Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.

He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:

"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"

To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:

"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"

Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.

With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-

The UnderPiece!

It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.

This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!

Undyne had just finished telling Ralsei about her whole ordeal leading up to the present starting from her encounter with Monster Kid.

Ralsei listened to the entire thing and It kept crying, Undyne could see no visible tears but it sounded like It was crying. Mostly at the part where Undyne and Muffet fought, explaining Muffet's goal and reason, and about the aftermath of the fight on the ship.

Ralsei didn't respond much as It was trying to heal Muffet simultaneously. It just nodded and gave the occasional "mmhmm."

Ralsei surprisingly was a cool person to Undyne. In the sense that Ralsei was so adept at these weird kinds of potions. She didn't even know potions existed. Slowly, Undyne started to go into deep thought about Ralsei's character.

Its potion was labeled "Elixir of Hopes and Dreams". Ralsei's way of healing was directly related to someone's soul and hardly any medicine. Also, the fact that their outfit, height, naturally shady appearance, and voice seem to be thrown into a blender.

Was Ralsei from another world?

Besides that though whatever Ralsei is...It was really good as Its role as a doctor.

That thought reminded her of something, Ralsei said that this was Its ship. Seeing as how Undyne was able to deduct earlier that this was a scientific exploration ship, she wondered why Ralsei was in it alone.

That would have to wait, these cookies were endless.

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Undyne was eventually escorted out of the room because Ralsei was going to use chemicals that weren't particularly friendly to Fishman.

She had been waiting outside on the deck for about an hour and a half, the rain had subsided and she felt a bit tired.

Dawn wasn't coming for about three more hours so she decided to rest a bit.

Glossing over the area before shutting her eyes, she saw the damages on the ship made from the battle with the Marine Captain. The instant remembrance of it made her entire body cold. Recalling the transformation she had undergone due to her mother's Determination, which she honestly didn't know how was possible.

She was remembering the fight before that conclusion, where Muffet had destroyed an entire Navy Battleship in one greatly improvised ax-kick. Undyne smiled at that, refilling her with some warmth.

Undyne was still fearful of Muffet as a fighter. She still has yet to see her fight seriously, at full power, hasn't seen her moveset which she learned the day prior was super expansive. She hadn't even known if her fangs still produced venom.

Undyne started to daydream on a tangent.

Muffet's soft lips couldn't dare shoot venom...what if she wanted to kiss someone and accidentally bit them. Heh, the kiss would be worth it thou-

"AGH-" Undyne said out loud, shaking the little peaches with her voice, that still were unharmed by everything that just transpired.

Undyne slapped her cheeks again and gazed at the peaches.

The peaches looked like they would be ready in a week, the person in charge of this ship must've taken great care of everything on it-

Oh, that would be Ralsei.

Undyne got to thinking again.

Ralsei does take care of everything on this ship tenderly...it was kind of rude of me to lash out at It after ruining her ship and trespassing. Even then, It still took care of Muffet...What has happened to me? I was such a strong and understanding person, I thought that I was becoming more like that, but why am I still cold. What do I not have that my mother had?

Undyne thought about it, she couldn't come up with a substantial answer. She just looked up and re-acknowledged the damages on the deck.

She sighed.

"Guess I'll help out, I owe Ralsei this much..."

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Ralsei had just finished Its treatment for today. It had given Muffet's wound regeneration properties to last 12 hours before It has to be re-diagnosed.

Ralsei put away some of Its spare elixir bottles, ones labeled:

Determination
Perseverance
Kindness
Courage
Integrity
Justice
Patience
Monster

It wiped the sweat off its brow and walked outside. Ralsei was operating for about five hours straight. It heard the damage of the fight from underneath. Fixing the ship was Its top priority.

It heard the story of how the two ended up here, and lost any shred of malice, if It had any, to tell them to scram. The real reason though...

Ralsei had missed the company.

Ralsei opened the latch that connected to the downstairs area to the middle of the deck.

