p class="p1" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Chapter one: Napstablook/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Alphys went to the abyss in the scrap yard often. For no reason, really. Well, maybe she went there to collect the monster dust left over from fights gone horribly wrong. But when she started experimenting on them, and she created the amalgamates.../span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"That was when she started coming for no reason whatsoever. /span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She found herself drawn to the peaceful path that lead out of the scrap yard. Eventually, she began exploring beyond the (scary) Mad Dummy that had quite obviously made the fights go horribly wrong. To be honest, the dummy wasn't too bothered about our favourite yellow dinosaur. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"That was when Alphys found the abyss. She usually just gazed into it, sometimes wondering how fast it would take a monster to turn into dust if one fell down.../span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But this isn't the past anymore. /span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"The royal scientist knew that very same abyss was where her feet were taking her. But this time, she was going for a reason. She didn't necessarily like that reason, but at the same time... she had to do it. /span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"There she stood, looking down at the suicidal drop below her. The calming water rushed past her ears, letting her know that it was okay, no one would notice she was gone. No one would care. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She fiddled with her fingers nervously, looking down the gap for the fifth time. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She took a step forward. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"And another. /span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2""... Alphys...?" Asked a familiar voice behind her. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She swivelled around quickly and fell onto the tiles beneath her. It was Mettaton's cousin Napstablook. She had met him once or twice before, whilst Mettaton was still a ghost. Blooky, as Mettaton liked to call him, was self-depreciative, to such an extent that he was depressed. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2""Oh... I'm sorry, did I... Alphys... what... are you... oh... ohhhhh... ohh no, Alphys..." the headphone-wearing ghost looked at her with empathy in his eyes, almost as if... he understood what she was going through. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"No! /spanspan class="s2"The scientist scolded herself. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"No one cares about you! /spanspan class="s2"Alphys stood up shakily and stuttered "N-no Napstablook it's not-"/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Napstablook looked down. "Oh... I'm sorry..." He looked Alphys in the eye, which was something she hadn't seen him do, not even to Mettaton. "But lots of people would miss you if you did it, Alphys... " he then looked away again. "Oh... ohh... I'm sorry... I'll just... leave now..."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Alphys watched the ghostly figure turn his back and walk away. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"See? No one cares about you. If Napstablook really cared, he would stay with you!/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But Alphys turned and walked to her lab. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She knew she would be back. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But not just yet. /span/p
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p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Alphys went to the abyss in the scrap yard often. For no reason, really. Well, maybe she went there to collect the monster dust left over from fights gone horribly wrong. But when she started experimenting on them, and she created the amalgamates.../span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"That was when she started coming for no reason whatsoever. /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She found herself drawn to the peaceful path that lead out of the scrap yard. Eventually, she began exploring beyond the (scary) Mad Dummy that had quite obviously made the fights go horribly wrong. To be honest, the dummy wasn't too bothered about our favourite yellow dinosaur. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"That was when Alphys found the abyss. She usually just gazed into it, sometimes wondering how fast it would take a monster to turn into dust if one fell down.../span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But this isn't the past anymore. /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"The royal scientist knew that very same abyss was where her feet were taking her. But this time, she was going for a reason. She didn't necessarily like that reason, but at the same time... she had to do it. /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"There she stood, looking down at the suicidal drop below her. The calming water rushed past her ears, letting her know that it was okay, no one would notice she was gone. No one would care. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She fiddled with her fingers nervously, looking down the gap for the fifth time. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She took a step forward. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"And another. /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2""... Alphys...?" Asked a familiar voice behind her. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She swivelled around quickly and fell onto the tiles beneath her. It was Mettaton's cousin Napstablook. She had met him once or twice before, whilst Mettaton was still a ghost. Blooky, as Mettaton liked to call him, was self-depreciative, to such an extent that he was depressed. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2""Oh... I'm sorry, did I... Alphys... what... are you... oh... ohhhhh... ohh no, Alphys..." the headphone-wearing ghost looked at her with empathy in his eyes, almost as if... he understood what she was going through. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"No! /spanspan class="s2"The scientist scolded herself. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"No one cares about you! /spanspan class="s2"Alphys stood up shakily and stuttered "N-no Napstablook it's not-"/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Napstablook looked down. "Oh... I'm sorry..." He looked Alphys in the eye, which was something she hadn't seen him do, not even to Mettaton. "But lots of people would miss you if you did it, Alphys... " he then looked away again. "Oh... ohh... I'm sorry... I'll just... leave now..."/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"Alphys watched the ghostly figure turn his back and walk away. /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"See? No one cares about you. If Napstablook really cared, he would stay with you!/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But Alphys turned and walked to her lab. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"She knew she would be back. /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s2"But not just yet. /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17.9px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /p