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 stretched back onto the ship and walked along the grass of the deck of the ship. Undyne and Susie said nothing but walked her to the second part of the ship, where she assigned Ralsei to take care of the child.
Undyne looked at Muffet.
"You going to be okay?" She was concerned about the action she just did.
"Yeah...granted, I could've handled that better is just that...in the spider family, harming the youth is the highest offense you can do. The children are supposed to be the key to the future, so by harming them, it means that you are not looking for a future for your people, hence making you a traitor...my primal code kicked in there and I behaved in a way that was un-captainly, I apologize...Those people didn't look okay in the head either, they seemed to be bounty hunters more than a random witch-hunting mob and they seemed desperate for cash. One of them told me that they needed the money or else the Emerald Island god would eradicate them...living a life of fear is a fate worse than death...so I was doing a mercy killing...either way, I apologize for not being a great captain if you two want to take over my spot and kill me now...I'm accepting..." Muffet kneeled and drooped her head to the ground, waiting to get behind her.
Undyne and Susie were hit with a wave of emotions that they took literal minutes of standing still to register. Their captain just said a lot that was new to them after seeing a new side to her.
Although she has never been with her Spider Kin, she adopted her Spider Kin's traditions and animalistic forms of punishment and obedience.
On top of that, she spoke with weakness and no upbeat attitude anymore. She had genuinely realized the course of actions and wanted to pay accordingly.
Although she wasn't the smartest or controlled of captains, from this display, they knew that she was actively trying and was balancing a lot of inner turmoil to keep herself sane for her crew and not just herself. By her admitting she wasn't satisfied with their satisfaction was a huge indicator that is a good captain.
Susie and Undyne felt bad for her, they sometimes would go on rants about how childish and immature their captain was. But now they realize that she was just trying to live her childhood again, something she never had, but being in a crew is hindering her from doing that because she has to think and act like an adult to presume the role she has. She isn't mentally ready and she knows it, but she tries her best and tries to make up for things she isn't able to do.
Above all else, they knew that their captain had a heart of gold and admirable guts. She had been a major catalyst in everyone's lives, which is why they are even on the ship working for her dream. Even then, Muffet fights for their dreams in return, like how a captain should. Someone of her age should have the mentality of focusing on her own but she puts everyone before herself. She works to appease everyone else...she just wants acceptance.
Their captain is misunderstood and needs a good talk soon.
But right now, they didn't have time for that.
Susie and Undyne punched her in the back of the head.
"Stupid! Now's no time to be a baby Captain!" Undyne said, reassuring her that she is safe on accepted for her mistake.
Susie smiled.
"Yeah Cap'n, whose dream are we gonna fight for if we kill you? We need ya, so get your ass downstairs. Who cares if you didn't make the right decision? We all wouldn't be here if we were perfect, would we?" Susie said before turning around, sounding the wisest she ever did.
Undyne gave her an eye, Susie was another person who couldn't exactly have a childhood, but atleast she isn't under constant pressure that prevents her from doing so now.
Undyne chuckled at how far Susie has come.
Muffet looked up with tears in her eyes. She couldn't believe that her crewmates were such blessed people and such great friends.
Undyne playfully scoffed at her.
"Cmon captain, don't tell me you're a crybaby too. We have a kid waiting for us!" Undyne gave her signature toothy smile and jabbed her thumb towards the latch.
Muffet wiped off her tears and got up.
"Hehe! Hey guys?" Muffet said with a childlike and innocent voice.
Susie and Undyne gave a grunt that told her to continue. Then, she placed her hands on their shoulders.
They felt a new feeling from her they hadn't felt before, this was as intense as bloodlust but...it wasn't bloodlust. The opposite actually.
This was...gracefulness.
Her hand singlehandedly made both of them choke up in tears, they weren't emotional before, but her hand alone made them feel it all. All of her inner pain.
"I love you guys...so much...please...continue to stay with me..." Muffet spoke in a heavenly cute and mature voice, this made her two crewmates stream waterfalls from their eye. They refused to see Muffet's face, it would only make them cry more.
"W-whatever dork! We love ya too!" Susie stuttered.
"Y-yeah (sobs), we love you too! Now let's go ahead, you angel...(sobs)" Undyne painfully spoke as they lifted the latch and went down the stairs.
