So, I'm back with another chapter, though I can't say that I'm really proud of this one. Or the last few, come to think of it.
The next couple of chapters should be better though, since I actually have an idea of what I want to happen in those.
I also have an issue that I would like to address about the latest webcomic chapter, but I'll leave that for the end of the chapter.
In response to the guest's question: Given Papyrus' personality, what do you think? (Yes, the answer is yes.) Now, on with the chapter!
After walking a short distance, the group came upon yet another puzzle, this one actually looking fairly complex.
Papyrus seemed to fidget a little.
"SO, UM, YOU WERE TAKING A LONG TIME TO ARRIVE, SO I DECIDED TO REMAKE THIS PUZZLE TO LOOK MORE LIKE MY FACE! UNFOURTUNATLY, THE SNOW PILES I MADE SORT OF... FROZE OVER. SO NOW THE SOLUTION IS DIFFERENT! BUT FEAR NOT, THE PUZZLE IS STILL SOLVABLE! OF COURSE, IF YOU DON'T WISH TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE, THERE IS A SWITCH ON THIS TREE THAT WILL RETRACT THE SPIKES. BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?! IT TAKES AWAY THE FUN OF THE CHALLENGE!"
Seito was looking the puzzle over.
"This would actually be fairly difficult if there were only one of us. However, with all of us working together, the puzzle would be incredibly easy."
Papyrus seemed to deflate at that.
"WELL, IT NEVER OCCURED TO ME THAT MORE THAN ONE HUMAM WOULD ENTER THE UNDERGROUND AT ONCE, SO MOST OF MY PUZZLES ARE ONLY MEANT FOR ONE PERSON. I SUPPOSE THAT THIS PUZZLE IS RATHER USELESS OTHERWISE. THE UPCOMING PUZZLES HOWEVER, I SHALL MODIFY TO BE MORE DIFFICULT FOR A GROUP! I MUST GO AHEAD TO PREPARE! I WILL SEE YOU SHORTLY, NYEHEHEH!"
And with that, the tall skeleton flipped the switch and ran off. Badd coughed.
"Well, uh, guess we keep going then?"
The rest of the group gave confused nods, before continuing onwards.
Not a couple minutes after they last encountred Papyrus, they found him again, along with his shorter brother.
"HEY THERE!"
Seito looked at the skeletons weirdly.
"Didn't you just say not 5 minutes ago that you were going to modify puzzles?"
"YEAH, I FINISHED."
"That quick?"
"NOT IMPORTANT! NOW ON TO THE PUZZLE! HUMAN ZENKO, YOU MAY WANT TO CROSS BEFORE I ACTIVATE IT! I'VE HEARD FROM IT'S CREATOR THAT IT IS RATHER DANGEROUS!"
"Hm, you didn't make this one? I suppose it is rather high tech."
"YES! THIS BRILLIANT PUZZLE WAS INVENTED BY THE GREAT DR. ALPHYS! HERE'S HOW THE PUZZLE WORKS. WHEN I FLIP THIS SWITCH, THESE TILES WILL RAPIDLY CHANGE COLOR!"
"Um, why would colored tiles be dangerous?"
"I'M GETTING TO THAT! EACH TILE HAS A DIFFERENT FUNCTION! RED TILES ARE IMPASSIBALE! THEY CREATE AN IMPENETRABLE INVISIBLE BARRIER! BLUE TILES ARE..." (We don't really need to go through all this, now do we?) "UNDERSTAND?"
Seito and Badd nodded, looking at the notepad that the former had whipped out and jotted the instructions down on.
"GOOD! WELL, HERE GOES! ZENKO! DO YOU WANT TO DO THE HONERS?"
Zenko, who had crossed the puzzle before it was activated on the skelebro's request, nodded and flipped the switch.
The tiles began to change color rapidly, eventually becoming a mess of colors that blended together... before stopping in a straight path across. Papyrus's exited face instantly fell, while Badd, Sans, and Chara burst out laughing.
"Well, that was rather... lackluster. Was it supposed to do that?"
"I MEAN, SORT OF. THE MACHINE IS ENTIRELY RANDOM, CREATING A DIFFERENT PUZZLE EACH TIME. I GUESS THAT THIS ONE WAS JUST AN UNFORTUNATE LAYOUT."
The idol looked at the 'puzzle' once more.
"Indeed."
"What. The. Fuck?"
The group had come across what was probably the weirdest thing they had seen in the underground yet, and that was saying a LOT.
"It appears that someone was trying to make snowdogs, and failing miserably."
Seito looked at one of them.
"Whoever made these has no understanding of the workings of gravity. they are way too long to stay upright."
Badd looked around the area with wariness.
"These things are creeping me out. lets get outta here."
"Hm, another one of these pressure plate puzzles. although this one appears to be on a thin sheet of ice."
Zenko noticed a sign off to the side.
"Hello, this is Papyrus. I've modified this puzzle to be more challenging! The sheet of ice can now only hold someone small. Therefore, only Zenko will be able to solve the puzzle! Once the puzzle is solved, a platform will replace the ice so that everyone may cross. Wait, how did he do this in 5 minutes?"
Badd shook his head.
"I've learned not to question anything that goes on down here, especially when it comes to those two skeletons."
Zenko nodded, before on to the ice, and promptly slid until she stopped on one of the pressure plates.
"Wow! that's the most slippery ice I've ever seen! Let's see here... okay, I think I've got a path!"
She slidfrom one X to the next, until all of them were O's.
"Huh, well that was actually rather easy. Come on guys, let's get going!"
"It's a snow poff."
"A what?"
