AN: And welcome back. Sorry that I've not updated either of my stories lately, I've just been trying to figure out ideas for both (and playing the new Pokémon game). I hope to updated my other story by the latest of Monday, but that depends on how motivated I am and if my homework over break will take up too much time. Anyways onto the story.

Chapter Seven: Undying Duo

(Third Person POV)

"Come on!" A voice yelled in the darkness. Another person could be heard panting.

"I've never run this much before." The other person responds.

The other voice sighs, "Yeah I should have known not to push you so much. We'll rest as soon as I can check to make sure they haven't caught up yet." The first voice responds and they keep running through the darkness until they reach a small secluded cave off of the main path. The room was lighter than the main path which made their eyes hurt for a second before they were used to it. In the light the two figures were now identified as a fish like monster with blue scales and a red ponytail and a yellow scaled reptilian monster with glasses.

"Stay here and I'll check for the monsters chasing us. We'll be fine by the end Alphys." The fish monsters told the other monster and they nodded.

"Just be careful Undyne." Alphys told the fish monster and Undyne headed out of the room and stood in complete darkness before summoning a spear and seeing a couple of cloaked figures.

"There the sea wraith is. Time to bring her back. We'll get paid handsomely for this." One figure said pointing a sword at Undyne.

"You clowns think that you can capture me or be scary? I knew she was an idiot but this is just weird that she thinks I still cower in fear of the cloaked goons she commands?" Undyne laughed at the two and the two cloaked figures threw their weapons at Undyne but she turned them green and tossed them against the wall.

"Ngah. You think you two clowns can defeat me THAT easily!" Undyne shouts at them before sending multiple volleys of spears at them that easily damage them and she knocks them out.

"I did teach you well, daughter."A voice resounds in the dark. Undyne snarls back.

"YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER!" Undyne yells sending a volley of spears into the darkness. She feels them all get dodged and braces for an attack to the chest and instead gets hit by a mace to her left eye, leaving it bloodied.

"Perhaps too well, I shouldn't have let you grow attached to anything, your Determination exceeds mine now, even after all the Determination I stole from the Dreemurr's Kingdom and used for myself. That stupid lizard corrupted your mind, Alphys was it? Perhaps as my next experiment, I'll stop using that one prisoner who keeps preventing me from use of the others and instead use her?" She mocks Undyne who brings cyan spears out of the ground in front of the room Alphys is in.

"So she's in there. I'll deal with her after I BEAT THE DETERMINATION OUT OF YOU! THEN I"LL MAKE MY MOVE ON THAT STUPID KING WHO COST US THE WAR!" She yelled at her daughter.

"Didn't you say you, the so proclaimed all great Queen Naia, had five prisoners? Well you should have considered me your sixth and now we're all free." Undyne mocked her and her mother's eyes shot open.

"What do you mean they're free?! You freed them, didn't you? You'll pay for your insolence, with your head!" Naia screeched before flinging her mace at her daughter, who dodged it and summoned spears to send back and flew into her arms and turned cyan so she couldn't take them out without hurting herself.

Naia then started summoning steam from the ground, which made Undyne start panting as she was never good at dealing with heat. Undyne then turned Naia's soul green, surprising her mother and made the steam stop.

"What the, I never taught you this?" Naia said in confusion as Undyne sent spears from four directions and Naia tried to move but was held in place and was stabbed in the chest four times.

"You may have caught me off guard this time, but when I heal up, I'll hunt you down until I can smear your dust into the ground." Naia said laying on the floor exhausted by the short battle.

"I don't understand how a punk like you could be queen over so many monsters? You are a horrible beast that should have died in the war. Goodbye mother and when next we meet I will strike you down." Undyne spat at her mother before walking into the room with Alphys leaving her mother on the floor.

"Un...Undyne are you alright? Your eye is bleeding." Alphys started panicking at what had happened until Undyne started laughing.

"It's nothing. Literally nothing as I can't see out of it. But we need to keep moving. I slowed them down, but you know the queen." Undyne said before grabbing her bag from Alphys and they headed out of the room. Alphys saw Naia barely conscious, but didn't say anything. The two continued on in silence until they reached another room filled with light, except this one wasn't filled with light crystals, but beneath the edges of the room lay lava. They were nearing the Dreemurr's kingdom.

(Asriel POV)

It's been a year since Chara was turned into a half human, half fox monster. Nowadays she is better with her changes, but she is more secluded than before the incident. She rarely takes appointments as the scientist and works alone. Only really me and Clover talk toher much outside of work problems. Adam and Artemis still don't remember anything, but perhaps it is for a reason. I have almost finished my Royal Guard training, as a matter of fact I am taking my final test by testing my strength against Gerson.

