Nafi looked down the arrow shaft, lining up with Undyne's head. She fired her arrow straight and true, but Undyne jumped over it. Pulling out Nafi's soul and turning it fully green, Undyne descended from her perch. A green shield sparked into being in front of Nafi. Her mind screamed 'CREEPER' and her first reaction was to slam her bow into it as hard as she could. The bow shattered as her legs went numb, preventing them moving.

With panicked movements, Nafi deflected Undyne's decent with the new shield that wasn't a creeper. In an effort to move, she gyrated her hips, and with them her legs, turning around to face Undyne.

Now completely weaponless, almost motionless, and with one method of defense, there was no way Nafi could kill her enemy. That left one option. She steeled her determination and hoped for a chance to run.

Undyne summoned a spear out of the air and laughed, "As long as you're GREEN you CAN'T ESCAPE! Unless you learn to face danger head-on... You won't last a SECOND against ME!"

Nafi said nothing as she stared down the… fish? She hadn't realized what exactly she was fighting, and it came as a momentary surprise. The distraction was a mistake, as the next spear came from behind and pierced her shoulder.

"GAH," she exclaimed in pain. Plowing through the pain, she forced the shield into the path of the next spear, and the next, and the next. The spears around her were disappearing as they struck the shield, but the one in her shoulder did not. This fact gave her a weapon and an idea.

Undyne let up on the spears for a second, but only to call out, "Not bad! Then how about THIS!?"

That second was all Nafi needed to pull the spear in her shoulder out.

"Is this all you got?" Nafi yelled as she spun the shield to face the next barrage of spears, "It'll take more than this to take me down!"

Undyne snarled and ran forward, slamming the spear she held into the shield with enough force to send Nafi skidding back and almost making her fall over. The key word being 'almost'.

Undyne pressed the attack as she angrily yelled, "For years, we've dreamed of a happy ending… And now, sunlight is just within our reach! I won't let you snatch it away from us!"

Nafi responded by taking her bloody spear and trying to stab Undyne. She wasn't good at using a spear, but it caught Undyne off guard and managed to cut a gash in her armor.

Undyne jumped back, releasing Nafi from her green state, which returned her soul to its normal red/green coloration.

"NGAHHH! Enough warming up!" Undyne exclaimed as she summoned an, almost wall like, barrage of spears.

This is what Nafi was waiting for though, and she took off running, continuing down the path. Undyne took off after her, tossing more spears.

Undyne was fast, but Nafi was faster. They were running past a large sign saying, 'WELCOME TO HOTLAND' when Nafi's phone rang, surprising her into tripping and dropping the spear. Undyne stopped as Nafi pulled out the phone and answered, "Hello?"

"HELLO HUMAN! HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY OFFER TO HANGOUT WITH UNDYNE?"

Nafi glanced behind herself as she stood up leaving the spear. She was surprised Undyne wasn't still chasing her at the moment, but she replied to Papyrus, "I'm actually running from her right now, so maybe later."

"ALRIGHT, I'LL MEET YOU OUTSIDE OF HER HOUSE AFTER YOU ARE FINISHED PLAYING TAG. BYE."

"Bye?"

*click*

Undyne called out from behind her, "You done yet punk?"

Nafi called back, "Didn't think you were this polite! But yeah, I'm done."

They stood there, looking at each other for a few seconds, before continuing their chase.

As the air became hotter and hotter, Nafi's wounded shoulder became more and more painful. They passed by Sans sleeping at a lookout station, Undyne stopping to yell at him for sleeping. Nafi ran across a bridge that was bridging the gap over the lava. On the other side an old water cooler sat, and she hoped that Undyne would stop long enough for her to wash her shoulder wound. Nafi slid to a stop, stumbled, and fell to her knees holding her shoulder in pain. She closed her eyes and prepared for the worst.

However, Undyne, who had successfully woken Sans up, wasn't fairing much better. Steam rose off her armor and she slowed down, never actually making it over the bridge.

"Too… Hot…" The fish monster groaned.

She fell over with a loud CLUNK, causing Nafi to look behind her. Nafi bit her lip and considered her options. Forcing herself to her feet and dragging herself over to the water cooler, Nafi retrieved a cup of water. She stumbled over to the cooking fish, where she poured the water on Undyne's head. Nafi didn't bother to see if Undyne recovered as she went back to the water cooler to get more water for herself. She poured the new cup of water on her wound, hearing Undyne get up and walk away. She started backtracking, passing by Sans. She tiredly waved as she passed by and continued back towards Waterfall.