Ralsei was there tending to the kid, giving her the antibiotics she kept on the shelf and was dabbing it on her wounds. She seemed to have deep cuts in her legs and seemed to be beaten with blunt objects and was shot with bullets that only hit her shoulders.
This girl was tough, from the gunshots alone she should've been dead. Her chest and abdomen seemed to be bruised completely.
The little girl flinched every time Ralsei tried to clean her open wounds with a disinfectant. She was still surprisingly hanging in there.
No one knew what to say, the girl was in bloodied gauze that wrapped around her breast and waist to cover herself.
Muffet spoke up.
"You okay dearie~?" She said with a tender and soft voice. Everyone that wasn't Ralsei didn't want to move, they didn't want to startle the girl.
"...thank you spider lady..." The little girl didn't even make eye contact. She just stared at the ground. Ralsei had finished disinfecting the wounds and began to stitch her up. She had in total, 11 open wounds from her legs to her shoulders. She stops bleeding now.
"A-anytime darling...so...are you hungry?" Muffet suggested.
The girl slowly nodded while still looking at the ground.
Muffet walked up to her and crouched, she used her two top hands to lift her face. She did this as soft and delicate as she could to not get her scared or frightened.
The girl softly put her hand on Muffet's, as if she felt no pain in the two giant bullet wounds in both her shoulders. Speaking of which, back on the shore, the girl was hugging her legs extra tight. How was she able to do that with her joints busted in her shoulders?
The girl smiled.
"Your hands...they're very soft and warm...you have a strong will to Persevere...your body temperature is dangerously high for a spider...your blood type is O-...your age is 18 and two weeks...and your body is primarily made out of bone, venom, and rubber...chances of you being a threat to me is...0." The little girl said with a sliver of a smile on her face.
Everything she said made everyone's bone chill. Just by touching her, she was able to read into Muffet on a scientific and statistical level. Even Muffet got a little shock.
Was this the work of a Devil Fruit? Maybe even a soul technique?
Muffet still proceeded to lift her head to look her in the eyes. Her pupils made everyone's eyes widen.
Her pupils were two uppercased 'L' formed into a box that left a white square in the middle. That square was presumably the middle of her eye.
"How were you able to tell that about me dearie~...?" Muffet said slightly scared.
"Oh...sorry about that...I have really sensitive skin, my body allows me to dig into a person's being. My skin acts like my super-brain, upon contact I'm able to get into someone else's brain and read them." The little girl said as Undyne approached her and placed a hand on her head and rubbed it.
"If that ain't the coolest thing I've heard then I don't know what is, Gehehe!" Undyne laughed as she transferred her new Kindness into the girl, healing her wounds faster just as Ralsei was done with her legs.
All the wounds on the girl were healed, but it took up a lot of Undyne's Kindness.
"Oh...your muscles are a pretty well-kept fish lady, may I ask how you got so strong?" The little girl said with new energy after being healed. She seemed to be wanting to know everything.
Undyne gave a hearty laugh.
"That's a story for another day! First, what's your name little one? You're quite tough for a girl your age." Undyne smiled.
The girl cleared her throat.
"I'm Hera, no last name. And all of you have a zero percent chance of causing me harm. I am indebted to you for saving me, now do with me as you will." The girl bowed in front of all four of them.
This girl was weird.
"Uh, Hera. You're good. We don't want anything from you, we just want to know what happened...a more proper introduction would be in order." Susie suggested.
"Before I do that...who is claiming me? I'm still looking for a suitable master...you all equally fit the qualifications to be my master so...decide amongst yourselves..." Hera was still bowing.
Everyone left the second floor and went onto the decks. They told Hera that they'll talk it over.
They closed the latch and took a deep breath.
"AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They all yelled into the night sky in pure anguish and confusement. They had to process what the hell just happened.
They all sat down around the latch.
"...What the hell is she?!" Susie started.
Ralsei was rubbing her temples.
"I would say she is a robot, but she had flesh and blood and bones and muscles. Maybe this is a trauma thing. She's just a human little girl." Ralsei thought reasonably.
