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"So you're that Hacker guy G's been on about, huh?"
"You don't look like I thought you'd look... Don't really fit the genius bill Gatherer talked you up to be."
"..."
"Haha! You're funny. What's your name, anyway?"
"..."
"Angel, huh? Nice to meet'cha! They call me The Predator! My n_a_m_e_i_s_._._._"
My eyes snapped open.
I was laying on my side on a plank of wood, my right arm hanging off into the water below.
"..." I groaned, body aching as I forced myself to sit up, slouching forward and reaching up, rubbing my eyelids tiredly.
"I feel like shit..." I frowned to myself, pulling my hand away from my eyes and inspecting my finger tips.
Oh, great. My forehead is bleeding.
I sighed, falling onto my back, arms sprawling out to my sides, the back of my left hand dropping into the water. It was cool, and even though I had to assume it was a large mass of dumpster water, it was still a little refreshing.
*You have always been one to keep company with the garbage.
"... Nah, man, I'm the garbage..." Memories echoing in my head, I reached up, running one semi-wet hand through my semi-wet hair. "I really screwed the pooch, Flavor Text..."
*I don't care about that. You shouldn't either. Get moving.
"... Yeah, yeah. In the past and all that." I agreed, sitting up and looking around, tilting my head to the side until a heard a pop from my neck.
"... So, how far ahead do you think they are?"
Chapter 4: A Helping Hand
"This'll be the day I win."
Letting his dust stained crowbar dangle at his side, Anarchy made his way down that wide, wooden bridge.
"Helloooooo?" He called out into the darkness. "Anybody out there?"
His voice echoed along the blue walls, returning to his ears moments later.
Honestly, Anarchy didn't like being alone.
It give him time to think, be in his own head, y'know?
And, his head was a very scary place to be.
If things were quiet for too long, he would start to remember. Who he is, who he had been, what he'd been turned into.
It was perplexing. How did Frisk know his name?
They must have had the same *check ability he had... It was too bad they were dead, he could have asked them more questions about how they learned that name.
His name.
A######
What?
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Stop trying to remember.
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Stop..!
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ANTHO-
"STOP!"
His deep, enraged voice boomed throughout Waterfall, and he hunched over, grabbing his head with his free hand, digging his nails into his scalp and gritting his teeth, bloodshot eyes widening as he nearly began foaming at the mouth.
...
It was silent then. His scream stopped echoing. The boards of the bridge did not creak, as he did not move.
Slowly, his panting came to a stop, the shattered glass in his mind slowly falling back into their barely stable placement.
His head was a very scary place to be. Not because of what he'd done, but because of what he hadn't.
*Forward.
No time to mourn his death now.
He had a mission. He had a purpose.
*Destroy.
"I hope save points cure wet shoe..." I muttered to myself, frowning at the squish in each of my steps as I trudged through the garbage dump, not batting an eye at the dust that I presumed belonged to Glad Dummy.
*You always hated Mad Dummy.
"Guy's whole character arc was that he's a dick." I shrugged as I escaped from the water, making my way to the save point.
*The fact that save points cure wet shoe fills you with DETERMINATION.
"Yeah it does!" I grinned to myself, pumping one fist into the air as my shoes, socks, and pant legs were now dry.
I continued making my way ahead, stopping next to look at the doorway into Gerson's shop. I took a moment to consider, before nodding to myself, stepping inside.
"Oho," I heard the turtle say as soon as I entered, leaning over his counter to get a better look at me with his good eye. "Two in one day, what a treat."
"Uh, hey." My eyes darted to the side somewhat awkwardly, considering what I should say to the elderly turtle man.
Gerson cocked a brow, clearly confused by how indecisive I looked for a moment, before I took a deep breath, nodding and looking back to him.
"Okay, so you saw the other human, right?" I pointed with both fingers to the right, where I presumed they would have continued on.
"Nasty little shrimp, for sure." Gerson leaned his elbows on his counter, seeming intrigued.
"Okay, how long ago was that?" I arched a brow in question, my hands still pointing to the right.
"Hmm..." Gerson reached up, stroking the long grey hairs on his chin. "About ten minutes ago, I'd say."