It peeked Its head out, expecting Undyne to be sleeping as It advised her to. Ralsei was surprised to see that Undyne wasn't resting, but instead-

"Hi, doc," Undyne said in a tired grunt while sweating up a storm. Undyne had her Hawaiian shirt tied around her waist and her white T-shirt was devoid of any sleeves.

She was balancing two boulders on each of her forearms while doing squats with them.

Where did she get the boulders?! Ralsei thought.

It looked over the deck to see that the damages were completely fixed. Amateur, but an attempt was made. Ralsei even noticed that the ship was overall cleaner, it looked like it had a coating of gloss.

Ralsei put two and two together.

"Thank you...you didn't have to." Said Ralsei doing a slight bow of appreciation.

"It's the least I can do since you've been so courteous." Said Undyne continuing to workout.

Ralsei could also notice the bags under Undyne's eyes. The morning was peaking over the horizon, and Undyne didn't get any sleep.

"You have to sleep sometime you know." Said Ralsei concerned.

"I know, but, I need to get stronger...if I want to protect my captain and her dreams...I have to continue to be stronger than what I am now." Said Undyne in a stone-cold voice, giving Ralsei goosebumps.

"You can't beat yourself up and punish yourself and call it getting stronger," Ralsei said knowing It could have said that sentence a little smoother.

Undyne dropped the boulders on the deck, which surprisingly didn't break the wood.

"...I guess you're right..." said Undyne as she slowly sat on the grass, propping one knee up and resting her left arm and chin on it.

Ralsei thought she was going to put up more of a fight than that. Ralsei was glad anyways.

It scooched itself beside Undyne in a non-subtle way.

"Listen, your friend is fine. You did the most you could and she said that she was proud of you didn't she?" Said Ralsei trying to comfort her with an innocent smile.

"Yeah, but I feel like people in her position like a captain would say that to their crewmates to boost morale..." Said Undyne projecting and coming off a bit harsher than expected.

"...not all the time...I've never been told that..." Said Ralsei solemnly.

Undyne flinched at that and looked at it. Her having this moment of clarity and sorry made her remember that there were things that she wanted to ask Ralsei, but first, she had to address the situation.

"Oh, sorry..." said Undyne guilty of her words.

"It's alright, I'm never proud of myself either. I'm the last one who is on the ship, not cause they left..." Said Ralsei looking off towards the peaches.

Undyne felt like garbage now.

"They died didn't they?" Said Undyne bluntly, she hated beating around the bush.

"Yep...I couldn't save them in time...with their dead bodies I was able to make the elixirs, each and every single one of them had a unique soul." Said Ralsei cold and blunt too.

Undyne would've normally found that disturbing, but with all the stuff that has happened recently. This was the norm.

"Speaking of that...my mom was able to manifest for a short time, but the thing is that...she's dead...she was said to have a lot of determination. Do you know why that is?" Undyne said with a thousand-yard stare. She then looked towards Ralsei, only to see that Ralsei was staring back with eyes that she had to say a lot.

Ralsei did want to tell her a lot, but she thought that now wasn't the time, the tension was too thick to rant on her profession.

"Well, Perseverance and Determination are undoubtedly the strongest souls in that field. Determination is the strongest soul overall. They both allow you to live on a great deal even after death. With Perseverance, their bodies as long as 60% of the body is salvageable, can come back with the right tools. With Determination, they can't be recovered after death, but their soul lives on. I don't know how to explain it properly...since I have the weakest soul. A Monster Soul." Ralsei said with a serious and nonchalant tone.

Undyne was profounded by this knowledge. Everything in that field sounded like quantum physics to learn but Ralsei just broke it down in easy-to-understand terms. It makes sense how her mother was able to come back for a short period, using her powerful soul at the time as a host.

Undyne was now ready to learn about the extensiveness of her soul and what it means.

"Why are monster souls the weakest?" Said Undyne genuinely curious.

