Heyya! New chapter incoming with almost fully original fight dialogue and ideas! This chapter also has an optional theme called "[Undertale Hard Mode] Power of NEO (extended)" that plays when you see (1) and stops when you see (0). Hope you enjoyyyy!
Interstellar Beauteous Brawl!
A blinding white light illuminates the entire room, turning it from black to white as Mettaton undergoes a transformation to reveal his true form. In the center of the room about 20 feet away from where Skyler stands with his arms up in front of his face to dim out the insanely bright light, a wonderful machine twists and turns into a warrior worthy of fighting and defeating the parasite that's taken near full control of everything. His long metal arms retract themselves into his rectangular body, the single wheel that holds him up does the same as his boxy frame unravels itself and starts to take on a more humanoid shape with two beautiful metal legs extending out of the new frame complete with pink boots and black plated armor. His chest takes shape and on it are two hearts, one black and large, and one small and pink, both facing different directions. The large black heart stands out against the pink that highlights the shape of his chest, and his arms extend out, his right one being a cannon and his left one a regular hand. His shoulders snap into place, appearing to be a set of boots repurposed to be heavily armored, and finally, two flashing pink and white wings pop out of his back. The blinding white light disappears and before the boy stands his final opponent, ready to battle till the bitter end.
Skyler simply smiles confidently, not even a superstar with millions of fans and high popularity can stop the parasite within him from achieving its goal. Only a quarter of the whites of his eyes still remain and, in the darkness, his deep, dark red iris glow brightly and his left hand tightly holds the burnt pan, ready to attack at any moment. Baring his teeth and snarling, the boy rushes at the metal warrior, victory already singing a song in his head before his first strike even lands. His left hand coaxes the pan to follow a linear swing from right to left, hitting the center of his opponent's chest, and upon doing so, a massive flash of white coats the entire room. A metal clang blasts through the walls of the room, eclipsing the sound of the blaring sirens in the background for a few seconds.
Something throws him onto the ground on his back, unfazed by the mighty attack that came from the murderous human. The white flash dims slowly and standing before him is his adversary, smiling happily behind his arms despite taking a full-frontal assault from the boy. He sits up and growls furiously in response, only for his pupils to widen upon seeing what threw him back. A translucent green energy shield swirls around the superstar's body, a protective barrier that stopped the boy's attack from connecting with its fated kill. Mettaton drops his arms to his sides and speaks to him. "Did you really think I'd just go down in one hit? Darling, darling, darling… Like I said before, Alphys originally made me with the intent that I'd be a human killing machine. She knew what she was doing when she was making me, and darling, she didn't forget to work on every part of my combat-oriented form. With that being said… It's time! Darling!" He cocks his arm cannon with his left hand to load it up as a pink flash comes off his left eye, a bunch of spotlights suddenly shine down on the battlefield, and his voice rises up from its chair to improvise a brand-new script of bravery and confidence. "PREPARE YOURSELF! REAL DRAMA, TRUE BLOODSHED, UNDISPUTED ACTION! YOU'LL BE SITTING ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS! THE STAR OF THE UNDERGROUND WILL BRING YOU TO YOUR KNEES ON MY NEWEST PROGRAM: "THE INTERSTELLAR WARRIOR'S PERILOUS FINAL BATTLE!" I HOPE YOU READ THE CONTRACT, BECAUSE YOU'RE IN THIS UNTIL YOU'VE FULFILLED YOUR TERMS!"
(1) Angrily, Skyler screams at the top of his lungs, a demonic chant unlike any other claws its way around the room and through the halls of the primed and ready to explode CORE. Mettaton NEO blocks his way, and unlike all the other monsters he's fought, this battle might not be one that he wins. He stands up and takes up a defensive stance, ready to block and dodge whatever will head his way. His adversary points his arm cannon at him and charges up a shot. A pink ball of electric magic is sent hurling his way and using his pan he tries to whack it away like he did with another monster's magic attack, however, since this attack is made of electricity and the metal pan conducts electricity, it simply goes right into it and shocks him.
