Welcome to chapter 13! If I actually got this up, then that means I finally figured put how to upload on the desktop version. I don't really have much to say in this chapter, other than to enjoy it!

As they trekked through the snowy forest, The group came upon a peculiar sight.

"The hell..? What's a microwave doin all the way out here?"

Zenko picked up a sheet of paper half buried in the snow.

"Maybe this suspicious looking note will tell us. Huh, the writing is kind of hard to read. um, 'Humans! Please enjoy this spaghetti!' Huh?"

Looking at the table, there was in fact a VERY frozen plate of spaghetti. Shrugging, Zenko continued to read.

"(Little do you know, this spaghetti is a trap, designed to entice you! You'll be so busy eating, you won't realize that you aren't progressing! Thoroughly japed again by the great Papyrus! Nyeheheh, Papyrus.)"

At this point, Badd, Zenko, and even Chara were doubled over in laughter, especially after Badd realized that A) the microwave had nowhere to be plugged in, and B) all of the buttons read 'Spaghetti'.

Seito however, was bashing his skull into a tree, muttering "I can't do this shit anymore." repeatedly.

After the group calmed down, they continued onward, until they came across a barricade of spikes.

"Huh. So what's the gimmick here? I don't see anything nearby."

Seito rolled his eyes.

"If you would look more carefully, you would realize that this snow mound was here. It's most likely covering something."

They started digging, and after several minutes, they uncovered what appeared to be some sort of map, with a little red X drawn at a point between three dots.

"Hmm, I think that I saw a clearing like that when we were walking earlier. Those dots most likely represent trees."

"Welp, time to backtrack I guess."

As it turned out, there was a switch hidden in the middle of the clearing. After flicking it, they were able to progress.

"Hey, heads up, we got company."

True to her word, two hooded canine looking figures stepped out from the shadows, carrying humongous axes.

"What's that smell?" The first one said, sounding distinctively male.

"Where's that smell?" The other added, this one female.

Badd looked warily at the two.

"Zenko, stand back, these guys don't look very friendly."

Zenko reluctantly nodded and stepped behind the two heroes.

"If you're a smell," The male guard said, "Identify yoursmellf!"

And with that, they pulled their hoods off, revealing that they were in fact dog like monsters. They gave each other a quick kiss, before swinging their axes downward upon the two heroes, just missing them and creating a small crater upon impact.

"Jeez! these guys seem tougher than that Doggo guy. You got anything on them Chara?"

The spirit looked at the monsters for a minute before responding.

"Dogamy and Dogressa. threat level: each tiger. Although their eyesight is terrible, their keen sense of smell more than makes up for it. Oh, and their also married, if that helps any."

So they rely on their sense of smell hm? Seito thought as he backpedaled to avoid a horizontal strike from Dogressa.

"Hey Badd."

"Urg, what is it? I'm kind of busy here!" He yelled back from under Dogamy's axe, the punk hero holding it at bay with his bat.

"I've got an idea! although I refuse to take part in it, I'm not getting any dirtier that I already am."

Badd gave Seito a confused look, before barely rolling out of the way of an axe aimed for his neck.

"The hell are you talking about?"

The idol sighed, and was about to explain, before they heard giggling.

The two heroes then noticed almost simultaneously that they were no longer being attacked. They both tensed up, before swiveling around, expecting the child of their group to be in grave danger, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

"Ok, what the hell?"

Zenko was in the middle of the two dog monsters, their axes on the ground, being pet, PET, by his little sister.

"Hey Badd! These guys aren't that bad at all! all you need to do is pet them!"

Seito looked blankly at the scene.

"Well, so much for my idea."

Dogamy and Dogressa were shuffling awkwardly on their feet.

"Um, we're sorry for attacking you."

"Yeah, we were ordered by the captain of the guard to eliminate any humans we might encounter."

Seito's eyes grew dark at that.

"And why, exactly would you have been ordered that?"

The dog guards gulped and took a step back, their fur standing up.

"W-well, the captain seems to think that all humans are pure evil."

Seito glared and made a motion to continue.

"But w-we obviously know that that's not true now! I-if you're anything to go by anyway

Seito glared at the two for a moment more, before his expression softened a little bit.

"As far as your captain knows, this encounter never happened, got it?" The two dogs nodded in confirmation.

As the two made to walk away, Dogamy turned back towards them.