"It's because they don't have any form of passion, that's what makes the other souls unique. Each person is born with a set soul and depending on how the person lives their life, their soul has room for one change. It takes a stronger person to have two souls shared in one 50/50 kind of deal. But...ever since I was born, I was just a monster soul, no matter how hard I tried...I just can't seem to care or want to have a passion or purpose to change into." Said Ralsei looking at the ground now with cloudy eyes.

Undyne felt an aching in her heart hearing that. She knew that pain before. However, Ralsei was putting itself down for no reason. A person who is skilled enough to bear this knowledge and be adept at it was a champion. And a person who was strong enough in her book. Undyne shot a grin.

She was filled with...

Kindness.

She laid herself onto Ralsei's shoulder. Ralsei gasped and flicked its head towards her.

"Listen Ralsei, don't speak that hopeless bullshit! I had to learn the hard way too on where I belonged. Then I met little Miss Muffet over there and she changed my life forever. It's not hopeless and I do not want to hear any ifs, and, or buts! And hey...I'm proud of you." Undyne said while slowly shutting her eyes to sleep.

Ralsei looked at her and cried a little, it held its tears back to refrain from waking this piranha lady it just befriended.

Ralsei soon chose to sleep there too, Undyne did weigh a lot. It thought to itself...

I thought pirates were heartless ?

If there are pirates like this who genuinely care for people and have souls...then why can't I...?

No-! I do have a soul, if this pirate believes in me, then heck-! I can get one too, I'm ready to believe, this is the Field of my Hopes and Dreams and I make it what I want it to be.

If these two can show me the way to finding a purpose, then I'm ready!

Somewhere, deep inside Ralsei's soul...cracked open from its gray exterior. Ralsei's eyes glew a bright orange then faded.

Ralsei was slightly filled with...

Courage!

Ralsei chose to catch some rest too, it didn't necessarily sleep at all too. It laid its head on Undyne's head.

"There's nothing wrong with two girls sleeping together, right?" Ralsei said with a smile.

"Nope...nothing at all..." Said Undyne reassuring her.

A hot minute rolls by.

"...WAIT YOU'RE A GIRL?!" Said Undyne both confused and highly satisfied finally trying to figure out what gender Ralsei was. This woke both of them up.

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Ralsei woke up in the afternoon, she could tell that it was sometime around 2:00. She had been asleep for seven and half hours. She woke up to find that Undyne wasn't around. On the deck anyways.

Ralsei shifted her forest green hat and coat. She reached into her coat to fetch out a pair of bifocals and equip them. She began to look around for her. She couldn't find her nearby.

Her stomach growled. She got up and went over to the port to get some peaches. She ate about three and replanted the seeds.

She turned around to see if Undyne was near the helm or in the kitchen. She had seen that Undyne had eaten, but was not in the dining room anymore.

Ralsei shrugged and went into the downstairs area to check up on Muffet.

She opened the latch and immediately saw piles of books on the floor and a busy Undyne in the corner of the room crouched while reading a book labeled "Kama Su-"

Oh! Why was she reading that?

"Hey, uh, Undyne?" Ralsei said in a quiet voice as to not alarm her.

Undyne was startled anyways and tossed the book to the opposite side of the room flustered.

"Oh uh hi doc!" Said Undyne sheepishly.

"Just call me Ralsei." Smiled Ralsei.

Undyne had stood up straight dusting herself up and trying to collect the books and organize them.

"Sorry, I was trying to read more about souls...more importantly, my soul. However, I can't understand this smarty wumbo jumbo." Said Undyne glaring at a book as if it was its fault.

Ralsei looked a tad irritated.

"Maybe if you can tell me the color of your soul then I can tell you." Said Ralsei slightly interested in the result.

"Oh uh really? Um, I don't know that either doc hehe..." she said slightly embarrassed. Undyne always hated people smarter than her, which made her feel like an idiot.

"Come here," Ralsei said demandingly.

Undyne just gave in completely, if there was anyone who knew the most about this stuff, it was her.

Ralsei patted Undyne's abs and a green heart illuminated in front of them. Undyne was shocked and stood still not knowing what to do. Then it vanished.

