A/N Everything Undertale belongs to Toby Fox; Ginny, as well as anything unfamiliar, is of my creation.

At the hospital, Undyne and Papyrus were taken to separate rooms to be examined. Alphys went with her girlfriend, and the others went to find Papyrus. They apologized for not checking on Undyne first, but Alphys waved them off. "She won't be up-upset if you check on P-Papyrus first. J-just make sure he's okay."

Luckily, the doctor quickly diagnosed him with whiplash. "Normally it happens when the car is hit hard from behind, but generally it's an injury to the neck," they explained. "With humans, when the neck is rapidly moved forward or backwards, the muscles are strained, and the tendons and ligaments are stretched, if not torn. In your case, being a monster, I'm not entirely sure what happened. But the symptoms still point to it. What I'll have you do is wear a neck brace, just to keep your neck still so it can heal. And I'll speak to the monster pharmacists to see about getting you some pain meds."

"THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOCTOR!" Papyrus smiled, trying to keep his head and shoulders still. "IS THIS NECK BRACE SIMILAR TO A CAST FOR A BROKEN BONE? WOULD I BE ABLE TO HAVE MY FRIENDS SIGN IT?"

"I'll see what I can do," the doctor chuckled as they exited the room.

"WOULDN'T THAT BE GRAND? TO BE ABLE TO SIGN AND DRAW ON MY CAST?"

"It would," Toriel nodded. "You're very good at making the most out of a bad situation."

Soon, the doctor returned with a thick, white brace. "Now, try not to move your head to look around. You'll have to settle with turning your shoulders for now. And try to remove it for an hour a couple of times a day to let your... bones relax, and let some fresh air in. Come back in a week, and I'll see how you're doing. And yes, your friends can sign and draw on it."

"thanks again, doc," Sans said. "i'll try to keep him under control."

Once the doctor was finished putting the brace on, Papyrus looked quite different. The brace wrapped thickly around his neck, fitting in with the style of his usual outift well. The doctor had to shave some of the material away to accommodate for his chin, so it too longer than usual. But he thought it looked really nice in the end. "We have some pens and markers at home," Toriel said as the group left the examination room, "so we'll be able to sign it later."

Before Papyrus could answer, he spotted someone he knew sitting in another examination room. "TRUMAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? WHAT HAPPENED?"

"Like, what happened to you?" he exclaimed. They were a big buff blue-green dragon monster with yellow eyes. Though he wore royal guard armor, his helmet was sitting on his lap.

"WHY, I WAS DRIVING MY NEW CAR, AND SOMEONE DROVE IN FRONT OF ME! THEY WERE RATHER RUDE, EVEN AFTER I MANAGED TO STOP BEFORE HITTING THEM. BUT I INJURED MY NECK! THE DOCTOR SAID IT WAS WHIPLASH!"

"Bummer," Truman groaned in sympathy.

"OH, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT UNDYNE?"

"No, what happened?"

He and Toriel explained about seeing the firetruck driving to her gym, and finding out about the fire. "Aw, crud! I knew Antoine and I should'a gone to her gym! Heck, maybe then he wouldn't have..."

"Wouldn't have what? What happened?" Frisk asked, visibly growing nervous.

"Aw, it was awful, little dude," he groaned, rubbing behind one of his horns. "Antoine and I were at the library. Just, like, having a date, nothing too fancy. But then these humans... they started calling us all sorts of nasty names. Basically, they hated that not only were we monsters in the library, but, like, they hated that we were both guys in a relationship."

"That's horrible."

"Ha, that's not the worst of it," he scoffed. "Then, they started pelting us with books! We couldn't even get our helmets back on! Antoine was knocked out pretty quick; I had to get in front of him just so he wouldn't get beaten to a pulp."

"Are you all right?" Toriel asked, already trying to glance to where he had been rubbing his head.

"Just got a bump on the head. Not too big of a deal," he shrugged. "But I had to drag Antoine outta there. It was a nightmare! Luckily, there were some monsters who called an ambulance. Thought it'd have to, like, carry him to the hospital myself!"

"IS HE ALL RIGHT?"

"He was still out cold when we got here, but the docs think he'll be fine. They said they don't get too many people killed by books."

As of on cue, the door to the room opened. In walked Antoine, with some bandages around his head and shoulder. He was a honey-colored rabbit monster with one blue eye and one green eye. He too was wearing his royal guard armor, and was carrying his helmet under his arm.

"Dude!" Truman exclaimed, jumping off of the bed. He cupped his boyfriend's face in his claws and continued, "Please don't scare me like that again!"

"I'm sorry, bro," he sighed, nudging his forehead against Truman's. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm okay, bro."

"GREETINGS, ANTOINE!" Papyrus smiled. "I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU UP AND WALKING, AFTER ALL THAT TRUMAN TOLD US!"

"Papyrus? Like, dude, what happened to you?"

As the group went to find Undyne's room, they explained all that had transpired. By the time they found her and Alphys, Antoine had been brought up to speed, and was just as distraught as Truman had been.

Undyne was sitting on the examination bed, still looking disgruntled. The soot had been cleaned off of her body, and the doctor with her was just removing a needle that was at the end of a tube from her arm. Alphys was sitting in the chair against the wall. "Hey, dudes!" Undyne greeted the guards cheerfully. "Holy crap, what the hell happened to the two of you?"

"Hey, Undyne," Antoine waved. "Truman and I... let's just say our date didn't go as planned."

"Yeah, we had to, like, make a detour, I guess you could say," Truman added.

It didn't take too much explanation before Undyne was furious again. "Gaah! No offense, punk, but sometimes I just hate humans!"

Frisk shook their head, looking just as frustrated. "Unfortunately, there will always be humans that are against us," Toriel sighed.

"sheesh, today's sure been a crummy day," Sans remarked, flopping into the chair next to Alphys. She nodded in agreement. "can't imagine it could get any worse."

Within a few minutes, there was the sound of shouting from outside the building. Undyne hopped off of the bed to look out the window. Her ears tilted down and her eyebrows furrowed as she deadpanned, "You just had to say that, didn't you?"