UNDERTALIA


Capital tapped her foot irritably, holding up her phone. "Hotlands, you had better not be joking this time! Where the hell are you and what's that noise in the background?"

"Sorry, Capital. I'm a little busy."

"That's the excuse that you've always been saying! What the hell is the noise in the background?!"

"Talking."

"Why is it so loud?"

"…"

"Hotlands?"

Capital heard the dial tone and then she cried out, "Hotlands?! Did you hang up again?!" She sighed, looking at the phone, and then she saw the latest post on Alphys's Undernet and she smiled slightly when she saw a picture of Alphys and Undyne. At least they do have a right to be happy, she thought. But what about me?

What about the rest of us?

[…]

Waterfall sighed, sitting in the dark corners of his domain, hearing the whisperings of echo flowers and the water rushing silently. He leaned down to let the water brush his fingertips and he sighed, hearing the sigh pool out into the air, where nobody would hear.

He heard the rustling of somebody coming and then someone sat down next to him and when he swiveled his head…

"Hi, Artifact Room. What are you doing all the way from here? And so far from where you're supposed to be?"

"I can't visit my big bro once in a while?" the Artifact Room pretended to put up an offended look before he smiled and placed a hand on Waterfall's. "I just wanted to see if you were okay, you know. All of your little microregions are worried for ya."

"Worried?" Waterfall asked.

"Uh-huh. You've been a shut in for a long time." Artifact Room smiled slightly. "So, I was just wondering if you've gotten up to the surface. You know that everybody else has."

"I tried," Waterfall replied. "… it was an almost disaster."

"An almost disaster…"

"Snowdin strangled me in front of a guy named Japan."

"Japan?" Artifact Room demanded.

"Japan." Waterfall leaned back. "Like that aboveground country. Y'know, right? The guy who created the stuff that Alphys likes so much."

"You mean all that weird stuff? The weird girls with their humongous eyes and-" Artifact Room coughed as if he couldn't continue onwards and the mere thought was making him sick. "Ugh, I don't see how she can even stand all that!"

"I know. I bet if Alphys saw the dude she'd go ballistic and act like a complete fangirl and then even Japan would have to be surprised." Waterfall chuckled dryly. "It just reminds me of when I used to go outside. Aboveground. And then I'd speak in the languages I'd learned to speak."

"Ah! Right, you did learn Japanese," said Artifact Room. "And some really old languages, and they all sounded pretty weird, at least in my view-"

"Don't insult Greek and Latin," snapped Waterfall.

"Aye, aye, I'm just pulling at yer strings!" Artifact Room chuckled. "You don't need to act like an old cranky guy."

"How dare you call me old?!" Waterfall yelled. "I'm not that old… at least, compared to China, I'm rather young."

"You're still… give or take, about three thousand years old."

"Oh."

"That's still old."

Waterfall glared at Artifact Room. "You sure do have some nerve," he sniffed.

"Nerve? I'm fabulous," said Artifact Room, smirking. "I don't get what you're talking about."

"I hope you go and disappear and never return," Waterfall sighed.

"I wouldn't say that. We've all been gone, so the surface world thinks." Artifact Room crossed his arms. "According to the aboveground folk, we've been gone for a long time."

"So long that it's like we don't exist," said Waterfall, quoting from a book that he had found.

"Yeah. We don't exist at all, according to them."

[…]

"Italy, so you're here!" Snowdin waved. "Hi!"

"Ciao, Snowdin!" Italy waved. "I did make it, because I promised. I do try to keep them, veh~"

"I see," Snowdin said. "Hey, follow me!" Snowdin began running and Italy followed quickly.

"Hey, wait up!"


I'm not telling you who they're meeting o3o

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I apologize for its shortness! I promise to make a longer one (someday)

Yep.

Thanks for reading.