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!
Muffet, Undyne, Susie, and Lancer all woke up roughly the same time, they were all still in their compromising sleeping positions on the queen-size bed.
"Why is my hand wet?" Susie questioned while shaking her fingers to get the liquid off.
Lancer shrugged.
"I don't know, you probably sweat a lot in your sleep?" Lancer knew well enough why her hand was like that, it had spent a whole night marinating in his mouth, not on purpose however
"...Only on my right hand though...?" Susie had taken careful thought about her sleeping habits.
"Finally I can breathe! How much do you weigh?" Undyne said sitting upright and looking at Lancer with daggers.
Lancer counted up to seven in his fingers and then held up eight fingers in her face.
"This many!" Lancer said pridefully. Undyne just facepalmed and just agreed to herself to let it go there.
Muffet stretched while twisting her back, extending her arms for a maximum dopamine overdose. This was her normal wake-up routine. However, since she was rubber, her limbs extended and smacked Susie and Undyne across the face.
They both yelled at her.
"Hey! Your feet were in all our faces last night! How much common sense do you have!" They both surprisingly said in unison.
Muffet counted seven fingers in her hand and then held out eight in both their faces.
"This many!" Undyne and Susie started face palming, Undyne's forehead turning more red than blue.
Lancer started laughing giddily and clapping.
"See, she gets it." Lancer continued his regular shenanigans.
After their morning bout, they all went to the bathroom, at the same time. They all wanted to brush their teeth but it was difficult with only such a tiny sink and mirror. They were practically pushing each other out of the way to get the mirror facing them.
It was the most aggressive and competitive battle for teeth brushing that had ever occurred. Susie ended up using her Justice to push them away when Muffet tried a surprise attack.
The force of the knockback on Muffet pushed back Undyne as well and they both fell into the bathtub, the curtain drapes covering them.
Lancer just climbed the sink with this opportunity and calmly brushed his teeth with Susie. They shared the mirror.
Eventually, after the bathroom battle, they all made their way downstairs, the luxury cabin they had been in held the bedroom and bathroom, downstairs was a beautiful lobby and kitchen area.
Lancer was perched on Susie's shoulders like always. Undyne was stretching and tugging on Muffet's right cheek while arguing with her that she should stop engaging in fistfights. Her arms still needed to heal.
Muffet's arms were almost completely unsalvageable, her bones in her arms were essentially a puzzle piece board that had dispersed. Her perseverance allowed it to be restored, but it was in such a bad shape that her arms were slightly deformed. There were unnecessary dimples and dents along her hands and arms. Her knuckles needed stitching as well.
Yet again, in terms of pain, Muffet held the most during that whole encounter. She seemed to take the most damage anywhere they went to, but always was the fastest healer and the most pain tolerated. She often boasted at times where something that would even make Undyne wince, wouldn't hurt her despite her physical appearance. It was a marvel she was even moving her arms the way she is now a day after surgery. Even immediately after the surgery, she was overusing her arms.
All four of their noses caught a whiff of freshly hickory smoked bacon, and a slight humming coming from the kitchen.
"Uh, anyone let the door open last night?" Susie suggested. Lancer was immediately spaced out.
"I don't remember anything from last night, I drank way too much," Undyne admitted with a slight burp.
Muffet's eyes gleamed with hunger.
"...Meat!" Muffet launched herself to the kitchen to be immediately blocked by an orange dome. She bounced off it and smacked her head against the indoor fireplace on the other side of the room.
Susie and Undyne laughed at that. This morning wasn't a bust.
Ralsei came out humming to herself from the kitchen, she had held a giant tray of breakfast items. She seemed, exceedingly chirpy today. Not only that, but she didn't wear her usual green outfit, she was just wearing a super wrinkly black tank top and...boxers? Men's boxers?
This came off as absurdly strange to Undyne, she hadn't seen Ralsei this comfortably uncovered, more or less, making breakfast for everyone. Back on the ship, Muffet was the temporary cook, she technically had more cooking experience than the rest of them. Her pastries were her specialty though, all jokes aside, her captain's pastries reflected a different personality than her actual one. The way she made them was extraordinary and there was no such thing as eating just one of her pastries.
Even a dietitian would give in to gorging themselves on her pastries.
Then here Ralsei was, taking over for once...happily.
Undyne waited for her to place the tray down on the glass table in the middle of the lobby. She then dashed to her and held a spear to her.
"Who are you-? And what have you done to Ralsei?!" Undyne was giving her the stink eye.
"It's me silly, hee hee, what? I can't make breakfast for my friends?" Ralsei said booping Undyne on the nose. She dematerialized her spear.
"It's fine but, what's with your new mood?" Undyne tried to figure out her doctor's dilemma.
Susie and Lancer just sat down on the floor in front of the glass table, the table was only a couple inches off the ground, like a traditional dining table.
Muffet eventually stretched herself to the table too and started to eat. Ralsei had laid out several plates of French Fries, sunny-side-up eggs, omelets, an extra big plate of bacon, some buttered bread, some sausages, and a few waffles.
"I haven't felt this great in years Undyne...hehehee~" Ralsei was drooling remembering last night. She started glittering in place and clamping her hands over her cheeks. Her face was slightly flushed.
Susie leaned over while swatting away Muffet's hand from trying to take bacon from her plate.
"What's with her?" Susie said slightly concerned.
Ralsei gave a suggestive eye to Undyne and winked.
"I'll tell you later, the other two are too young, heehee~" Upon Ralsei saying this, Undyne's face flushed too and she began to stuff her face in the food she prepared to hide it.
It wasn't that bad.
A bunch of chaotic eating was had, Muffet vigorously trying to steal from other's plates, Undyne trying to down all of the drinks there, Susie trying to drink as much as she can before Undyne can, Lancer running over and across the table to get the salt, Ralsei just daydreaming and humming to herself with her small plate.
Everything was normal.
Eventually, all the food had gone away within a good twenty minutes. Everyone was well fed for the morning. They took a little break to let some of the food digest.
Undyne peered over at Ralsei.
"Hey uh, this is our departure day right? Shouldn't we be stocking up right now?" Undyne was looking at Ralsei for an answer, but she just gave a satisfied giggle.
"Don't worry, I made Darlow~ go out and get the supplies for us. Sadly, we couldn't get stuff for my Soul Syrum, so we might be out of it until we hit the Grand Line. We are four islands away and I was told that they don't have many natural resources for me to make Soul Syrum out of." Ralsei enlightened everyone in the room. They hadn't realized how close they were to the Grand Line, however, this also got them a bit anxious, except for Muffet that is.
All of them had only lived on one of the four Blue's, Muffet was born and raised in the East Blue. Undyne and Ralsei were born and raised in North Blue. Susie was born in the West Blue but raised in the North Blue.
They were all, at some point, told horror stories about the Grand Line. Even trying to enter the Grand Line officially was a death trap, an 85% mortality rate. Only the tough of the tough could enter the Grand Line. Even once they do, the islands and other pirates there are on the toughest pedestal. Pirates with the strength that allows them to easily demolish whole islands and continents with ease.
The pirates and marines in the Grand Line feed of the weak, not any basic pirate group would even dare attempt trying to make themselves known there.
They all just looked at Ralsei with a shifty eye.
Muffet felt the tension.
"Don't worry Dearies~ Frisk used to tell me a shortcut to entering the Grand Line!" Muffet placed her hands on her hips proudly of her intellect.
Susie and Undyne gave her a look of "and that is?".
Muffet chuckled.
"'To not suck!' So all we have to do is not be bad!" Muffet said this with the utmost pride and leadership that the others easily failed to see. They groaned in disbelief.
Muffet got more serious.
"Honestly though...we ain't entering the Grand Line until we have one more crew member, I promised myself at least five people, excluding Fuhu, huehuehue~" She displayed a giggle with confidence that eased the disbelief they had in her.
Undyne choked on her own spit.
"Holy shit! Fuhu! Who has been taking care of him?!" Undyne was actually concerned for their ship's pet.
Ralsei just waved her hand.
"Don't worry, Darlow~ said he took care of our pet the entire time we were away." No one knew why she kept saying his name like that...well, Undyne had a suspicion.
Undyne wiped her forehead, the truth was, she always wanted a pet. So to maybe have neglected it and made it suffer, made her heartache.
Susie laid on the ground, Lancer just laid on her stomach.
She rubbed her chin, thinking about what Muffet said. Lancer was too rubbing his chin, for a different reason.
He wanted to announce something today...but couldn't remember what.
"Damn...if only that pacifist loved to fight as much as I did, we could have recruited him...but that will never happen..." Susie said in a sulking manner. Everyone gave a glance at her but said nothing.
Ralsei sighed.
"Look Susie...hope isn't lost with your friend-" Ralsei tried to comfort Susie with her newfound knowledge, but she was cut off.
