The trio walked outside of Undyne's house and began walking back down the path. They returned to the center of this small town and began hearing loud music and singing coming from another nearby path. Undyne rolled her eyes upon hearing these sounds, but suddenly stopped when she heard a loud 'bang' and 'crash'. She grabbed both Papyrus' and Alex's hand and proceeded to drag them down this path to investigate the cause of these sounds, which Undyne already had an idea on what was probably causing this.
Upon going down this short path, they all arrived in front of a set of two houses. The one on the right was pink and the one on the left was blue. The houses looked droopy and almost as if they were leaning their backs against one another. Again, another loud noise was emitted, but it came from the pink on the right. Undyne had a slight look of worry seeing this, so she went up and knocked on the pink door. After a few seconds without a response, Undyne knocked even louder, quickly growing impatient. The door opened right after Undyne stopped knocking the second time, and they were greeted by a white ghost with big eyes and wearing a set of black headphones, which looked kind of expensive.
"oh… hey undyne, hey papyrus… who's this?"
"GREETINGS NAPSTABLOOK, THIS IS ALEX!"
"Hi Napstablook. Nice headphones."
"…thanks… so… what brings you all around here… unless you don't want to say why… then I apologize for asking…"
"Napstablook, we're here because I heard sounds as we were walking by. What happened and where's Mettaton?"
"oh well, he's not feeling too good…"
"Yeah, but I heard those crashes and bangs. Let me see what happened!"
"oh… ok, sure… some in… if you want to, that is…"
Upon entering the house, Alex observes the interior. Just like the exterior, the walls were adorned with hot pink wallpaper. In right hand corner was a TV and the left corner had a bed with six books piled onto it. In the middle of the room lays a motionless male-ish humanoid robot. Just like the house itself, the robot wore boots and a chest plate that were also a pink color. The motionless robot caused a gasp to leave Papyrus and Undyne's mouthes.
"What happened to Mettaton?"
"YEAH, DID HE RUN OUT OF BATTERIES AGAIN?"
"…no, i think there was an error or glitch… he should be rebooting…"
"Wait, I thought you guys said Mettaton was a ghost?!" Undyne shot a glance at Papyrus after Alex said this.
"WELL, HE IS… AND HE ALSO ISN'T."
"*sigh* I think you just confused Alex even further. Napstablook, want to help me explain this while he reboots?"
"…ok… well, Mettaton was once a ghost… he looked like me since we're cousins and he was then called Hapstablook."
"Then my g-good friend Alphys made a robot body for Hapstablook to possess." That studder, or correction, that Undyne just made sounded like they were hiding something. In fact, Alex could see a slight blush arise on Undyne's cheeks when she said 'Alphys'. Someone has a crush…~
"…yeah, and now he's the biggest star in the underground…"
"Understand now, Alex?"
"Yeah, I think I understand now. Thanks."
"…no problem…"
Suddenly, they hear a sound eerily similar to an old computer's dial-up sequence. This reminded Alex of an old computer they and Frisk put together from pieces of garbage several years back. The sound terrified them since it came out of nowhere without warning and was quite loud and obnoxious. Luckily, ever since then, they had never used a computer that had that feature.
After the obnoxious boot-up sounds finishing cycling through, some lights turned on all over the robotic body as it began to power back up fully. Papyrus ran over to his side and help Mettaton to their feet.
After completing their reboot, Mettaton's eye flashes to life, creating artificial pupils within his robotic eyes. It was pretty hard to believe this was anything other than a robot, much less a ghost. Standing on his own now and fully operational, Mettaton began to speak. "Oohh, what happened Blooky?"
Mettaton suddenly realized there were now others in his house now. Mettaton scanned all of them quickly. Before him now stood Papyrus, Undyne, and a new human that he's never seen before.
"Hello darling, who might you be?"
"Hi Mettaton, I'm Alex."
"Nice to meet you Alex."
"Hey Mettaton, they said you're a star, right? What kind of star are you?"
"Yes I am darling. I'm a TV star. I star as a dancer, cook, singer, actor, and so much more!"
"That's c-cool. I'm pretty good at dancing too. You think I could one day join you, maybe?" Alex began to blush slightly.
"Really, dar-darling? That's wonderful! You should show me sometime. Maybe I'll even let you on one of my shows!" Mettaton winked at Alex.
