I've been feeling extra lazy lately so sorry this took so long. I had this idea of an online groupchat session for the group in the story but I really suck at coming up with usernames. So I got help from my friend ponystoriesandothers (Or ihatefridays) in return I gave them a small cameo in this chapter. I also added some usernames for the monsters but I still have trouble coming up with it so I borrowed some from MetroidMan101's Fanfic: Among Monsters- An Undertale Novelization. Check it out it's pretty good. Don't expect much from this chapter, it's more of a filler chapter.

Chapter 25: Hidden feelings

The group stepped out of the elevator they rode in. Outside there was something that caught their attention. In the distance loomed a gigantic machine.

"What's the heck is that?" Jerod said.

"That's the Core." Iris said. "It's what is giving power to the entire Underground."

"It's that big!?" Delilah said. "I'd hate to see what would happen if it just suddenly broke down."

"Yes... well somewhere in there is an elevator that will take us straight to the castle." Iris said.

"That means we might get home by the end of the day!" Caleb cheered.

"But... what are you going to do to d- Asgore?" Chara asked. Diego thought he heard a twinge of concern in his voice.

The group looked at each other. "We really don't know what we will do. He seems to be the one deadset on killing us, he is the king. But whatever we do we won't let him kill us." Diego answered. Chara seemed to like that answer and nodded to them.

"Lets move on." Frisk said. They reached what looked like a sentry stand and the one behind the stand was...

"Hi Sans!" John waved.

Sans looked at him and winked. "heya buddy, what's up? wanna eat my wiener?"

John froze in place and his eyes widened comically as his brain just processed what he said. His face turned pink. "What?"

"yeah, my wiener." He held up a hot dog on a bun. "i'm in the hot dog selling business now. want one, only 30g."

"Oh, um sure." John breathed handing him money for the whole group to get a hot dog.

Sans paused at Frisk. "uh, your backpack is too full. guess i'll just leave it up here." He placed it on top of Frisk's head. Frisk smiled.

"want more? kay, it's on the house." He place another one on top of the first hot dog. Frisk kept both hot dogs balanced perfectly on his head. He grinned playfully.

Well this is going to take awhile...

"sorry pal but that's my limit." Sans said.

The group stared awestruck at Frisk who had twenty-nine hot dogs stacked on his head being balanced perfectly. They have never seen such balance skills before.

"Aw, c'mon Sans." Frisk pouted.

"i'll be frank with you kid. as much as i enjoy putting hot dogs on your head thirty is just an excessive number. twenty-nine, now that's fine but thirty... well does it look like my arms can reach that high?"

"I'm more surprised you could reach any higher than tw-" Frisk suddenly stumbled a bit. He recovered but the stacked hot dogs wobbled above him. It suddenly collapsed. John reacted and managed to catch one with an empty hot dog bun. The rest hit the ground.

"Ha, I saved it!" John said triumphantly.

"good job john. thanks to you this wiener made safely in-between two buns."

John's grin broke into one of horror as he blushed. Jerod snorted and nearly choked on his hot dog. Delilah chortled a bit as Iris rolled her eyes. Diego snickered as well, cursing hims childish immaturity. Caleb and Frisk looked at each other in confusion.

"I don't get it."

With that the three human broke. Jerod, Delilah, and Diego fell over in laughter. John just stood there frozen in embarrassment. He turned to Sans with his usual grin, yet now it looked smug. He tossed the hot dog at the skeleton's face. It bounced off of him and fell onto the ground with the other's.

"hey, stop hitting people's faces with wieners." (a.n: I regret nothing)

John scowled at him and opened his mouth to say something but then his phone rang. He picked it up and heard Papyrus on the phone.

"GREETING'S CYAN HUMAN! MY PUN SENSES WERE TINGLING... IS SANS WITH YOU?"

"Yes, he's running a hot dog stand in Hotland and making hot dog puns at me!" John tattled. By then Diego and Delilah were calming down from their giggle fit but Jerod was still on the ground clutching his stomach.

"WHAT, HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE AT HIS SENTRY STATION IN SNOWDIN! HE'S SLACKING OFF BY DOING WORK... HE TRULY IS THE MASTER OF LAZINESS!"

