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!
The Chaos King opened his mouth, and let out a machine-gun barrage of Light Spades. He aimed it at Susie.
Susie leaped into the air, Muffet ran at him from the left, glowing a purple aura. Undyne created a board of tridents and flew at him to the right. Undyne's Determination allowed her to have gauntlets and greaves this time. They had a Determination symbol glowing on the forearms and legs of it.
Undyne snapped her fingers and five tridents formed aimed at his left side. The Chaos King quickly flung his cape around and block the explosive Tridents. His cape was virtually indestructible since it consisted of magic.
Muffet was coming from his open side.
She leaped at her stretching all of her arms back.
"GUM GUM! SPIDER ROCKET!" Muffet launched her arms with open palms forward at him with a stronger strength than before. The boost of Perseverence somehow made her elasticity extra potent.
Chaos King reached into his cape and out of thin air, then in front of Undyne appeared his hand. Undyne was caught off guard by this.
He can teleport his limbs?! She thought as the hand grabbed her and brought her back through the cape. He tossed her in the way of Muffet's attack.
Both fighters looked at each other with wide wide eyes. The move connect against Undyne's forearms. She was fast enough to atleast block it.
Everyone was already fighting at half the health they would normally. The fight earlier with Susie that Muffet did brought down her max stamina and the same with Susie. Both their heads were still aching. Undyne's flexibility and reaction time were still off because of the fall on her back.
Kris was nowhere to be found.
Both Muffet and Undyne flew in opposite directions.
"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU AIMING THAT!" Undyne said as she flew from the knockback near to where Ralsei was with Lancer.
"It wasn't my fault!" Muffet got tossed back by the knockback towards his throne. This gave her some hope, she was being tossed towards the fountain. Which means that she can easily destroy it from there.
"Not a chance!" The Chaos King brought up his right arm, and a wall of darkness formed in front of Muffet's flight path. She smacked headfirst into it. For some reason, the blunt impact hurt her.
"OW! WHAT THE HELL!" Muffet said clutching her head as she sank to the ground.
The Chaos King teleported another punch and it formed out of the wall of darkness. He punched her towards the other side of the room.
Now, that punch didn't hurt her. But why did the wall did? They were both blunt attacks.
Susie coated herself in her Retributive Justice. Her speed was increased by a considerable amount, she started sprinting towards the King with speeds that cut the wind.
"Justice Form Number Five: Karma Hound! And Justice Form Number Three!" Susie jumped in the air the King, reading her ax for an overhead strike.
The Chaos King's stomach tongue leeched out and tried to impale her in the air. A trident quickly hit and exploded the tip of the tongue.
He was annoyed at that.
"JUDGEMENT'S MALLET!" Susie's ax was engulfed in a blinding yellow light, that increased the size of the blade of the ax by 50 times its regular size.
The Chaos King wasn't expecting this and resorted to trying to reach for his cape to block it.
He was able to bring it out and block the attack.
Muffet, while they were struggling for power, quickly dashed towards the King's meaty legs and stretched her leg, and spun herself for an almost room wide-leg sweep.
She was able to weak-leg the King, giving Susie more leverage.
Undyne flew in with over 30 tridents at her disposal.
"TRUE HEROINES HWACHA!" Undyne yelled as the thirty tridents came ready to tear open his left side.
"DARKROOM!" The King Roared as everyone seemed to teleport into different positions.
Now Susie was about to cleave Muffet, and Undyne was about to hit herself and Susie with her tridents.
The Chaos King wasn't around them anymore.
"WHAT?!" All three fighters said in fear. Their reaction time was fast enough to retract everything they were about to do a second before they would've killed each other.
Ralsei was confused too.
Lancer looked up and shrieked.
Ralsei peered up and saw a giant light blue fist about to crush them.
"NO-!" Ralsei sheepishly cried as she held out her hands, creating another barrier of courage. The barrier shattered on impact but was enough to push him off them.
Ralsei was violently puking blood because of that. She was pushing her body and courage to extreme extents to protect this one kid.
The Chaos King scoffed.
"You agile people annoy me! Just let him die!" The Chaos King turned around to see a pissed Muffet inches away from his face, all six arms stretched back with her fist clenched in a burning aura of purple.
He hadn't expected her to get there so fast, her face seemed to display utter hatred and disgust.
"YOUR FIGHT IS WITH US! GUM GUM! SPIDER SHOTGUN!" And just like that, the first connection to the King was made, all six of her fist connect and rocked his head back.
She wasn't just done yet, she grabbed his face with her six hands that had just connected and she swiftly turned around and did a flip. She was attempting to shoulder toss him.
Undyne who was on her bident board with Susie was liking the energy they gave off as a team.
Susie looked at Undyne and laughed.
"Need a boost!" The dino girl remarked.
"Hell yeah!" Undyne said happily.
Susie jumped in front of her a good couple meters and crouched slightly in a batter's position, having her ax winded back in a horizontal wind up.
Undyne knew what she was planning, and was happy that she was fighting with them.
"Justice Form Number 6: Second Hand Law!" Susie then swung her ax mixed with her Justice, she had more than enough when fighting this guy, everything just screamed that it was absolute Retributive Justice for her to strike him down.
Mid-swing, Undyne jumped on the broad surface of the ax and jumped off her ax at the same time Susie finished the swing, launching off at the max amount of centripetal force. She was sent towards Muffet's position in a beam of yellow and red.
"GET BACK OVER THERE!" Muffet said as she successfully shoulder-tossed the king while she was in the air. The Chaos King noticeably was growing in size as they were fighting, he was at this point, 20"0.