"Shit!" I exclaimed immediately. "I gotta move!"
Gerson just tilted his head to the side as I anxiously jogged in place, eyes darting to the shelf with five jugs of what was labeled "Sea Tea" sitting on it that loomed behind Gerson.
Quickly reaching into my pocket and rummaging through jingling gold coins, I urgently looked to Gerson.
"How much for all those jugs of Sea Tea?!"
"Hmm..." Gerson looked to be thinking, almost seeming amused by my sudden urgency.
"250?" Gerson tilted his head to the side, and I slammed the coins on the table.
"Wa ha ha! You humans, always in such a rush." Gerson turned around, scooping up the gallon jugs of tea in his arms and turning back to face me, setting them on the counter. "Haven't you ever heard the tale of the tortoise and the hair?"
I reached out, focused, and four of the five jugs of Tea disappeared into my inventory, startling Gerson.
I then proceeded to twist the cap off the fifth, jogging in place as I tilted it bottom up, gulping down the contents in about thirty seconds, a time span that Gerson spent watching me with semi-wide eyes.
Oddly enough, the magical drink didn't fill me like human drinks would. I didn't feel thirsty, but my stomach didn't hurt like it would from drinking a gallon of... Literally anything else.
"Woo!" I exhaled, throwing the empty jug on the ground and looking back to Gerson. I was jogging in place a lot faster now. My legs were a blur.
"Okayhaveanicedaygottagostopagenocidalhumanbyyeeee!"
With that one long word speedily spoken in one breath, I burst out the door, a gust of wind stirring up papers in the shop.
"... I've got a good feeling about that kid, wa ha ha!" Gerson nodded to himself, smirking lightly.
"Hm hm hm hmm, hmhmhm huhhmhm..." Sans hummed to himself, laying on a wooden board with wheels attached on it's back, under some kind of machine, screwing a panel back into place over some wires with a screw driver.
"A-and you're sure about this, Sans..?" Alphys asked somewhat nervously, watching as Sans slide out from under the machine, which looked like some kind of assortment of metal tubes attached to a metal block base, which had multiple panels and screens on it.
"I mean, it's worth a shot, right Alph?" Sans grinned that reassuring grin after pulling himself to his feet with the help of the machine, shrugging.
"I-I really think we should leave it up to Undyne..." Alphys looked down, rubbing her shoulder. "I-I mean, w-would you really wanna entrust a human with that much p-power..?"
"It's always a good idea to have a plan B, Alphys." Sans winked a socket shut. "'Sides, I've seen that human in action. You can trust him."
"I-I... I guess..." Alphys nodded meekly in agreement, before slowly lifting her head from the dirty and cracked tiles of the True Lab to the machine that jutted from the wall over the pit across the room.
There it loomed, humming gently with new life.
Alphys never liked looking at that machine, let alone use it. It always looked like some kind of weird... Demon skull thing, or something. Even the name was creepy to her...
DT Extraction Machine.
But, maybe with a new name and a new purpose...
She had to keep hoping.
It was lonely.
All this time walking, and after the first eighteen or so kills that he hunted down so easily...
Nobody came.
Where were they all going? Surely there were more monsters to be slaughtered! More chaos to be caused!
It itched.
All Anarchy ever felt.
The itch and the scratch.
He was on a second bridge, grumbling to himself as he walked along.
The wood of the bridge creaked with every step as Anarchy made his way to yet another dead end of this strange maze of a bridge.
Frowning, he spun around, beginning to walk in the other direction.
He stopped.
The bridge was rumbling. Rumbling with footsteps.
Boots. Lots of them. Marching closer.
It itched.
"HUMAN!"
Anarchy smiled, tilting his head to the side and letting that blue spear of magic launch over his shoulder, cutting the shoulder of his black, red striped T shirt.
"We finally caught you!" Undyne burst from the shadows, another spear already having formed in her hand, which she pointed at Anarchy. On her face, she wore a big, toothy, menacing grin.
*Is that supposed to be intimidating?
From the shadows behind her, two armored knights stepped, standing at each of her sides. Then, two cloaked figures stepped up to the knights' sides, each holding a battle ax in their paws. Continuing the formation of the line, two armored dogs stepped up, one on each side, one looking much greater and the other looking quite lesser.