"hey kid," Sans said, getting her attention and causing her to stop. He got up and walked over to hand her a roll of bandages. "you looked like you needed these."

Nafi nodded, "Thanks."

She walked back to the large sign and out of the burning heat, before sitting down to dress her wound with the bandage. Pulling the spear out was a risky move, but it had worked and didn't make too much of a mess of her shoulder on the way out. Didn't hit anything too important on the way in either, thank goodness for that. If it had gone any deeper, she might have permanently lost use of that arm. Which wasn't that bad since it wasn't her dominant arm, but she wouldn't have been able to use a bow for the rest of her life. Now, she just couldn't use a bow until it healed.

Wondering on what ifs never helped her though. What happened is what happened, and nothing could change that - or anything else for that matter.

Now that the wound was dressed and she wasn't in danger of bleeding out anytime soon, next on the agenda was finding Papyrus. Even if Undyne hated her guts, she couldn't bear to abandon Papyrus. That and Sans sacred her a little.

Where was Undyne's house again?


After walking back through almost half of Waterfall, Nafi eventually found Papyrus.

"I'm here," she said as she approached.

Papyrus, who was standing outside a fish themed house, turned to look at her and exclaimed, "YOUR HERE! I KNEW YOU WOULD COME." He then handed her a golden bone with a red ribbon tied to it, "GIVE HER THIS. SHE LOVES THESE."

Nafi took the bone as and inspected it Papyrus knocked on the door. The bone wasn't anything special.

"Hey Papyrus! Ready for your extra-private, one-on-one training?"

She decided that it must be food, and since she was hungry, she bit it. If it was to be given to someone else is couldn't be poisoned.

"YOU BET I AM. I EVEN BROUGHT A FRIEN- HUMAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING."

Nafi looked up with the bone in her mouth, seeing both monsters staring at her. Undyne wasn't wearing her armor anymore, and she looked much skinnier without it on. After removing the bone and wiping her mouth, she said, "I thought it may have been food. It wasn't."

There was a very awkward silence, but eventually Undyne ground out, "Why don't. You two. Come in?"

Undyne stepped back into her house, leaving the door open. Papyrus wiped his feet on the welcome mat before followingher. Nafi stood there with the bone, already regretting her decisions. She stepped inside.

The house had a tasteful blue and yellow floor with a kitchen on the opposite wall, a piano near the left wall, and a table and chairs near the right wall. It reminded Nafi painfully of her own home in some ways.

"MY FRIEND GOT A GIFT FOR YOU, ON THEIR OWN." Papyrus pulled out another golden bone and handed it to Undyne. "THIS ONE'S FROM ME THOUGH."

Nafi wiped off the saliva on the bone and handed it to Papyrus to hand to Undyne. Undyne took them and gave and awkward half smile, "Uh… Thanks. I'll put, uh, them with the rest."

She walked over to a drawer in the kitchen area and deposited them, trying not to touch the bitten one more than required. Once finished, she asked, "So are we ready to start?"

Papyrus started to speak almost before Undyne finished, "WHOOPSY DOOPSY, I JUST REMEMBERED! I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! YOU TWO HAVE FUN!"

He then charged at a window and jumped through it.

Undyne and Nafi looked at the broken window and then at each other.

Nafi asked, "Does he do that often?"

Undyne shook her head dumbly.

Eventually she recovered and spoke, glowering at Nafi, "So why are you here? To rub your victory in my face? To humiliate me even further?"

"Because if I didn't Papyrus would be sad?" Nafi interrupted, "Trust me, I don't want to be here either."

Undyne seemed to glower even more at her, before giving a not friendly smile. "Oh-ho-ho-ho. I just had an idea. You're on MY battlefield now, and I'll TELL you what's going to happen. We're going to hang out. We're going to have a good time. We're going to become 'friends'. You'll become so enamored by me… YOU'LL be humiliated by your actions! Fuhuhuhuhu! It's the perfect revenge!"

Nafi had minutely flinched at the word 'friends', but now she just stared at Undyne, eyes half lidded. Undyne recovered from her revenge monologue, regaining composure and putting on a friendlier grin, "Erm...Why don't you have a seat."

Nafi walked over to the table and pulled out a chair to sit in, keeping one eye on Undyne at all times. Before she sat down, she noticed a giant sword laying on the ground on the other side of the table. She nodded in appreciation, saying, "Nice sword you got there."