"Come one young prince. Give it your all." Gerson encouraged me and I nodded. All I had to do was get him to surrender.

I started unleashing a barrage of fireballs that would leave little room for escape with its circle formation, whilst I started infusing my sword with fire. Gerson dodged through the small opening in my attack and he unleashed a wave of water at me which I jumped over. He did teach me to dodge, which very little monsters decide to do in an actual battle. Actually the only monsters I know who have are me, Red and Gerson.

Anyways, I start filling the room with multitudes of fireballs of cyan, orange and regular white variants. Gerson got hit twice, but was able to block most the attacks with his hammer or shell. Gerson then went into his shell and propelled himself at me while inside. I jump on top of his shell and when he hits the wall, I jump off and stop the shell and put my now fire tipped sword to the front of the shell. Gerson laughed from inside.

"I hope you got more than that. I'm not surrendering yet." Gerson informed me and I jumped back as he summoned a pillar of water. That was close. If I got hit more than five times, than I lost and failed the assessment.

I shoot flames from my sword and also create a wall of fire surrounding the outside of the room, so he couldn't ricochet off the walls. Gerson deflected the flames with his hammer and then swung at me with it, sending a few waves of cyan and orange attacks.

The order was orange, cyan, cyan, orange, cyan, orange, cyan. I am about to avoid the attacks, until I feel myself surrounded in a cyan light. He turned my soul cyan. I didn't have time to react as the waves hit me and I try to move through the orange one, forgetting that cyan souls make orange attacks seem like cyan and vice versa. I am hit for the first time and try to hold my ground for the cyan, but I am hit by another wave and I am flung back from the wave's force into my own flames and get hit another time. I feel my fur singed and feel a burn on my back, but I get back up.

"Young prince, you can give up at any time. Don't try to get severely hurt." Gerson told me and I laughed.

"Captain, you know that I NEVER give up!" I tell him before jumping into the air and raining down flames which he is barely able to dodge and gets hit by four fireballs. Gerson looks a little out of it as I launch down from the sky and jump onto Gerson and pin him to the ground. I hold my sword to his neck.

"Surrender?" I ask him as I heat up the sword more and make him sweat quite a bit.

"I've never had someone complete their tests on their first attempts. You are quite the prince. Yes I surrender. You did well. Now can you get rid of all these flames, it's not really good for an aquatic monster like me." Gerson told me and I got up and sat on the floor in exhaustion. Gerson summoned some water and drank it like he has never drank before. He then handed me a cup of water. I drink it and started rubbing my singed fur. I then remember that burn I got on my back. I'll have Chara take care of that later.

"Good job Asriel. I'll let you have the rest of the day off, but tomorrow I want you to patrol Hotland's borders." Gerson told me and I gulped. Every Royal Guard had to do that patrol at least once and no one liked it as there was a fear of lava geysers, falling rocks, crumbling paths and most of all, what was referred to as the Outsiders. Outsiders were from the regions beyond what Dad controlled and no one had ever seen one and lived, but Dad had always said that he knew they were out there.

I bade goodbye to the Captain and headed from near the center of Waterfall to Chara's Lab. As I entered Hotland I felt the burn on my back feel worse. I need to have Chara take care of that. I entered the lab and saw Chara testing some chemicals at her desk. Since her failed experiment turned her into a half human she rarely experiments with dust or even close to it.

"Heya Chara. How are you?" I greet her and she gives me a small smile. She was in a good mood today.

"Good enough. Why were you wincing when you entered?" Chara says getting straight to the point while scratching her sharp nails on her desk. I swear she's gonna cut all the way through one day.

"I burned myself in my final assessment against Gerson." I tell her and she sighs. He knew that this day was coming and didn't want to see me get hurt. She's expressed this concern many times. But I know I'll be fine as long as my family is.

"Let me grab the burn ointment from upstairs and then I'll call Mom in case it gets worse." chara told me before walking upstairs and coming down a minute later.

"Where is it?" Chara asked whilst retracting her sharp nails. I point to my back and she goes behind me to take a look.

"Which of your attacks caused this?" Chara asked whilst starting to rub the ointment in. I wince at it for a second.

"My firewall attack. I needed to stop Gerson from ricocheting off the walls and he hit me hard and sent me into my own attack." I inform her and she sighs after putting the ointment down and heads to the sink.

"Just put the ointment on every day for a week and it'll heal. Your fur will grow back a week after the burn is healed. Now, don't you have to do that assessment again since everyone fails him at least once?" Chara asks while drying her hands off.

