"Darling, what do you mean Buttercup is here?!" My voice booms cheerfully as I speak to Toriel. "I have been dying to meet her and now Buttercup here! The Buttercup! This is too perfect!" I strut out of the house happily as my black hair flies with the early spring wind.
"Oh, are you leaving so soon Mettaton?"
"Oh yes, I simply must find Buttercup! Tata darling!" I walk off into the town as I wave to all the monsters and humans around in search to find the one and only Buttercup. It was amazing how she overtook me on the charts so quickly! There was just one thing: she seemed a lot like someone I knew. I just couldn't think who.
"Did you see Buttercup? She looked like Frisk did when she was younger with that sweater on."
"Yeah! She's totally adorable!" Then it hit me! Buttercup looked a lot like Frisk, excluding the hair and eyes. But Buttercup couldn't be Frisk…right?
I shake my head dramatically. No…Buttercup couldn't be Frisk, they were so different.
"Mettaton?" I look up, not knowing my head was down, and beamed brightly at the sight of Buttercup. "Wow! It's so good to see you ag- It's so good to see you!" I notice how she repeated herself and cut herself off and made a mental note. I think I found my new project.
"Buttercup! It's so good finally meet you! I just had to meet you ever since you overtook me on the charts! Oh no hard feelings about that either, it was about time someone overtook me." I shook the young girls hand as she smiled happily. "And I heard it was your birthday today right? Wow, that's the same as Frisk's birthday!"
"Yup, it is. I mean, I've never met Frisk before. She was the ambassador of monsters right?" She gives off a nervous laugh as she scratches her neck. Next to her, Asriel was holding in laughter, something fishy was definitely going on here. And I would be the one to find out!
"So, Buttercup, I was wondering…Is it true that you'll be playing Frisk in the movie based off of us?"
"You mean Undertale? Yeah, old Fr-Buttercup here will be playing as Frisk." Asriel puffed his chest out proud and patted the blonde, whose hair had obviously been bleached, on the back. Wait… he almost called Buttercup Frisk…could that mean? No…
"We gotta go, it was lovely to meet you though Mettaton!" The two hurried off as I watched them leave towards Toriel's house. I wanted to ask her if she'd do a duet with me but the time for that would come later. After all, we'd be seeing each other again. That was a definite. I walk back to my mansion on the other side and continue to think of the similarities between them.
Frisk was nice, Buttercup was nice, Frisk had short hair, Buttercup had shortish hair, only blonde. But her hair had obviously been bleached…been bleached, from brown maybe? However, Buttercups eye's were blue. Contacts, right. Well, Frisk could dance like nobody else could. And it just so happened, there was a party at Toriel's house tonight. There'd be dancing there as well. That would be the nail in the coffin. That would tell me if Buttercup was really Frisk. I smile in a wicked happy sort of way and hurried off to my house. It was going to be a drama packed night, that was for sure.
I snickered happily as I remembered the happy look Frisk made when she won the dance competition last month. Actually, it was nearly two months. I sighed, two months since Frisk left, one and a half months since Buttercup came, coincidence? I think not. I'd get to the bottom of this, no matter what. Just call me Detective Mettaton.
"Oh yes, that sounds marvellous darling! Maybe I could get one of those cute little outfits too!" I squealed at the thought like a small girl and quickly went to my pink room and wrote in my new diary. I bought a giant pink fluffy book for my diary this time. Since all my entries are to precious to be shared in the same book. I gasped when I looked at the clock, it was only three hours until Tori's party! I didn't have that much time to get ready!
I shot off to my makeup room and carefully applied my glorious makeup and shined my legs so that they were brighter than the stars themselves. I was going to be the belle of the ball, well…if Buttercup wasn't. I smiled as I adorned myself in the mirror, I was truly gorgeous. Maybe now Papyrus would have enough courage to ask me out on a date, I hoped so. I just couldn't wait any longer. I quickly headed out to Toriel's house along the path, how I did love spring.
"Oh, Spring is just so beautiful! It was my favourite season and possibly the only thing that could match the beauty of my suit. When I reached Toriel's house, I quickly, but dramatically, walked up the small steps and was about to burst open the door for a dramatic entrance when Buttercup opened the door smiling.
"Hello Mettaton, somehow I knew you'd be at the door." Buttercup smiled as Asriel slyly placed a twenty in her hand. I stare at her stunned and speechless. The only person who had ever been able to tell when I was at the door was Frisk. Thus proving that Buttercup was at least related to Frisk somehow. I quickly enter, not faulting in my smile as I waved to the gang. Papyrus was waving enthusiastically along with Undyne, while Alphys was eating a hotdog. Sans was of course smiling while shooting a glare at Buttercup, why I had no idea. Asgore was chatting with the humans along with Toriel.