"Your path of destruction is coming to an end here!" Undyne glowered. "The Monsters have been evacuated and the Royal Guard has assembled to kill you!"
Anarchy just reached back, closing his eyes and tilting his head to the side, a bright, pure smile on his face as his fingers wrapped around the cold steel of the crowbar sticking out from his back pocket.
"What are you smiling about?" Undyne snarled, jaw clenching as she stared at that warm smile Anarchy was giving.
Anarchy just pulled the crowbar from his pocket, letting his arm drop limp to his side, crowbar dangling.
"You freak..." Undyne's eye narrowed at Anarchy, her grip tightening on that spear. "You look human enough, but..."
Anarchy's eyes slowly opened wide, that murderous red glaring deep into Undyne's being.
"Do you even have a soul?"
*Not long now.
Frisk made there way across that thin, rickety bridge, expression entirely blank and lifeless.
"Yo!"
They looked over their shoulder, watching Monster Kid run across that bridge towards them.
*Cter's not here.
Frisk smiled gently, turning to face Monster Kid.
*Kill him.
"Yo, I finally caught up with you!" Monster Kid smiled as he reached Frisk, standing before them. "See, I've been looking for you."
"... Why?" Frisk tilted their head to the side, frowning at the change in dialogue.
"Well, see, I was talking to Cter, right?" Monster Kid began to explain. "And he told me that you and him were humans, and he explained some stuff about the human SOUL, right?"
"..." Frisk's eyes narrowed slightly as Monster Kid spoke.
"And he told me that human SOULs are uh... Impressionable, yeah! And that like, being around bad people or being hurt makes you wanna be bad and hurt people!" Monster Kid nodded to assure himself of what he was saying as he spoke.
*...
"So that got me thinking!" Monster Kid smiled. "Cter's like, totally chill! So that must mean that he was around totally chill people!"
*Liar.
Frisk's left eye almost ached at the memory of Cter's true self.
"So, maybe if you were around monsters who were nice and friendly, instead of monsters who are trying to kill you, you'd be nice and friendly too!"
Frisk looked down, watching as Monster Kid extended his tail for some kind of... Tail-hand shake?
"So, whaddaya say?" Monster Kid asked with a kind smile. "Wanna be pals?"
"..." Frisk's lips slowly curved upwards, staring down at that tail.
They smiled wider and wider, and began to tremble with a fit of laughter.
"U-uh..." Monster Kid arched a brow, smile fading. "Yo, what's so funny..?"
Frisk threw their head back, eyes widening up at the ceiling as they howled with laughter, the red in their right eye almost seeming to glow in the darkness.
*Too little too late.
"Y-yo... M-maybe I didn't think this all the way through..." Monster Kid took a step back, gulping.
Frisk's head snapped down, eyes locking onto Monster Kid, that wicked grin twisting their expression.
*In my way.
Frisk stomped on the heel of their ballet shoes, blades swinging out from the tips of the shoes.
"H-hey, what are you doing?" Monster Kid shook, but refused to take another step back. "I-I made it clear I don't want to fight you!"
Frisk took a step forward.
Monster Kid's teeth clenched with resolve.
"Fine, then!" He dared to step forward. "I-if you just wanna keep hurting people, then I... I can't let you through!"
Frisk just continued to laugh, reaching up and placing a hand over their face, covering everything but their grin and that glowing crimson right eye.
"A-and... And..!"
Frisk lunged forward, their hysterics reaching a high point as they spun, kicking down at Monster Kid, a red slash following the blade of their shoe.
"MOVE!"
SLASH.
19
My green eyes went wide, my mouth hanging open as the numbers read above my head.
I managed to stand on my noodle legs for another moment or two, between Monster Kid and Frisk, one arm back, hand on Monster Kid's chest after pushing him back out of the way of the slash.
In the next moment, I dropped down to my knees, gasping for breath and coughing globs of blood onto the wood planks beneath me, grabbing onto the deep slash carved through my abdomen in a poor attempt to hold myself together.
"Hmm?" They grinned down at me as I gagged and wheezed on my own blood, hands stained crimson. The air felt off again. That dark presence was back.
