Chapter 14 - The Royal Scientists Assistant

Sans and Papyrus stood outside the lab in Hotland. It had been a while for both of them, and the gargantuan building was still intimidating. Alphys, who was an orphan found a little time after the war, was the youngest royal scientist assistant so far, her knowledge of technology making up for what she lacked in magical power. Sans often conversed with her about theories and science in general, after all she was the only one aside Gaster who was as informed of these topics as he was. Alphys was a little clumsy, and had some quirky aspects, but she was much more dependable than she looked, always taking care of the true lab, which wasn't the dark, sinister place Frisk and Flowey knew, and hotland lab and making sure they were tidy. But this all crumbled away after Gaster was lost. She couldn't handle all the work, marking off cleaning as a foreign hobby. She stopped sleeping and started having... emotional problems, isolating herself from most people. Sans didn't know how that cheerful, bubbly lizard turned into the scared, worrisome reptile others knew her as. The Core had destroyed the underground, and it wasn't just a part of their souls it took away. They had all lost something important to them. And Sans was determined not to let that happen again.

"SANS! CAN WE GET A NICECREAM?" Papyrus asked, breaking the silence.

"Oh! Uh... Yeah, sure Paps. You stay here, I'll be right back," Sans replied, realizing where they were. Sans quickly ran back to the nicecream man, bought two plain Nicecreams and raced back to give one to Papyrus. Surprisingly the Nicecream guy was one of the very few monsters who had barely changed over the years. He still looked the exact same, though his actual age was unknown. Sans knocked on the door and waited.

"Oh! Uh... Where was it...?" murmured a frantic voice from behind the door. "Gotcha! Oh dear... I've kept them waiting..."

The door slid open to reveal a pristine white room with a yellow lizard in the door way.

"Sans! Papyrus! Gaster said you would be coming around! Come in, Come in I want to show you something!" Alphys said with a twinkle in her eye. Sans knew that look and was excited to see what would come with it. The lizard lead them upstairs to a low table with blueprints for a robots exoskeleton on it and a bunch of plastic models of the design, some only half finished. Sans suddenly realized what, or who it was going to be.

"LOOKS COOL!" Papyrus shouted, picking one of the models up.

"Mettaton." Sans said under his breath.

"H-how do you know what I was going to call it?" Alphys asked, surprise filling up her face. "I haven't told anyone about it yet, aside Gaster, and even he only knows that it's a robot."

"Yeah... I know. That's kinda what I've come here to talk about... But not yet, I need to go see Pops first."

"YOU SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE A QUICK TRIP... I WANT TO GO AND SEE UNDYNE!" Papyrus shouted.

"Yeah, don't worry Paps, we'll go and see Undyne after this, I won't be long." Sans said, calming Papyrus down.

"PROMISE?"

"Promise. Now why don't we go and see dad? Wanna lead the way Alphys?"

"Oh! Yeah. Gaster is checking some things about the Core, he'll be down in the control room down in the true lab." Alphys said, leading them downstairs, into the elevator and through to the true lab.

Yeah, Yeah. I'm still alive. Just still got a bit of trouble writing this story... I won't give this story up, in fact I've already finished planning the entire story and setting up the base plot for it's sequel, which is what I'm personally looking forward to writing, I'm just having trouble getting to the finish product...

Well anyways...

Stay Spicy - Tabasco