The sheer voltage contained within the attack is so high that it drops the boy to his knees and forces his hand open, his weapon dropping on the floor as every muscle in his body convulses uncontrollably at the foot of such powerful electricity. Mettaton points his cannon up to the ceiling and smirks at this sight while reloading it. "Alphys really went all out when making me! Every last attack I can do has been carefully thought out to be as detrimental and painful to deal with for someone like you!" He charges up the cannon once again to shoot at the boy once more while he's in a half-paralyzed state from the first shot. A pink glow comes from the muzzle of the cannon aimed at him, and while his muscles refuse to work, he can only sit there and mentally brace himself for the pain that's about to be inflicted upon him. The cannon blasts off, another pink ball of magic electricity zaps its way towards him and right before it hits him, his pupils widen, and the ball explodes into a show of lightning striking every possible location on the boy's body.
His entire body flashes pink and white as a painful electrocution surges through him, a scream of pain unlike any other coming from him as his opponent watches on, a confident grin on their metal face as they reload the cannon once more. Luckily for Skyler, this electrocution lasts for a short while and the grip of paralysis from the first attack loosens up, allowing his smoldering, smoking body to grab the pan with his left hand and stand up. He shakes slightly, his muscles still convulsing a little from the strong shock they received, but he's really pissed now, and the fire of anger alone is enough to overcome this little hurdle that's been placed in front of him. He tightens his grip on the pan before throwing it at him as hard as he can. The robot bruiser blocks the attack by bringing both of his arms up in front of the spot that the boy aimed at, and the pan simply bounces off the energy shield that's still set up around him.
He drops his arms and switches the firing mode on his cannon to something different, talking to the boy while doing so. "You know, darling, at first I thought everything was about to become much more beautiful when Alphys told me about your arrival in Snowdin. I felt so happy to hear that another human had fallen down, there were so many new shows we could've starred in together." He cocks the cannon, aims and starts firing a whole bunch of high-speed, little magic bullets at him. Without the pan in his hand to use as a means of blocking the bullets, he has no choice but to force his black shoes to kick up dust and run from this onslaught. The bullets come relentlessly, leaving no leeway for the boy to hesitate and stop, lest he'll be shot to a pulp and the fact he's still a little wracked from the electric attack isn't helping. He runs for his pan, getting closer and closer to the robotic monstrosity that stands in his way, and he starts backing up in the process to keep his shots in optimal range. He drifts and lowers his body to the ground, his right hand picking his pan up and stopping on a dime, allowing him to immediately put it up in front of his chest to try and block the bullets. A rapid clang is heard as the bullets ricochet off the metal surface and scatter all about, the force of the attack being much stronger than he anticipated and the pan nearly flies out of his hand if it wasn't for the fact that the ammo in the cannon runs out and gives him some breathing room.
He tosses the pan up into the air over his head and catches it with his left hand. His head is tilted down towards the ground slightly, a dark shadow completely covers every part of his face, leaving two glowing dots of pure, ravenous, bloodthirsty defiance to stare at his opponent, trying to figure out a way past the energy shield so he can send this superstar crashing down the staircase of fame they've climbed for so long. While he does that, his opponent loads up his cannon yet again while talking. "It wasn't until I came back to her lab and found the note she had left for me that I realized those dreams were nothing but dying stars in the black abyss of the night, never to be found again after the curtains fell. The fact you're here means that Alphys herself couldn't stop you…" His only visible eye scrunches up in anger at the thought of how the boy killed her, and he charges up his shots once more to fire them off, only this time, he shoots large magic bullets instead of many smaller ones. He takes up a defensive stance to hold his ground, holds up his pan in front of his body, and places his right hand on the backside to support it as he attempts to block the bullets once more.
The first bullet that's shot off collides with the pan, and to his surprise, he nearly loses grip of it and struggles to push it back. It's so much stronger than any other attack he's blocked or taken from all the other monsters he's killed minus Undyne, but even her attacks didn't have nearly the same force behind them. He growls and grunts hard, managing to shove the bullet off the pan and diverge its course towards a wall. He pants deeply but gets absolutely no time to catch his breath as another one barrels its way towards him, and he blocks it like the first one. His shoes start to slide backwards a little, his muscles still weak from the shock they took not long ago, and Mettaton knows this well, charging up his final shot to be many times stronger than the other two, and fires it off. Skyler can barely hold on with one bullet, but the moment the second one pushes its way into the bullet he's already blocking, his defense is breached, and it knocks him over onto his back once more. He's lucky, the bullets fly over him, out the back of the room, and blow up a wall behind him, sending a small plume of smoke across the battlefield.
