Aaaaand who's a liar? Huh? Me‽
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You're completely right!
...this is why I never make schedules for posting chapters. I'm either a workaholic or a lazy as heck procrastinator. There are very, very few things in between.
Also, as you probably saw I'm using interrobangs now! (Or maybe not. Will let me use interrobangs? Guess we'll find out!) But, I'm kinda debating whether I should keep using them. They're more convenient and I do think they should be used more commonly, but they also look less dramatic. Welp, I'll figure it out.
Anyway, we're onto Papyrus' fight! Which I'm writing from my horrible memory, so things might not be in the right order or I might get dialogue off or something but it's an AU so does it really matter?
Undertale and all its characters belong to Toby Fox!
The Colorfade AU belongs to me! (ask if you wanna write something for it for now, please, and credit me!)
Chapter 4- "You're blue now."
"WAIT! SANS! I MUST CAPTURE THE HUMAN STIL!"
Frisk glanced at Papyrus and then at Sans.
"but, she's, uh... k-kinda already, y'know... g-gone past all your puzzles..?"
"WELL... I MUST FIGHT THE HUMAN-FRISK THEN!"
"Fight me‽"
"YES, HUMAN-FRISK. I SHALL BATTLE YOU AND CAPTURE YOU! MEET ME AT THE END OF TOWN!"
Papyrus then proceeded to jump out a window.
"welp. that's... a-a thing that's happening."
Frisk stared at Sans, unamused.
"yeah... anyway, as i said earlier, m-my brother's harmless. really, he is. he won't kill ya, i-i promise. if anything, he'll hurt battle you until you're too weak then send you to the garage/shed. oh! something that might help ya, well, t-two things... one, my bro has 'blue attacks' basically, i-if an attack is blue, don't move. another thing, if you plan on hurting my bro..." Sans' eyes went dark. "well, you'll have a bad time."
Frisk shivered at the dark tone of voice. The absence of eyelights, for some reason, made Sans look absolutely terrifying, even if Papyrus seemed never to have eyelights but still looked like an adorably innocent cinnamon roll.
Sans' eyelights returned.
"heh. kidding, kidding. well, no, i'm not, but i'm sure you won't hurt 'em. right?"
Frisk nodded, still trembling slightly.
"c'mon, we'd better n-not leave him waiting."
They walked to The end of town, fog obscuring their sight
Papyrus was a dark shadow in front of them, and despite Frisk knowing it was only the friendly skeleton in front of her, it still felt ominous and scary.
"HUMAN, LET ME TELL YOU OF SOME COMPLICATED FEELINGS... FEELINGS OF WONDERING IF WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS RIGHT, OF BEING FRIENDLY TO SOMEONE YOU CANNOT BE FRIENDS WITH... S-SURELY, THIS MUST BE WHAT YOU'RE FEELING RIGHT NOW! I, OF COURSE, HAVE NEVER FELT THIS WAY, AS I AM VERY GREAT!" Papyrus exclaimed. "ANYWAY, I HAVE TO CAPTURE YOU NOW SO THAT I CAN BE IN THE ROYAL GUARD!"
Everything flashed as three clicks sounded, and, with the exception of Frisk's red and white soul, everything went black and white.
"YOU HAVE THE FIRST TURN, HUMAN."
Frisk walked over to the buttons.
*Act.
*Check.
Papyrus
AT- 8
DF- 2
Wants to capture you so he can be popular; doesn't realize capturing you equals killing you
Worries a lot about Sans, but other than that he's an innocent cinnamon roll
Likes to say "Nyeh-heh-heh"
"NYEH-HEH-HEH!" Papyrus laughed.
It was Papyrus' turn now, and several small bones passed to Frisk's side, not even close to hitting her.
*Mercy
*Spare
"SO YOU REFUSE TO ATTACK… THEN LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE MY 'BLUE ATTACK!'"
Several slight transparent, bright blue bones appeared. Despite Frisk's instincts otherwise, she listened to Sans' advice and stayed still, and the bones passed through her harmlessly, only leaving a chill behind.
Suddenly, there was a "Ping!" and Frisk's soul turned blue, and it felt as if gravity was weighing down heavily on her.
"YOU'RE BLUE NOW, THAT'S MY ATTACK!
She turned and stared with a blank expression and outstretched hands at where she was sure Sans was, although not being able to see him through the blackness of the battle. She was deciding if she should sign something along the lines of, 'What the heck, man, you didn't tell me about this?' But the decision was made for her as a small bone passed underfoot and she fell face-first into the snow. Her HP fell to sixteen. She was sure she could hear Sans' snickering even over Papyrus' theme song.
"OH, HUMAN, I APOLOGIZE, I DIDN'T MEAN TO CATCH YOU OFF GUARD. ARE YOU ALRIGHT?"
She sighed and raised a thumbs-up before standing back up, a task made difficult by what she was now sure was increased gravity, and she once again chose to spare Papyrus.
Several small bones came towards her and she jumped over them, having to jump a little higher for the slightly larger bone at the end.
Frisk spared Papyrus again.
She kept dodging and sparing until Papyrus finally got tired and decided to spare her back, once she was at four HP.
Papyrus sighed, "UNDYNE WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED IN ME…"
"relax, bro. i-i'm sure that she'll be happy she gets the chance t-to finish the job herself." Sans replied.
Papyrus stares at his brother, unamused by Sans' pun.
Frisk, on the other hand, giggled slightly, assuming by the fin pun that Undyne was some sort of fish monster.
"so, kiddo, wanna go to grillby's? pap'll probably have to go a-ahead of us and report to undies anyway, right papyrus?"
"YES, BROTHER. YOU DO KNOW THAT UNDYNE HATES IT WHEN YOU CALL HER THAT, DON'T YOU?"
"yup. that's half the fun. c'mon, frisk, i-i know a shortcut."
"S-SANS, YOU AREN'T GOING TO-"
Sans cut Papyrus off, "nah, just the snow tunnels. minimum altering the fabric of the universe and time-space continuum, p-promise. and you know i hate promises, pap. you can trust me, i'm not gonna risk my life just to be e-even lazier than i already am."
Papyrus sighed before muttering, "Fine, I trust you."
Sans and Frisk began walking towards the snow tunnel.
A/N: Okay guys! Sorry for the late chapter, I hit a bit of writer's block on Papyrus' fight so I just decided to go ahead and skip most of it like I did with Toriel's. I promise Undyne's fight'll be more detailed, and, who knows, maybe Sans'll get off his lazy butt for once and intervene. He certainly has the authority to, even if Undyne doesn't know about it and Sans doesn't like using it. But, who knows? Well, me, I know, I already have most of it planned out, even if I haven't started writing yet, but none of you guys know, sooo.
Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed!
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I have more time on my hands now, so expect another chapter soon. I'll post on a Friday, but I've learned my lesson about promising exact update schedules. I'll try and get it out next week or the week after though!
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