"Bestie..." Susie said with a cold raspy voice.
"Yeah, hope isn't lost. You see I've been secretly following this little theory that will most likely end up being right...the flag we have of the Soul Parlour pirates, it contains a symbol of all the souls our crew should have...and surprisingly, it has been foretelling the next crew members." Ralsei said putting down her cup of tea, everyone raises their brow at her.
"The order of the souls has been as follows: Perseverance, Kindness, Courage, Justice, Integrity, Monster, Determination, and then Patience. All the crew members up to this point have all been the first four perfectly, sadly Determination isn't after you, but Determination is on our roster...maybe he'll come back one day." Ralsei enlightened them a great deal, Muffet and Undyne thought about it hard, and that flag did seem to predict the upcoming member's souls.
Susie was thinking of the possibility that he might change his mind at some point in the future, this gave her some kind of hope.
Just then, Darlow came into the room with Fuhu popping the corner of the door panting. Fuhu and Muffet locked eyes and like a bullet, the spider cupcake launched himself to its master. Muffet was occupied with snuggling a play wrestling with her pet.
The instant Darlow walked in with the supplies, Ralsei seemed to melt like butter.
"Hey Darlow~," Ralsei said leaning in towards him with one shoulder latch of her black tank top hanging off her shoulder. This got him flustered.
"I got the stocks of meat, appropriate clothes, drinks, and...I don't know why you want specifically purple wood but, I got about 25 pounds of it." Darlow said hulking bags over his shoulders which they could assume were the things she asked for on the list.
Undyne and Susie were confused as to why she wanted purple wood. However, Muffet and Ralsei gave each other a knowing look. 25 pounds of wood was all they'd need.
Lancer jumped up on the table and pointed to the sky victoriously.
"Ah-ha! That's what I wanted to say!" He said as he coughed up a book.
Undyne got slightly sickened and furious at this.
"Why do you have all that stuff in there?!" Undyne yelled.
"My stomach is a storage unit! Oh and I was able to find this book down at the remains of the tree!" Lancer held up a book and everyone gathered to look at what book it was.
Everyone's jaws dropped collectively.
"Yep gents, and lady gents, behold! The Legend of Deltarune...Chapter Two!" Lancer proudly held the book over his head, Susie snatched the book away from him and started sifting through the story. Everyone noisily looked in the book as well.
"There's another book?!" Everyone said, both excited and scared for what their fate held.
After a few good minutes of sifting through the book, they were able to see that the Legend consisted of the villain they needed to beat...and it was the Jester.
Everyone got chills, especially Ralsei...she remembered the Jester all too well.
It still made her lightheaded just thinking about him.
Susie dropped the book and looked at Lancer with a bold stare.
"What's the time limit on when we have to fight him?" Susie said with a slight growl.
"Actually, you don't fight him until you decide too, it says that he is confined somewhere, waiting for the heroes to decide to take up the fight...but there's also one thing about the book that bothered me...Kris...the book says that he will get seized by a powerful nation." Upon Lancer saying this, Susie got up with her blood pumping.
"What?! Where did he go?!" Susie said concerned, Lancer just shrugged.
"It probably means that he's getting arrested by this world's Navy. Do you think that's why he left..." Everyone thought about it. Why would he be captured by the Navy, he was strong enough to put up a fight for a good while.
"I saw Kris on the way when he was leaving and tried telling him about it...he said he already knew..." Lancer was scratching his chin in thought.
Susie thought about it...why would he leave her if he knew he was going to be raided by the Navy...they could've fought the Navy together...no...
...No!
Susie started banging her head against the floor, everyone tries to get her to stop. She kept pounding away, fuming with rage.
"Susie Stop! What's wrong?!" Ralsei said everyone said something to that extent.
Then, a cannonball explosion was heard from far away. The only cannonball that could have been shot, was by the Navy. They were here already.
Darlow looked at Ralsei and she gave him a sad double take. She looked off to her side and started brushing her shoulder. Darlow chuckled.
"I know you must go now...you have to sail the world, you have more work to be done...but...I'll be waiting for you here, with King Lancer," Darlow said holding her hands. Lancer jumped on his back and reassured her that everything will be fine.
Undyne, Muffet with Fuhu on her back, and Susie got ready. Susie was still pissed off and heartbroken. She knew what Kris was doing, she is never going to forgive him for his action.
They all switched into their new clothes quickly, the cannonball was sounding like they were coming from where their ship was parked.