He stands up once more, not giving up despite his situation looking grim. Only having taken one strong attack, he knows he can easily keep going as long as he doesn't get hit too much. A frown bends its way onto his foe's face. "You're still standing even after that? You're much more resilient than I anticipated, although I should've expected that. Alphys' history books said you humans are quite strong, however, none of you humans are capable of flying, and I think the ground suits you just fine, after all, only true stars fly high in the sky!" On his back, a jetpack that's not visible turns itself on and two blue flames appear just behind his body as he brings his legs and feet together and slowly lifts up off the ground. A bunch of smoke fills the room as he's sent flying up into the air, leaving the boy down below to prepare for a whole new onslaught as he changes the firing mode on the cannon again.
Pink electricity crackles around the muzzle of the cannon and he starts charging it up to release a powerful lightning strike in the hopes he can stun the boy once more. He uses his new aerial abilities to swoop down and attempt a flying shot on him. He aims his cannon at his foe and fires the lightning magic at him, but the boy is aware of the electric attacks he has and isn't about to let get struck by another one of those if he has anything to say about it. A quick roll to the side allows him to avoid the extremely powerful strike and the flying baron rises high into the sky directly over him. He tries the attack again, except this time, he doesn't swoop down and simply aims for the boy. The lightning crackles and shocks the very ground mere inches away from the boy's moving body, dodging the attack yet again.
Anger seethes in the veins of the boy's body, but he suddenly remembers that there might be a way to combat this long-range foe: the knife-blaster ability that he got while fighting against Alphys. Unsure that it might work but being his only option right now, he points the rim of the pan up at where he's flying and focuses his energy, the pan gaining a glowing green outline and a single green bullet firing off and flying at him. The bullet manages to pass right through the energy shield and hit the metal body of the one who he should've killed by this point in time. It causes him to momentarily become unstable and lose a bit of altitude, but he shrugs it off with no visible damage caused. Seeing this gives him an idea, but he'll need pinpoint accuracy to pull this off and it might only work once since he knows he won't fall for it a second time. He changes the firing mode on his cannon to go back to the rapid-fire bullets again and reloads his ammo supply, ready to shoot once more.
Since he can't block while firing his own bullets off, this has now become a classic gunslinger brawl although Mettaton has the advantage by being in the air. They both start firing off at each other, bullets flying all over, hoping to make contact with their target. A few bullets make contact with the boy's dirty, pale skin, causing a painful stinging sensation, but he powers on through and fires off his own blaster with speed equal to that of a mini gun. This forces his opponent to go on the defensive, trying to dodge and weave through the maelstrom of bullets coming at him. His large size isn't helping him unfortunately, and though he manages to avoid most of them, he takes a few hits and loses a little altitude in the process but quickly recovers. The fact the boy can fire off that fast impresses him. "Oh yes, show me more of that bloodshed! Hit me with your ravenous hunger for violence and pain! The ratings I'd have from such raw emotion you're showing me would be off the charts… IF I HAD ANY WATCHING OF COURSE!"
He retaliates with a minigun-esque onslaught of bullets himself, completely emptying his supply of ammo and scattering the bullets all over in such a way that it'd be impossible for the boy to avoid without some miracle. His pupils shrink in response to this as he knows there's no way he can dodge or defend against all of these bullets, though he puts his pan up in front of him in an attempt to do so. The moment the bullets hit it, it's knocked out of his hands, and he takes the remainder of the attack, screaming in pain and falling to the floor on both hands, panting heavily for a few seconds before coughing violently, a little blood coming out of him in the process. In the air, Mettaton makes a kissy face in response along with his tone getting slightly cocky. "Things are heating up, and I'm not talking about the fact you've caused the CORE to go into a meltdown! I'm talking about heat seeking magic missiles! C'mon darling, we can't have a dramatic fight without some grandiose explosions!" He reloads his cannon and switches it to missile mode, transforming the cannon into a missile launcher with 20 missiles in reserve.