"Oh, one more thing. You two are pretty skilled fighters, I'll admit that. But even you wouldn't stand a chance against captain Undyne. They're the strongest monster in the underground! After the king of course. A bit of advice, if you're planning on going through waterfall, make sure that you avoid the big set of armor patrolling the area

Badd looked intrigued.

"Undyne, huh? wonder how strong they really are." Seito looked concerned, however.

"I'm not so much worried about how strong they are, rather that they might not be as willing to listen as the other monsters we've encountered."

"Eh, we'll cross that bridge if we come to it. For now, we should probably get goin if we want to make it to the town anytime soon."

coming down the path, The group encountered another blockade of spikes, with yet another puzzle to solve. There was a sign explaining it, which Zenko read aloud.

"Turn every X into an O, then press the switch. Seems simple enough."

Badd and Seito went to stand on each of the X's and Zenko pressed the switch once they changed into O's, immediately retracting the spikes, and revealing a familiar face on the other side.

"WHAT!? HOW DID YOU AVOID MY TRAP? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IS THERE ANY LEFT FOR ME?"

The group of humans looked confused.

"Um, what are you talking about exactly?"

"WHY, THE SPAGHETTI OF COURSE!"

"Dude, the microwave had nowhere to be plugged in." Papyrus looked at the bat wielding hero for a moment more before slapping his skull.

"I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY LAZY BONES BROTHER WOULDN'T BRING THE GENERATOR. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY BLUNDER HUMANS! BUT NEVER FEAR! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL MAKE YOU ALL THE SPAGHETTI YOU COULD EVER WANT! NYEHEHEH!"

At this point the group sort of expected Papyrus to run off cackling to whatever hair-brained scheme he had planned next, but to their surprise, he started walking alongside them.

Badd was the first to address the situation.

"Uh, dude, aren't you supposed to capture us to get a promotion or something? why are you acting all buddy-buddy?"

"WELL! IT DOSEN'T HURT TO GET TO KNOW SOMEONE NEW, AND YOU'RE THE FIRST HUMANS I EVER MET! IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO CAPTURE YOU BEFORE I GOT TO KNOW WHAT YOU WERE LIKE!"

Seito pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Not even a day here, and I'm already losing my mind. Let me get this straight. You want to make friends with us, only to capture us later? I'm sorry, but that makes no sense at all!"

Papyrus appeared to think on that for a minute, before adopting a concerned face.

"I GUESS CAPTURING YOU WOULD MAKE OUR FRIENDSHIP RATHER STRAINED. BUT IF I DON'T TRY TO CAPTURE YOU, THEN UNDYNE WILL BE UPSET WITH ME, AND I WOULD NEVER GET INTO THE ROYAL GUARD!"

Zenko and Badd felt bad for the tall skeleton, and even Seito and Chara were a little upset for him. Badd spoke up.

"Well hey, what if we stage a battle? then you don't have to capture us, and you can tell Undyne that you just couldn't beat us."

Papyrus seemed to glow at that.

"WOWIE... YOU WOULD DO THAT, FOR ME?"

"I mean sure, why not? You seem like a nice guy, and I wouldn't want you to get into bad graces with your boss.

"WOW... WHO KNEW THAT ALL I NEEDED TO DO TO MAKE PALS, WAS TO GIVE THEM HORRIBLE PUZZLES AND THEN ARRANGE TO FIGHT THEM! HOWEVER! I SHOULD WARN YOU HUMANS! I AM A POWERFUL MONSTER! I DO NOT WISH TO HARM YOU TOO BADLY. SO WHEN WE FIGHT, LET ME KNOW IF I'M TOO MUCH FOR YOU!"

"I don't think you need to worry about me and pretty boy over there."

Seito glared at Badd for that comment.

"We're pretty strong ourselves."

The tall skeleton eyed the two heroes up and down.

"IF YOU SAY SO RED SHIRTED HUMAN."

Zenko then spoke up.

"Papyrus, since we're friends now, you should probably call us by our names. That's my big bro Badd, I'm Zenko, and over there is Seito!"

Papyrus looked at The trio, before nodding.

"BUT OF COURSE! NOW THAT I THINK OF IT, WHY DIDN'T I JUST ASK FOR YOUR NAMES EARLIER?"

Seito sighed and shook his head at the naivety of the monster.

"Well, I guess this is a thing now."

And that's the end of chapter 13! I'll try to make the next chapter at least 2k words long. I don't really have a reason for them officially becoming friends with Papyrus so soon, just kinda popped into my head. As always, reviews are very appreciated, and I'll get the next chapter out as soon as possible.

Edited 3/16/20