Susie was surprised she had managed to shoulder toss him while airborne, he was giant and fat.
Once the King was over on the other side of her, Undyne was able to successfully land the high-speed assault and kneed him on the forehead. Knocking him flat on his back.
While falling, Muffet and Undyne dove to try and attack him while he was down.
"GUM GUM! SPIDER RAILGUN!"
"TRUE HEROINE'S PINCER!"
Muffet started sending a barrage of multiplied fists at the King while Undyne clenched two extra-long tridents in each hand and planned to impale him through the heart with both of them.
"DARKROOM!" The Chaos King said as he disappeared, they seemed to teleport to where he was. They both weren't able to stop the momentum of the attacks, so all six of Muffet's fists hit the ground unexpectedly, busting open some of the knuckles on her hands. Undyne wasn't able to dematerialize the tridents in time and they both exploded on both of them.
They took considerable damage from that. Muffet couldn't quite figure it out. Why were blunt attacks hurting here whenever she hit the darkness. Was it because of the magic...
Did magic cancel out Devil Fruit abilities? She had to be careful to try and not hit anything that had darkness too hard.
Undyne and Muffet had the same collective thought.
If we teleported to where he was...then- They both turned around to see the Chaos King where Susie was and saw Susie falling where they were before.
The Chaos King wiped off the blood from his mouth.
"Mighty attacks, I'll give you that, but your experience pales in comparison to me and my abilities!" The tongue from his stomach mouth shot out and wrapped itself around the three fighters.
He began to spin them around continuously around himself. Using the rope to swing them around faster and faster with more momentum, getting them dizzy, sick, and adding flair to the upcoming attack.
"I studied up on this world! I didn't know this world possessed such an incredible treasure like Devil Fruits! I'd happen to gluten myself on one and hit the jackpot! The OP-OP Fruit makes me able to create a room that I have complete domain over, moving freely, switching objects, cutting them open, and rearranging them just like an operation room! You lost the moment you stepped into this room!" After a good couple of seconds of aggressive spinning, he slammed the tongue on the ground of darkness. All of them landed headfirst.
The impact was so grand, it broke part of the darkened floor. All three of them were heavily injured by that attack. They all slowly got up shakily.
"Sorry pal...but...we've been hit with a move that took up an entire island and weighed about 75 times the amount you did. We don't go down that easy." Undyne said as she took off her winter clothes to reveal her sports bra and skin-tight shorts. Blood enveloped most of her face and it streamed in thick sheets down her abs. She started stretching.
Muffet got up too and started stretching.
"I've been hit by it twice actually, compared to that, your attacks feel like feathers!" Muffet took off her winter clothes to reveal her vest and a spare of jean shorts. The same as what she wore before, the vest with nothing under and having her midsection exposed. She put on her spider cowboy hat and started to stretch too. Her blood was coming from her knuckles and her head, she had fewer streaks of blood on her body though.
They were both surprised when Susie got up with minimal damage taken, she had only gotten a few streaks of blood running down her head, but that was it.
"A sneak attack...unjustly!" Susie said in rage as she began to emit more of her soul energy.
Muffet and Undyne chuckled in appreciation for their third fighter.
"Hey, Susie, how much time do we have?" Undyne said, concerned for their time limit.
"Ten minutes, that's not including beating him, the fountain is tough and huge, so I'd say we need to beat him in eight," Susie said transferring her Justice to her ax.
Muffet, who was most concerned about the fight, tried to make sense of the force he just hit them with. She looked at the ground with interest. The darkness broke. Not by magic or by allowance, but it broke because of force pressure.
Muffet grinned happily.
"Hey dearies~," Muffet said playfully.
They both looked at her.
"Huehuehue~ His cape isn't indestructible~" She emphasized 'isn't' in true hatred.
They both looked at the ground and then his cape...they all gave a devilish smile.
All three women were covered in bloodlust upon knowing that fact. The Chaos King could swear he saw three demons staring at him, wanting nothing more than to brutalize him. This gave him a cold sweat and he flinched.
"You really think I'll give you a chance...how much time you have in those power-ups of yours?" The Chaos King was laughing at their threats.
Undyne and Muffet knew they only had two minutes left before the vials potency would wear off.
They both scoffed as a response.
Susie looked at them.
"Really? What did you guys fight before? What do you mean by island-level attacks?" She was genuinely interested in what they were referring to.
Muffet turned around and giggled.
"That's crew secret information, huehuehue~," She said with a cute giggle.
Susie growled.
"Hmph! I'm still thinking about it-!" Susie said as The Chaos King teleported behind her.
"You guys talk too much!" He said as he prepared to stomp on her.
She gritted her teeth and turned around.
"SNEAK ATTACKS DON'T WORK ON ME! JUSTICE FORM NUMBER TWO!" Susie turned around and blocked the stomp with ease with her ax. She then swung the ax back in response.
"PAINFUL RETRIBUTION!" Susie manages to connect the attack at his body with two times the force of the stomp. The Chaos King had forgotten about that move and was hit directly in the stomach with it.
This sent him tumbling back near the throne.
Lancer was trying to tend to Ralsei, but there was nothing he could do. Her hat was rolling away from her, her black fur either rustling from the gust of their attacks, or stiff with the blood from her exhausted and brittle body. She was just laying on the floor breathing heavily, watching the battle unfold.