Skyler stops coughing and looks up, only to see a missile being launched at him and flying at him with insane speed. He stands up and at the last possible second, dives and rolls to his left to avoid the attack and it blows up behind him, a flash of orange and pink appears along with a plume of black smoke following in its wake. He quickly looks around while he reloads his weapon and notices his pan has been knocked all the to the other side of the room thanks to the explosion throwing it away from where it originally landed when he tried to defend against the previous attack. He has to try and get it otherwise he'll never have a chance to bring that flying bucket of computer chips down from the sky, so he prepares to make a risky dash for it as two missiles launch themselves at him. They leave a thin trail of smoke in their wake as they track the boy's heat signature and home-in on him. He slides under the first one and it flies into the far back wall behind him while he has to roll to the right immediately after to avoid the second one. Unlike the first missile, it doesn't explode and simply circles around back to hit him from behind, but thankfully, he manages to grab his pan off the ground and at the last second, puts it up in front of his body to block it.
An explosion much bigger than the other missiles throws bits and pieces of the unlit dance underfoot into the air, leaving a large cloud of smoke to hide the boy's presence in. Mettaton knows he's still there, but he doesn't see the charged blaster attack that's aimed directly at him, and without any warning to it, a large, flaming, green magic ball rapidly flies at him. He doesn't have any time to react to this, and the only thing he can do is widen his sole visible eye and clench his teeth as it passes through his energy shield and makes contact, causing a green explosion. The force of the impact is strong enough to damage his jetpack enough to the point that he loses all control and barrels his way down towards the ground. The metallic warrior slams into the ground, a large smoke cloud being created from his impact, causing a bit of damage to him in the process but it isn't anything that will stop him from continuing the fight.
The boy stands about 25 feet away from him, his pan glows a deep shade of green and his stance says that he's ready for whatever's next to come. As the smoke clears, he watches the CPU powered superstar pick himself up off the floor, quite angry with the result of that impact. "Alphys was right, you really are dangerous… But I'm not giving up!" His anger turns back into confidence. "you got really lucky to land that shot through a cloud of smoke. A real hero laughs in the face of death, and I'll stand in your way with the power of NEO that I possess!" a small hilt comes out of the muzzle of his arm cannon and a plasma blade zaps to life, while his left hand morphs itself into another arm cannon, getting ready to ante up the intensity of his attacks and mix up what kind of attacks he'll use. Using his hydraulic powered legs, he's able to leap into the air and instantly close the gap between him and the boy, his left arm swinging down fiercely to try and slice him up with his plasma sword. A storm of sparks flies up into the air as the blade hits the side of the glowing pan, the attack being blocked by the boy.
He lifts his sword off the pan and swings again, more sparks flying as the blade hits it once more. The boy retaliates by swinging his pan the moment the opportunity presents itself, but his attack hits the side of his opponent's blade, sending a shower of sparks all over his metal and magic face, showing his tongue sticking out. "Come on! Dance with me, Darling!" The spotlights shining over the arena begin to change colors and a disco ball drops down from the ceiling, with one of the spotlights shining up on it, casting a sparkly light all over the room. The two begin swinging their weapons at each other when opportunities are present to try and land a crushing blow on each other. The sound of plasma and metal meeting multiple times is heard echoing around the room as sparks fly and light up the rainbow-colored night surrounding the two fighters.
Using an overhead swing, the superstar tries to land his blow, but under his darkened face, Skyler smiles widely and puts his pan over his head to block the blade, allowing him to push it aside with no problem and with Mettaton completely open for attack, he thrusts his foot into his chest with all the power he's got. His foot pushes into the energy shield and manages to make his robotic enemy lose their balance and allow him to close in the distance to charge his pan blaster. He simply smiles as he's managed to make him fall into a trap and a bright pink glow illuminates the right side of the boy for a moment before blasting him with a big shot made of explosive magic power. He jumps out of the smoke cloud and almost immediately after that, the boy follows right after, rushing to try and attack him but his rash decision nets him a nasty plasma blade impaled right through the center of his stomach followed up by another powerful blast from the cannon.
The impact sends the boy into the air where he flips over and falls on his stomach, his pan falling out of his hand in the process. A nasty hole resides in his stomach that's bleeding profusely, a deadly hit from his adversary that nearly takes him out of the fight. He slowly picks himself up off the floor, an incomprehensible pain flows out from his stomach and spreads out through his entire body, but he fights the feeling and gets back up on his feet, holding the wound with his right hand. His right eye is closed due to the pain, and he breathes deeply and heavily. This could be the end for him if he doesn't watch what he's doing, but it doesn't matter because right in front of his face is the front end of the arm cannon of what should've been a heap of broken machine pieces. He looks up at the face of the one who he could not best, a smug, victorious expression sits on his face and his eye glows bright pink. "It appears our contract has come to an end. Darling, you've been a wonderful, dangerous partner to work with, but it's time we bid each other farewell don't you think?" He charges up his final attack, a powerful energy beam that's 10 times stronger than any Gaster Blaster he's faced during his journey. "Smile, Darling. It's time you take a bow, closing night has arrived!" A bright pink glow tints his forehead and reveals his entire face, showing a little bit of fear for the first time in his entire journey.
