I love the Mad Dummy's theme!
Anyway, let's continue!
ProtectorTale Ch.14
"Where are we?"
"Looks like the dump or something." The older human answered. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. We fell on these flowers again." The kid noticed as they got up and looked at the flowers.
"Oh yeah. Wait, I called these sunflowers back then, didn't I?" He asked himself. "These aren't sunflowers, you idiot, these are… um… butter… somethings? I think? I don't remember."
"Well, they saved our lives again, so thank you, butter somethings!" She said cheerfully.
"You're making fun of my memory failure, aren't you?" He deadpanned.
"Maaayyybe." Frisk said before turning around to walk down the only path they had. That path was filled with water that was easily half as deep as the girl was tall. "Um…"
"Come on, I'll carry you so you don't have to get wet." AJ decided.
"Oh! Thank you!" The girl climbed up on his back, but when he got up to start moving, she decided to climb all the way up to his shoulders. "Yes! I'm tall again!" She announced dramatically, getting a chuckle from her fellow human.
He began walking through the flooded path through the dump. They passed by a few piles of garbage, and something in the piles caught their eye. "What the heck? I recognize some of this stuff. How did it get down here?" They walked further on till they came across a waterfall pouring down near them all the way from the ceiling of the cavern.
"Look." The girl said, pointing up the falls. They noticed a piece of garbage that was clearly man-made falling down the waterfall. "That's how." She realized. They watched the piece of garbage go past them and fall down another waterfall into the dark depths below them. "Determination!" Frisk whispered loudly.
"What is wrong with you!?" AJ whispered loudly with a smirk.
"I don't know!" She whispered back with her own smile.
They continued and soon made a left turn. They noticed their path coming to an end up ahead, but before that, there was quite a bit more garbage to go through. There was a broken bike nearly. Its horn let out a weak, sad noise. They then came across a freezer which had something that looked remotely edible in it. They took it. They noticed an empty computer, and a DVD case for an anime which was covered in claw marks.
"Someone really wanted their anime." The girl commented.
"Dang it! I was about to say that!" He complained, and they both laughed.
They then noticed a training dummy that looked nearly identical to the one that was in The Ruins. It was the last thing they'd see before getting out of the dump. "You know, I kind of want to practice with this thing before we move on any further." The teen said.
"Why?" Frisk asked.
"In fact, what we should really do is finally teach you how to fight properly." He added.
"I don't want to, though." The girl whined.
"Too bad. Rather you want to fight or not, you need to learn how to properly protect yourself, and a dummy would really help with that." The boy countered before turning to walk towards the exit. "Here. I'll set you down where there isn't water, then I'll bring the dummy back." She let out a whine. "I'm not asking you to kill anything, I'm just saying that-" Suddenly, there was a loud splash behind them. They turned and saw the dummy wasn't there anymore. "Can this place please stop interrupting me?" AJ requested with a rather threatening tone.
Suddenly, there was another loud noise as the water between them and the exit erupted, revealing the dummy, floating high in the air.
"Fools! Cowards! You couldn't have hurt me even if you tried, for I am a ghost that lives inside a dummy!" The floating dummy spoke.
'When did it grow eyes?'
"My cousin used to live inside a dummy too, until… you two came along! When you two came up to them, they thought they were in for a nice chat! But the things you said… Horrible. Shocking! UNBELIEVEABLE! It spooked them right out of their dummy!" He glared right at the taller human. "HUMAN! I'll scare your soul right out of your body!"
"Just me, huh? Alright." The teen grabbed Frisk and threw her onto a nearby trash pile.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" She asked.
(Dummy! – Undertale OST)
"Protecting you." He answered simply before elaborating. "He's going after me, so as long as you're careful not to get accidentally hit, you should be fine." He turned his attention to the dummy and pulled out his machete. "Hey, Dummy!" He shouted before jumping at the monster. "WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO HURT YOU!? HYA!" He struck hard with his blade, and the dummy shattered into pieces that fell into the water. He landed with a splash and smirked. "You might be a ghost, but even if you are, I can still hit your vessel."
The pieces of the dummy suddenly flew up and stuck back together, more or less. "Feeble. Feeble! FEEBLE! You can't hurt me, and you can't break my vessel, you DUMMY!" It insulted before looking confused. "Wait, is dummy a compliment?" Suddenly, a bunch of mini dummies appeared out of the walls. "Whatever! Dummies, attack!" The mini dummies each built up light blue energy into a ball and shot it at the human.
The teen was quick to jump back to avoid a few attacks from the dummies above. He then noticed the dummies on his right fire at him, and he ran forwards to avoid them. The ones on his left shot at him as he moved and he had to jump into the air to avoid them. He spun in the air just in time to realize the ones behind him were building up magical energy as well. Thankfully, the dummies fired at him just as gravity took effect and he fell back to the ground.
"GAH!" He heard the angry dummy cry out and turned around to see the dummy was recoiling back as if he had been hit by a strong force. "You DUMMIES! Watch where you're aiming your magic attacks!" He then turned to the human he was fighting and gave him a nervous look. "Hey, you! F-Forget I said anything about magic!"