"Chara, my dearest sister, you assume that I lost?" I hold my hand to my chest in exaggeration.

"You won? Dad told me no one has beat him on his first try before." Chara questioned and I nodded.

"Well no one has been me before." I tell her and she chuckles before hugging me. My eyes widen in shock before hugging her back. The last hug she gave me was a year ago after she turned into a hybrid.

"Well, the downside is I have to patrol the Hotland Borders tomorrow." I tell her and her eyes grow wide.

"Do you think I can go with you, I have been meaning to set up some cameras out there and I haven't been able to get Dad to let me." Chara asks me and I nod. Dad and Mom have told us to have some bonding time recently and this would be our chance.

"Come to New Home with me and we'll ask Dad. Let's just not tell Adam and Artemis as they'll want to explore too, even Clover." I tell her and she nods. She grabs my hand and we are transported in front of our house.

"Since when can you do that?" I ask her and she shrugs.

"Since your horns finally grew in two months ago." Chara tells me. I open the door and see Adam and Artemis chase Clover down the hallway. I chuckle at how a couple of years ago that was me and Chara. We head into the living room to find Mom reading a book and Dad on the phone.

"Ah hello children." Mom greets us and i go and give her a hug while Chara stays by the door.

"Hey Mom. Guess what? I passed my final assessment." I say pulling back from the hug and Mom gasps in surprise.

"Really? That's wonderful!" Mom congratulates me. I decide not to tell her about the burn, as if I did she wouldn't let me leave her sight for a week.

"I actually came to ask if Chara could join me tomorrow on my patrol of the Hotland Borders." I ask and Mom gets a worried face and turns to Dad who had just gotten off the phone.

"Hmm. Why do you want to go Chara?" Dad asked while scratching his neck.

""Put up cameras. I don't have any out there and I want to see the differences between here and out there. AlsomaybetopossiblyseeifOutsidersdoexist." Chara says the last part quickly but Dad catches it.

"I wish I never told you those tales, even though true. Outsiders betrayed us and are traitors and follow a crazed maniac. The only ones who have been in contact with them was before the war and it was me, Toriel, Gerson and I believe one other person." Dad told us.

"What happened to make them betray you?" Chara asks and my parents start glancing at each other before answering.

"You may go with your brother. If you meet an Outsider, get away and come back here immediately." Dad told us and Chara smiled.

"Gotcha. We'll leave in the morning." Chara told Dad before he sat down in his chair and Chara left the room. I decided to head to my room as well. I pick up my phone and call Red.

"Howdy." I greet her.

"Hey Azzy. How was your assessment?" Red asked me and I sigh as I have answered this question twice already.

"I passed." I told her and she remains quiet for a minute.

"Red? Are you there?" I ask making sure she is alright.

"Just trying to process that you beat Gerson, the Hammer of Justice, on your first attempt. I have my second attempt next week. You better not brag about this. Anyways, are you gonna celebrate? If so I have an idea on where to go." Red asked me and I sigh.

"Not tonight. Gerson assigned me to Hotlands Borders. I don't want to waste all my energy tonight." I inform her.

"That sucks. I'll inform Doggo that you won't be over until two days from now." Red tells me

"I'll see you later. I need to go to bed." I tell her.

"Okay. Later." Red bids goodbye before hanging up. I get changed into pajamas before turning off my lights and going to bed.

(The next morning)

As soon as I was finished with breakfast I said goodbye for the day and called Gerson to inform him that I was heading out. He wished me luck and I headed to the lab to get see if Chara was ready. I knock on the door and she opens it with a bag filled with camera, along with food and water. Oh yeah, I should have brought my own supplies. Chara gives me a look that tells me that she knew I forgot supplies.

"You can share my supplies. I guessed that you might have forgotten.." Chara tells me and I laugh before she ushers me out and locks the door.

"Chara can you teleport us there?" I asked her and she shook her head.

"Can only go places I know from memory. We'll have to walk." She informed me and I sighed as we started walking through Hotland until we reached an empty area before the CORE.

"Gerson told me that we had to reach here and then continue east for a while until we reached a series of small volcanoes." I told Chara and she nodded and we headed down the path eastward until we reached a guardpost. A dragonlike monster in Royal Guard attire was sleeping when we got there.

"Uh hello." I say to him before he bolts awake.

"Wah? I wasn't asleep. Oh hello young prince, why are you headed this way?" The guard asked.

"I finished my assessments and was told to patrol the Borders today." I informed him and he nodded.

"And why is the princess here?" He asks

""Two things, to set up cameras to monitor the Borders and two, I hate being called princess." Chara growls at him and he flinches back before writing our names on a piece of paper.