"C-Cter!" Monster Kid knelt next to me, tears of worry building in the corners of his eyes. "I-I'm so sorry, this is all my fault, I-I..!"
His words were muffled in my ears.
Why did I do this..?
Why did I save him..?
I'm in so much pain... I'm dying...
Why would I do this to myself..?
Just for... One friend..?
This wasn't worth it... Right..?
"You're wasting you time, Cter." Chara smiled maliciously as they knelt down, reaching out and gripping my chin with their finger tips, lifting my head so I'd look them in the eye.
They smiled a little wider as they looked at my face. Blood ran down my chin, my eyes only half open, glazed over and weak.
"Look what this nice guy act got you." They frowned with feigned concern, tilting their head to the side. "Now you're on your knees, weak and dying in horrible pain..."
Their hair shadowed their eyes, their mouth slowly curving up into that crescent smile.
"Don't worry, though..." They stood slowly, my head lifting weakly for my tired eyes to follow their movement, watching as they bent at the knees, preparing that same jumping slash with their ballet shoes.
"I'll put you out of your misery."
"No!" Monster Kid moved between me and Chara, looking over his shoulder at them as he knelt in front of me, shielding me with his body. "D-don't hurt my friend..!"
M-... Monster Kid..? My eyes attempted to focus in on the crying lizard monster that clung to me, crying into my shoulder. What are you doing..?
"Tch. As if I can't cut through you both." Chara's smirk widened as they crossed their arms.
Can't.. Die... Slowly, my arms reached up, wrapping around Monster Kid. Need... To... Move...
Everything seemed to slow down as Chara jumped into the air.
*Determination.
My arms gripped Monster Kid tightly in that moment, Chara beginning to spin in this slow motion world.
*Determination.
My feet shifted, pushing into the ground as Chara fell towards us, that blade threatening to destroy us.
*DETERMINATION.
Everything sped back up suddenly as I pushed forward, launching Monster Kid and I through the space Chara had left open, lunging right under them and crashing to the ground just past the bridge as Chara landed behind us, immediately snarling, glaring over their shoulder at us.
"H-huh?" Monster Kid looked over to me, the both of us now laying flat on our backs in the mud.
"You're starting to piss me off!" Chara growled, turning back to us and jumping up for a third spinning slash with those ballet shoes.
Come on..!
A shadow fell over us.
Chara's bright red eyes went wide in rage as their shoe knife carved through Undyne's chest as she stood between them and us, her arms out to the sides.
"Well it's about time!" Chara exclaimed impatiently.
"U-Undyne..!" Monster Kid climbed to one knee, looking up at Undyne, who gave one big, reassuring smile over her shoulder at him.
"You've done a great job, kid." Undyne assured, making Monster Kid's teary eyes widen.
"B-but, I-..." Monster Kid looked back to me, before looking back up to Undyne.
"Back that way, there's a lab at the entrance to Hotland. There's not much time, okay?" Though sweat rolled down her face, Undyne maintained her smile and her composure. "Get your friend there, and a nice lady will help you."
"But, Undyne, w-what about you..?" Monster Kid sniffled. "You're hurt!"
"Hurt?!" Undyne laughed loudly. "You've got a good sense of humor kid! Fuhuhuhu!"
"Now go!" She nodded in the direction of the lab she spoke of. "Get your friend up and run!"
Monster Kid nodded quickly, and I felt his tail wrap around my arm, lifting it so that he could get under my shoulder and begin to drag me towards Hotland.
Monster Kid shook away tears, back to Undyne, who I stared back at with fading vision, my legs dragging across the ground in front of me. As we got further and further away, a light began to shine, illuminating the bridge that was growing further and further away.
"C-c'mon Monster Kid!" Sweat running down his face, Monster Kid grit his teeth, struggling to drag my heavy human body ahead. "Undyne told you to do this! Cter needs you to do this!"
"M-... Monster Kid..."
Monster Kid's eyes widened, and he looked over his shoulder at me.
I smiled wide with blood stained teeth, closing my eyes.
"I believe in you..!"
Monster Kid looked surprised by my words, before he nodded, narrowing his eyes and looking ahead, continuing to pull me with DETERMINATION.