Alex couldn't help but blush brighter in excitement. They'd always wanted to be on TV. "Th-thanks Mettaton!"
"No probl-lem darling!" Mettaton couldn't help but smile at Alex's optimism and excitement. He knew he just made Alex's day that much brighter.
"HEY METTATON, WHAT HAPPENED?" Papyrus said, trying figure out what had just occurred with him.
Mettaton pursed their lips, looking confused as they tried to remember what happened. One moment they had been practicing a performance with Blooky, and the next they suddenly lost power and a forced reboot occurred as a result.
"I-I'm not sure Papyrus, darling. Something must have crashed. All I remember is everything getting grey and glitchy before a forced reboot occurred."
"…well, maybe you should… maybe get it checked out…"
"Yeah Mettaton, I'm sure Alphys could figure out what's going on with you." Once again, Undyne hid a blush as she mentioned Alphys' name. It was too late, however, because Alex noticed this before she hid it.
"Well, alright, I guess. After all, I must be my best for my upcoming performance tonight. It'll be a smash hit- hit- hit- hit- hit- hit." Mettaton's error filled studdering stopped as suddenly as it began. He knew that something was wrong. He really needed to see Alphys ASAP to figure out what was going on. Perhaps it was a problem with the new battery?
Everyone noticed the unintentional repetition, and faces of empathy began to form on all of the people in the room. "Don't look at me- me like that. Fine, I'll g-g-go righ-ight now." Mettaton then began to walk out of the house.
Everyone inside fell silent. Something was definitely going wrong with Mettaton. Undyne was the first to speak up.
"Alright punks, we still got a Frisk to save. Let's go!"
"…oh wait… Frisk is in danger?"
"YEAH, BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. THE GREAT PAPYRUS, UNDYNE, AND ALEX WILL TAKE CARE OF IT!"
"…oh, ok… good luck… i'll just tend to the snails… sorry about taking your time…"
With that, Napstablook disappeared. Alex felt bad for Napstblook and Mettaton. 'Blooky' as Mettaton called him, seemed so shy and self-defeating, but obviously was worried about their cousin. Alex felt their hand be grabbed as they were dragged out the door my Undyne as they were lost in their thoughts. They were once again brought back to the center of the town before their hand was released and they were allowed to walk by themselves.
Alex, Papyrus, and Undyne then walked to the 'east' and promptly passed by the path to the River Person, Undyne leading the way. Suddenly, the trio reached some actual waterfalls in Waterfall. They only way to progress was to trudge through the water, which looked cold. Without hesitation, the two monsters stepped into the water as Alex reached a hand into it, confirming their suspicions. The two monsters turned back and saw Alex's apprehension.
"C'mon punk, it's not THAT cold."
"YEAH, IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME IN THE SLIGHTEST!"
"That's cause you're a skeleton, Papyrus."
"OH. WHOOPSIE, I FORGOT. NYEHHEHEHEHE."
"He-hey Papyrus. Would you mind carrying me across the water?"
"OF COURSE I WOULDN'T MIND HUMAN. HOP ON MY SHOULDERS!"
Papyrus smiled as he turned around and bent down low enough to allow Alex to climb on. Alex grabbed ahold of Papyrus' shoulders as they put both of their legs over him. Papyrus put one hand on head leg as they stood back up. Undyne rolled her eyes at this, while both Papyrus and Alex's grins grew larger.
"Alright, alright. Let's go now! We've got a kid to save!"
"R-RIGHT. ONWARDS!"
They continued forward through the waterfall before reaching land again, which held another waterfall shortly thereafter. Alex, looking around at their surroundings noticed these glowing light blue flowers, which baffled them. They decided to ask Papyrus about them as they continued on.
"Hey Papyrus, what are these blue, glowing flowers?"
"OH, THE ECHO FLOWERS? THEY'RE A SPECIAL TYPE OF FLOWER THAT GROWS IN WATERFALL. IF YOU SAY SOMETHING TO IT, IT'LL REPEAT THE LAST THING IT HEARD. THEY'RE PRETTY NEAT!"
"Yeah, they sound pretty cool. But not as cool as you Papyrus!"
Papyrus blushed at this comment with a faint orange appearing on their skull. Finally, they reached the end of this chamber and reached a dimly lit path that was only illuminated by these weird glowing mushrooms. Papyrus bent down, once again, to his knees to allow Alex to disembark. After doing so, they continued down the path, following Undyne closely.