John looked at Sans and grinned evilly. "Sans wanted me to tell you that he's not the master.

"WHAT?! THEN WHO IS?"

"He said the person's name is updog." San's eyes dimmed for a second realizing what can of worms he just opened.

"UPDOG?... WHAT IS UPDOG?"

Instantly the entire group broke into laughter except Jerod was laughing nonstop without a break. So now he was just laughing even harder.

There was a moment of silence on the phone as Papyrus said nothing. Suddenly they were invaded by an ear piercing screech.

"NYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-" The phone suddenly hung up.

Then San's phone started ringing. Sans picked it up.

"hel-"

"-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

John grinned at the distressed skeleton. "Have fun with that Mr. Punmaster." John said. He turned to the group. "C'mon guys lets go." He looked at Jerod who was still on the ground in silent laughter. He cocked his head as he lightly kicked him on the side. His friend slowly began to calm down as he took a big gulp of air.

"I can't believe you did that, no one ever falls for that!"

John smirked slightly and shrugged. He gave a final wave at Sans before walking off with the rest of the group. The group took another break by a three way road. John got a post from Papyrus on the Undernet. He assumed it was Papyrus, who else would go around with the nickname CoolSkeleton95. Also his profile pick was him flexing in front of a mirror wearing sunglasses, with giant muscular biceps photoshopped onto his arms, even the biceps have sunglasses! He and the rest of the group went onto a Groupchat to talk.

CoolSkeleton95: DEAR HUMANS! I APOLOGIZE FOR YOU BEING SUBJUGATED TO SUCH AWFUL PUNS FROM MY BROTHER SANS! YOU MUST BE VERY DISTRESSED!

HeresJohnny17: Eh, It wasn't so bad Pap

StrongestSoul24: IT Was Hilarious! XD

HeresJohnny17: Wait, Jerod? Why is your username the strongest soul?

StrongestSoul24: Because I am! *Flexes muscles*

CoolSkeleton95: ME TOO! *Flexes as well*

Delilah15Dancing: Well my brother is stronger than you-

-_-Frisk: Hey I see what you did there. :)

Ep1cNoScope: Eyyyy.

Delilah15Dancing: -guys when it comes to soul power. Wait what are you two talking about?

-_-Frisk: Um nothing.

Ep1cNoScope: Yeah nothing.

Delilah15Dancing:... Okay. Anyway, he is the one that saved Papyrus from that giant bone attack.

!OtakuGirl1: Before fainting, at least Jerod still stayed conscious before beating Undyne.

StrongestSoul24: OH BURN BY Iris!

Diegolikescooking: Please don't talk about burning.

You got a friend request from NAPSTABLOOK22

HeresJohnny17: Hey Nappstablook sent us a friend request.

It seemed to have already rejected it'self

HeresJohnny17: What the!? Oh hell no! :(

20 Friend requests from HeresJohnny17

NAPSTABLOOK22 accepted the friend request

NAPSTABLOOK22: oh... hey guys

CoolSkeleton95: GREETINGS FELLOW MONSTER!

HeresJohnny17: Napstablook what was that, rejecting your own friend request?

NAPSTABLOOK22: oooohh sorry, My finger slipped.

HeresJohnny17: You don't have fingers!

NAPSTABLOOK22: Oh...

HereJohnny17: ? Forget it.

!OtakuGirl1: Hey how did you find our usernames on the undernet?

Undyne: Oh, right after you punks had your cooking show with that bucket of bolts, he released online your usernames for the whole underground to see.

Mtt-Official: Whoops, sorry Darling.

iHateFridays: Do you guys know where my will to live is? I tried asking my kids but I was blocked.

Alphys: Oh no not them again! Quick, block them!

iHateFridays was blocked from the Groupchat.

Diegolikescooking: That's not going to stop the rest of the underground from sending us friend requests.

Ep1cNoScope: Oh come on bro, how many monsters would want to chat with us humans?

99 Friends added to Groupchat

-_-Frisk: Oh no.

M0NST3Rkid: Yo, hi guys!