"Ah, you're one of those blatantly obvious enemies then." AJ noted before smirking. "Alright!" He ran straight at the dummy, encouraging the mini dummies to attack him. Three small dummies appeared in front of the Mad Dummy and shot magic attacks one after the other. The human ducked and weaved under each magic ball before reaching the dummies and swiping them away with the flat end of his machete. He then struck the large dummy and broke him into pieces again. He stood over where the pieces had fallen into the water and raised his weapon as if he was going to stab the pieces of the dummy. The chibi dummies were quick to fire at him, and he smiled as he jumped away and let the pieces of the dummy take the hits.
The dummy pieces erupted out of the water with an angry roar before piecing themselves back together. "I will defeat you and take your soul, human!" It shouted as the dummies built up energy for magic attacks again.
The human smiled at another idea before running at the dummy again. He deflected a wave of attacks from one side before he had reached the Mad Dummy again. He jumped up to him and raised his weapon, but instead of slashing, he landed on the dummy with his feet pressed against it. "See ya!" He said before turning the dummy and kicking him into one of the other rows of dummies just as they fired. The boy dodged and deflected the last two waves while the angry dummy recovered and floated back to center stage.
He flailed around angrily. "I'll use your soul to cross the barrier!"
"The what?" AJ asked before being attacked by another quad-wave of magic. He dove and used a pile of trash for cover from two waves before he had to jump out of cover for the third and deflect the fourth. "Hey! What's the barrier!?" He asked the monster floating above him.
"I'll stand in the window of a fancy store! THEN EVERYTHING I WANT WILL BE MINE!"
"Nope, he just keeps going on. Okay." The human deadpanned. He deflected the first wave before running at the dummy to dodge the second. "You know what? Just for that…" He jumped at the dummy to grab him, but the dummy moved out of the way and he flew past him, landing in the water instead.
"Good to see the cat still lands on its feet!" Frisk commented, and the boy pointed his blade at her with just the slightest hint of a blush on his cheeks.
"Shut up." He requested before turning back to his opponent. He was looking at his own dummies angrily. It seemed that the little dummies had somehow managed to hit him again anyway. Those many dummies turned and shot at the human again, and he dodged three of the waves before getting an idea on the last wave. He deflected a few of the magic attacks in the direction of the dummy, but the dummy was floating around the room now and making himself a much harder target. "Almost!" He exclaimed.
"Hey, dummies! Quit making it so easy for him to deflect the attacks at me!" The Mad Dummy demanded.
"You know, you're being kind of a jerk." The teen commented before deflecting a random single shot and managing to hit the dummy with it, causing cotton to begin leaking out of it.
The dummy growled at him angrily before growing confused. "I, I guess that'll avenge my cousin… What was their name again?"
Some of the dummies suddenly tilted so their heads were facing towards the human before suddenly shooting themselves at him like torpedoes. "WHOA!" He exclaimed as he nearly got hit by two waves of actual dummies. That distracted him enough for a wave of magic attacks to hit him and knock him into the water.
Frisk cried out fearfully. "Are you okay!?" He got out of the water, but she saw the look on his face. "Oh no…"
He suddenly let go of his machete and started twirling it in the air around him like a lasso. Holding tight to the string, he strongly swung at the angry dummy from range and broke it into pieces. He continued his strong swings and started attacking all the mini dummies with his blade on a string.
"Hey! Be careful!" The girl complained.
"Don't worry, I'm making sure it won't hit you." He said calmly as he continued to attack the mini dummies, breaking their lines and causing them to scatter.
"That not what I meant!" Frisk shouted.
The large dummy's pieces finally came back together and he looked all around him. "REALLY!? You're all RUNNING AWAY!?" He asked angrily. "Fine! You all were doing terrible ANYWAY! I'm replacing ALL OF YOU!" It suddenly turned back to the human and started laughing maniacally. "Now you'll see my true power, relying on people that aren't garbage!"
"Yeah, no, I really don't like you." AJ decided as more dummies appeared out of the walls. He swung his blade at them from a distance, but it bounced off their metal bodies, so he pulled back his blade while he could.
"Dummy bots! Magic missile!"
Mechanical whirs began to fill the room, and suddenly, the dummies launched literal missiles at the human. His eyes widened in shock before he started running, but the missiles turned and followed him. "Oh you've got to be kidding me!" He turned and ran at the large floating dummy and jumped at him, swinging his blade in the direction the dummy was going. The dummy dodged the hit, but ended up going right into him, and the boy was able to land on him, spin him around, and kick him at the missiles. A bunch of magic explosions turned the dummy to pieces again, but the pieces came back.
"DUMMY BOTS! TRY AGAIN!"
Suddenly, the dummy bots surrounded them and started firing missiles from every direction. There was only one opening, that opening just happened to be running along the left wall. Missiles crashed into the wall as he ran along it while screaming fearfully and jumping to the back wall, then jumping to the right wall, then jumping down and watching as the missiles failed to track him any longer and hit the Mad Dummy. "HOW DID I JUST DO THAT!?" AJ couldn't help but exclaim out loud in absolute disbelief.
"That was awesome! Good job!" Frisk cheered.