"Okay, you can head out there now. If you don't return within a week you'll be considered dead." The guard told us and I nodded before we kept walking. We continued down the path until we found a couple of volcanoes. I guess this is where Gerson told us to head east towards, but where do we go from here? We walked for three hours to reach here and we didn't know where to go from here.

"Azzy, grab me a camera. I'll set one up here." Chara tells me and I toss her one and she taps a button on its side and it shrinks to the size of her nail and she plants it on top of a large rock formation that we were resting near.

"Come on." Chara calls to me and I nodded before starting to walk in front of her.

"Did you put on the ointment?" Chara asks and I nod. I wouldn't forget what Chara told me.

For the next couple of hours we wandered around the area, setting up cameras and keeping an eye out for Outsiders. I didn't see anyone else, but Chara almost fell into a lava pit and I saved her. After a while I got bored and started throwing rocks ahead of us. Even though us Royal Guards are trained to protect others, we still got bored on patrols and assignments. But when I throw another rock ahead of us I notice a small cave opening to a room that I couldn't see into. Chara didn't notice but I did.

"Chara, do you see that cave opening?" I call to her as she stops walking and looks to where I point.

"Azzy, we'll check that out after I set up a camera facing it." Chara informs me before placing a camera in a small hole in a piece of obsidian.

As I wait for Chara to finish up I notice two figures emerge from the darkness. One looked like a reptilian monster and the other a fishlike monster whose left eye was in shreds.

"Uh Chara. Do you think those are Outsiders?" I call to her and she quickly turns to see the two monsters.

"They don't look like monsters I've seen before. Perhaps that cave opening leads to the Outsiders' lands." Chara tells me and I watch the two monsters sit on the edge of the cliff. I notice the fish monster fall on their back and the other monster started panicking. We needed to help them. Without saying a word I run over the rock bridge to the two monsters and ask them if they needed help.

"Yikes." The reptilian monster squealed before backing away from me. I ignore it and feel for the fish monster's pulse. They're alive, but I think their eye and the heat got to them. Chara pants as she kneels next to me and the reptilian monster backs away more.

"What happened to their eye?" Chara questions pulling out some water and poured it on the fish monster.

"Sh-she fought the Queen a-and got th-that." The reptilian monster answered stuttering. I back away from the fish monster to allow Chara to examine them more closely.

"What're your names?" I ask them.

"I-I'm Alphys an-and that's Undyne." They answer me and I nod. I didn't want to bring harm to them as they looked terrified of us.

"Undyne? Okay then, Undyne will be fine as long as she gets that eye looked at. Now Azzy, Dad told us to leave Outsiders alone and go back home if we saw any." Chara informs me and I scoff.

"These two don't seem bad and they haven't tried anything against us." I argue her point and she summons her knives and brings one to Alphys' throat.

"What are your people like?" She questions and I glare at my sister.

"Th-they hate the Dreemurr K-kingdom and w-will do anything the Queen tells them for that c-cause. I di-disagreed and so did Undyne so we ran away." Alphys said and started sweating at the knife to her throat.

"LET HER GO!" I hear from behind me and see Undyne stand up and summon a spear and send at Chara, who dodges quickly.

"Everyone, we can settle this calmly." I tell them but Undyne and Chara ignore me and launch magic weapons at each other and Alphys backs up behind a stone.

"STOP!" I yell summoning lightning between the two and it obliterates their weapons.

"Chara you didn't need to threaten Alphys and Undyne was in the right to behave that way when waking up to see her friend being threatened. This is the first time our two peoples have met in a long time, so yes tensions are high. Now we can settle this peacefully." I tell them and Chara drops her weapons and Undyne clenches hers, but seems less likely to throw it at us.

"Why were you two threatening Alphys? And who the hell are you?" Undyne glares at us and I sigh. Chara was not a people person and when encountering the unknown she got scared.

"First off, that was just my sister trying to understand the unknown. She's not that good at communicating well." I tell and Chara looks like she's about to refute the fact but then gets a contemplative look on her face and resigns to the fact.
"Secondly, I am Asriel Dreemurr, son of Asgore and prince of our kingdom. That is my adopted sister, Chara, and she is half human, half fox monster. Now tell us about you." I inform them and Alphys comes out from behind the stone and gets a look on her face that's similar to Chara's when they are trying to figure out facts.

"How did you become a half monster? When did you become a hybrid? How did you fall down here?" Alphys started asking all the question quickly and to my surprise Chara answers.

"An incident at the lab, a year and one day ago, through a hole at the top of the mountain. Now answer our question." Chara lists off quickly.