Fr0ggyFroggit:(Hello again humans) Ribbit

ChillDrake-the-Rebel: You guys were awesome on that cooking show! with Caleb and his dodging skills.

SoSorry1010: OhhihumanssorryforbeingsoquickwiththisbutIjustwantedtomakeaquickcameo!

TeMgotoColleg: Hoi, Tem waTed to conglaturate humANs fOr srVivinG!

Delilah15Dancing: Um guys, I think we need to get moving.

Jerry: So, how about that Mew-Mew Kissie Cutie 2 movie?

!OtakuGirl1: And On that note, we gotta go!

RG01: Dude, I think I see you guys!

RG02: Turn around

The group exited their groupchat and noticed two monsters approaching. They both wore Royal Guard armor but one had bunny ears and the other had dragon ears.

Iris mentally cursed herself for getting caught. "Um, hi"

"There you are! See dude, I told you they were the humans." The bunny monster named 01 said.

"...ask them the thing." 02 replied.

"Oh right. Hey humans, can we get your autographs?"

The group sweatdropped. "Huh?

"Yeah, here." 01 handed them an autograph book. The group was confused, they thought they were being captured.

"... go on, sign it." 02 said.

The group did as they were asked and scribbled their names onto the book. They handed it back to the bunny monster who eagerly took it back.

"Thank you guys so much, you seven have fun!" 01 said as they both walked off. The group silently began to walk away from them.

"... Huh? What is it, bro?" The group paused when they heard the two monsters say something to each other. "Yeah I know they're humans so wha- Oh that's right..." The two guards faced the group again. "Bummer. This is, like... Mega embarrassing. We, like, actually totally have to kill you and stuff."

"Here we go again." John muttered as the battle commenced.

"Team attack!" Both guards said. They swung their blades and star-like projectiles went towards them. The group dodge rolled out of the way.

"So what do we do?" Caleb asked.

"I got a dumb idea." Frisk said. "I gotta get closer to the dragon monster."

"Alright, we'll distract them." Jerod said elbowing John. The two of them stood up to the guards as they began swinging at them again. Jerod zoomed out of the way as John destroyed the starts with his knives. The guards didn't notice Frisk standing behind 02 and was rubbing off the dirt and grime on the armor. Suddenly 02 flinched.

"Are you alright bro?" 01 asked.

"...can't...take it. ...armor...too...HOT!" 02 took off his upper body armor, revealing his scaly muscular torso. "...much better."

John just stood there a little surprised by the monster suddenly deciding to strip in the middle of battle. 01 was bothered as well so his attacked missed.

"D... Dude..." 01 said surprised.

"Hey, you look like you got something to say." Frisk said to 01, teasingly patting 02's pecs like bongo drums."Maybe it's best to be honest about your feelings."

"Wait, what are you talking about Frisk?" Jerod asked. John had a nervous expression, he knew exactly what was going on here.

"...what?" 02 asked causally, not at all bothered by the human playing bongo's with his pecs.

"I... I... D-dude... I can't... I can't take this anymore! Not like this! Like, 02! I like... I like, LIKE you, bro! The way you fight... The way you talk... I love doing team attacks with you. I love standing here with you, bouncing and waving our weapons in sync... 02... I, like, want to stay like this forever..."

The group watched as this event unfolded in front of them. 02 stayed silent.

01 sweated nervously. " Uh... I mean, uh... Whew, bro! That human, Put me, uh, under mind control! What was I just saying? It's a blur dude! Whoops!"

" ...01." 02 said suddenly.

"Y-Yeah, bro?"

" ...do you want to ...get some ice cream... after this?"

"Sure dude! Haha!"

The two pf them stared at each other happily. Forgetting about the humans they both walked off.

"Aw, that was so cute." Delilah cooed.

Jerod smirked. "Well good for them. They both look like a cute cop- John are you okay?"

John felt a tear slip on his cheek. He quickly rubbed it off and cleared his throat.

"Y-yeah, I'm good. Lets get going."

Jerod was confused but followed him with the rest of the group as they moved forward.

Yeah, so that's it for now, sorry I'm just really lazy lately. I'll get to work on the next chapter... eventually.

HAVE FUN!