After what happened in Ebott Forest, I want to know more about Chara. I usually ignored her mystery past, but I feel like if she had a fit of anger, she might be a danger to the underground. Also, ever since the bad teleport that happened a few days ago, I've been feeling odd around Chara.

We head towards a place that I thought was a construction managing office, but it seems to be only a pile of rubble. What happened? I ask myself, This used to be a thriving business. We kept walking toward the oddly abandoned town of Ebotton.

"We used to live here," Papyrus remarks "Now it's gone down the hole. I wonder what happened,"

"Well, don't lose hope yet bud," I say, trying to lighten his spirit "Even though half of it may be reduced to rubble or even nothing, there's still people here. See, look! It's a sch-" I was about to say 'school' until I saw what surrounded it. Dozens of emergency response vehicles, news casters and police tape.

"Was that the school Chara went to?" Papyrus asks

"Yes, yes I think it is," I say, walking faster towards the suburb. Nothing was like this before The War, now it's all fucked up. We keep walking, getting funny looks from other people from their windows. We walk into the less neighborhood-ey part of town. Much more people seem to be walking downtown. We walk to a hotel, to rent a room for the next however many days it'll be.

"Hello, ma'am," Papyrus greets

"Hi," She answers in an annoyed voice "Would you like a room?" I realize I forgot to grab some surface money. But Papyrus apparently packed more than I thought he did.

"Yes, for about five days," Papyrus says, handing over the money.

She takes the money and takes a long look at it, then says "This isn't enough,"

"Seriously?" Papyrus exclaims "That was 140 dollars!"

"It's a dollar forty," She says. I facepalm.

"We'll, umm," Papyrus says, thinking "We'll work it off!" I facepalm again

Her eyes brighten up "Take my shift for the next hour and you can stay for as long as you want!"

"Alright, I'd... We'd be happy to!" Papyrus tells her, she gets up, grabs her... Screen, and sprints out of the hotel.

"She seemed happy to go," I say. We head to behind the counter "We're only supposed to be construction workers, not hotel clerks,"

"Aww, it won't be that bad!" Papyrus tells me "It's only an hour either way,"

ONE HOUR LATER

Well, she was correct about the one hour thing. As soon as the second hand hit 12, she rushed back into the hotel.

"Damn, you actually did it?" She remarks, panting

"Uh, yeah," I tell her "We need somewhere to stay,"

"Well, thank you. I was pissed at my boss for having me miss my date, so you guys were lifesavers," She says "What are your guy's names?"

"I'm Sans," I say, figuring that nobody knew me up here.

"Hi Sans, who's your... Friend?" She asks

"I'm Papyrus," He tells her

"Oh, well, thanks a lot guys," She goes behind the counter and grabs a random key "Here you go,"

We gladly take the key, say thank you, and head down the hall of rooms. We go to the room labeled on the key, K-14, and drop our stuff off. We go back to the lobby.

"Leaving already?" The hotel clerk asks

"Oh, no. We're coming back later tonight," I tell her, then head out. We walk down the sidewalk, asking people along the way for a construction office. Of course they didn't know where any was at.

"God-damnit Papyrus, we're never gonna find a construction job!"

"Don't give up, Sans. There's ought'a be one around here,"

We walk down until we get to a little shopping mall, marking the end of the town and the start of the highway to Ebott City. These people seem to really like Mt. Ebott. We ask everyone in the little mall and only get one clue to a job, but it's in Ebott City.

"Well," I say to Papyrus when we walk out of the mall "We either walk, or hitchhike,"

"I'll take my chances with walking," Papyrus says, starting to walk. I grab his shirt and pull him back to me.

"Hitchhiking it is then," I say. I am just too lazy to walk.

"Ugh," Papyrus whines "Fine,"

We wait for about half an hour on the side of the road with my thumb out. Finally, a little Volkswagen bug stops in front of us.

"Need a ride to Ebott City?" The man asks. I have to say, he looked sketchy. Every square inch of his body was covered in tattoos. He also had a lot of piercings.

"Uh," Papyrus says nervously "Yes,"

"Hop in! I'm goin' to my construction job," He says

"Hey, we're looking for one of those," I tell him

"Well, how coincidental! Come on!" He says

Me and Pap get in reluctantly, but he drives off once we get in. If I remember right, Ebott City is about a hour away from Ebotton. Great, a hour with a complete stranger.

"So how have you been?" He asks

"Uh, we've been good. Just, erm, looking for a construction job,"

"Gee Sans, that sounds rough," He says, enunciating my name "How did you get up here anyways?"

I sit in shock for a few seconds "H-how'd you know my name?"

"You really don't remember me?" He says "Benji!"

Oh, yeah. He was that one friend no-one liked. "Oh, Benji! I didn't even recognize you!"

"Hm," He says "I thought monsters were locked away for eternity after The War,"

"Yeah, I was never effected by the magicians power, neither was Pap," I tell him

"How did you get... skin?"

"Uh..," I say, trying to think of something "It was my Dad's science experiment, something terrible happened,"

"That ne-" Papyrus tried to say, until I kicked him in the ankle.

"Oh, well..," He says trying to think of something to talk about. He never does. We sit in an awkward car for the rest of the ride.

"Thanks for the ride," I tell Benji

"Anytime, just ring me up. You still got my number right?"

"Yeah, I believe so,"

"Alright. Don't get caught," He winks. He gets out of the car and brings us in the office, it's a small building surrounded by large skyscrapers.

"Sup' Dod," He says to the lobby person as we walk in "I'm gonna get ready, these guys need to see the boss. They want a job,"

"Al'ight," Dod says

"Tell him I recommended them,"

"Al'ight," He says again, getting up "Come on guys,"

He brings us down the right hall while Benji heads down the left one. He brings us to a door that reads "Jeremy H. Jawkins" and walks in.

"Sup' JayJay," Dod says to the boss.

"Hey, Daniel," He says in a serious tone "Who are these two?"

"These two were recommended by Benny," Dod tells him "They want a job,"

"Oh, friends of Benji these two are?" He asks "He's my best worker,"

Dod walks out, saying "Good luck,"

"If you're friends with Benji," Jeremy continues once the door shuts "You must be some good people. We'll put you in training," Jeez, no resume, no interview. This was much easier than I thought it would be.

"Just remember," He looks me straight in the eye "If your work ethic isn't strong enough for me, you'll get kicked out,"

"Thanks a lot Jeremy," Me and Papyrus tell him

"Oh, call me JayJay," He says, leaning back in his chair "Come here tomorrow and you'll go through the tour. You two should do good here, we're pretty laid back,"

We walk out of the building. I turn to Papyrus "Let's get walking,