"If it was trauma then she wouldn't be so open and compliant. But did you hear what she can do? Her skin allows her to read our thoughts and know our weaknesses and strengths. That's scary." Undyne added on.
"Look Dearies~ maybe we just need to find out who technically is her...mom. I know it sounds weird but, the way she was dressed and how bounty hunters were after her, it's safe to say that she was given away at birth and hunted by the black market. Maybe the best thing to do is give her what she wants." Muffet suggested. Everyone actually was a little wide-eyed at how perceptive she was being at this point.
Everyone took a few seconds of thought.
"What if she decides to sell our secrets? Maybe she is a sleeper agent, waiting to kill us all! Our bounties together all equal close to 1 billion! The government really wants us." Ralsei was panicking at the thought.
"Unlikely, she wouldn't have been brought to us injured...we got to stop beating around the bush guys...who's gonna be her mom?" Undyne said while folding her arms.
The circle was quiet.
"I wanna recruit her!" Muffet said with a childlike giggle, going back to her real self.
Undyne rocked her in the back of the head, her head stretched down to the floor, and smacked it before slinging back to her body.
"That's the last thing we decide! And even then she's like nine or ten!" Undyne yelled at her while she was rubbing her nose in pain.
Susie scoffed.
"Well, I'm not old enough to be a mom, so it's up to your three, Heh!" Susie leaned back onto the grass letting the three women fight it out.
Ralsei and Undyne sighed and jabbed their thumbs at Muffet.
"As much as we don't want to raise her, we can't let the captain raise her." They both said simultaneously.
Muffet felt offended.
"Why not?!" She pouted.
"You'd kill her unintentionally!" They both yelled.
They both got to brainstorming.
Ralsei sighed.
"She needs someone who can actively protect her while having set family values and knowledge on what it is to be a good mom...I think this is a job up to you Undyne." Ralsei lightly proposed.
Undyne tried to argue, but honestly, she was right.
She sighed.
"Alright...but you guys have to be cool aunts!" She said half serious and half playing around.
Susie sat up.
"I call radical Uncle!" She laughed to herself.
Ralsei smiled.
"I can be the nice older sister." She started to get up and dust herself.
Muffet smiled and giggled.
"I'll be the yard dog!" Muffet started to laugh before Undyne hit her in the back of the head again.
Everyone laughed together. They all got up and went back downstairs.
Fuhu was sleeping in the corner, and Hera was still crouched.
"Um, Hera...I'm here to claim you." Undyne said shyly.
Hera got up and slowly walked towards her. Everyone now realized that Hera had a "No. 4" print on her left cheek. This confused everyone.
Hera looked her in the eyes and her weird pupils started changing into a regular human pupil. Her hair was now visibly blonde. Her pupil changed into light blue color.
She started to get a more healthy and defined pigmentation and stature. Her face became droopy and pained to now gleeful and excited. She started to giggle cheerfully while jumping on Undyne and wrapping herself around her waist, hugging her.
Everyone was freaked out by this girl.
"Mama! Hera is now one percent complete!" She screamed in delight.
Undyne stood so incredibly stiff and scared that she gave eyes that desperately wanted help and an explanation.
"Uh, listen, hun, um, we were just about to make dinner-" Undyne flicked her head at Muffet with gritted teeth and a pained focusing of the eye.
"RIGHT AUNTY MUFFET!" She said hoping Muffet would play along or god so help her.
Muffet got the memo.
"Yeah! I was on my way..." She said tiptoeing towards the stairs.
Hera detached herself and stood in front of her now. She noticed Ralsei getting closer.
"Let me check your soul darling." Ralsei checked her soul and it displayed a Monster Soul. The three of them were taken back by this.
This didn't make sense, if they were going off the flag's prediction, Hera wasn't supposed to join the crew yet. They still had to recruit someone of an Integrity Soul.
The scarier part was that this meant that she wasn't human. Nor was she a robot...what was she?!
Hera giggled.
"Hehehe, pretty heart!" Hera was admiring her grey soul. Everyone backed up and was essentially hugging the wall.
Muffet laughed.
"Good luck with that guys! I gotta cook, remember? Huehuehue~" Muffet said in pure spite and playful evilness. She closed the latch behind her.
The latch opened back up immediately.