"Thanks Papyrus!"
"NO PROBLEM ALEX! ANYTIME!"
"Alright punks, listen up. We're almost to Temmie Village, which is filled with Temmies. They aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed."
"GOOD THING I DON'T KEEP ANY DANGEROUS TOOLS IN MY SHED!"
"*sigh* Papyrus, that's not what I meant. These monsters are… well they are quite odd."
"Will they be dangerous?"
"Dangerous? PPPFFFFFFFTTTT! As if! They're about as dangerous as that flower you're holding as a weapon."
Alex looked down and noticed they still had the golden flower equipped from when they fought Chara. Upon noticing this, they took it and put it in their pocket. Alex blushed slightly out of embarrassment. Papyrus felt bad for Alex, so they summoned a shiny silver bone that was really sharp on one end, which made it resemble some sort of bone sword.
"HERE ALEX, TAKE THIS AS A WEAPON."
Alex's eyes began to nearly shine from this gesture. Alex slowly reached for the bone-like sword and held it by the thicker end with both hands. "Thank you so much Papyrus!"
"NO PROBLEM ALEX. ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND."
"Hey, not bad Papyrus. Now Alex looks like they could actually be a force to be reckoned with. Maybe even slightly intimidating! FWAHAHAHAHA!"
Alex stared at the bone, focusing on it with all of their might. Suddenly, like earlier with the friendship bracelet, words began to appear near it that only Alex seemed to be able to see.
*The Clavicle
*+25 ATK +15 DEF Against Bone Magic
*A Bone Sword made from Papyrus' Magic. It's pretty cool!
Alex immediately equipped this in their now vacant weapon spot. They felt, not only more powerful, but very stylish. Alex's grin increased tenfold, and the other two smiled back. They, too, thought it looked pretty cool. Suddenly, the dark and barely illuminated path gave way to a lit up room once more, but this one was much different. Alex looked over their shoulder for a moment and saw Undyne's grin fade as they entered this room.
Behold, Temmie Village. This small chamber contained many similar looking monsters, which Alex assumed were the Temmies. They all had black hair, wore a blue shirt, and had a pair of dog-like ears on the sides of the head with cat-like ears on top. Their skin was a pure white, and they all vibrated with energy. Honestly, Alex found them quite adorable.
Looking over at Undyne, Alex could see she was not particularly happy on being here, especially with the odd music that was playing here. The origin of the music was undeterminable, but obviously was making Undyne begin to regret coming here. Papyrus, on the other hand, looked at the Temmies with his big shining eyes, just like Alex. Alex couldn't help themselves and walked over to the nearest Temmie and pet it.
"OmG! HumAns iS ToO CutES!" In response to this petting, Temmie began to mover erratically, then they suddenly tried to pet Alex. This caused Alex to fall onto the ground in laughter as Temmie pet them too.
"awwAwa cute!"
Alex continued laughing as Undyne looked on at this display with indifference. Papyrus saw this sane display, but smiled, seeing how much fun Alex was having. Alex stood back up after a moment and collected themselves.
"Alright kid, if you're ready to get what we came for, let's go!" Undyne rolled her eyes while saying this, obviously angry at this holdup. "Alright, alright. I'm ready." The three of them then began to walk toward the center of the 'village' and turned to enter a doorway with a sign above it that contained only a single exclamation mark.
Upon entering this next room, the music shifted into another odd yet upbeat song. Before them was another Temmie, although this Temmie's hair was grey and their shirt was a striped yellow and blue. This Temmie, although slightly different, was nonetheless cute in Alex's eyes. Especially upon seeing the adorable black graduation hat that adorned the adorable monster's head. Alex's eyes must have returned to a large, sparkling appearance in the light, because the Temmie made immediate eye contact with them with a large smile.
"hOI! i'm tEMMIE! whATs bE yoUR Nam Huemin?"
"Hoi Temmie, I'm Alex!" Alex tried to speak as full of energy as Temmie. Although a valiant attempt, Alex could never hope to successfully mimic the energy of a Temmie. Alex couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't like the Temmies.
"hOI Alex, welcom to… da TEM SHOP!"
"GREETINGS TEMMIE, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT FOR SALE?!"
"WeVe goT Dis tHINgs!"