"Dummy bots! You're awful?"
The dummy bots began scattering throughout the room with no clear pattern, firing random missiles at him. He kept moving through the room and around the piles of trash as fast as he could with his head basically on a swivel to keep track of all the new attacks. He looked totally focused and calm, but internally he was panicking like crazy. Keeping his cool externally though was all he needed to make it through the wave of random attacks alive. 'Why are these missiles not changing the landscape? Oh right. Magic.'
"DUMMY BOTS! FINAL ATTACK!"
"THIS BETTER BE YOUR FINAL ATTACK, YOU-" The human had no more time to speak as a dummy bot fired a missile at him. He ran to start getting it to follow him, but a bunch more dummy bots appeared to launch themselves at him like missiles, and he barely jumped over the wave of metal. He then realized he was stuck in the air with a missile coming at him, and he had no choice but try to flip and kick the missile. He succeeded in knocking the missile up into the ceiling instead of setting it off by touching it.
When he landed, he saw another missile preparing to fire at him, as well as more preparing to throw themselves at him. He ducked under three of them before jumping to the side at the last second to avoid the missile. He then jumped up to avoid more dummies before landing and jumping backwards to avoid another dummy tackle. The missile had turned around by then and went to hit him, but he rolled at the last second and let it fly past him and into the wall.
Suddenly, all the dummies surrounded him and fired missiles at once. He saw no other choice but to let out a battle cry and run straight at one of the waves of missiles. He jumped over the wave and turned around when he landed to see all the missiles descending on him. He jumped to his right and ran back into the center of the room to run at the angry dummy. The horde of missiles turned to chase him while the dummy stared at them all fearfully. AJ smirked as he started swinging his blade from its wire as he got closer to the dummy. Just before he reached the monster, he pulled on the wire and wrapped it around the dummy. "HAVE FUN!" He shouted as he pulled hard on the string, spinning the dummy like a flying top and sending him into the mass of missiles.
*BOOM!*
Eventually the magic smoke cleared, and the dummy was leaking cotton everywhere. "N-No way…"
"That's right! Not even your best attack can beat me!" The boy declared, hoping the fight would stop now.
"Those dummies are even worse than the other guys!" The Mad Dummy exclaimed angrily.
"Wait, seriously?..." AJ deadpanned.
"Who cares? Who cares!? WHO CARES!?" The monster exclaimed. "I DON'T NEED FRIENDS!" A knife magically appeared next to him. "I'VE GOT KNIVES!" It exclaimed before throwing the knife at its opponent. The human deflected the knife and it fell into the water with a small splash.
*Awkward silence. Even the music stops.*
"I'm… I'm out of knives." The dummy realized. "BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER! YOU CAN'T BEAT ME, AND I CAN'T BEAT YOU!"
"NOPE! I BEAT YOU! I'M DONE! I'M NOT DEALING WITH THIS ANYMORE!" The boy exclaimed and went over and took Frisk's hand. "Let's just leave this jerk already. We really have no reason to fight him."
"Hey! You can't just run away!" The dummy exclaimed before a large drop fell on his head. "Ow!" More drops began to fall on him, and they all seemed to be hurting him. "Ow! OW! What is this!? Acid rain!? Oh, forget it! I'm leaving, too!" It decided before sliding away through one of the walls.
Before the humans could comment on that, a familiar form flew down, a crying ghost. Both humans gasped in realization with big smiles on their faces. "Sorry… I interrupted you both, didn't I?"
"No! Not at all, Napstablook!" AJ said quickly. "It's really good to see you!"
"It is?" Blooky asked, looking surprised and confused.
"Yeah! What are you doing here!?" Frisk asked.
"Oh. My house is over there." It turned and looked at the exit to the dump for a moment. "It's not that great though, you wouldn't want to go over there."
"Nonsense!" Frisk exclaimed.
"Yeah, nonsense!" The boy agreed. "We're your friends, let us come over!"
"O-Okay… if you really want to…" The ghost said before floating out of the dump with the humans following behind him.
They came into a large room with a little lake in the center. There was a peaceful tranquility to this room…
Frisk decided to break that tranquility.
"DETERMINATION!"
I am so disappointed in myself! I literally finished this chapter at midnight today! I'm normally half way through the next chapter by now! Also, this chapter was supposed to end after hanging out with Blooky! I'VE BEEN SO SLOW AND LAZY THIS WEEK AND IT SUCKS! I'll try and make sure that doesn't continue into the next week.
Anyway, hope you somehow enjoyed this chapter, and more importantly, that you had a great week and you have a good day.
(YOU KNOW WHAT!? I don't like making promises, because I know I can't guarantee anything, so I'll just say this. I will try my hardest to not be so lazy when writing this next chapter and from now on. Why? Because I just realized that the day I posted the chapter before this, this fic got 422 views! That's over a hundred more than what it usually gets on the day I post a chapter! Not only that, but the views have gone up by almost a thousand each week for the past few weeks. Views may not mean much to others, but they still mean a lot to me. I can't say thank you enough, so i'll just try and get more content out to you all as my thank you! You all fill me with determination!)