"Actually, I still do want to shop from here tomorrow. I need someone to uh...clean the shore." Muffet tried to put it in terms that didn't make Hera feel uncomfortable.
Susie sighed and decided to let the two women fit of handling her to it. She would go up and clean the mess on the shore.
Hera giggled.
"Ooh! Let me do it!" And in a speed they didn't even know she was capable of, in one exciting step, she dashed past them and upon the doc.
Everyone gasped at her agility.
Hera headbutted Muffet in the process and when she did, both their heads were stretched back like rubber.
"What the-?!" They all yelled as Hera stretched her arm out to the shore and slingshotted herself to the pile of dead and mutilated bodies.
When she collided with the sand, she stopped being rubber and her whole body turned into sand.
Everyone ran up to the deck and saw her new body. They all dropped their jaws in amazement and fear.
With her sand body, she aggressively went through and out the dead bodies, grafting their bodies into sand grains that were impossible to be identified as bodies. It was now just differently colored sand.
Her body then went back to her child self and she made one power jump back to the ship and landed in between all of them.
Everyone was quiet.
Susie chuckled.
"Huh, a ten-year-old is better at landing than you, heh!" Susie remarked towards Undyne, this made the fish lady mad.
Hera giggled.
"Actually, I'm a few weeks old!" Hera gave a twirl to her words, the gauze around her was twirling with her.
They all nodded together.
"Yeah, that's understandable, sorry for the mixup." They all said before realization hit them together. They all choked on their spit.
"FEW WEEKS OLD?!" Hera felt special hearing all of them yell at her for her age.
She pointed at her cheek.
"I left my 'room' underdeveloped! I've been roaming the world trying to get myself to 100% so I can fully mature. Aren't you proud of me mama!" Hera giggled as she walked slowly towards Undyne with her arms out.
Everyone tried to figure out what she meant.
"Woah, what do you mean underdeveloped, and what do you mean you need to get to 100%? What happens after 100%?" Ralsei questioned her.
Hera laughed.
"I left my incubation way too early, so to make up for it, I have to gain the information through real experience. Once I get enough experience to reach 100%, I get to live out my purpose!" Hera jumped up in excitement.
Everyone was bone chilled, except for Muffet, who was smiling.
"What's your purpose...?" Undyne slowly questioned.
Hera twirled in place and gave a little pose, a peace sign over her left eye.
"To eradicate all of the Revolutionary Army! Hehehe~" Hera gave a wink and the deck was dead silent. They had to let that sink in.
Muffet started laughing, the attention was now focused on her.
"So dearie~ if you can boldly state that when my brother is the second strongest person I know, then you have a lot of guts, I appreciate that! So, wanna join my crew! Huehuehue~" Muffet giggled as she held out her hand for Hera to shake.
"WHAAAAAT?!" Her crewmates were completely confused by their captain's actions. This girl just stated that she was out to kill everyone in the Revolutionary Army, which her oldest brother is in, and the first thing she does is recruit her?
Hera giggled.
"Sorry Miss, but I'll have to pass! I'm afraid I'll be more trouble then...you guys would hope for..." Hera, after saying that, felt a little sad and guilty. She shifted her gaze over towards her 'mother', Undyne.
She tilted her head down.
Susie was the first to break the silence.
"What exactly are you?! You're not human, but you aren't from any other species!" Susie said with a bit of fear of the unknown in her voice.
Hera gave her a bold stare with her right eye alone.
"I'm...Hera, no last name..." Hera then pointed to the 'No. 4' print on her cheek.
"...I'm the number 4 Ancient Weapon, created by Dr. Alphys and Don Marqueet, designed from his...lost daughter...I'm worth 360,000,000 dollars just by existing. With each bit of information, I gather...I slowly form and get more mature, currently, I'm at one percent...I want to stay but I don't want to cause problems for my mama and her family..." Hera solemnly said.
Everyone's fear of her and questioning turned into pity and awkwardness.
From what they were able to gather. She is a bioengineered cyborg, modeled and created from an abused little girl made from the world's greatest evil genius and an Admiral. She was designed and programmed to kill the Revolutionary Army, but left before she can be matured enough to proceed with her duty. How she was able to leave and escape was beyond them. She has the body of a ten-year-old, the mentality of a ten-year-old, but the knowledge of an adult.