"Ralsei...I'm sorry I'm not much help, I'm not a fighter, nor am I fit for support...I wish I can help you guys in this fight." Lancer looked down at the ground ashamed of himself. He was disappointing.
"Hey...no matter...what happens...you're not a disappointment...you're...our friend...!" Ralsei said trying to get up but can't.
Lancer went to her and propped her upright, so she can watch the fight while sitting, instead of laying down. She could breathe easier now.
She looked at him.
"Now Lancer...you're going to do what I say...and I don't want to hear any backtalk...you hear me?" Ralsei meant her words with a tacit strength behind them.
Lancer begrudgingly nodded.
"Now...tell me about the best moments in your life..." She said while resting her body a bit.
Lancer didn't know what she was talking about, but he spoke anyway.
The Chaos King lifted his hand and made a spinning gesture with an open palm, like the hand gesture you would make when opening a jar.
"Room Service!" He said as nothing had changed in the room at all. No positions were changed between the fighters, nor room elevation or displacement. Nothing had changed.
The Chaos King, however, grinned madly.
Muffet then posed oddly like Susie and the way she carried her ax and laughed.
"Hehe! Your attack didn't work dumbass!" Said Muffet in Susie's voice. Once she realized that, she covered her own mouth in shock.
Undyne looked at Muffet in shock and said:
"Hey! That's my body!" Undyne said in Muffet's voice.
Susie just chuckled in Undyne's voice and said:
"Gwehehe, this is what it is like to see from both eyes! Haven't had this luxury in a while." She laughed to herself.
The Chaos King started to laugh.
Susie, in Muffet's body, looked at him with anger.
"What did you do?!"
"Everything in this space is under my domain like I said, I can switch things and move them as I will...even SOULS!"
Muffet, Undyne, and Susie, in each other's separate bodies, started to panic. Undyne, in Susie's body, tried to prop the ax the right way but she just couldn't find the right way to angle it. Susie, in Muffet's body, tried to stretch her arms back but just embarrassingly made all her limbs flaccid and it just laid like a string on the floor.
Muffet, in Undyne's body, was just looking at Susie fail in her body. She had her fingers on her chin and rubbed them as if she was examining her.
"Youre lacking motivation but the eagerness is there, I rate that attack two out of ten-"
"IM NOT TRYING TO IMPRESS YOU- AH MY LIP! HOW DO YOU SPEAK WITHOUT BITING YOUR LIP WITH YOUR FANGS?!"
"They're retractable!"
"How do you retract them then?!"
"...physically?"
"I SWEAR TO GOD SPIDER-GIRL I'LL KILL YOU AFTER IM DONE WITH THIS FATASS!"
Undyne, in Susie's body, then joined the conversation.
"It's not as easy as you'd think...also, how do you see past these bangs?! Actually, do you even wash your hair?!"
Susie blushed from even more embarrassment.
"HEY! WHY AM I THE ONE ON TRIAL?!"
The three ladies started bickering. And although the Chaos King should use that opportunity to attack, they were actually providing a decent show. He just kept laughing to himself while the ladies were arguing.
"You think this is funny you fat bastard!" Susie, in Muffet's body, said.
The Chaos King wiped off a tear.
"I haven't had my Jester here in a while, I missed the amusement."
The Chaos King then ran at them. They all flinched as they weren't ready for him to approach when they haven't even learned how to use someone's else fighting kit.
Muffet, in Undyne's body, tried to stretch her arms back, but couldn't. She was then punt-kicked towards the furthest wall. She felt that pain more than she should, she hasn't felt direct physical pain in a while. It caught her off guard and made her do a scream she didn't know she can do.
That scream demoralized the rest of them.
Susie tried her best to stretch her arms again but just couldn't get them to work right. She was picked up and gut-punched in the same direction where Ralsei was with Lancer.
Undyne, in Susie's body, got the hint from her two other friends tried to run, but it seemed to not work as effectively. She too was punt-kicked the same way the other two went.
Ralsei and Lancer watched in disbelief as the three heroines got up. A more broken and bruised mess than before. They all had taken off-guard attacks by someone going full power. The situation they were in didn't look good.
However, the three heroines saw that The Chaos King was in a tired sweat and was noticeably breathing louder. All he did was run for a bit and perform three moves.
Come to think of it, all he did before was switch people around and teleport, not much moving on his end.
Why did he go through the effort of running to them when he could teleport?
Unless...
Susie, in Muffet's body, was the first person to find that out.
"Hey, Chaos King! Humor me for a bit."
"Hm?"
"That Devil Fruit you have, like a surgeon...you can only do one action in your operation room at a time, right?" She said cracking the code.
This time, a nervous sweat went down his head.
Undyne, in Susie's body, looked over to Muffet in her body and nodded. In terms of mimicking someone's Devil Fruit, someone's like Undyne's was very easy to do. Especially for someone like Muffet.
All she needed was willpower.
Muffet, in Undyne's body, raised her hand.
"Replica Spear Minigun!"
Just like a copy of Undyne's signature attack, she made a chamber of revolving purple spears. However, she aimed it at the fountain behind him.
The Chaos King flinched and gritted his teeth. Desperately, he shot out his stomach whip and lashed out on the ladies. Susie, in Muffet's body, was slammed against the wall with a force to make her phase in and out of consciousness. Then, the whip hit Undyne, in Susie's body, but it left a slash wound across her chest, leaving her to do nothing but clench it as blood was dripping from her mouth.
Then the whip was aimed at Muffet, in Undyne's body. The whip came straight for her and impaled her through her left arm. She yelled in pain as she shot the spears.