"A snow poff. they're weird snow formations that can be found around Snowdin. For some reason they don't stick to other snow. Although I don't know what so many are doing in one area, they're usually a lot more spread out."
"This place just gets weirder and weirder."
They went to leave the area, but there was a snow poff right in the way. Badd went to throw it out of the way, but before he could, a fluffy little tail poked out of it, and a head to match followed.
"Puppy!" Zenko gushed.
"Oh, hey there little guy..."
Badd went to pet the dog, but before he could get to close, a giant body of armor rose out of the snow poff, the dog's head poking out of the top of it.
"...Oh."
Chara observed the Monster for a minute, before giving her analysis.
"Greater dog. Threat level: low demon. This intimidating looking canine is actually quite playful, and thinks that fighting is just a game."
The giant guardsman barked excitedly, before whipping it's spear at Seito at breakneck speeds.
The idol didn't move out of the way, but instead caught the weapon between his fingers, before throwing it off to the side.
The greater dog snapped it's head towards the spear, before yipping and going to retrieve it, like a game of fetch.
As it was bending down to pick it up, Zenko approached it and pet it on the head.
Greater dog, looking surprised, yipped happily and licked the girl's face, before picking it's spear up and walking away.
Badd looked at his sister in mild surprise.
"I'm starting to notice a recurring pattern with these sentries. well, apart from all of them being dogs."
"I can't help myself! I love dogs!"
The Group continued onward, until they came across a swinging wooden bridge, with the skelebros on the opposite side.
"HELLO! THIS WOULD NORMALLY BE THE POINT WHERE I REVEALED THE GAUNTLET DEADLY TERROR, BUT NOW THAT WE'RE FRIENDS, I SEE NO NEED TO!"
Badd looked a little disappointed.
"Aw, man, that actually sounded kind of cool..."
"WH-WHAT? YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO TRY IT?"
"Yeah man! It sounds super cool, and it doesn't sound boring like those other puzzles where you actually have to think."
Seito rolled his eyes.
"I'll leave you to your muscle-brained schemes Metal Bat. Come on Zenko, let's cross while it's still safe."
He hoisted Zenko onto his shoulder and raced across the bridge.
"ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS HUMAN BADD? THIS MACHINE IS QUITE DANGEROUS
"Trust me man, however bad you think it is, I've been through worse."
"WELL, IF YOU SAY SO. I'M ACTUALLY KIND OF EXITED TO SEE IT IN ACTION MYSELF!"
The tall skeleton pulled out a remote, and pressed the button on it. suddenly, the ground started to shake, before cannons, flamethrowers, giant saw-blades, etc. rose up from the ground and lowered from the ceiling of the cave.
"LAST CHANCE TO BACK DOWN! ARE YOU READY?"
Badd looked at the surrounding weaponry, before nodding, a determined smile on his face. Papyrus gulped, somehow.
"ALRIGHT THEN, HERE GOES!"
He pressed the button, and everything sprung to life.
Badd analyzed a path for a second, before jumping into action. He slid under a sawblade that was aimed to cut him in half, before jumping over a torrent of flame.
The Bat wielding hero had no time to rest however, as two blades came swinging at him from either side.
He ducked under them, but just after he got up, a cannonball came flying at him, so he whacked it aside with his bat.
A mace then proceeded to come swinging at his head, which he also whacked aside, hitting it so hard that it was severed from the chain, and flew off into the distance. He then proceeded to dodge multiple spears aiming to gore him.
As he dodged, weaved, and smashed his way through the gauntlet, Sans and Papyrus were watching in awe.
man, this kid is good. Sans thought. let's hope that he's honest in his intentions, or this could spell bad news.
Badd was nearing the end of the bridge, when he heard a little snap. The rope that was tying the bridge to the edges had snapped, and was starting to fall. in the split second before it gave out completely, he put his bat in his mouth and ran to the cliff.
"WOW... THAT WAS INCREDIBLE! YOU WERE SO FAST! UNDER THIRTY SECONDS! YOU ALMOST BEAT UNDYNE'S BEST! AND ON YOUR FIRST ATTEMPT TOO!"
There's a monster down here crazy enough to go through that death trap? And there's that name again. didn't those sentries say that their captain was named that? Seito thought.
"Hey, yeah. That was fun! Might wanna come back and try it again."
It was at this moment that Zenko came storming up to Badd.
"Big brother, what were you thinking!? That was really dangerous! Why would you voluntarily put yourself in danger like that?"
Badd instantly became flustered.
"Hey, hey Zenko I'm sorry okay? It just looked fun is all..."
"If that's what you consider 'fun', then I worry for you. come on, we're almost to town. there's a welcome sign right there." She said, pulling Badd along.
Seito just smirked at the two's antics. Giving a quick salute to the skelebros, he sauntered off as well.
Papyrus was still exited over the whole gauntlet thing to notice as Sans' eye glowed blue, right before he just seemed to disappear.
everything seems to be going smoothly so far, but i've been wrong before. the pretty one worries me. he seems to be acting better since i talked to him, but i better keep an eye on him just to be safe.
So, The newest chapter of the webcomic has me shook. SPOILERS FOR THE WEBCOMIC BELOW!
AGAIN, MASSIVE SPOILER BELOW!
So, Sweet mask is a monster. I had of course speculated that myself, but I didn't think ONE would reveal it so soon. This of course will be adressed in the story now, preferably soon. I don't really have much else to say on the subject, not anything that would spoil what I have planned anyway. As always, comments and criticism is greatly aprecciated, and I'll see you in the next chapter!
Edited 3/16/20