"I am Alphys, I'm a bit of a nobody from our home, but I'm always looking to create things to help others, even if they don't appreciate it. That's Undyne, as I said before, and, um Undyne do you want to talk about yourself?" Alphys answered before turning to her friend.

"All you need to know about me is that I hate our people and we escaped to look for a better life in your kingdom." Undyne responds whilst digging into the rock with her spear.

"Well, I think we should bring you to talk with Dad about that." I respond and Chara glares at me and I ignore her.

"The king? He probably hates us." Alphys says hanging her head down.

"I don't know. That's why we'll ask him and if he says no, then I'll find you somewhere to live anyways." I inform them and their eyes fill with hope. Chara just stares at me.

"How do you plan on that? It's not like there's anywhere Dad wouldn't find them. No, you know what, if that's the outcome then I'll let you deal with the consequences." Chara told me and I nodded. I had a place in mind that I discovered with Red in Snowdin.

"So are we just gonna walk to your kingdom?" Undyne asked.

"No. You won't make it and we are low on water. We're gonna teleport to my lab." Chara says before grabbing my hand and Undyne and Undyne grabbed Alphys and within a second we were all in Chara's lab on the top floor. Alphys fell to her knees and threw up. I guess she has a weak stomach.

"Ugh. Azzy go grab the mop from the main level." Chara tells me and I run downstairs and grab the mop and bucket and head back upstairs. I hand it to her and she cleans up the throw up and goes to get rid of it.

"So Undyne, what hit you in the eye?" I ask her and she sighs.

"A mace. We were running away and got ambushed by the Queen's henchmen. Then after I floored them, the Queen attacked me and hit me in the eye." Undyne told me before starting to scratch the area before stopping. Chara came back up and had Undyne lay on an operating table. I decide to leave the room as I hated watching Chara work on patients but Alphys stays there for her friend.

I sit down at Chara's desk and wait for her to be finished looking at Undyne's eye. I decide to call Gerson to tell him that I finished my patrol.
"Howdy." I greet the old turtle

"Hello young prince. Are you still at the Borders or did you finish up?" Gerson asked me.

"I finished up and Chara teleported us home. Oh yeah, Chara came with me out there." I tell him and expect him to yell at me for taking my sister but he just laughs.

"Of course she would. Her curiosity is greater than mine. And I already knew because old Fluffybuns told me that. So anything interesting happen?" Gerson asks me.

"Not really. Just some close encounters with lava pits." I lie to him and he doesn't pick up on it.

"Yeah, that happens to most everyone that goes out there. Anyhow, I have to finish grading your friend Doggo's written assessment. Don't worry, I let him have a helper to read him the questions and possible answers who would then write the answers for Doggo. Even though he is mostly blind, I think if he works well and loses that horrible attitude he'll make a fine Royal Guard. Anyways, I'll go before I ramble more." Gerson then hangs up the phone and I put my phone back into my pocket and wait in silence for ten minutes before Alphys comes down the stairs followed by Chara and Undyne. Undyne now had an eyepatch over her left eye.

"Azzy, Undyne will be fine injury didn't make her lose her eye, but she is now blind in that eye and will need to adjust to new depth perception. If she is allowed to stay, then you and Alphys will help with her exercises to adjust to it. If not, it'll just be Alphys." Chara informs me and I nod at the information.

"I guess I'll take these two to talk with Dad now." I tell Chara and she waves us goodbye as we head out back into Hotland. I remember real quick that Undyne will struggle in Hotland and rush back into the lab.
"Undyne will be fine Azzy. I gave her a prototype pill that I've been working on to let aquatic people to survive better in Hotland." Chara tells me anticipating my question and I nod before heading back out to bring the Outsiders to the castle to talk to Dad. I just hope he'll accept them as they didn't seem bad.

AN: Undyne is my favorite character from Undertale and I want her to be a great character here too. (Also I've managed to prevent Leya and Ateno from interrupting today). Anyways onto other stuff.

Delta Rune: I'm pretty sure I haven't updated on here since before that came out. Toby Fox made another great game (even if I haven't played it). I'm thinking of incorporating some stuff from that into this, but I want to ask you guys if you think it will feel forced in or not? I'm leaning on the fence of it (this may be hinted at in this chapter that this might happen). If you guys don't want it I'll get rid of that hint towards Delta Rune and just continue on the story. (Oh I just looked and saw that I did an update after Delta Rune came out but I'll just leave this in).

Now QOTD: What is your favorite song between UNDERTALE AND DELTARUNE? My favorite song is Battle Against a True Hero but I also love ASGORE and The World Revolving (Jevil's Theme).

Anyways have a good day today and great Thanksgiving tomorrow.