Anarchy sauntered forward, crowbar swaying from side, that grin creeping up his face.
Undyne felt a cold creep into her SOUL as she stared into those crimson peepers of Anarchy's.
It was like she could feel it. His intention to hurt, to kill, to slaughter.
The shadows under Anarchy looked to be writhing, reaching out like 2D tentacles across the ground, starting from his feet.
Glancing to the Royal Guard around her, Undyne could tell they were feeling the same way she was. The dogs trembled lightly. Lesser Dog even whimpered.
Jaw clenching, Undyne looked back to Anarchy.
"... Well?" Anarchy tilted his head to the side, stopping about ten feet in front of the Royal Guard.
She had never heard his voice in person. She'd heard his hysterical screaming and laughter through Alphys' cameras, but that wasn't like this.
His voice was low. It was quiet, and calm. Just enough so that one would really have to listen when he spoke, have to pay attention.
And it dripped wit something that made Undyne feel uneasy. Something unearthly, something powerful, something...
Dark.
Undyne gripped her spear with both hands, pointing it at Anarchy, planting her feet. Somehow, it's all she could bring herself to do to try to keep that beast at bay.
The dogs and Guards quivered, trying their best to hold like their leader was.
"What's the matter?!" His low voice suddenly rose in volume, making Dogamy jump.
Undyne looked between her guard members, watching as each of them seemed to be fighting the urge to run.
When she looked back, her eyes widened in horror.
The shadows around Anarchy's feet reached out across the bridge towards them, their 2D figures running up the walls around them and wrapping over and under the boards to the bridge.
"YOU'RE NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK, ARE YOU?!"
His words blasted over them, that chill darkening their souls and threatening to freeze them to death.
"Ngggaahhh!" Undyne suddenly shouted, catching the guard's attention, making them all look to her.
"Come on!" She looked from side to side, between each member of her guard. "We're not afraid of this albino punk!"
Anarchy's eyes widened at those words, that manic glee on his expression being replaced with a distinct rage. That joyful facade faded, those pupils shrinking and that jaw clenching in a frown.
"Right now, everyone's hearts are beating together as one!" As Undyne spoke, hope seemed to return to the guardsmen.
Anarchy snarled, jumping into the air and spinning, throwing that crowbar at a shocking speed towards the guardsmen that were busy wrapped up in their leader's speech.
"And when everyone's hoping for one thing, they can't possible lo-!"
THUNK.
Undyne paused mid sentence, her eye going wide in terror as she watched that crowbar explode through the chest of Royal Guard 02, who stood directly next to her, and who she had been looking right at.
02 launched back through the air, crowbar embedded in his chest, having shattered right through his chest plate and then through his sternum.
He landed flat on his back, staring up at the sky, light shinning through his helmet just enough to reveal his widened eyes. His body convulsed with one heavy cough, and blood spewed through the cracks in the mask of his helmet, before splattering right back onto 02's face.
Undyne's pupil shrunk and trembled, her mouth hanging open as she watched 02 writhe, his legs already ash as 01 rushed to his side, crying hysterically as he knelt at 02's side.
Undyne turned her head back towards Anarchy, still recovering from shock as she found that Anarchy had closed the distance between them, left fist cocked back, expression twisting with wrath.
His fist crashed into her cheek, and Anarchy planted his feet, kicking one leg back and blasting his punch downward, sending Undyne exploding down side of the face first into the bridge, which cracked under them, a spiderweb of shattered wood exploding out around the two, the bridge threatening to break.
Undyne lay there, eye barely open as both her mind and body were dazed before Anarchy jumped up, Dogamy and Dogaressa's axes colliding over her, forming a heart.
Anarchy landed on the blades of the axes, jumping and kicking both feet into Dogaressa's face, sending her flying back through the air and making her throw her ax into the air.
Anarchy back flipped off of kicking Dogaressa in the face, landing behind Dogamy, who didn't even have time to react as Anarchy grabbed him in a head lock, swiftly turning his head to the side, a crack resounding as Anarchy snapped Dogamy's neck before tossing his dusting body aside, jumping forward through the air and grabbing Dogaressa's still falling ax from the air, spinning downward.