"Hi Buttercup, say, when's the dance competition?"
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We quickly walk back to Tori's house, just before we see the house in the distance though, we burst out laughing and.
"I can't believe Mettaton nearly caught you out like that!" I continue laughing as Asriel pats me on my back.
"Yeah, yeah. So funny." I wipe the tears in my eyes away as I straighten my posture up. "We should head back h-to your place." I blush as I almost make the same mistake… again.
"Yeah, when are you heading back to the city?" I could tell Asriel didn't want to ask, but I knew he felt he had to. I sigh as we slowly walk back to my old home. I really wanted to come back, but when I asked Chara and Gaster what I wanted to do, Gaster said I shouldn't go back myself. Something about Sans and determination.
"I don't know, a week at the most." We both sighed as we entered the cheerfully dull place.
"Welcome home children! How was your day?" We both answered happily as we continued to the kitchen where Tori was making a delicious butterscotch-cinnamon pie. I drooled at the sight at it. "Oh that's great to hear! Asriel dear, can you cut the pie up while I talk to Buttercup for a while please?" Asriel nodded cheerfully as I followed Toriel into the lounge room.
I could tell something was coming, I was prepared to smash through the window and run away like Papyrus usually did when her words brought me out of my thoughts.
"I wanted to talk to you about two different things, I shall start off with the first since it's more important." I sigh as she gestures to sit. I quickly get comfortable in a small bean-bag that was nearby and stare straight at the goat-women who would always be my mother, whether she knew it or not. "Asriel told me that you lived on your own in the city…where are your parents?" I gulped. How did I know she'd talk about this?
"My…parents?" It's ok… I'll just tell her what happened to my birth parents… I sigh, preparing for horrible nightmares and memories to return. "My parents were abusive towards me, when the police found out, they committed suicide." I freeze as the memory comes back to me.
I scream in pain as my mother holds me down while my father beats me up. He brings down his fist to smash against my face, causing a bloody nose. Another scream of agony leaves my blood-filled mouth.
"Maybe this will teach you to not get between your mother and I." I whimper as they leave me in my room. I was lucky to have a room, I was lucky to go to school. I was lucky compared to others, I don't know who, but I'm lucky to somebody.
I cry as I try to stop the bleeding from my nose, mouth and arm. I still feel the pain as my mother cut my arm with a cooking knife. Smiling like a sadistic little- no… I don't want to be like them when I grow up, which means I won't swear like them. I hear the sirens go off as a mixture of blue, and red enter my room. I hear the knock on the door and the sound of two gunshots from downstairs. I shiver, I knew my mother and father had two guns. They threatened to use it on me sometimes.
I hear the hurried footsteps racing up the steps and the sighs of annoyance from downstairs; I had very good hearing for an eight-year-old. The police came up and explained what had happened. My mother and father didn't want to go to prison, so they killed themselves.
"Of course, their always just little bitches who get what they want." I mumble sadly under my breath. Sure, they were cruel and horrible people but they were still my parents. I walk down the stairs with the police in pursuit while I stare at my parent's limp and bloody corpses, still wet from the recent blood. The red liquid was everywhere, it made me sick. After I threw up from the sight of the 'crime scene,' the police took me to an orphanage where I first heard the rumors, of Mount Ebbot.
"Buttercup? Young one, are you alright?" Her voice was ringing throughout my memory, but who's voice was it?
"Mum?! What happened? Is she alright?!" Another voice? How many people were here? Where was 'here'? I slowly open my eyes to see my family in front of me, Asgore, Asriel, Toriel… they were all here, in our house on the surface! I notice that they were all chatting together sadly. I sit up quietly to hear better, what was going on?
'You're not Frisk anymore, remember? You're Buttercup.' Chara's voice echoes through my mind as I remember everything that happened in the past two months.
"She's all alone in the city! I cannot just leave her like that."
"Tori sweetie, she's probably been alone for her whole life, she'll-" I hear Toriel's gasp as Asriel just kinda stands there. He turns around and sees me and quickly walks over to me. "Can we discuss this in another room? Not in front of Asriel?" Toriel hums in agreement before Asriel and I are left alone.
"What happened?" Asriel explains that I collapsed whilst talking to mum and now she wants to let me live here with a proper family. "So…your saying mum wants to replace me…with me?" Asriel nodded his head a little before we both start laughing quietly.
"Hey, 'Buttercup' there's a party tonight and we want you to come." I smile at the idea of a party, I already couldn't wait. "There's a dance competition." That caught my attention.
"You couldn't get rid of me if ya tried, 'Flowey.'" We both burst out laughing when Toriel came in again and knelt down to face me straight on.
"How would you like to live here? As our child?"