The King had a decision to make...
"Dark Room!" He said as the spears were turned around and went back towards the ladies, even in course to hit Ralsei and Lancer.
And then...
"Justice Form Number Two! Painful Retribution!" Said Susie, back in her regular body as she was filled with Retributive Justice. She swung her ax and the spears magically turned back around and all aimed for the King.
The King just used his cape to block it. He was pissed.
Susie scoffed, but it ended up causing more blood to stream down her mouth. Truth was, even if they got back to their bodies, the damage they suffered before switching took a toll on their respective bodies.
"As I thought! With that notion in mind, you either had the choice to either keep us as we were or protect the fountain...only one could have stayed."
The King was pissed that she figured out his ploy. Muffet and Undyne, though vastly hurt, stood next to Susie.
"Shall we continue dearies~?" Muffet said panting hard to Susie and Undyne who were doing the same. They just nodded.
There was a silence. Ralsei was in the crossfire of this tension and just hugged Lancer to make sure he felt safe and protected. To shield him from this battle, this wasn't his battle, he didn't deserve to be here at this moment.
A bloodlust-filled tension filled the air.
.
The Chaos King was the first to move.
"Dark Room!"
All three ladies were teleported with him towards the middle of the hall. Susie used her ax and sent Justice after-slashes towards the King. He blocked them with his cape with one hand.
Flanking to his left was Muffet, he saw her attempting his flank and his stomach whip came out and tried to impale her through the chest.
She jumped over it and simultaneously stretched her arms out to it. She slung herself to the spade part of the whip and grabbed it by the bottom of the spade.
The Chaos King was confused by this.
Undyne, ever since Muffet started her flank, was already summoning yellow spears to bounce off the walls and ceilings of the place to try and pierce him at unfavorable angles for him. Although some did pierce and cut, none of them were fatal. He used his free hand to bat away the rest. He was still using his other hand to keep his cape up.
"We just have to occupy him!" Susie said being the team tactician.
Undyne scoffed.
"We just need an opening, but all of us are too hurt to-," Undyne said before everyone in the room peered to Muffet. Lancer and Ralsei included.
Muffet grabbed onto the whip and jerked her body to try and spin it around. However, she wasn't using her Devil Fruit to gain leverage.
The Chaos King, along with everyone else was confused.
"W-what are you doing?! Unhand me!" He said desperately.
Susie knew how much extra pain she caused for Muffet's body. She knew that Muffet had lost a few ribs and her spinal column was misaligned. She also knew that her back and triceps have torn a muscle and her lower arm's bones were cracked. She didn't leave her body in a good state, nor was she able to even fight this aggressively. Muffet undoubtedly was fighting under the worse conditions out of everyone else in this room.
Susie was a close second, but her abilities allowed her to fight at a range and keep her defense up, so it made up for it. In Muffet's case, she was pretty much challenging all her fatal wounds.
However, regardless of that, she was on the frontlines.
Muffet flexed all her muscles, she bit into her arm and started to bulk up. Her muscles became inflamed. She jerked her body even more and began to displace the King's footing. This man weighed no more than a couple of tons.
"H-hey!" He screamed as he was being turned.
Everyone in the room watched in awe as Muffet began to grow in size for a small while and gain slightly more muscles mass. She was flexing and tightening her muscles even more.
She jerked her body again while grunting desperate and heavy grunts.
And then. She made her move.
She swung the king, by his own stomach whip, in a circle, lifting him off the ground. Everyone continued watching in awe. She kept going. Blood was shooting out of her thyroids as she was doing so, they were concerned.
Muffet kept grunting, those grunts turning into yells as she kept spinning him faster and weighed above her, using her own strength to do so.
Undyne, Susie, Ralsei, and Lancer we're amazed about Muffet's power when she really wants to fight. This feat of strength and bodily sacrifice will be etched into their brains.
Muffet was giving it a literal 200%!
She then got to the point where winds were being made at ferocious speed from how fast she was able to spin him before she got him high enough to do one more spin. And then, she tossed him into the ceiling.
"You wanted your opening right?" Muffet said while her muscle mass was deforming and going back to her regular body type.
Susie was utterly amazed. Even after all of that, she listened to her. And did all this sacrifice expecting no thank you's, she just turned around a smiled to her.
Undyne took the opportunity to generate bidents on the ceiling where the King would impact. He did and the King let out an echoing scream of pain as he was plummeting back down to the bottom.
Susie readied her combo move.
"Justice Form Number Three...!" She yelled as she readied her ax but saw something that almost made her cry.
Muffet was bleeding from almost every orifice in her body and was slouched while standing and hyperventilating. But she still gave Susie a passionate eye, and then, she glew purple.
Susie knew this was Perseverance, but she thought that Muffet didn't know how to unleash it without the help of a vial.
She knew Muffet had evolved from this fight, she had now learned how to Persevere indefinitely.
Muffet screamed as she stretched all her arms back and twirled them with each other to make one giant spiral of her own arms with balled-fists at the end.
Both of them attack the King as he was about to drop down in front of them.
"GUM GUM...!" Muffet roared.
Susie grinned a happy grin and shed a singular tear.
She already adored this woman. It was an honor fighting with her...
"JUDGEMENT'S DRILL!" They both screamed as both their attacks landed on the King. Muffet twirled her arms as she flung it back to him to act like a drill. When it connected with the slash, it cut hit deep, not fatal, but good enough to deal a lot of damage, and Muffet's attack spun him around to unprepared his body for the fountain behind him.