Dogaressa rubbed her snout, looking up from her hand, which was stained with her snout's blood.
Anarchy plummeted from the sky towards her, ax held high above his head. A shadow covered all of his face but that glowing red left eye and that wide, sharp toothed grin.
That ax crashed down through her body, cleaving her vertically in half as Anarchy landed crouched, arms stretched forward and hands gripped around the handle of the great ax he now wielded, which was stained with dusting blood.
Anarchy burst to his feet, racing across the earth towards Lesser Dog, who held up his shield just in time to block a swing form Anarchy's ax, which dinged loudly off the shield, Lesser Dog snarling and barking as he batted the ax aside, Anarchy laughing as he swung all the way through with the ax, spinning and slashing at Lesser Dog again, Lesser Dog jumping back out of the ax's range.
Anarchy stopped spinning, choking up on the ax handle, one hand near the bottom of the handle and the other near the middle before he back flipped, Greater Dog's spear jamming into the ground where Anarchy once was, splitting the board.
Greater Dog quickly pulled his spear from the ground, spinning around and holding it up, blocking an ax swing from Anarchy as he dropped down towards him.
Greater Dog shoved his spear forward, shoving Anarchy back through the air, before he landed, skidding back lightly, grinning wide.
"That's a good puppy! Keep struggling!"
Undyne's eye struggled open, her face aching and her head throbbing in pain as her vision struggled to focus in on the cracked wood she was laying on and the darkness that stretched out to the side of the bridge.
Gradually, the ringing in her ears turned to a nearby sobbing and the distant clang of weapons, and she brought herself to sit up, looking slowly over her shoulder to the crying 01, before looking back ahead, watching Anarchy side step Lesser Dog's blade, his ax already planted against the dog's shield before he jumped back, Greater Dog's spear stabbing through the air where he once was.
She reached up, ears still ringing lightly and vision still fading in and out as she touched her face. She pulled her hand away, eyes narrowing at the crimson that now stained her finger tips. She could feel it now, the blood dripping from her aching nose and broken lip.
Her jaw clenched, and she grabbed the spear at her side. The ringing in her ear subsided, and as she pushed herself to her feet, using that spear as a crutch, her eye managed to focus in on one thing: Anarchy.
Eye narrowing and jaw clenching with rage, she pointed her spear forward, everything around her fading to grey in her mind, the only things existing being Undyne and her opponent.
Anarchy landed between the two dogs, grinning and frothing as he looked giddily between them, before a roar caught his attention, making him look up.
"Ngggaaahhhhh! Catch!"
His eyes widened at the crowbar flinging through the air, seeming to forget all else as he dropped his ax, reaching up and snatching the crowbar from the air.
Sensing their cues, the dogs launched forward from Anarchy's sides, Greater Dog sinking his teeth into the elbow of the arm that reached up to catch the crowbar, Lesser Dog biting into the shoulder of Anarchy's other arm.
Anarchy cried out in surprise, before laughing hysterically, looking between the dogs, snapping at them with his teeth giddily as the dogs grabbed onto him, holding him in place.
"DIE!"
Anarchy's eyes darted ahead then, widening as he watched Undyne dart forward, driving that spear ahead.
"GAH!"
Anarchy coughed a mouthful of blood forward, sending it splattering onto the wood of the bridge as he was torn from the jaws of the dogs, being carried down the bridge on Undyne's spear, his head hanging forward and his limbs swinging limply.
"You! You're a stain! A blight on the world!" Undyne snarled, continuing to push Anarchy back across the bridge.
"Damn albino brat!"
Anarchy planted his feet.
Undyne's eyes widened as they slowly skidded to a stop, Anarchy's head having fallen forward, white hair falling over his face as he slowly reached up with his mutilated, dog bitten arms, streams of blood having ran down to his hands, which wrapped around Undyne's spear, holding it in place as he slowly lifted his head. No matter how much Undyne pushed, she could not shove Anarchy back any further.
Undyne's pupil shrunk with disgust as Anarchy looked at her with an open mouth smile, blood pouring down his chin and upper lip from his mouth and nose as he slowly began to pull himself forward on that spear, laughing a weak, joyful laugh.
