You guys are going to hate me at the end of this chapter. But I promise, this is entirely necessary.
I was starting to become annoyed by Mettatton. First, killer quiz show, then, killer cooking show, and now, a bunch of bombs disguised as harmless objects! This guy/girl/robot was seriously starting to annoy me. But I fought the irritation away, and played along, getting help from Alphys whenever I needed it, luckily she incorporated a diffusing device into my phone.
Once that was over with, I walked into the area of a spider bake sale. I blinked, remembering the spiders from the ruins that had given me the Spider Cider and the Spider Donut, and looked at the prices necessary to buy some more. I was stunned speechless by the fact that it was nine-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine Gold to buy one of either.
I checked my wallet and pouted, realizing I didn't have enough, and that I was off by quite a lot. I asked the spider-woman running the bake sale if there was anything for sale that I could buy with what I had, and she said that since I had bought from the bake sale in the Ruins she was willing to give me a discount.
I managed to buy several Donuts and a few Ciders, and I thanked her, though I ended up spending a good amount of my money.
I still had a bit left, but it was greatly reduced. I started forward, and since I had bought so much, I was able to pass without problem into Mettatton's next trap, which was just like the one that Papyrus had used.
I got ready to dash, and the moment the timer started, I took off, making my way through, and almost making it to the end, but I was on the last square when the timer went off. Alphys stopped me from being incinerated, then when I had to fight Mettatton, she told me about the yellow button, which turned my SOUL yellow, and let me fire beams of energy, causing Mettatton to leave.
I sighed in relief as my SOUL once again returned to my body, and then started forward, though I was feeling extremely dizzy. For some reason, I felt like something big was close to happening, but I shook off the feeling. I tried to calm myself, and succeeded mostly. I started forward again, and I saw Sans.
Instantly my eyes lit up and I ran over, hugging him. "Sans! Hey!"
Sans laughed and patted my back. "Hey, bud. You're headed to the Core huh? Well, wanna get a bite to eat first?"
I nodded, grinning a bit.
"Cool! Follow me, I've got a shortcut." Sans lead me to the left of the building, and suddenly I was across from Sans at a table that looked like Mettatton.
"So, I want to tell you a bit of a story. Mind hearing it?"
I motioned for him to go on, and he nodded.
"So, you know I'm a sentry in Snowdin Forest, right? Well, it gets boring sometimes, so I use the door at the end of the Forest to practice my knock knock jokes. So I was belting them out, when suddenly this voice said, 'Who's there?'
"Naturally, I replied, 'Dishes.' 'Dishes who?' 'Dishes a very bad joke.' She just starts howling with laughter, like it's the best joke she's ever heard. I keep 'em coming, she keeps laughing, until finally she knocks.
"I say, 'Who's there?' 'Old lady.' 'Old lady who?' 'Oh, I didn't know you could yodel!' I laughed pretty hard. This sort of thing became a bit of a routine, until one day I noticed that she wasn't really laughing very much. So I asked her what was wrong.
"She said something strange. 'If a Pokemon ever comes through here, I want you to protect them, help them. Can you promise this for me?'
"Now, I don't like making promises, and I didn't know her name! But… I couldn't say 'No'.
"...Do you know why I'm telling you this? Because if she hadn't asked me…"
Sans's eyes became pure black. "You'd be dead where you stand."
I couldn't help but shiver out of fear, nor could I help but notice that the dizzy feeling from before was coming back slowly.
"Aren't ya glad I did such a good job protecting ya? You haven't even died once yet! Though… I'm wondering if that'll change in the future. Hey, you alright? You don't look so good. Pal? Pal, you okay? Hey, what's wrong!?"
Sans was becoming panicked now, but my vision was swimming, and I couldn't hear correctly, everything becoming echoey and distorted as I slowly fell, though before I could hit the ground, Sans caught me, and was hurriedly dialing a number on his phone. I faintly heard him shouting something as my vision went black and I fell unconscious.