Muffet's new outfit consisted of purple sweatpants, a white T-shirt, and a brown leather jacket that went only up to her ribs before ending. She had brown boots and she kept her jewelry and cowboy spider hat.
Undyne had a black and green wool sweatshirt and blue jeans with the same boots as Muffet.
Ralsei had the same attire as before, bit just in a brown tint.
Susie had a long sleeve white T and a flannel button shirt on top. She also had on black jeans and the same pair of boots.
Another cannonball was fired, they all said their final goodbyes to Darlow and Lancer, wishing them the best.
"I'm sorry I couldn't get ya your cookies King Lancer, but when we circle back from the Grand Line, I'll feed your so much I'll stuff your storage, Huehuehue~" Muffet laughed with Lancer one last time.
"I'm looking forward to it Muffet the Pirate Queen!" Lancer said with an innocent smile.
Another cannon shot was heard and they all stormed out. Muffet and everyone else hopped onto one of the cabins to look at the coastline. It was about five Marine ships and one Warship. They were going all out, granted, Muffet and Undyne did have usually high bounties as only East Blue Pirates, so it made sense.
However, none of them saw their ship in the spot they docked it at. Instead, it had already taken sail around the island. Someone was on it.
"What?! Who stole our ship?" Ralsei said in disbelief that anyone would steal a tiny ship like hers.
Undyne nudged Muffet.
"Hey, you have five eyes, can't you see like...extra hard?" Undyne rubbed the back of her head not knowing if her words were offensive to her kind.
"It's cause I'm a spider right, there's no way you'd expect me to- It's Kris," Muffet said proving her first mate right.
Ralsei stomped the ground.
"That dingaling! What's he doing?" Ralsei was trying to piece together his motives.
Susie scoffed angrily, she was still upset.
"...He's saving us all...he's docking the ship on the opposite side so that the ship doesn't get destroyed and we can get a head start on the Navy ships...he planned all of this...that asshole!" Susie was staring at the ship aggressively.
"Why would he do that? We wouldn't have that much of a lead anyways. Did he seriously do all this for-" Ralsei said before getting grabbed her coat collar and brought to Susie's face.
"Don't. Mess. With. His. Resolve...! He's planning to..." Susie let her go...she couldn't finish it.
Muffet then wrapped everyone around in her arms. Using two free arms to latch onto a chimney.
Susie and Ralsei were vastly confused. Undyne smugly looked at them after sighing deeply.
"First time?" Undyne said as Muffet launched them across the island using her elastic force. At this point, Undyne was used to it, the launching part that was, she was never good at landing.
Muffet had perfectly nailed the trajectory and they all landed on the deck of the ship below the mast. Muffet landed first, then it was Susie who caught Ralsei in the air, then it was Undyne who smacked headfirst onto the doorknob of the dining room.
"DAMMIT, CAPTAIN!" Undyne yelled grabbing her head in pain.
Kris got off the helm and stood on the railing of the ship.
"...Susie...I'm sorry, let me make my own choice...just this once! I'm Determined it'll all work out the way I plan it to. And if it does...you won't hate me as much...This all started cause of me...let me take the burden away from us both so you can start fresh..." Kris said as he jumped down from the railing onto the coastline and started running to the Navy Ships.
Susie tried to follow him but Undyne held her back, she had to forcefully slam her to the ground.
Ralsei went up to her.
"What is he doing?!" She said concerned.
Susie couldn't hold it in any longer, she started crying tears of frustration.
"He's turning himself in!" The scream pierced through the sounds of cannon fire. The deck was silent.
"...What?" Everyone said.
"He's fucking turning himself in! To buy us time and to fulfill the prophecy while also clearing our criminal history...WHY DO THE PEOPLE CLOSEST TO ME LEAVE!" Susie said slamming her head on the ground again.
Kris successfully got onto one of the Navy Ships and started to have a last-man stand, this got everyone confused, they looked over the railing to the battle.
"If he's turning himself in...why is he battling?" Undyne questioned.
Muffet smiled and started to laugh to herself.
More ships started to surround the one he was one.
"LIGHT SKEWER!" Kris's voice was heard from that far away, clear as day. The move cleared out everyone on the ship and caught it on fire. Kris hopped on the railing of the ship and looked at his fleeing comrades.
He smiled for once, before leaning back and projecting his body forward.