Muffet fell to the ground limply.
The Chaos King, using his last efforts, created a wall of Darkness behind him, it hurt being slammed against a wall that hard, but it was worth it if it kept the fountain safe. The wall almost shattered but didn't, it was severely cracked.
That being said, the man was worn and tired, so were his opponents. Undyne, having slightly more energy than the two but still in the danger zone, ran towards Muffet and Susie who were tapped out. Muffet being the person she cared for more out of the two, seeing as how she looked dead.
"Muffet you alright?!" Undyne said in desperation. Ralsei had just been watching with a hand over her mouth the entire time, crying. She still clutched Lancer close to her chest as to not see what was going on.
Susie was kneeling on the floor and breathing hard, even puking on the ground because of her exhaustion.
The Chaos King got up and laughed.
"Not quite enough to kill me, eh?! It seems you ladies have one last attack in you, you better hope it's the winning one! Because if not, I'll slaughter you all with MY next attack! So, show me what you got!" He was mocking them, both parties knew that.
Undyne was focused on Muffet, she was faced down on the ground.
Susie was slowly getting up using her ax. He wasn't entirely wrong, she had enough in her for one more attack. She thought to herself, about Kris, she wondered where he was. She assumed that he couldn't handle the pressure and left. Or maybe that the Jester came and got him. To her at this point, Kris wasn't an option anymore.
There was a tense silence. Undyne was just staring at Muffet's body, looking for signs of life. So was the Chaos King.
And then...
Muffet, slowly clenched all her fists, she curled up every finger individually, slowly. She did that for each fist, one by one, slowly, in pain. She shook out of bodily shock and her nerves acted up. She gritted her teeth and let out a bone-chilling shrill grunt as she heard bones crack.
She let out a scream that scared everyone in the room. Including the Chaos King.
Susie was staring hard at this girl. As Muffet slowly raised herself up using her clenched fist while shaking and grinding her teeth.
She dropped herself, her body couldn't handle it. She let out another scream and grunt that scared everyone in the room. It was quiet, Muffet was now the center of attention, not in a good way though.
Her body felt like she was being unraveled from the inside out. Her everything was in more pain than her time in StarDrop, this time she had no healing, it was her own strength. She couldn't tell what parts of her body were even alive anymore.
Regardless of the torturous pain, she tried again to get up. Grinding her teeth so much that her teeth splintered and bled profusely. Blood was gushing from her eyes, ears, mouth, body, thyroids, head, everywhere possible. Muscles felt limp and unresponsive.
Nothing but sheer willpower pushed her forward.
For everyone in the room excluding Lancer, it was painful to watch. It even made The Chaos King frown, the sight she was in.
Muffet's eyes naturally didn't have any pupils, it was just a dark purple gloss over a buldgent eyeball. However, Muffet peered over at Undyne and Susie with a glowing purple dot as her pupil. They both assumed it was her Perseverance.
They both knew what that meant.
"Muffet! Don't you fucking do anything reckless! Look at you dude, you'll die if you attack again. Me and your friend got this. Please, man..." Susie said actually feeling sorry for Muffet as she was rising slowly and getting slower as she did.
Undyne was crying from her one eye.
"'M' Please, don't do this. I don't want to see you like this!" Undyne pleaded. But to no avail.
Muffet puked venomous blood. Her eyes widened.
She fell to the ground again, letting out a frustrated and pained grunt as she did. Her heart was beating so fast it was the only thing she could feel.
The bones in her arms and body were splintered and broken. Her teeth were now shattered into segments per tooth from how hard she was grinding them. Her mouth exploded with a mixture of venom and blood she could no longer control.
Her hair was frizzy and unruly from the stress. Her hat was covered in her own blood and secretions. Her jewelry was forcefully embedded into her skin. Her nerves were shot and unresponsive in most areas. Three of her eyes were permanently shut and grossly twitching. Her other eyes seemed to be devoid of color from blood loss.
Hyperventilating desperately.
The Chaos King felt...sorry.
Everyone in the room felt uneasy watching this. Ralsei and Susie were close to hurling when they were watching.
Regardless, Muffet clenched her fist yet again, this time, even more slow. She started to remember what this man caused these townspeople for years. What he did to his own son. But most importantly, the stakes at hand if she lost now. The dreams she couldn't accomplish, the hat she couldn't return. Then she remembered Undyne... Ralsei...Susie...Lancer...Sans...Papyrus...Frisk...
...
And Petrichor!
She let out, not a pained or desperate growl, but a tiger-like beastly growl of anger. She clenched all her fists and slowly brought herself up like a pained push-up.
Everyone in the room froze in both movements and speech as they watched her.
"I made a promise!" Muffet said through a mouth full of blood, venom, and broken teeth.
"I made a promise to my crew, to Lancer, and to a friend waiting for me somewhere!"
She was able to get on her knees this time, everyone, but the Chaos King covered their mouth.
"...Most of all...a promise to myself...!" She said, breaking her limits and standing upright.
" ...MUFFET...D...BAKER! AND I'M GOING TO BE THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATES!" She roared as she got faster in getting up, using her own adrenaline to get her up.
Everyone in the room was stunned.
Muffet looked at Undyne and Susie.
"Look, Imma try out something, I just need you to be careful when I do. The last thing I want to see is you get hurt by one of my actions again." Muffet proposed this to Undyne, it made her heart melt, she knew that her captain had a heart but she'd never thought she'd show it through words.
She nodded.
The Chaos King growled and shot out his tongue-whip.