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I don't think I could be any happier, not only was the old gang here, but I was actually part of the family again! Sure, I couldn't come back as Frisk until everyone found out but still, that wasn't the point. The point was that I didn't have to live alone in the city anymore. I smiled as I talked to Papyrus and Asriel happily.
"How much to bet that Mettaton walks through that door in exactly three minutes and…" I quickly check my watch for the time and smile, "twenty-seen seconds."
"I'll take that bet! Twenty bucks says he won't come for another half an hour."
"I TO WILL JOIN THIS BET! TEN GOLD THAT METTATON ARRIVES IN STYLE!" Papyrus' loud voice echoes through the room as everyone smiles. I smile while looking down as I remember what Gaster told me.
"I changed my mind, I'm going back to my family. It's not right for me to run away and then force them to find me. I'm going home when Asriel goes home as well, as Frisk." I smile as Chara beams happily but it quickly fades when Gaster shakes his head sadly.
'young one, I am afraid I cannot allow you to return just yet. Not as Frisk anyways.' I frown as I feel tears well up, sure I was grown up but I was still the child that fell deep down. 'Sans pulled you into a shared dream, he should not have access to that amount of determination. He should only have a small amount, not enough to summon someone to a dream.'
Chara and I both stare at him, entirely confused. I don't think any of us understood him.
"Huh?" Chara straightens his pose and looks at tall skeleton with frustration and confusion. Chara quickly learnt sign language and he is actually pretty good at it now, however some things you just don't understand.
'Something fishy is going on. And it isn't Undyne. To forcefully summon somebody to a dream you have to have a certain amount of determination, Sans however, doesn't have that much determination.' I stare at Chara, my mind racing. I think I understood.
Somehow Sans had gained determination, more than he should have. Which meant he or someone else was doing bad things to gain it. I knew it wasn't Sans though, he'd never do something like that. Which meant somebody else was giving him determination. With my amount determination, the thing taking it would aim for me next. After all, determination was like LOVE, kill something or someone with a lot of determination, the more you get.
"That means that the thing would try to kill Frisk…" Well, Chara understood. I knew my face had drained of colon.
'Yes, however if the others figure out it is you by themselves, than Sans would lose the determination and the creatures plans would be ruined.' I sigh sadly, letting a single tear lose.
"I understand…"
The memory flashes back as try to listen to the conversation at hand. I shake my head gently before looking at my watch.
"Looks like Mettaton will be here in a few seconds." I walk up to the door with Asriel in quick pursuit.
I stand at the door watching my clock when I open the door and smile at the wide-eyed Mettaton.
"Hello Mettaton, somehow I knew you'd be at the door." I smirk cockily at Asriel as he slides a twenty into the palm of my hand. I stepped to the side as he entered with a giant smile on his face. I watched as he quickly waved to the enthusiastic gang, I pretended to not notice the glare that Sans was giving me.
"Hi Buttercup, say, when's the dance competition?" I smiled widely. With that little innocent little sentence, I knew Mettaton was close to figuring it out soon. I was just so happy I could scream! Who knew Mettaton would be the first to find out?
"Right now if you want." I wink at the sparkling robot. His smile widened, if it was possible. I jog over to my mum and smile at her as the other guys walk off to talk to the monsters.
"Hello my child, can I help you?" I nod overly enthusiastic. I kinda thought that mum would be the first to find out, but apparently, it could be Mettaton.
"Can we have a dance competition?" Toriel laughs happily as she nods.
'Oh, this'll be fun.' Chara's voice echoes through my mind as I smile.
'Yes it will be Chara, yes it will be."
Once the living-room was cleared of furniture, everyone picked a space and danced crazily to the music as one by one, everyone collapsed. Everyone except, me and Mettaton. Mettaton and I danced for what seemed like hours, I could tell that everyone was making bets and rooting for one or the other, but we were just having too much fun to listen!
"You nearly worn out darling?" honestly? Yes. I was exhausted, but I wasn't giving up.
"No way, you?" Mettaton just laughed before he collapsed to the floor, completely out of it. Everyone cheered as I stopped dancing and collapsed myself.
"Well, it's good to see you again, Frisk." Mettaton whispered quiet enough for nobody to hear, I was happy for two people to know my secret now, well, two excluding Chara and Gaster.
"Good to see you too Tonton." I missed calling my favorite pop-star his nickname. I missed everyone. I turned to face a hand offering to help me up and took it gratefully. However, instead of stand I was pulled into the air and into a giant hug from Papyrus.
"GOOD JOB BUTTERCUP! YOU DID AN AMAZING JOB!" I hugged back happily as a single thought crossed my mind, one that I was dying to know the answer to.
'I wonder who will be the next to find out…'