Chapter 11
"NGAHHH! Would you stop kicking me?!" Undyne shouted angrily.
"Not until you stop crushing me, fish face!" the child named Samson retorted.
Undyne scowled as Samson kicked and thrashed like an angry mule. Samson had managed to break out of the magic restraint Undyne had used on him.
The only thing keeping him from rampaging inside of Alphys' lab was the choke hold that Undyne had on him.
"Alphys, hurry up and take the sample!" Undyne shouted as she strained against Samson's unnatural strength. "He's a lot stronger than he looks!"
"A-alright, just hold him still!" Alphys stammered nervously as she approached the two with an empty syringe. "This w-won't hurt...at least it shouldn't..."
At the sight of the syringe, Samson began to kick and fight like a man possessed.
"NO, NO, NO! I HATE DOCTORS! HATE THEM!" he screamed as he struggled against Undyne's grip.
"Do it now, Alphys!" Undyne shrieked as Samson's fist found her one good eye.
Alphys shut her eyes and jabbed the syringe into Samson's arm. As she drew a small amount of blood from his arm, the child's skin began to take on the same red tent as it had earlier.
"THAT'S MINE! GIVE IT BACK!" Samson roared as Alphys recoiled.
Alphys noticed that the child seemed to have increased in strength from the loss of blood. Luckily Undyne was still stronger than him.
"Fascinating," Alphys stated as she began to scribble down notes. "The child appears to gain a temporary boost of physical strength when injured."
"You mean he gets stronger the more he gets hurt?" Undyne asked as she heaved the kicking child over her head and out of fist range.
"T-that's exactly right," Alphys responded as she shuffled over to the lab elevator. "S-so maybe you shouldn't, you know...hurt him..."
"Hurt him?!" Undyne shrieked bitterly."He's been the one that's hurting me!"
"And don't you forget it, Fish Sticks!" Samson cackled smugly.
"Why you little..."
As Undyne and Samson erupted into a barrage of fists and insults, Alphys quietly retreated into the True Lab.
As the elevator reached the lower labs, Alphys began to look over the vial of blood she had extracted from Samson.
"A quick run in the systems should tell me what this Samson character is." Alphys muttered to herself as she looked at the vial of blood. "No normal human can possibly be as strong as he is."
The elevator door slid open to the lower level of the lab. It was here that Alphys had done her dark experiments that created the amalgamates.
She had never truly forgiven herself for her role in those experiments. But at least the amalgamates had been returned to their families.
Despite being empty of the ghostly creatures, Alphys still found the True Lab unwelcoming.
With a low hum and flicker of light, Alphys powered up one of her computers.
Once the computer had powered up, Alphys placed the vial of blood into one of the many ports that connected the analytic machine to the rest of her lab equipment.
"Now all there is left to do is wait for the results." Alphys said to herself. "Shouldn't take too long."
Seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours as the old machine ran it's tests over Samson's blood sample.
Alphys was loudly slurping up a bowl of instant noodles when the computer gave off a loud chime.
Alphys pushed herself over to the monitor and began to read over her findings.
"Lets see what we've found..."
Alphys scanned over her findings, and how she wished she hadn't. The text on the screen appeared normal at first, but slowly it began to glitch and dissolve into large black pixel clusters.
"W-what is all of this?" Alphys asked in a panic as she pushed herself away from the computer monitor. "T-that shouldn't be happening!"
The computer flickered, sparked, then died with a loud bang. A low rumble shook the lab.
Something was causing a great disturbance on the upper levels of her lab. That's when the obvious hit Alphys like a ton of bricks.
Undyne and Samson were fighting...again.
"Those two will destroy my lab!" Alphys exclaimed as she ran to the elevator.
As the elevator doors slid shut, the dead computer flicked dimly before finally going dark once more.
Bring him the photo...
The elevator rocked suddenly as the power flickered.
Please be okay, Undyne! Alphys prayed as the elevator slowly continued up to upper labs.
As the elevator door slid open, instead of fire or smoke, Alphys was assaulted by loud heavy metal music.
Alphys first spotted the brown haired Samson jumping up and down on her couch. Jumping along with him, much to Alphys' surprise (and horror) was Undyne.
Both were air guitaring and headbanging along to the music.
"Do it again!" Samson shouted as he back flipped. "Do the thing!"
"Alright, alright, last time!" Undyne shouted with a large toothy smile.
Undyne jumped as high as she could in the air and summoned two spears.
"NGAHHH! WITNESS ME!"
With a loud smack, Undyne and Samson collided and hit the floor.
As the two tossed and tumbled around on the floor, Alphys finally managed to unplug her sound system.
Once the music abruptly stopped, Undyne and Samson's laughter was all that could be heard.
"Undyne, w-what do you think you're doing?!" Alphys shouted, still a little tone deaf from the loud music.
"We were just rough housing a bit," Undyne responded with a wide smile.
"Yeah, rough housing!" Samson repeated.
"But...when did you two start getting along?" Alphys asked as she began to calm down.
Undyne smiled and pulled Samson into a playful head lock.