Undyne chuckled, "Yeah. Humans suck, but their history… kinda rules. Case in point: THIS GIANT SWORD!"

Nafi barked out a laugh as she sat down, "Don't I know it. Some of the stuff we could make was awesome. My case in point: cars. Would have made my life so much easier."

"I don't see what's so good about them, but Papyrus loves them," Undyne shrugged," Well if you're comfortable, I'll get you a drink."

Undyne grabbed a few things out of her fridge. Out of the fridge came a white sugar container, a yellow bottle of stuff, a box labeled hot chocolate, and some tea boxes. "So, what do you want?"

Nafi studied her options. The sugar wasn't a drink, no clue what the yellow bottle was so that was out, and the hot chocolate box looked empty. That left one option.

"I'll have the tea, please."

Undyne smiled, "Coming right up!"

As Undyne busied herself making the tea, Nafi tried to think of something to talk about. Eventually she realized she had no ideas and she decided to ask Undyne, "So, what do we talk about?"

Undyne hummed in thought as she put the water on to boil. "One thing I was wondering, Papyrus mentioned Sans brought you in very injured. How did that lazybones hurt you that much, or was it something else?"

Nafi decided to answer truthfully, "I was on the other side of the Ruins door trying to 'convince' the caretaker to let me go when the door exploded and a part of it hit me in the head," Nafi leaned forward and started to whisper, "Although I do think he was the one to explode it, because I didn't hear anyone else on the other side."

The last part was met with a raised eyebrow, before the water started to boil. Undyne grabbed a cup from the sink, "Ok, it's done."

She poured some of the tea into the cup as Nafi leaned back into the chair. Undyne walked over and placed the tea in front of Nafi and sat opposite her. "Careful, it's hot."

Nafi blew on it and mimed taking a sip. She didn't think Undyne would appreciate her dropping the antidote into the tea, but she would also not appreciate her not drinking it, and if she wanted to make it through this, she had to make Undyne like her.

"It's good right? Nothing but the best for my ABSOLUTELY PRECIOUS FRIEND!"

Nafi awkwardly nodded as she mimed taking another sip, "It's pretty good."

Undyne laughed, "It's funny you like that tea, it's Asgore's favorite. But unlike him, you ain't no wimp!" She calmed down, "... Sort of."

Nafi put the cup down, "Well if he is the ruler down here, he has to be strong right? Stronger than just taking a spear to the shoulder and keep fighting at least?"

Undyne nodded, "Yeah. When I was younger, I was a pretty hot-headed kid. Once, to prove I was the strongest, I tried to fight Asgore," she smirked, "Emphasis on TRIED."

She looked off to the side, lost in memories. "I couldn't land a single blow on him! What's worse, the whole time, he refused to fight back! I was so humiliated... Afterwards, he apologized and said something goofy," She mimicked what Nafi could only assume was Asgore's voice, "'Excuse me, do you want to know how to beat me?' I said yes, and from then on, he trained me. One day, during practice, I finally knocked him down. I felt… bad. But he was beaming. I had never seen someone more proud to get their butt kicked." Undyne laughed and Nafi got the impression that Undyne viewed Asgore as family more than just a trainer.

Undyne calmed down and continued, "Anyway, long story short, he kept training me and now I'm the head of the Royal Guard. I'm the one to train dorks to fight! Like...uh… Papyrus."

During Undyne's trip down memory lane, Nafi had activated her HUD just to see if Undyne's stats changed any from not having her armor on. She didn't she didn't end up checking that as she immediately noticed Papyrus still outside the broken window. Something about that last part implied Undyne wasn't exactly happy about training Papyrus. If Undyne said anything about that with Papyrus within earshot… Papyrus would be heart broken.

Thinking quickly, Nafi asked, "Could I get a taste of how you train Papyrus?"

Undyne glanced at her, then stood up rapidly, "Hey, Papyrus was supposed to have his cooking lesson right now! Since HE'S not here to have it, You'll have to have it for him!"

She jumped into the air, surprising Nafi and causing her to hide under the table. Undyne hit the ceiling and landed on the kitchen counter. Running across it, she knocked everything except the tea pot off onto the floor.

"That's right!" she shouted, "Nothing has brought Papyrus and I closer than cooking! Which means if I give you his lesson, WE'LL BECOME CLOSER THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE!"

She finally noticed the fact that Nafi was under the table, "Fuhuhuhu! Afraid? We're going to be best friends!"

"That's not what I'm worried about. It's what comes after," Nafi mumbled under her breath before Undyne jumped over and tossed the table to the side.