Looking down at the wares and prices, Alex noticed that several items looked identical with a slightly different price and name. There were 'tem flake' for 3G, 'tem flake (ON SALE)' for 1G, and 'tem flake (expensiv)' for 20G. The next and final item was a large red orb. Next to it, scribbled on the cardboard was:
Tem pay 4 colleg – 1000G
Temy ARMOR! – 9999G 9000G 8000G 7000G 6000G 5000G
Legendare Artifakt – 9999G
Alex guessed that this red orb, or Legendary Artifact, was what they needed. Alex looked at the price a second time to make sure they weren't misreading that number. Undyne took a double-take as well.
"WHAT? You expect us to pay 9999G for this orb?"
"but I gota pay for gradskool."
"BUT TEMMIE, WE NEED THIS."
"Yeah. Please Temmie? We need it to help my friend Frisk."
"…ok, tEMMIE will let yo have it for 100G."
"Wait, that's it. We just have to ask politely and you'll help us out? JUST LIKE THAT?" Undyne began to get angry, but quickly tried to surpress this when noticing Temmie getting scared.
"UNDYNE, PLEASE CALM DOWN, TEMMIE'S JUST TRYING TO BE NICE."
"p-plEASE. Tem always wanna help Frisk. They help pay for tem's colleg."
"Thanks Temmie!" Alex took 100G out of their pocket and put it down on the cardboard counter. Temmie smiled and slid the orb closer to them. As Alex reached to pick it up, Temmie pet Alex on the head, making Alex blush slightly as they giggled. "awwAwa, sO cute!"
Temmie then grabbed a sharpie from behind the counter and scribbled out the part about the 'Legendare Artifact' and wrote down 'Sold Out' below it.
"you know, tem got dis orb from dog friend. He gave it tO tem as gift. than he bark and left. was nICe."
Alex put The Legendary Artifact into their pocket and thanked Temmie again before they left. "Tell Frisk to come by when they feel better." Suddenly everyone stopped in their tracks and turned around to look at Temmie. Did Temmie just speak in proper English? Were they able to do this the entire time? Papyrus and Alex noticed the anger preparing to boil over inside Undyne, so they each grabbed a hand. They ran and pulled with all of their might to force Undyne outside before she screamed. "bOI!" Undyne's eyes narrowed upon hearing that as she was quickly taken out of the TEM SHOP.
As Undyne's anger had nearly boiled over, the pair of friends still fought to get her as far away from the Temmies as possible. They zoomed through the small room that was the village and back into the dim room with the mushrooms. Finally away from the village, they released their grip on Undyne as she began to shake in uncontrollable rage.
"NGAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She yelled as loud as she could, sending her shrieks of anger echoing across the Underground. At the very least, everyone in Waterfall heard her. "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY COULD SPEAK NORMALLY THE ENTIRE TIME!"
"U-UNDYNE, CALM DOWN. AND WATCH YOUR MOUTH! NOT IN FRONT OF THE HUMAN!"
"SERIOUSLY? THOSE. THOSE. THOSE STUPID TEMMIES! NGAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Alex walked up behind her, half filled with fear, but the other with bravery and compassion. They began to pat Undyne's back. This may he helped, but it ultimately only made clanging sounds since there was a thick sheet of metal between Alex and Undyne called armor. Undyne, however, noticed this attempt at comfort, and began to came herself down. Looking over her shoulder, she makes eye contact with Alex, who's eyes are of worry for her.
"Are you o-ok Undyne?"
"Yeah… I guess. Sorry about the freak-out and curse."
"IT'S OK UNDYNE. WE'RE YOUR FRIENDS, AND WE'LL ALWAYS CARE ABOUT YOU! RIGHT ALEX?"
"Exactly, we both forgive you Undyne. It's ok."
"Thanks you two. Now, let's start towards Alphys' Lab."
Undyne turns around for a moment and flashes a grateful grin at the two of them as the continue back through the dim room. After this room and the next, they reach a turn in the road that leads through a path of glowing echo flowers and beautiful yellow lights. Perhaps they were glowing seed or lightning bugs or something like that. The three of them walked down this path slowly as Alex drank up the sights. It was so beautiful, they marveled, as they brushed their hands against the echo flowers, which were actually pretty soft.
"Alright, enough sightseeing, we've got places to go and people to see."
