fleeing everywhere but never looking at the girls.
- W-w-what is wr-rong with y-you?!
Frisk stepped in, to the robot's greatest misery.
- What the freak was the idea of putting a box fully loaded with gold there too?! Are you insane?!
Metatton would've disappeared if he could.
- I g-guess I was… over excited, plaintively said the monster.
- As if, both exclaimed in unison.
The human sighed, completely desperate.
- And with the time it would take both to clean this mess and reorganise everything, we'd have to report the sleepover for tomorrow.
The robot made a calming sign, looking still shamefully around.
- You know, go ahead, I'll clean everything by myself and I also do not want you to go and clean after me because I did a mistake.
Both of them simply shut up in surprise.
Frisk softened, before nodding. She turned to Alphys, and the two friends, carefully trying to not destroy anything belonging to the robot, went upstairs.
- I must say, I feel bad for snapping at him, the young girl declared.
- Me t-too, replied the yellow monster.
However, the guilt was short-lived. As they stepped on the ground, Frisk asked to lizard.
- Okay, so what should we bring?
- Oh, I know, go at the big cube, look under it, there's three button, a red, a green, and a blue. Press the blue, it will shrink it until you let go. I'll go get clothing and maybe some anime and movies, said the scientist, excitement momentarily ridding her from the stutter she usually had while speaking.
As they parted way, Alphys snuck to her bedroom by a hidden door in the wall.
Honestly, Frisk was not even surprised by that. Seriously, after encountering Undyne, not much more can easily surprise you down there.
True to her word, the three buttons were lined on the bed's cubic underside. Pressing the blue one, she noticed it beginning to shrink. She kept pushing the button until the cube was small enough to fit into her shorts' pocket.
"Pretty cool, she should brand it and sell it once we're out here", thought Frisk, pleased with how smoothly it shrunk.
She then had a thought, they hadn't called Undyne, or Papyrus, or even Sans!
- Well, gonna be a surprise sleepover, she smirked, thinking of the face Paps and Undyne would have by seeing them enter without warning.
Surely Undyne may accidently transform her from human to human-sized kebab, but it would be oh so worth it!
Seriously, if someone could scare or just merely surprise Undyne, then you had to give that person a place in the Guinness Awards, right now.
Anyway, she would just Save before departing, and if REALLY she died, then she would call the gang before next time.
As she came downstairs, she saw that the lizard had somehow preceded her, a few things in her arms, just enough for the night and tomorrow.
Currently, she was putting them one by one in the ID box of her own phone, making the human wonder something.
- Hey Alph, should I get the block in the ID box or not?
The other answered without even turning around.
- D-don't ev-ven bother t-to try, the m-m-molecules of thi-this item are un-unstable, t-that's w-w-why it can d-do what the butt-ttons makes it d-do. So n-no, it tech-chnically is not co-compatib-ble with the ID-D box.
- Okay then, she said.
After she finished packing things up in the box, they left the robot who hadn't even put the quarter of the things back in place.
Once outside, Frisk barely brushed the Save point from her fingertips, but it was enough to activate the temporal distortion.
Suddenly, a weird screen appeared in front of her, material manifestation of the power she held on the timeline.
Mentally picking up the Save option, she was glad to see "Save File Updated".
She wasn't even wanting to question this anymore.
Maybe it was subconscious' way to give sense to this strange power? After all, she did was a pretty nerdy person back at the surface.
- Mind telling me where we are going, gently asked the Riverperson as they both took place on the cat boat.
- S-Snowdin, p-please, said Alphys.
She cloaked figure simply nodded.
- Then off we go.
Moments later the cat like creature that served as a boat was running on the river at stunningly high speed.
- Trilili, free on the water, fleeing wherever we wish to go, they began to sing in their melodious voice.
- Trelele, as strong as an oak, yet frail as a cattail (dunno, Google translate was probably high on something (again)).
- Tralala, a song I sing, our lives, in the palms of you hands, are caged.
The monster suddenly stopped singing, looking down to the stream, before they said something quite odd.
- Hmmm, I believe two halves always find their way back together, they pensively asked, don't you agree?
Accustomed to the weird behavior of the monster, Frisk just nodded by reflex, not noticing Alphys beginning to shake a little, but not from the growing cold.
Soon, they arrived at Snowdin's town, and happily thanked the Riverperson.
Making their way, they arrived in front of the big house barely a minute of two later.
As Alphys went to ring the bell, Frisk stopped her, a look of mischief in her brown squinting eyes.
The scientist easily understood, and nodded, smiling too.
Without preamble, the human barged in…
Only for a spear of pure energy to miss her head by an hair's width!
*Hums Riverperson's weird song* Hm hm hm…
Oh, already finished reading? I hadn't thought it would take you so little time, sorry.
*clears throat* So, how you found it? Funny? Weird? Both? Other reaction or opinion?
Alright, so… Wow, already two reviews, guess I did improved since the cringe debut of my first story (well, I did give it my best at the time I did it, but I'm still sliiiightly deceived by the few first chapters).
dream1990 : Thanks! Hope you'll like the rest tainted by my shitty humor as well XD
Drivingmaster19 : *blushes deeply* O-oh my, I don't really know what to say… thanks… So, for the quote on quote "weird" dialogues, it's because, I write them this way, I like thing to be organized (says the guy who never did a singly history homework for the last three years), and to be distinct. So :
- I would like you to understand that by my standard, it is easier to know that a character is speaking out loud this way, said the author.
"Even if I must admit tho, for someone who is not accustomed to this way of doing, it can feel a bit weird", did he thought to himself.
*Clear throat once again*, while I may use italics and bold to emphasise some words, I like to do flashbacks, thankfully, there won't be one for now, but I like to announce their presence by putting these parts in italics and to center them. Used more often in my others stories. There's another case that can force me to put the text in the center, but for now, I don't feel like it is important for me to talk about it.
So, I guess any misunderstanding is cleared up, or maybe I was dumb and you wanted to point something else other than that about the quotes?
Plus, having dashes/hyphens, whatever you call them, is how dialogues are done in French, and I'm sticking with it, never made an exception, and not gonna start anytime in the near future, just to be clear.
On that note, I really hope that you understand that I deeply appreciated your review, but that it is my way of writing, and if for some reason my answer may have upset you in any way, then I'm sorry because that wasn't my goal at all.
Alright, so there's no more reviews to answer, then I might as well say a little something of my own.
First, thank you, thank you so much to everyone who read the first chapter, and especially to you people who reviewed, followed and/or favorited the story, I hope you'll like the rest of the story!
Two, remember, even if you're a guest, don't hesitate to leave a review, maybe a critic too? That would be lovely, and honestly help me even more to get better at writing, as I know I am not nearly as good as many, MANY of the other writers out there. I don't seek to become as good as them, but at least a little closer.
Three, if this story doesn't get update anytime in the long run, then go check my profile, I always keep there a description of my stories, and at the end, it says whether I am working on one, or put it on hold.
And last but not the least, I'll see you next chapter. Byebye!