"_M_o_t_h_e_r_._._?_"
A sickening rip resounded as the spear tore out of Anarchy's back, more blood falling and splashing all over the wood of the bridge.
Undyne growled, pulling back one fist and clobbering Anarchy with a punch, throwing his head to the side and throwing some of the blood from his face across the bridge, splattering in a line to their side.
But, Anarchy continued to pull himself forward, his eyes slowly going wide, pupils shrinking with manic glee as he began to bite at at the air, attempting to sink his sharp looking teeth into Undyne, who pulled back her fist, clocking him again with another punch.
But Anarchy kept pulling, kept getting closer, kept snapping his jaws.
"God damn it! Just die already!" Undyne pulled back her fist once more, swinging for yet another punch.
"Nng!"
Her eye twitched with pain, eye widening as Anarchy caught her fist with his teeth, sinking his fangs in, the sound of bones snapping resounding as blood poured from Undyne's hand into Anarchy's mouth.
Eye darting around in thought, Undyne quickly looked over her shoulder to the remaining three guardsmen.
"You three! Get back to Alphys' lab and guard the doorway!" She barked her order, making them all look to her in surprise.
"But, like, what about you?" 01 asked in surprise, standing slowly.
And as blue spears appeared over the bridge, hovering just between where Anarchy and Undyne stood and where the rest of the guard were, Undyne threw back her head and laughed.
"W-wait! Captain Undyne!"
The spears launched down, cutting through the bridge with a loud snap!
The guards cried out, reaching the end of the bridge too late and looking over, watching as the two plummeted.
Undyne's "FUHUHUHUHUHUHUHU!" and Anarchy's "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" were the only thing that raced up to greet them as the hero and the villain plummeted into the dark below.
My crusted over eyes struggled open, everything blurry for a moment before focusing in on a tile ceiling.
I tried to groan, but my throat ached, so dry it felt as though it would crack.
"O-oh!" Alphys exclaimed, making my eyes gloss over to the side weakly looking to her. My eyes were only half open, my mouth hanging open, lips cracked and dry. "You're a-awake!"
She seemed to shrink lightly under my tired, nearly dead eyes.
Was she afraid of me..?
"H-here! I'll get you some water!" The yellow lizard was quick to stand, rushing away from my bedside.
My eyes drifted back up to the ceiling, staring weakly, unblinking. I could hear my own weak wheezes for breath.
*How pathetic.
Alphys reappeared at my side holding a glass of water. She awkwardly place a hand under my head, lifting it and placing the glass of water to my lips, slowly tipping it upwards.
After several heavy gulps, the tall glass was empty, and I was gasping for breath as Alphys pulled away the cup.
"O-oh, I'm sorry! W-was that too much..? I-I just figured you'd breath through your nose..." Alphys sweat nervously, eyes darting to the side.
"In... ven... tory..."
"H-huh?"
"Cin... namon... Bun... ny..."
"Y-you want one of the foods from your inventory..?" Alphys arched a brow with confusion. "I-I really don't think you should be e-eating solid foods right now..."
Slowly, I lifted one arm, reaching up weakly and grabbing Alphys by the collar of her lab coat, making her jump with fear, shivering immediately as she stared into my cold emerald eyes.
"_._._._N_o_w_._._._"
"O-Okay!" Alphys nodded quickly, picking up my phone from the table next to the bed I laid on, clicking a few keys before a cinnamon bunny appeared in her hand, and she skittishly offered it to me.
I weakly took the food from her hand, slowly bringing it to my mouth and weakly closing my jaws over it.
._._.
I sat up quickly, stretching my arms over my head.
"Ahh, that's better!"
"AGH!" Alphys cried out, falling back onto her butt and crawling back away from me. "W-what the..?!"
"Oh!" I smiled sheepishly over at her. "Monster food heals humans! That's why I wanted the cinnamon bunny."
"O-oh..?" Alphys made that jaw clenched, eyes to the side nervous face she makes in the game. "O-... Okay..?"
"I uh, I hope I didn't scare ya." I scratched the back of my head awkwardly, reaching down to offer Alphys a hand. "I'm a nice guy, I promise. Name's Cter."