(0) Suddenly, without any rhyme or reason, the attack is completely stopped and cancelled out. The sound of the cannon winding down replaces that of energy being charged up and the pink glow in his eye immediately disappears. While Alphys managed to complete the combat-oriented form of Mettaton's original functions, she hadn't taken into account the massive amount of energy needed to sustain the form. While he had been completely unstoppable for almost the entire battle thanks to an energy shield that protected him from all of his attacks, the lack of battery power needed to supply both the form's high energy requirements and the energy shield has finally caught up. They both simply stare at each other silently, Skyler not having any idea towards what happened while Mettaton's mouth slightly opens in shock. "Well… it appears that Dr. Alphys had forgotten about the most important part of my combat form…"
Skyler realizes what he's talking about and immediately takes this opportunity to finally fight back after all this time. He plants his left fist into the energy deprived robot and it easily topples him over, putting him on the ground with him lying on his back 10 feet away. The spotlights suddenly turn off and the whole room goes dim once more, two brightly glowing red iris's slowly approaching the helpless warrior who had nearly fulfilled his purpose. There's nothing he can do, having been forced into an energy saving state that Alphys had implemented in him in an attempt to stop him from running out of battery power, but this in-turn makes him completely vulnerable to any and all forms of attack. The parasite stands in front of his prey, finally able to feast on its soul, and it begins to tear that prey apart by stomping on the joints where his feet and legs are connected to, instantly snapping them off of each other.
He reaches down and takes hold of his left arm by the cannon and with no resistance, rips it off cleanly, a bunch of nuts and bolts flying in its wake along with snapping some wires off. He throws it to the side and then grabs his left arm as close to his shoulder as possible, and just like before, he's able to rip it off with no issue too, tossing it aside and then looking down at him. An expression of sadness sits on the robot's face, he was so close to beating him and the only thing that could've stopped him did exactly that. "U-ugh… guh… guess she should've told me about all of this sooner. You… may have defeated me, but I want to ask you one last question. Why, why did you do all of this? I might be a star who does the things he does to gain fame and fans, but you… what reason do you have to be doing this? Is it because of the killing, the thrill of taking the life of another living being without anyone there to stop you from doing it? Or, is it because of something worse?" He simply stays silent and walks away from him, going over to where he dropped his pan to pick it up, and returning with it in-hand. He's had enough of Mettaton and simply wants to leave this place before the CORE destroys him in the process.
Turning the pan so the handle faces down towards his chest, he prepares to stab him with it and complete the kills needed for this area. Mettaton knows this is his end, but before he goes out, he decides to get in one last thing. "At least I'm going out with a bang… You've all been a great audience…!" The handle bursts its way into the core of his body, destroying him instantly and without resistance. He pulls it out and a few pieces of a motherboard are brought along with it, the deed finally done and the last person in the Underground that could stop him is finally taken care of. Anyone that's left has no hope at this point, and even if they evade his genocide, nothing can evade the impending explosion from the CORE. He slowly limps his way to the other side of the room and hobbles down a somewhat long hallway, eventually reaching an elevator to get him out of the CORE for good.
He presses the call button on it and the doors open, allowing him to step inside and when he does that, the door closes, and it automatically starts rising up to the top where his final destination is only a few minutes away. His battle is not without problems though, and as he rides the elevator up to where the capital awaits him, he leans up against the back wall, slowly slumping down, completely fatigued and dizzy from both the fight and the blood loss he's suffered. The elevator has a long way to go before reaching the top, and Skyler's sense of consciousness slowly slips away, and he gently falls onto the floor, entering the void of unconsciousness… but what he doesn't know is that he's not alone in this void.
Who is it that Skyler's going to encounter in the VOID of his unconsciousness? Next chapter will reveal all! Review reviewy and revewiest! Seeya next week with another chapter, and yes, we're going back to weekly uploads for a bit! Seeya then!