Chapter 9 Eye opening realizations
"What do you mean none? You just said-"
"I just said that I've met the kid before and repeated the same day. Today. Tuesday. Never in the 313 resets have I ever met you or your sister."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"There is only two main timelines. They vary slightly but not that much. This timeline was the most drastic."
"But why now. Why now of all the 313 resets did it decided to change. What's different about this reset. Why are Victorina and I here?"
"Another weird thing about this world is, there are no blips in it. When I say blips they're like mini-resets that happen randomly. But they aren't random, whenever the kid dies they reset to their last save."
"How would you save and what does it look like?"
"I asked the kid once. They said you just touch this yellow star and it saves you in the specific spot the star is."
"This … this is so confusing."
"I a-"
"Grrrr~"
"Well, I guess someone is hungry."
"I guess I am. I haven't eaten for a while now."
"Let's go downstairs and get you some food."
"Yeah."
They got off the ground and headed downstairs.
With Victorina
"I am starving. I can't remember the last time I ate…. That's a lie it was a piece of pie at Ms. Toriel's house but still that was awhile ago," Victorina said.
She went into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Frisk and the stranger were in the living room.
"FEAR NOT, MAGE. MY SPAGHETTI WILL SURELY SATISFY YOUR HUNGRY!"
Papyrus placed a plate of spaghetti on the table in front of Victorina.
She grabbed the fork that was on the table. She twirled her fork in the spaghetti and ate the spaghetti that was on the fork.
Victorina seemed to be stuck in the position of her fork being in her mouth.
"THE BEST SPAGHETTI YOU EVER ATE, RIGHT?"
A tear rolled down Victorina's cheek.
"IT'S SO GOOD YOU'RE CRYING TEARS OF JOY!"
Victorina slowly pulled the fork out of her mouth. More tears rolled down her cheeks.
"I HAD KN-"
Victoria raised her hand at Papyrus for him to wait.
She began to chew the spaghetti that was in her mouth. The crunchy yet chewy, tasteless spaghetti.
She struggled a little but managed to swallow it.
"WHAT DID YOU THINK?"
Victorina put her hands together and pressed them to her lips.
"Do you want me to tell you a lie or the truth?"
Papyrus scrunched his eye bones in confusion.
"I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THE TRUTH OF COURSE!"
"Ok, well, Papyrus, this …. This wasn't good. Not at all."
Papyrus opened his mouth to say something but Victorina didn't let him.
"Wait, I want to tell you why so you may improve. I was terrible at cooking too. Nahdeira thought it was funny since I love food but yeah, I was bad. The noodles were undercooked, burnt, and overcooked… all at the same time. The sauce was basically water and flavorless. I personally can't help you because I don't have the patience to teach people but Nahdeira does."
The room was completely silent.
Papyrus was just staring at Victorina, not saying anything.
Victorina was scared.
'I may have crossed the line even though he told me he wanted to hear the truth.'
Victorian shoot up out of her chair.
"I-i'll go get Nahdeira for you."
She made her way over to the opening connecting the living room and the kitchen.
"Victorina."
Victorina stopped and turned to Papyrus. Not only did he call her by her name, he said it in a low tone.
"Y-yes?"
"Thank you for telling me the truth."
Victorina slowly nodded.
"No problem."
Victorina continued to the living room.
"That was weird," she muttered.
"Hi, Victorina!"
"Hey Frisk and …."
"Oh! This is Undyne the Head of the Royal Guards," Frisk introduced.
"Hi U-"
Papyrus's room door opened. Nahdeira came out and Sans followed behind her.
"Nana!" She went over to the bottom of the steps.
She wrapped her arms around Nahdeira in a hug. Nahdeira returned the hug but with less gusto.
After a little while, they let go of each other.
"Are you feeling better?"
"Kind of but not really."
"Ok. Are you willing to cook?"
"I thought Papyrus made spaghetti?"
"He did and I ate some. It was like my cooking."
"What's wrong with that you're a pretty good cook no-"
"No. It was like my cooking before."
"Oh. Oh."
"I offered for you to help him."
"Why not help him yourself?"
"I don't have the patience."
"Wait, wait. So you had some of Papyrus's spaghetti and now you're telling your sister to help him cook? What did you tell Papyrus?" Sans asked.
"I told him his Spaghetti wasn't good."
"What?!" Everyone but Nahdeira and Victorina yelled.
"He wouldn't be able to take that criticism," Undyne said.
"Isn't Papyrus an adult?" Nahdeira asked. She turned to look at Sans.
"Yeah but-"
"But what? Y'all are going on like he's a child and this is the first time he ever cooked. How do you expect for him to get better if you don't tell him how to improve?" Nahdeira asked.
She looked from person to person. No one had anything to say.
Nahdeira sighed.
"I'm sure it won't be long until I make something to eat, Vicky."
Victorina smiled.
"I promise not to get in your way."
Nahdeira made her way over to the kitchen.
She stepped through the opening and went into the kitchen.
"It's quite a shame they feel that way about me."
Nahdeira's eye widened.
'Holy crap he scared me.'
Nahdeira stepped forward.
"It's ok Papyrus. They're just worried about you."
Nahdeira lightly touched his humerus.
Electricity shot up Nahdeira's arm.
"Did you feel that?" she asked.
He nodded.
"That was . . . odd. Anyway, let's get cooking."
Time Skip
Nahdeira grabbed two plates full of spaghetti.
"Are you sure you don't want me to grab another plate?"
"No. I ca- THE GREAT PAPYRUS CAN DO IT NO PROBLEM!"
Papyrus grabbed the remaining four plates and went into the living room.
They placed the plates on the table.
"Time to eat!"