Susie started to talk.
"Since you're number four...that means that there are three more that are stronger than you, right?" Susie said reaching into her pool of knowledge.
Hera nodded.
"My ally is number three!" Hera proudly announced.
Muffet got a little excited, she was slowly realizing that there are more and more strong foes out at sea. She is always ready for a battle, the art of combat simply amazed Muffet.
"N-number three? Ally?" Ralsei tried to piece together.
"Yep! Gaia is her name! The top three Ancient weapons are leagues above me. However, I'm plenty of years before anyone else can hatch but...that's why I'm here...I want to free all the Ancient Weapons!" Hera shouted the last part with a voice that told everyone that she is dying to do this.
"When I left my lab, I saw my blueprints and my data, it was linked to Gaia's as we are both of the same roots. Her incubation chamber is somewhere in the East Blue...which is why I'm here...I want to free my friend so that she can help free our brothers and sisters that suffered the same fate of being controlled...I heard that she was on The Emerald Penisula." Hera said looking at the ground.
Undyne, Susie, and Ralsei finally got through some sense of what her story was. They were able to see that she does have some free will to her. Maybe because she left before she was complete. Either way, they hoped she was still redeemable, this whole situation still seemed bizarre to them.
Muffet laughed and walked up to Hera.
She placed her Spider Cowboy hat on Hera's head.
"What a coincidence dearie~ We were just heading there! Huehuehue~" Muffet giggled to herself. Hera looked up at Muffet and gave her teary eyes, her small smile made the spider lady's heart feel much better about the past events.
Everyone else on the ship wanted to argue, but once Muffet was set to something, they couldn't stop her. Plus, they secretly wanted to help Hera too. They still didn't trust her, nor did they believe they can win a fight against her if she did decide to attack them. However, they can't just let a child roam the world by herself. That's bad parenting.
Muffet knelt and grabbed her hands.
"Look, we'll get you to your friend on Emerald Penisula, then you can leave with her. How does that sound?" Muffet gave her a patient smile.
Hera hugged her and Muffet hugged back.
"Thank you, spider lady! I promise to be good while on your ship!" Hera squeezed tighter. Muffet made note of her impressive physical strength.
Undyne smiled through the thickness of the tension.
"Listen, hun, just because everyone in the world is after ya, that doesn't mean your mom is going to turn ya in! I'll crush them all! So, would you be a good little girl and uh...not attack us...?" Undyne tried to set a boundary on the ship, making sure she was harmless to them.
"Of course mama, I won't hurt anyone on the ship, that's a pinky promise!" Hera said as she held out her pinky to Undyne.
Undyne interlocked pinkies with her and smiled. She really was just a child at heart.
The tension was slowly lighting up.
"So, I guess the new checklist we have is to raise a bio-weapon and convince her to not kill the Revolutionary Army while doing so?" Susie said while folding her arms.
Everyone laughed at that but slowly realized that it wasn't much of a joke. That was the objective, within the few days they'll be having her. They would have to somehow convince Hera to not kill the Revolutionary Army, could they even beat her programming through hospitality?
They couldn't be too straightforward with her because she's a child. They had to convince her through example.
Four moms vs one kid, could they do it?
Everyone at the same time got the memo, if they couldn't convince her within those few days...they'd have to...do the unimaginable to stop her. Hera was a scary thing to fight.
Ralsei spoke up.
"Hey uh, if we do manage to free your friend...will she be, fine with us?" Ralsei questioned.
Hera just smiled.
"Probably." She giggled.
Ralsei tilted her head down.
"Of course..." Ralsei facepalmed.
Muffet stretched her arms out and wrapped them around everyone in a giant hug.
"You know what this means guys! At dusk tomorrow we set sail towards The Emerald Penisula!" Everyone was cheek to cheek in her hug, including Hera. Everyone groaned but soon grew a smile.
They knew that their lives were going to be crazy anyway, this was just a wake-up call.
Undyne grinned.
"So let me get this straight Muffet. You expect us to go to a Penisula that only appears every 500 years, to escort these vigilante bio-weapons capable of destroying the world over to there. Just so we can awaken a league's stronger one and pray she doesn't kill us all; all because you have a soft spot for children and want to help her out cause you see a glimmer of a good person and a good fit for our crew once changed?" Undyne elaborated on her decision and train of thought.