Ralsei nodded.

"Kindness, your soul is Kindness. People with that soul, under extreme conditions, can heal themselves while in a conscious state. The more you're filled with it, the more you can heal away." Said Ralsei knowingly. Undyne was impressed yet again.

However, when she said that she immediately remembered back when she fought the marine lady and after watching Muffet do that enormous ax-kick-

God that was hot-!

Undyne slapped herself again, which scared the hell out of Ralsei who questioned her about it. Undyne just said that she did it cause she was excited.

Well, she wasn't lying.

She began to revisit that memory. After griping her arm with intense emotion, all the cuts and wounds made by the shards of glass were healed in a wave of green.

Undyne knew entirely what her soul meant. She was excited and kinda disappointed. She was hoping her soul would have more of an offensive ability than a defensive. She didn't care enough to complain.

Ralsei nodded.

"Your friend in there has an oozing amount of perseverance. Whatever she had to overcome before even meeting you, must've pushed her soul to the limit. No wonder why she is lingering this much after death." Ralsei said impressed by Muffet's feats.

That got Undyne thinking even more.

There's more she hasn't told me?

Ralsei quickly snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Care to help me with Muffet for a bit?" Ralsei said in that innocent voice that Undyne still found adorable coming from her.

"I would, honestly, but I don't want to ruin your mojo. I'll just train and-" Said Undyne sadly refusing her invitation.

"Oh? I was going to regenerate any open wounds or broken bone and tissue along her bare chest and-"

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Undyne was humbly helping Ralsei in the operation room. She had been tasked to hold stuff for her...like a nurse.

This was so embarrassing.

However, besides the Gorey part of her chest...it was worth the visit.

Undyne made a goofy grin before shaking her head to get rid of the perverted thoughts.

"You know...with the strength of her soul...the wound is closing faster exponentially. Instead of two and a half days, I would say until midnight before the wound closes...maybe even sooner!" Said Ralsei amazed by this specimen of a spider woman.

That news was music to Undyne's ears, she was so excited that she almost dropped all the elixir vials she had tucked in her forearms.

Undyne began to examine them.

Okay so, a determination is red...
Perseverance is purple...huh, suits her...
Kindness is green...
Courage is orange...
Integrity is A dark blue...
Justice is yellow...weird...
Patience is a light blue...
And Monster is grey..that's depressing!

Undyne tried to keep these memorized.

"Hey...Undyne?" Said Ralsei quietly.

Undyne shifted her head fast at her.

"Uh, yeah?" Undyne said confused.

"Well you were in the navy for a while and your mother was a huge part of the navy...what are the higher ranks above captain and how strong are they?" Said Ralsei genuinely curious about that subject.

Undyne was confused, she'd thought someone as smart as she is would have known about the Navy system by now.

However, she finally had a chance to teach Ralsei something. She grinned a toothy grin.

"Well first is recruits, they're mostly fodder, the ones that don't want to get stronger that is. Then there are the lieutenants who are slightly stronger than recruits, they have their gimmick of strength to them. Still fodder though." Said Undyne somehow finding a way to add a bragging tone to this.

Ralsei just kept on nodding and "mmhmm" -ing.

"Then a whole league above them are Captains like myself and the lady from last night. We are considered above human qualifications, however, in our case we are far beyond that. In terms of raw strength, I'm the highest-ranked captain. Then a gazillion leagues above myself are Vice-Admirals. They are complete monsters in combat, mostly because of their years of service, which could be achieved by any age 38 or higher. Then a couple of notches above them are Warlords-" said Undyne almost running out of breath before Ralsei stopped her.

"I've heard about them, what's their deal?" Said Ralsei getting exponentially more interested.

"Warlords are pirates granted immunity to law because the pirate either owns or has a whole island or bigger, captivated, or they struck a financial deal with the Navy. However, there are only seven of them at a time. And trust me, we could blink and be wiped out several times over." Said Undyne slightly admiring them, she always wanted to have that title. Mostly because of the cool-sounding name.

Ralsei gulped.