Alex nodded in agreement as they slightly increased their pace. They knew that what they were doing was urgent. But they still couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of the underground. Did Frisk see all of this too? I bet they loved it just as much as Alex did.
They then reached another turn and turned right to cross over a bridge. Against everything within them telling them otherwise, Alex looked down and froze before they even began to cross the bridge. Shaking in fear of the height of the drop, and because there were no railings, Alex stood in place which was quickly noticed by the two monsters.
"*sigh* C'mon Alex, It's ok. We won't let you fall."
"YES ALEX! HERE, TAKE MY HAND. I'LL HOLD IT TIGHTLY AS WE CROSS!"
"Thanks Papyrus." Alex reached out and grabbed Papyrus' hand as they crossed together, just a few feet behind Undyne. After crossing this bridge, they noticed there was another small bridge in front of them. However, before crossing it, they heard someone coming behind them. Alex turned around and saw a familiar ghost.
"Napstablook!"
"…oh hey Alex… hey Undyne… hey Papyrus…"
"Hey Napstablook, what are you doing all the way out here?"
"…well… Mettaton hasn't returned yet… so i got worried…"
"SO YOU'RE GOING TO GO CHECK ON HIM AT ALPHYS' LAB?"
"…yeah…"
"Hey Napstablook, we're going to Alphys' Lab too. Wanna tag along?"
"…are you sure? …i don't want to be a burden…"
"NONSENSE! WE'D ENJOY YOUR COMPANY, RIGHT UNDYNE?
"Yeah, yeah sure. Why not?!"
"Yay! C'mon Blooky!" Napstablook began to blush upon hearing him be called that. Alex took immediate notice.
"Oh, sorry Napstablook. I won't call you that if you don't want me to."
"…oh, no… it's ok, i don't have a problem with that… it's just that Mettaton was the only one to call me that…"
"Alright, thanks."
"You punks done chatting. We've been standing here for a few minutes now. Time is being wasted. Let's go!"
"CALM DONE UNDYNE, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE GOOD FRIENDS!"
"Alright, alright, I get it. BUT we still have to get going."
Both Papyrus and Alex sighed in sync as they once again began to follow Undyne. They all walked, or in Blooky's case they floated, across this small bridge and saw what appeared to be a large mountain-looking thing in front of them. Seeing a mountain underground didn't even phase Alex at this point after seeing everything else they've seen so far. The wind was howling above them, as if this had been the spot of countless great battle in the past. Undyne felt this too and smiled, as if she was recalling every single duel that occurred here. Alex would have to ask them about it later.
Up ahead was another golden star. As they approached it, Alex took a few steps towards it and touched it, feeling a wave of pleasure and relief wash over them.
*The howling of the wind and the beating of your heart are in sync. You feel ready for a duel!
*You are filled with Purity
However, after feeling this, they felt an odd feeling within them as well while holding onto the star. They had felt this before, when they previously held these stars. A part of their mind seemed to go dark, but they felt a sort of presence in the darkness. Alex feels… Alex feels a distance, faint presence that was very similar to Frisk's.
The pure black void remained as dark and empty as ever. Still only containing Gaster and Frisk as Gaster continued to focus on the window into existence, through which he peered onto the timeline. Not just this timeline, however, but others have been looked upon through this window. That was one of the only perk of being in the position Gaster was in. Here, he was able to study other timelines, but only influence their own.
Gaster has learned many things here. Now, he understood one of the reasons why he was unable to change everything and anything he wanted in his timeline. In one word it was, determination. Everything that was alive, both humans and monsters, had some level of it, with human have a considerably larger amount of determination when compared to monsters. The more determination someone had, the harder it was to influence them directly, which made inanimate object much easier to influence.
It was this same reason why Frisk's soul was not yet fully under Gaster's control. The sheer amount of determination within frisk wouldn't allow full control to be given to Gaster, but the amount of time they've spent here has begun to erode their determination, bringing Gaster very close to their goal.
Then, everything changed when Alex arrived. Alex, having the second-most amount of determination, had prevented Gaster from being able to effectively stop them. Another result of Alex entering the Underground was a renewal of Frisk's determination. Now, Frisk was further from under control then they've ever been. Unfortunately, this has led Gaster to a single conclusion that he really wished could have been avoided. In order to fix this, they'd have to kill Alex. It was the only way.