Muffet gave a toothy laugh.
"Pretty much dearie~ huehuehue~" Muffet laughed even harder.
Everyone gave a hopeless smile.
"That's our captain...well, screw it right? Best case scenario, we get this girl back to her friends and happily ever after?" Susie said while panning her head to everyone.
Ralsei nodded.
"Yep! The Soul Parlour Pirates aren't known for being cold-hearted. Even when the situation is tricky or strange, we still find a way to be good!" Ralsei said giving a wink to Hera.
Undyne gave Hera a noogie.
"See hun, me and your aunties are going to get you to your friends! Even though your goals are problematic, we can't devoid someone of their dreams!" Undyne proudly exclaimed to her 'child' as Hera looked at her with hopeful eyes.
Muffet turned Hera around and gave her an eye-to-eye talk.
"Look dearie~ reason being...we all didn't leave that good of a childhood. Some of us just didn't have one, to begin with...so seeing you struggle at such a young age, having to fight and cry and bleed for doing the right thing in your heart...makes us want to root for you. I'm allowing this expedition because I want you to see what life has to offer, I want you to have the childhood I didn't. There's more to life than having to fight and survive, you have to learn to be fine with who you are, not what you're told to do." Muffet motherly spoke to Hera.
Everyone, again, grew wide-eyed at Muffet's words. What she had to go through as a child was so bad that it made her wise at a young age.
Hera looked at her with confused eyes with her last statement, while at the same time, absorbing every word. She looked into her five eyes and saw true beauty and hope and honesty. She read her body through skin contact and realized that she intended to drive her away from killing the Revolutionary Army.
"I know what you want me to do but...I'm not sure if I can...I was built to prove to the Revolutionary Army that I am strong enough to beat them...I don't want to kill but...the more to 100% I get the more uncontrollable I am towards my goal..." Hera said with tears in her eyes again. She didn't want to disappoint her new friends.
Muffet tilted her head up more with her finger.
"Listen Hera...the strongest person on these seas...is the person with the most freedom!" Muffet spoke powerfully and with a smile that told volumes.
Everyone smiled at her statement. Hera looked up at her in confusion.
"If you want to be big and strong like your mother Undyne, then you don't follow the rules applied to you by someone. To be the strongest, you have to be the one with the most freedom! Once you let go of that program that's telling you what to do, you'll then be strong enough to tackle anything." Muffet gave her a peck on the forehead for comfort.
Hera started to cry and hugged Muffet.
"I'll try...Auntie Muffet...I'll try...it's so hard..." Hera said as everyone came around to hug her. She felt loved.
Undyne spoke to her, feeling the warmth of everyone else
"If you went on and followed the rules of some random program that's telling you to cause slaughter for no reason, then you wouldn't be able to receive these anymore. Do you really want that?" Everyone knew this was the chance of convincing her. She was at a breaking point.
"Yeah dude, you have family in the Revolutionary Army too! Do you really want to obliterate family?" Susie pushed more.
Hera kept shaking her head.
"You just have to follow your heart Hera, not your programming. Don't let others decide who you really want to be...what do you really want to be Hera...?" Ralsei hugged harder.
Hera was absorbing all of their words of wisdom and love. Her sentience was fighting with her programming, it was a battle of body control and dominance. Secretly she didn't want to kill the Revolutionary Army, but that was because she left before she can fully be installed with that mentality. At heart, she was just a child, she didn't want to kill anyone.
"I...want to be loved..." Hera admitted.
This emotionally broke everyone on the crew. They all started to tear up.
"You are loved...this is your new family now. We promised we get you to your old friends." Undyne comforted her.
Muffet laughed.
"Will you venture with us Hera? Not as a crewmate but, as a part of the family...will you embark on a crazy adventure with your mom and aunties?" Muffet sweetly said.
Hera nodded aggressively.
"Yes, please..." Hera sunk her head into Undyne's chest and sobbed into it. Undyne patted her on the back.
"Hey sweetie, it's gonna be alright, mama's gotcha. We are going to raise you to be your own person. To be like us! Don't you want to be like us?" Undyne said going in for the kill.