"Sure dude! I gotcha!" Undyne ran ahead to join Susie in the front line. They were trying to get past his stomach tongue-whip. For a fat guy, he was pretty nimble and had good flexibility and stamina. They had to give it to the guy, he had the strength to be King.
Which made them all collectively scared of how strong the Jester is, the Jester was said to be many leagues above the King in all forms. The reason he wasn't king was that he didn't have the mindset or mental stability to be king.
That was a thought for another day.
Muffet took this chance to prepare her new attack, she was originally going to use this against Susie back then in the Crimson Forest, before their fight was cut off.
She interlocked all her fingers together except for her middle right hand. She stretched her free hand out and used her interlocked fingers to form a rubber ball around herself. Bones cracking, organs on fire, shaking body. She did it all even after feeling so much pain that the only thing keeping her alive was shock and adrenaline. Her vision was bloodshot. Regardless she finished her prepping stage. She was just a glowing purple ball with her free arm as the string. She stretched her hand over to the King.
He swatted Undyne away with a backhand and shot Susie away with his light Spades.
He saw her hand trying to reach him and grabbed it before it could touch him. He yanked her towards him.
"What was that supposed to be!" He roared as he struck her rubber ball. The force of the attack caused her to stretch to her limit, spanning the entire room.
"THANK YOU!" Muffet gleefully thanked the Chaos King, he was confused. She came driving back towards him in a giant mass of rubber and muscle, reaching close to sound speed.
He flinched and let go of her arm and tried to block it with his forearms. He didn't have time to reach for his cape.
The free arm slapped back to her and wrapped around the ball to make the density of the ball in place.
Undyne and Susie looked up with the widest grins on their faces.
Muffet in her rubber ball slammed against his forearms, knocking him slightly off his feet and further back to the throne, to the point where his heels touched the base of it.
Muffet ricocheted off his forearms to the back of the room and came back with an even stronger force and speed.
The Chaos was scared of the next impact.
"DARKROOM!" He said desperately as he switched her position to where Undyne was so that she'd hit the darkened ground.
She smacked against the ground but immediately bounced back up into the corner, and then she eventually gained enough momentum to start randomly bouncing around the room. Which each surface she bounced off of, the faster and stronger the ball of rubber became. This was thanks to simple physics and her Perseverance ability.
"Go Muffet!" Undyne said with unbelievable proudness in her captain.
"Keep going, dude!" Susie shouted in hype. This got her thinking though...she was planning on using that attack against me?
She started laughing to herself in relief.
"You see King! Your Devil Fruit ability doesn't work if there is an unstoppable movement, and since we are in an enclosed room, one where you have to defend, this makes this the perfect person and room to use this move in!" Muffet yelled as she was bouncing around the room at beyond sound speed.
The Chaos King started sweating, unable to see where her next bounce was going.
"Behold! GUM GUM! SPIDER COMET!" Muffet roared as the next bounce was heading towards the Chaos King.
"W-wait-!" He tried to speak but he was immediately slammed in the face by the entirety of the ball. Undyne and Susie were overly hyped in their spider friend.
That attack had enough force to send him off his feet and completely crush his giant darkened throne with his body. His teeth were broken and were bleeding down the head.
"STUPID SPIDER! THERE'S A FLAW IN YOUR ATTACK!" The Chaos King then used his cape to block his next attack.
Undyne and Susie knew they'd might as well help their spider friend with her next assault. Undyne used all of her Determination for the next attack. Susie used all of her Justice too.
Undyne formed a giant trident, it was roughly around the city of two city blocks. Its gravity caused some of the hardened darkness around her to crack. It consumed so much energy that her Determination gauntlets and greaves crumbled and faded away and the remainder flew into the trident to power it up.
Susie transferred all of her Justice in a ball in front of her right hand. It too made the hardened darkness around her slightly crack.
Muffet bounced off the back of the room and started to propel herself towards his 'indestructible' cape.
"IT'S EASILY BROKEN BY SHARP ATTACKS!" The Chaos King formed the cape to have spikes along its surface. He started cackling evilly.
"TRUE HEROINE'S BALLISTA!" Undyne launched her giant trident and it connected with the cape. The explosion was powerful enough to break a good layer of the cape, she made a giant dent and clear most of the spikes.
"W-what?!" The King said in fear.
"NOW! JUSTICE FORM NUMBER ONE! INTERSTELLAR KARMA!" Said Susie as she tossed the condensed ball of Justice at his cape.
The Legends of Deltarune used up everything they had into this last attack. Everything was on the line, everyone's strongest attack was on display. Ralsei and Lancer are moved to tears hearing this go down and experiencing it.
"Hehe! You IDIOT!" The Chaos King still held up his cape with one arm while using his other arm to activate his power.
"DARKROOM!" He said as the ball was teleported to be flying at Muffet.
Undyne, Muffet, Lancer, and Ralsei looked at the ball with dread-filled eyes.
"Hehe...you're the idiot!" Susie said as the ball connected with Muffet, engulfing her in justice, increasing her speed to almost light speed. She burst through the cape and completely shattered it into dust.
"WAIT NO-" The Chaos King was immediately cut off by the impact of Muffet's attack. It made him fly like a ragdoll towards the fountain way further behind him, his back hit the darkened wall separating them and the fountain room, and it was destroyed too because of the force he flew at.
However, that last impact drained Muffet of all of Perseverance and momentum. She retracted all of her arms and fell to the ground laughing to herself.