"Then there are the actual Admirals, and let me tell you. These admirals could destroy the world in a span of a few days if they wanted to. There are five currently, and they are complete heads of the government, nothing is higher than them...except." Undyne says this proudly until she looks down at the ground.

"Except Fleet-Admiral, there is only ever one at a time. That position is filled to the Admiral who would take charge of all offensive-based attacks and leader of Buster Calls. Buster Calls are when the Fleet Admiral issues the whole Navy to raid and obliterate an entire island. Buster Calls is the last case scenario. The Fleet Admiral is said to be slightly stronger than the regular Admirals. While having the most justice and goodwill. The Fleet Admiral was the spot I was aiming to be...since that was my mom's position." Said Undyne still looking at the floor while smiling reminiscing her mother.

Ralsei frowned, she wanted to change the subject.

"So, in terms of destructive power, how would describe them?" Said Ralsei also eagerly wanting to know that info as well.

Undyne tried to figure out why she wanted to know this information, to begin with. She doesn't fight or looks like plans on being a pirate. So why ask?

Regardless she answered her.

"Well, we can lump the rookies and lieutenants to being able to bust down a table in a punch. However, for the rest, let me put it like this. Captains, for example, I can punch someone, they can hit a wall and the whole house crumbles. Vice-Admirals can punch someone, hit the wall, and destroy three to four houses behind it. Warlords can punch someone into the ground and destroy the entire city or island depending on the Warlord. An Admiral can punch someone and the shock alone just destroys cities or islands. And a Fleet-Admiral suplexes mountains to pass the time." Undyne said the last part with a proud wide grin.

Ralsei's eyes grew brighter with astonishment.

"Wow! I didn't know there was such beast out there stronger than you two!" Ralsei said proudly at the two people who boarded their ship.

Undyne chuckled.

"Yeah well, there are people equal or above that strength. They are the reasons why the Navy Admirals and Fleet Admiral don't eradicate all pirates...There are these pirates called Emporers. They possess the power to either destroy the world or take it over in an instant. It takes a Buster Call to kill these pirates. They either have immense power or so many people that follow them, that upon fighting them would wage a war for decades." Undyne said with the same proud demeanor.

"Do you happen to know them, from your mom that is?" said Ralsei more enthralled than ever.

"Yeah actually, there is GoldenBeard, the Captain of the Underground Pirates. My favorite honestly. There is Vortanya Epsilon, Captain of the Rorschach Pirates. She's new and is considered the strongest woman alive. There is, Frisk D. Reemurr, leader of the Golden Flower Pirates. There is Mont'Fliea, he is affiliated with no pirate crew any longer and is his own man. Then finally there is Anansi, Captain of the Arachnea Pirates. No one has ever seen her besides Admirals and Warlords. The rest is just stories and rumors of her."

Ralsei was squealing at this information.

"This world...it's so much cooler than I thought!" Ralsei said while containing her excitement while stitching Muffet's chest.

"Well so far the strongest we have right now is Muffet, and if I'm equal to the strongest Marine Captain, and she is stronger than me...I'd say she is around the weaker Vice-Admiral level." Said Undyne calculating in her head. Ralsei giggled at her thinking hard.

"I'm glad I'm in capable hands then!" Ralsei said in the cutesy innocent voice again.

Undyne could always have a reason to smile at Ralsei.

A few seconds of good silence went by, Undyne helping Ralsei with the equipment and Ralsei doing her best to fix Muffet.

After a good half hour, they both left the room to let the wound tend to itself for the remaining day.

Ralsei looked up at Undyne.

"Hey, Undyne...I've been dying to ask something..." Ralsei said quietly and anxiously.

"Spit it out then," Undyne said with a reassuring smile.

"Oh okay um...uh..." It takes her a while to spit it out.

"Come on Ralsei...just say it, I'll answer it truthfully no matter what! That's a promise!" Undyne said with her signature toothy grin.

Ralsei was slightly filled with...

Courage!

"You have a major crush on her, don't you?"