Gaster began focusing on the window once more as his fingers began to move quickly, as if typing on an invisible keyboard. Since taking control of Grillby took so much energy, he had decided to try something else. This time, they'd be using a familiar robot to defeat and kill Alex.
As they peered through the window, they looked upon the group of monsters with Alex. Beyond the mountain in front of them, hiding inside was Mettaton, but Mettaton did not quite look like themselves. Thanks to the study of other timelines, they discovered some of them that contained a Frisk that was a genocidal maniac. These timelines showed that Mettaton was hiding some very important and powerful combat features, but even these timelines showed that they didn't work unless something else was done too.
Gaster, using his skills as an ex-scientist and programmer, unlocked the full potential with this robotic form. He knew that the ghost known as Hapstablook was unable to stop him, and with full control of this form, Gaster would be able to communicate with Alex. This would be Gaster's final attempt at a peaceful solution. After this, well… Gaster was a man of action, and would not take no for an answer if he were given that. As the anti-human combat features began to boot-up, Gaster turned around towards Frisk once more.
Gaster was happy to have some sort of company here in the void, although he knew that Frisk was here for business only, not pleasure. Frisk was once again on their feet, standing up with their head bowed which allowed their hair to mask the expression on their face. Gaster did not want to hurt Frisk. Once he had access to their soul and did what needed to be done, everything would be the way it was supposed to be. Sure, this may end up killing Frisk, but the benefits far outweighed any conceivable cost.
"Leave. Alex. Alone."
"YOU MUST UNDERSTAND FRISK. I DO NOT WANT TO HURT ALEX, BUT THEY'VE NEARLY LEFT ME WITH NO OTHER OPTIONS."
"There's always a choice. Please, it's not too late to stop this!"
"CHILD, IT IS FAR TOO LATE TO STOP THIS. I'M GIVING ALEX ONE FINAL CHANCE TO STOP RESISTING, BUT AFTER THAT, WELL… THEIR FATE IS ULTIMATELY IN THEIR HANDS… OR YOURS."
"What do you mean? How can their fate be in my hands?"
"IF YOU WOULD JUST LET GO AND LET ME HAVE YOUR SOUL, EVERYTHING WOULD BE DONE AND OVER WITH. ALEX WOULD BE UNHARMED. YOUR FRIENDS WOULD BE OK. ISN'T THAT ALL YOU REALLY WANT?"
"…"
"EXACTLY AS I THOUGHT. YOUR CHOICE IS VERY SIMPLE FRISK."
"Alex will save me. And we'll save you too. I believe anyone could be a good person if they just try hard enough."
"YOU NAÏVE CHILD. I CANNOT BE SAVED, NOR DO I NEED TO BE. MY ACTIONS THUS FAR HAVE BEEN EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING BUT SELFISH."
"How do I know you won't just take my soul and continue hurting my friends?"
"I WOULD NOT LIE TO YOU, AND I'D RATHER END THIS PEACEFULLY. MY OFFER STILL STANDS. IF YOU CANNOT DECIDE NOW, I'LL JUST WAIT FOR YOUR ANSWER LATER. HOWEVER, ANY FURTHER WAIT FOR YOUR ANSWER, AND I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR MY ACTIONS."
"I… I…"
Suddenly, out of nowhere was the sound of a voice. Frisk lifted their head at the sound of the voice and knew immediately who's voice it was.
"Frisk, if you're out there, know that we're coming to get you. Stay Determined!"
Gaster looked over to the window and changed the point of view to focus on Alex. Their eyes were closed as they held onto a 'SAVE POINT' with their right hand. Gaster was not happy at this interruption, so he held out his hands and a pulsating beam of darkness was emitted through the holes in his hands. It entered the window and the golden 'SAVE POINT' immediately turned to a pure black color, burning Alex's hand and severing the connection they had somehow made.
Frisk remained quiet, letting a tear drop from their eyes as they bowed their head again. Gaster didn't need to ask Frisk to know what their answer was now, thanks to Alex's intrusion. Luckily, it was only a one-directional communication, so that single message was all that occurred without giving off any feedback to Alex other than the singe. Gaster was not pleased by that interruption. It was time do begin as Gaster's eyes began to glow green and purple as he focused completely on Mettaton. Gaster had another trick up his sleeve for this fight. He had altered the variable of a fight which, in turn, raised the stakes.
Guess they had to do things the hard way.