"WE DID IT!" Muffet yelled to everyone below her. They all cheered for her.
Undyne jumped up to grab her captain.
Ralsei and Lancer were happy, they knew that the heroes of light were going to be the ones to beat him.
Undyne caught Muffet in the air.
"You're so freaking incredible captain!" Undyne has her a toothy smile, Muffet returned the favor and laughed.
Susie just facepalmed and shook her head while laughing.
"You guys, Ghaha!" Although, she was sad that she wanted to finish off the King, but she knew how that fight was looking. They had to beat him then or else they wouldn't be able to get to and destroy the fountain in time.
Undyne was back to her Kindness soul, unable to use any more bidents to make a board, but she had faith in her leg strength.
Susie looked at them.
"We only have five minutes left to destroy the fountain, We spent too much time looking flashy, we can destroy it in time if we manage to get there now-!" Susie said as she witnessed something unbearable.
Muffet and Undyne nodded, but then they got immediately impaled through the stomach by a Spade Whip. They both coughed out a good amount of blood. And like shaking off water from a hand, the tongue whipped them to the darkened ground. They laid there lifeless.
Susie was filled with immense dread. She begrudgingly turned her head to see the Chaos King, standing upright cackling to himself.
"That attack was enough to kill me, but the fountain granted me this newfound strength, it protected me from the blow...because it knows that night is here!" He said laughing into the ceiling of the room.
"MUFFET! UNDYNE!" Ralsei screamed, but they both didn't respond, they were on the floor on top of each other, unable to move due to their exhaustion and slit hole in their abdomen.
Lancer had a face of dread too.
"R-Ralsei-?" Lancer was trying to hose good news from her, she didn't have any.
"Just keep telling about that time you saved Rouxls Kaard from an apple bobbing accident!" Ralsei averted his head away from the fight while he continued his story.
"W-what do you mean that night is here?! We have four minutes left!" Susie argued.
"...Gwahahaha! This room accelerates time...you guys actually have 15 seconds left. That's how much time you have left before I become a god!" The Chaos King was covered in heavy amounts of blue blood but the evil energy was filling him. He was determined.
Susie got up limply and tried to run to the fountain, she knew she couldn't get there in fifteen seconds, even if he didn't stop her. She tossed her ax to hopefully reach it, but the King deflected it.
Susie fell to the ground exhausted. She started cursing at herself, she hated herself. How did they get played that hard!
The Chaos King laughed at her attempt.
"Seven seconds left and you seem to fall short! You didn't even cut off the roots before coming here! Now you have even less time to stop me...! 3...2...1...and-" The Chaos King was gleefully victorious, he was seething with pride in himself.
Then, an orange beam of light whizzed past him while he was gloating, he couldn't react in time and the beam exploded the fountain.
He stood there frozen...who?!
He turned around and saw the same goat girl with hands and eyes of raging orange.
"You prick!" Ralsei yelled as she launched another beam of light, it connects with him but was too weak to deal any important damage.
"What did you do?!" The Chaos King raged at her success at destroying the fountain. More importantly, how was she standing?
Ralsei had been letting Lancer speak words of Kindness that he committed to her, healing her over the course of his stories. She had atleast enough health and energy to fight for a little while.
Ralsei was in a blind rage.
Susie stood up slowly. She too was scared of Ralsei, but she started to fire the orange beams wildly.
The beams kept hitting the Chaos King, but each beam was weaker than the last.
"You can't just get away with this!" Ralsei said as she fired another beam, this time, he was able to dodge it.
He shot out his whip tongue and it wrapped around the black goat girl. He brought her towards his face.
"Although you rudely destroyed the fountain of darkness...the roots still planted themselves in the other islands, there will be other kings like me, more darkness to spread! You never had a chance, to begin with!" The Chaos King laughed in her face.
"Bye-bye!" He then tossed her towards to ground to finish her off.
Then, she was caught.
"I wouldn't be too sure about the roots...I took care of that on my own." Said another manly voice. Ralsei opened her eyes and saw a human, he has a nice suit of armor with a black suit underneath. His skin was blue-tinted caus of the light and the darkness and his hair covered his eyes.
"K-Kris?! Where were you!" Susie said more eager to get up.
Kris looked at everyone around him. He looked at Undyne and Muffet's bodies and went up to them while placing Ralsei down. He held out his heart of Determination and sacrificed a good portion of his Determination to heal them to the point where the wound wouldn't kill. They were still on the floor exhausted and in physical shock. Kris only had 15% of his Determination left.
He looked at Susie.
"I knew that the time around this magic area was faster than on the surface, so I asked Undyne to make her spears fly me to the depths of the ocean so I can cut off the roots that were stemming to the other islands. I got all of them just in time it seems." Kris said super relaxed.
"WHAT?! There's no way! There's another Hero of Light?!" He looked at Lancer, and Lancer was flipping him off while sticking out his tongue.
Kris looked at Ralsei.
"Tend to them, Undyne spoke words of you in a good light. You are capable." Kris said the next course of his sentence in a louder tone.
"The three of you, you fought well enough, we thank you for your valiant struggle in battle and leaving the rest to us. However, the King is our concern!" Kris said raising his crimson sword to the King.
Undyne got up immediately and looked immediately over to Muffet who vaguely had a pulse that was present every couple of minutes. She was losing blood fast and seemed to barely be alive.
"Thank you, Kris, we made a promise that you guys would be the ones to beat him. So, go for it!" Undyne said sheepishly but drained.
"We made a promise to Susie, that's why," Muffet said weakly but happily.