"About two hours ago," she said with a laugh. "Sammy here got loose and wanted to prove to me that he was stronger by wrestling!"
"Yeah, wrestling!" Samson repeated.
"I still won, but it was close... now we're buds!" Undyne stated as she tossed Samson in the air.
"Yeah!" Samson repeated as he landed perfectly on Undyne's shoulders.
Undyne and Samson both struck heroic poses.
"Buds!" they both shouted in unison.
Alphys let out a stress filled sigh as she readjusted her glasses. Undyne noticed her friend's troubled sigh and took the hint that she needed to simmer down.
"Uhh...so, what did those tests say?" Undyne asked, trying to return her focus on Alphys.
"Oh, about that..." Alphys responded uneasily. "They were inconclusive."
"Inconclusive? What do you mean?" Undyne asked.
"Yeah, wadda mean?" Samson repeated after Undyne.
"W-well...the only thing the test showed was that Samson is human." Alphys stated. "But my computer blew up before I could find out anything else..."
"What else do you need to know?" Samson asked, growing impatient.
"Well, where did you come from?" Alphys asked. "How did you get here?"
Samson scratched the back of his head, trying not to look bashful.
"I come from a little house on the hill," he responded as he fidgeted with his bandanna. "Fell down here after jumping down a secret trap door I found in my room. That was about...two days ago. That was when Mom tried to kill me..."
Red tinted tears began to swell in Samson's eyes despite his best effort to macho through them.
"Stupid Mom, stupid monsters..."
Undyne looked to Alphys with a sad look on her face. Despite acting all tough and mean, Samson was still just a kid.
Undyne could relate to his desire to become stronger, but she had no idea how to handle the trauma of one's mother trying to kill them.
Suddenly, Alphys' cell phone began to ring a loud and annoying anime theme song ring tone.
"H-hello? Oh, hello Asgore..." Alphys answered with a stammer.
"Who?" Samson asked Undyne.
"The king- well former king of the Underground," she answered as she shushed him.
After a few minutes, Alphys hung up her phone and let out a long sigh.
" Asgore hasn't heard from Toriel or Frisk in the last two days," she stated grimly. "They were last seen going into the Ruins."
"That's a bad place," Samson blurted out. "Lots of rooms...lots of monsters...lots."
"Monsters? Like those...things that attacked us?" Undyne asked as she grabbed Samson and pulled him up to her face.
"Yeah, they followed me here from the basement..." Samson responded bitterly.
Undyne grabbed Samson and Alphys.
"Well come one, we gotta go save them!" she exclaimed loudly. "No one is gonna hurt our friends! Get your war face on Samson!"
Samson smacked himself across the face, an act that triggered the blood lust within him. His skin took a dull red complexion, and he began to breathe heavily.
"Umm, guys, I'm not a fighter!" Alphys shouted out.
"Would you rather go with us, or stay here alone...with the monsters?" Undyne asked as she tried to contain the all too battle hungry Samson under her other arm.
"On second thought...I'll go with you two," Alphys responded with a nervous smile. "Besides, I know shortcuts."
"Alright, it's settled! Let's go save Frisk and Toriel!" Undyne shouted as she charged the lab doors. "NGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The lab doors erupted outward as Undyne slammed headfirst into them.
"YEAH! LETS GO HIT THINGS!" Samson roared eagerly, pointing forward. (he had no idea where they were going)
"Frisk, Toriel, we're coming for you!" Undyne shouted as she ran further into the Hotland caverns, ready to face whatever challenges would stand in her way.
"SAMSON!" she yelled with a toothy grin.
"UNDYNE!" Samson yelled back with his fists curled.
"Um...Alphys..." Alphys squeaked, too frightened to say anything.
"BESTIES!" Both Undyne and Samson shouted as loud as they could.
Muffet let out a long, tired sigh. She hadn't had a single customer all day.
Sure, she had found success with her new bakery on the surface, but business had been slow for the last few weeks. Muffet's spiders needed money for spider things.
Could it be that my prices are too high? Muffet thought.
Muffet smiled and giggled at the absurdity of such a thought. Fifty dollars was more than a fair price for a spider donut.
Where else would the people buy her spider pastries or a nice tall glass of spider cider?
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to have her new bakery built in an abandoned warehouse. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to fill the bakery with webs.
But that's how Muffet worked. Food made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders. As Muffet went over her inventory, one her spiders dangled down next to her.
"Hmm? A message from the spiders in my old cavern?" she asked the tiny spider.
"Something is picking on them?"
The spider responded. (silently)
"And it's harassing a potential customer?" Muffet asked.
The spider responded again.
"And it's using spiders to do it's dirty work?" Muffet hissed bitterly. "I can't be having that now can I?"
Muffet giggled as a swarm of her spiders began to converge on her.
"Ahuhuhu...come little ones, let's go pay the underground a visit..." Muffet giggled as she and her swarm slowly sank into the shadows.
"There is only room for one spider in my webs..."
NGAHHH!
Another chapter for you.
Next chapter is another boss fight.
Hope you enjoyed reading this thing.