"U-uh... Alphys." Alphys skeptically reached up, taking my hand and letting me pull her back up to her feet.
"Thanks for fixing me up, but uh..." I looked around the laboratory we stood in, seeing multiple beds laid out across the room. "Where are we..?"
"A-an underground lab..." Alphys looked around with me, before smiling nervously, looking back to me. "I-I mean like, more underground than usual! Hehe..!"
I nodded, recognizing this place as the 'True Lab'.
"T-that other human won't be able to get down here. W-we're safe." Alphys assured with an awkward smile.
"And uh... Who is we?" I arched a brow at Alphys. "Monster Kid carried me here, right?"
"Y-yes, Monster Kid is asleep over there." Alphys pointed over across the room to the bed at the far corner, where I could see him curled up under a blanket, his spiky head poking out.
"H-he's really brave..." Alphys admired, smiling lightly. "He carried you all the way to the door of my lab, w-where I was waiting for him. I-I saw what was going on through my surveillance cameras..."
I smiled lightly, watching Monster Kid sleep peacefully.
"I knew you could do it, Kid..."
"S-Sans is here, too. I-I know you met him back in Snowdin." Alphys said, making my eyes widen.
"Oh shit, Sans!" I exclaimed. "I still need to talk to him!"
Alphys seemed surprised by my rise in volume, jumping lightly.
"W-well, he's looking to talk to you too, s-so you're in luck." Alphys rubbed the back of her neck. "H-he's got this... Plan."
"Plan..?" I muttered to myself, before shaking my head. "Where's he at?"
"At the end of that hallway." Alphys pointed to the doorway at the north end of the room. "O-on the left."
"Thanks, Alphys." I waved goodbye, turning and beginning to walk towards the direction I was pointed.
As I left, Alphys sighed, sitting at the foot of the bed I'd been laying on and resting her head in her hands.
Sans grunted, sticking a glass cylinder full of a dust-like substance into the top of that strange machine he had built next to the DT Extraction Machine, before clicking a button on one of the several screens.
The tubes began to light up, the cylinder slowly empty of dust that was filtered through the many tubes on the machine. After a few moments, a strange glowing liquid poured into another glass cylinder at the other end of the machine. The cylinder already had some of the silvery, glowing fluid in it, barely covering the bottom of the cylinder. The new set of glowing liquid filled the cylinder a little more, now looking to be maybe a quarter full.
"Ah..." Sans wiped sweat from his brow, stepping back to look at his machine, before his eyes drifted over to the pyramid of dust filled cylinders next to the machine, and he sighed with exasperation.
"Hey, Sans!"
He looked to the side, watching me step into the room, waving to get his attention.
"Heya kiddo." Sans' grin seemed a little more genuine as he turned to face me. "Long time no see."
"I'll say..." My eyes darted to the side tiredly as I placed my hands in my hoodie's pockets.
"So, last time we talked you asked me if I knew anything about the stuff going on." Sans turned his back, beginning to walk across the room.
"Uh, yeah." I nodded to confirm, looking to the machine that oddly enough I didn't recognize before following after Sans.
"Simple answer?" Sans looked over his shoulder at me. "Yeah, I do."
"Oh thank god..." I slouched slightly, breathing a sigh of relief.
"And after watchin' ya, I got a pretty good idea'a where you stand on this whole 'monster genocide' thing." Sans stopped, looking up to the large, skull looking machine that loomed over us. "And I think we can help each other out here."
"Oh yeah?" I stood next to Sans, arching a brow at him. He looked back up to me, and that grin had a certain... Confidence.
My eyes drifted up to the machine, narrowing lightly. Just remembering the purpose of the machine, and hearing the light hum of it's activity made me reach up and grab my chest, as if to protect the DETERMINATION in my soul.
But, as I inspected the machine, I noticed a part of it that'd I'd never seen in game.
At the head of the machine, there was a strange insert slot. It was a cylindrical shape. From the slot, a cylinder of that glowing liquid protruded, this one full.
My eyes curiously drifted over to the screen next to the machine, where large green letters could be read.
My eyebrows furrowed, confused by what I read.
"What the..?"
MAGIC INSERTION MACHINE
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