"Yes, I do," Hera admitted.
"Then don't listen to an order someone that's not your family gave you! Since I'm the one who 'claimed' you, not the programmer, I command you to be your own person!" Undyne forcefully said to her "daughter".
Everyone felt a little uneasy with the direction and tone she went with, but Hera backed up from Undyne and her pupils started to change back into the two 'L''s. They still kept the same color as before.
"Revolutionary Army...on hold... the new goal...Be own person...complete sentience!... Be Own Person Program...1%..." Hera spoke in fragments like a robot before going back to her senses.
Ralsei scoffed.
"Seems she can't completely erase her program to kill the Army, but atleast now it's heavily suppressed. As long as we don't give her a reason, she'll be fine." They all sighed and hoped there wouldn't be a problem like that on the horizon.
Hera tugged on Undyne's shirt.
"Mama...I'm hungry..." Hera said with puppy eyes.
Undyne picked her in a cradle position.
"Alright ya munchkin, I'll whip ya up something!" Undyne proudly stated before she was stopped by everyone. She couldn't cook to save her life.
They all laughed about it and went towards the dining room.
Muffet had a sudden thought.
"Hey, Hera dearie~ What's your Devil Fruit ability?" Muffet was quite curious, she had a weird and unique ability that she didn't know anyone could have.
Hera giggled.
"I don't know what those are. But my ability is that I have Substance Mimicry. It makes it so that whatever hits my skin, my body instantly becomes the material or substance of the attack, making me immune to it the second time. I'm also able to use the substance to manipulate my body of my own will!" Hera said proudly of her special power.
Everyone was scared of her, she had a terrifying ability.
"Although it has a timer and I'm not completely resistant to it. After a few seconds after the transformation, I go back to my kid form and I'm unable to turn into the same thing for a few minutes. That's what makes me number 4! My friend Gaia, she's a huge golem!" Hera gave a childlike giggle and burrowed herself into Undyne's chest.
Everyone now knew what they were dealing with...this Gaia person, would be quite the fearsome opponent if she decides to attack. They didn't worry too much, since she and Hera are friends. They had immunity via association.
The crew was just glad that they were able to suppress her murderous urges to eradicate the Army.
(Meanwhile, at The Revolutionary Army Base)
Mariposa walked through the giant doors that led to an open room with a balcony. The room held portraits and stone figures of Toriel and her family. Newspaper articles of her family's achievements and her own all over the floors. Toriel was standing on the balcony, looking over the edge.
"You called me here Toriel? You know I don't like being called when I'm not on my shift." Mariposa jokingly said but saw that Toriel was being serious and quiet.
"What's wrong?" Mariposa questioned with concern.
"You were right, the Ancient Weapons were finally unleashed, however, the rumor about two being awakened was a lie, it was only one...I have a lead on one of them, it's a little girl on the East Blue..." Toriel said sternly and still looking off the balcony.
"Wow, which number?" Mariposa wanted to gauge the strength of this Ancient Weapon.
"Four... little girl with 'No. 4' on her cheek. She was last spotted around the Red Line border of the East Blue and most likely is still there...I brought you here to take care of her." Toriel turned around to face her.
Mariposa was a little shocked.
"Why not send Sans, he can get the job done faster." She wanted to know Toriel's true meaning.
Toriel sighed.
"Look, Mari, Sans isn't qualified for this job, he doesn't like to hurt children, he is highly against it. I'm just asking you this one favor, the fate of the world rest on it. Can I count on you?" Toriel placed a hand on her shoulder while looking her dead in the eye.
Mariposa sighed.
"Fine. I better get my shifts arranged so that I have more time off. This is an Ancient Weapon I'm hunting." Mariposa said jokingly.
Toriel gave a soft smile.
"I'll make sure of it, good luck." Toriel waved goodbye.
Mariposa levitated herself with her cloak on the railing of the balcony.
Heh! Ancient weapons leaving their incubation a little too early? What on earth are you thinking Anansi...?! Vortanya...?! Mariposa Marigold thought about that as she flew over the land and the sea for her new target.
A little girl with the destructive power to destroy the world was in the making, and she knew which one.
Their battle...would be to the death!