Susie, Undyne, and Ralsei flicked their heads towards Muffet who looked greyer in skin tone and only had a faint purple dot in her eye and was looking over at Kris. She at least wanted to see him and how he was like in person. She wasn't disappointed.
Undyne wanted to hug her tighter but she couldn't.
"Y-you think you can beat me-!" The Chaos King shouted in anger.
Kris cut him off while getting into a stance.
"Every voice you create has an echo...your own bad energy will be your undoing!" Kris said with words that filled everyone in the room with Determination.
The true two destined to beat the King was here. Susie and Kris. The Legends of Deltarune.
All that was left now was to entrust them with the task of beating the mortally wounded King. Susie was already exhausted and Kris had used up almost all of his health and Determination to heal the others. The King wasn't in tip-top shape as well.
The fight could go either way.
"DARKROOM!" The King teleported behind them and attempted a downward punch at Kris.
Susie blocked the attack with her forearms.
"You. Don't. Listen. Do You?! SNEAK ATTACKS DON'T WORK!" Susie's forearms were surging with Justice.
Kris gave her a thumbs up and he attempted a slash at his hand. He was able to cut off the Chaos King's hand.
He wailed in pain as he stammered back holding his wrist.
"W-what?! What is that sword made out of?!" The Chaos King was looking desperate.
"This sword was specifically made to cut through the darkness like butter..." Then Kris opened his eyes and his bangs lifted. His eyes were flaring red with sentimental rage.
"I told you. Your bad energy will be your undoing! Dads like you make me sick...but..." Kris handed his sword to Susie, she was confused.
Kris smiled at her.
"This is your fight, as much as I want to do it...this decision is one you have to make." Kris gave her knowing eyes. She knew what that meant...to kill a father...she knew it too well.
Susie brandished the sword. She still had her energy from the attack she blocked earlier, she had enough for one more Justice move.
The Chaos King backed up against the wall, he saw that he was near Lancer.
"S-son! Protect me! I'll make you King on the spot! Please!" The Chaos King pleaded.
Lancer stuck his tongue out and started walking away.
"A King losing to a bunch of kids? Don't call me your son, it's revolting. I can't have a disappointment call me that!" Lancer said with a smile, he was mimicking the words his father said to him.
Everyone smiled at Lancer.
Susie looked at Chaos King in the eyes. She was unsure about her choice.
She knew the pain of seeing a family member die, as she prepares to bear it again. She then remembered that Kris must've had a more painful experience. He was the one to save her from her dad, he had to do the deed.
Treat others like how you wanted to be treated...that was the point of Retributive Justice...she had to repay the favor Kris did for her, she had to give equal Justice. They hadn't gone this far just to spare him, that would be a disgrace to Kris and everything he had to do to get them there, in a way, this was mostly his story. She had to make it right if they were going to be partners in crime. Then she had to have commit one to begin with.
"Justice Form...Number Two..." Susie began to utter. Kris knew how hard this was for her, but Susie would have more and longer-lasting pain if she didn't.
The Chaos King was too much in a panic to think of something smart.
"You had this coming...this is how Justice works...this is the sentence you'll serve for the crimes you've committed, your punishment is...Painful Retribution!" Susie said as she swung the sword with the power of Justice behind it. An after slash was making its way to the King and in no time at all.
"The jury has come to a vote...This court finds you-"
It sliced him in half, spewing out blue blood everywhere around the room.
"...Guilty...Sentenced to Death..."
Then, the whole tree started to crack and fade away, turning into white balls of light as it started to drift to the surface. The balls of light lifted everyone there to the surface. Even the blood was turning into balls of light and floating away.
Everyone was confused.
Kris spoke up.
"This place was bound together by the magic of darkness, now that there is no more darkness, light persists." Kris enlightened everyone as they were brought back to the surface of Yetera. The residents of the island were surrounding the giant crater that used to hold trees and saw the heroes of light emit through the hole.
At first, they were confused, but the residents of the island started cheering.
The heroes of light looked at each other and started to hug each other in excitement.
They had won.
Muffet, Undyne, Ralsei, Lancer, Susie, and Kris. The light slowly placed them down back on the snow. At this point, their bodies were too hot from the fight to be phased by the cold of the island.
The residents lifted them like they were crowd surfing and taking them back to the town.
"We fucking did it!" Undyne said shaking her captain before they hugged each other and started giddily laughing in excitement and relief.
Ralsei gave Lancer her last cookie.
"You deserve it champ," Ralsei said and Lancer stared at the cookie. He resisted it and pushed it away back to Ralsei.
"I think I can hold off a little bit, I have to rest first if you don't mind, hehe." Lancer seemed still happy throughout all of this. Ralsei smiled, he was already maturing.
Kris looked at Susie.
"You okay?" He said solemnly.
Susie laughed and punched his arm.
"Of course dork! That was awesome...! Hey. Thank you...for taking me away from home-" Kris cut her off by hugging her. She hated hugs...
She hugged back and cried into his shoulders.
He rubbed her back in assurance.
"We can talk about this later...this is your time to finally be free," Kris said pulling her back and looking into her eyes.
They lifted each other's bangs and looked into the eyes of each other. Susie blushed hard and averted her eyes. She pouted and punched his arm again, this time not playfully.
"I'm just glad you're okay dingus!" Susie said embarrassed.
Kris laughed it off the whole way back to the city.
The book came to a close, the prophecy had been fulfilled. Everyone had their happy ending.
...But one question was raised.
...Where do they go from here?