"I don't know whether because I've been with you for too long, or your crew members have an infectious personality, but I'm choosing to have it both ways! I'm going down fighting!" Kris said targetting Susie in particular. Susie gripped the railing and bit her lip to stop herself from ruining his moment of resolve. She had never seen Kris this flashy, just for her to see, he cared about her so much.
His only real friend and love, the only person that cared or listened to him, the only person that played with him and had fun with him. They both never had that...growing up they had that person in their lives to show them life, to show them what adventure really meant. They had each other, they were kids at the time, and although it had been months since that day, it felt like years they've been together...maybe this was growing up. Kris had an uncanny level of maturity to him, that's probably why she was so hard-headed and mean-spirited to boring people. Was because she hated the idea of adults and adult-like things.
Now for her to let him go like this...was letting go her only good childhood...she had to grow up for a change. Their last adventure had been a great one...it'll be the last time she'll see him.
Kris smiled, he knew he was doing everything right. The prison of Impel Down meant nothing to him, if it's for Susie, he'll do anything. He felt like he brought her here, so to have her be dragged down with him was selfish. He was determined to let Susie live a better life. That was his original goal after all.
Kris leaned back and smiled again.
"Hey! Spider Captain!" Kris yelled over the hundreds of meters of the sea.
"Yeah?" Muffet said with a sinisterly sweet smile.
Kris kept on smiling.
"That Determination slot on your flag...Save it for me! I'll meet you guys on the Grand Line in Impel Down! Promise me that!" Kris said with tears and a hardened smile.
Muffet felt her pride as a captain surging.
"OF COURSE DEARIE~ WE'LL BUST YOU OUT WHEN WE GET THERE!" Muffet screamed. Ralsei and Undyne gave a hearty chuckle at their captain and her sense of chivalry. They always loved when Muffet got this passionate and sentimental with people.
Susie was taken aghast by their conversation...he was going to join them later...all for her. Everything had been for her...
"Hey, Susie! I leave this to you! When you see me, return it!" Kris said as he tossed his crimson sword at her, which, over the course of the toss, shifted into a hammer. Susie caught it with one hand full of passion and gusto.
Everyone gave a hearty chuckle.
"You better not lose it, Susie.'" Undyne said leaning against the mast.
"He's entrusting it to you, wouldn't want to soil his resolve would you?" Ralsei giggled.
"Don't worry dearie~ You'll see your admirer again, as part of Soul Parlour Pirates, retrieval of our soon-to-be member is on our top priorities!" Muffet punched her fist together in their web silk sleeves.
Susie looked at her new friends and smiled...this was really the life she wanted to live. After everything she saw them do to help them out, she knew she was in the right hands...that Kris' decision was right.
Susie was filled with...Retributive Justice!
She infused her hammer with all of her Justice.
"Justice Form Number One: Interstellar Karma!" Susie shot a justice wave from the aggressive swing of her hammer, it destroyed two whole ships. Kris looked back at the Soul Parlour ship with shock.
"KRIS YOU WEIRDO..." Susie tried to be her tough self, but she started to tear up again. She couldn't hold it back anymore, streams were running down her face, her passion was showing in her now visible eyes.
"THANK YOU...FOR EVERYTHING...AND...AND..." She looked to her new crewmates, they all gave her a thumbs up.
Susie smiled back at them and stood on the railing, holding her hammer to the sky.
"I LOVE YOU TOO...HEROES OF LIGHT FOREVER!" Susie said with a blush that she ignored, she had never imagined saying those words to someone meaningfully, truth was, if he wasn't doing this, she would've asked him out today.
Kris was slowly being surrounded by the Navy ships, but before he was out of sight, he gave Susie a heart symbol with his hands, displaying his soul in the heart symbol.
Then he was gone. Susie stopped crying and propped the war hammer over her shoulder.
Muffet clamped her shoulders.
"You good dearie~?" Muffet was trying to make sure her new crew member was alright.
"Yeah Cap', he's going to be fine. I can't wait to see that little guy again." Susie said hopping down from the railing.
"...Can I uh, get a tour...?" Susie was shy about asking this, she never had this ship/pirate experience before. Muffet and Ralsei then tended to her wishes.
When they left, only Undyne remained. She stared at the Navy Warship and saw her...the Glass Navy Captain...Silva Peers. They both locked eyes. They were sour eyes.
"Hey...make sure that kid has no trouble along the way...make sure of that...okay mom?" Undyne said to Silva and her mom simultaneously. Undyne then turned around and walked away.
They were leaving after a storm...
Nothing but Rainbows ahead.