Undyne yelled, "Come on!" Before picking Nafi up and jumping over to the counter. She set her down and started instructing, "Let's start with the sauce."

Stomping her foot hard enough to shake the house, Undyne, somehow, caused two tomatoes, a carrot, and a banana to fall from the ceiling. "Envision these vegetables as your greatest enemy! Now, Pound them to dust with your fists!"

Nafi looked at the assembled food items and closed her eyes. With a scream, she punched one of the tomatoes with her full strength, splattering tomato all up the wall and breaking the counter.

Undyne laughed uproariously, "Nice! We'll scrape this into a bowl later."

She stomped again, leading to another pot and a box of spaghetti to fall onto the stove. She got excited and started yelling again, "Homemade noodles are the best, but I just buy store brand! They're the cheapest! NGAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Nafi looked at her with raised eyebrows until Undyne calmed down and said, "Uhh… just put them in the pot."

Looking at the box then at the pot, Nafi broke the box in half to make it fit inside the pot and dropped it in, noodles still inside the box. Undyne turned on the stove, the box inside immediately catching on fire. "I like your style! Now we stir, the harder we stir the better it is!"

"It's on fire!" Nafi exclaimed.

"Then I will!" Undyne replied as she pulled out a spear and stabbed the pot until it was a broken pile of metal and flames, "Now we turn up the heat! Let the flames symbolize your passion!"

"It's still on fire!" Nafi yelled.

"AND WE WANT MORE!" Undyne yelled back.

Undyne grabbed the stove knob and turned it so hard to the right, it came off. The fire grew higher and started to lick the walls, burning them and spreading the fire around the room.

Nafi looked at Undyne and said, "I know where Papyrus gets his cooking skills from."

In just a few seconds the house was ablaze. There was fire everywhere, along the walls, on the ceiling, even in the corners. Everywhere except, for some reason, the box in the pot.

Nafi shuffled towards the door as Undyne looked upon her burning house with a strained smile. "So, what's next?" the monster who just burned her own house down asked, "Scrapbooking? Friendship bracelets?"

"Getting out of the burr-." Nafi started only to be interrupted.

Undyne explosively sighed, "Oh who am I kidding, I really screwed this up, didn't I. I can't force you to like me, human. Some people just don't get along with each other. I understand if you feel that way about me. And if we can't be friends… that's ok. Because… If we're not friends..."

Undyne looked at Nafi with a bloodthirsty smile. "IT MEANS I CAN DESTROY YOU WITHOUT REGRET!"

Nafi jumped back as her soul came out preparing to run first chance. Undyne summoned a spear and pointed it at her, "I've been defeated... my house is in shambles… I even failed to befriend you. That's it. I don't care if you're my guest anymore. One final remac-."

Nafi interrupted Undyne this time, shouting "Are you INSANE?!"

She sprinted forward, dodging the spear, and hoisted Undyne over her good shoulder. Spinning around, Nafi adjusted her hold on Undyne and threw her like a javelin through the window Papyrus had gone through earlier.

Papyrus, who had been sitting outside the window the whole time, caught Undyne as she flew. "UNDYNE WHA-."

And then Nafi came out of the window, yelling, "Coming through!"

She hit Papyrus, causing him to fall over with Undyne in his arms and Nafi on top of him. Undyne pulled herself out from underneath the pile, only for the front of her tank top to be grabbed as Nafi pulled her back down again.

Nafi was pissed and showed it. At point blank range, she started yelling into Undyne's face, "Do you have any idea how STUPID that was?! How IDIOTIC you are being?! Was me running away from you SUCH a blow to your pride that you had to risk your LIFE to fight me in a BURNING BUILDING?!"

She let go of Undyne's shirt and backhanded her across the face sending her spinning away. Nafi wasn't done yet though, and so continued her tirade, "Pride is nothing to RISK YOUR LIFE FOR! Pride is the stuff that makes you do IDOTIC things just to make yourself feel better. Pride is the stuff that makes you think your better than you actually are. Pride is the stuff that makes you do things you wouldn't have wanted to do a month ago!"

Papyrus moved a bit under Nafi, reminding her that she was keeling on top of him. She rolled off him and stood up, walking away from the two. She stopped at the entrance to the rest of the caves and looked back.

"Pride gets people killed, and I've seen too much of that."

She walked away.

Undyne wondered why she was crying.

(The part that remembered the resets wondered what had happened to that pacifist she befriended, and why this girl seemed to know intimately what she was talking about.)