Hey, I'm back! Sorry for yet another unannounced hiatus, I had some trouble coming up with ideas for this chapter, and got distracted by friends and the like. I'll try to update more consistantly, but if I can't think of anything, there's really no immediate help for that. Now, on to reviews!
Guest 1: I'll try to, but I don't know if I'll be able to think of a smooth way to incorporate it.
CF8WRK4U: Thanks man! It's nice to know that you enjoy my story that much!
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One more thing. I didn't get many responses last time, so I'll ask again. What do you want to see most out of this story? I'll try to incorporate it if i can think of a way how to.
Badd and Seito tensed up, preparing for a fight. The Mad Dummy scoffed as they glared at him.
"Foolish, Foolish, FOOLISH! You can't hurt me! I'm a ghost! What are you hoping to accomplish? Dummy minions! Teach these guys a lesson!"
Suddenly, the piles of trash surrounding the heroes began to shake, multiple tiny dummies popping up from them, before they focused their beady eyes on the two humans. They opened their mouths, firing out a pulse of magic energy at their opponents.
Badd looked at the incoming attacks, before attempting to whack them away with his bat, only to find out that it phased right through it, impacting his chest hard.
Upon seeing Badd skid back a couple of feet, Seito abandoned any thought of trying to repel the attacks, and focused instead on dodging them. He ducked, weaved and jumped over them, evading the vast majority of the pulses.
A couple of the pulses that Seito dodged went past him and were sent straight at the mad dummy, who couldn't react before he was blasted in the face.
"OWWW! You dummies, watch where you aim your magic attacks!"
Upon hearing that, Badd and Seito smirked.
"H-hey, you two! Forget I said anything about magic!"
"So all we have to do is focus the attacks in your direction? Good to know..."
The mad dummy was visibly sweating now. "Wh-whatever! Dummy minions, keep attacking!"
The tiny dummies just looked wordlessly at their leader, before firing more pulses at Badd and Seito.
There were more than last time, and they were flying at them faster as well. However, being more prepared this time, Badd and Seito managed to evade the attacks rather easily. Once again, they flew at the mad dummy, pelting him with his own minion's attacks once more.
"Heh, that all you got? I could do this blindfolded!"
The mad dummy started shaking in rage and embarrassment, literally turning red. "Grrr… What's your deal huh?! Humans aren't supposed to be this tough!"
Badd chuckled. "Well, we're not your average humans."
The mad dummy growled. "Well then, if your so confident in yourselves, why don't you see if you can dodge my dummy minions AND my dummy bots!"
Mechanical whirring suddenly filled the area. Metal dummies popped up next to the normal ones, their red eyes glowing.
"Dummy bots, magic missile!"
In addition to the normal magic attacks of the dummy minions, the robotic dummies' chests opened up, shooting forth rockets.
"Uh, those might actually pack a punch."
"Agreed. We should focus on dodging those over anything else."
With that plan in motion, the two high ranking heroes began dodging the attacks. However, they didn't notice when the missiles that they had avoided circles back around and aimed themselves at their backs. This resulted with them being caught in a violent explosion, sending them flying into a pile of trash.
"Ow..."
"Hah! Not so cocky now are you! Lets see you get back up from that!"
The mad dummy was shocked when his thought to be defeated opponents did just that, not noticeably worse for wear apart from their slightly singed clothes.
Meanwhile, Sid, Zenko and Chara were watching the fight. One with interest, one with worry, and one with shock.
"YOOO! Did you see that?! They just shook off an explosion like it was nothing! I didn't know humans were that strong!"
"Normally they aren't. My big bro and Seito are professional heroes who protect the weak. They have to be strong. And even among heroes, they're some of the strongest."
"Wow... I hope I can get that strong someday..."
Chara had tuned the two of them out, and was thinking to herself.
"That dummy is around a low demon level threat, so it shouldn't be much trouble for the two of them to tank his hits, but there is still the possibility that he could outlast them..."
"WHAT!? HOW?! Arrgh! Whatever! Dummies, keep laying it on them until they can't take it anymore!"
His minions obliged, and began rapidly firing their magical attacks at the two.
Badd looked at Seito as the attacks were approaching, before nodding his head towards the mad dummy, who was cackling a ways away from them. Seito smirked and nodded, before they both broke out into a sprint towards him.
"H-huh? What're you doing...! WAIT, STO-"
At the last second, they veered to the left, the attacks unable to follow them, and ruthlessly pelted the mad dummy with magic pulses and explosions.
"Uh, you think we should help him?"
Seito scoffed. "He's a ghost, he can't die. Worst case scenario his vessel is destroyed, but it's his own fault for attacking us."
As the blast cleared, the mad dummy was shown to be more or less intact, although the explosions had blown part of his head off and his stand was missing.
"Grrrrr…. That's IT! DUMMY MINIONS, LISTEN UP! YOU'RE ALL FIRED! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACES AGAIN!"
As the now Furious dummy finished his rant, his minions slowly shuffled away, wide eyed.
"HAHAHAHAH! I don't need them anyway, I've got knifes!"
Two knives floated up beside him, before rocketing towards Badd and Seito.
Badd just held up his bat to block it, while Seito caught the knife closed palm with an underwhelmed expression.
"Uh... I'm out of knifes."
"Look man, we've obviously won. Just accept it and leave."
"No way! I'm not giving up until I have your souls!"
Just as the mad dummy was about to charge forward at him, he started to get pelted by what looked like water.
"OW! Wh-what is this?! Acid rain? Ugh, forget it! I'm out of here!"
And with that, the mad dummy floated off, grumbling to himself.
"Oh, sorry... I interrupted you didn't I? As soon as you arrived your friend left. Oh no, I just wanted to say hi."
Napstablook showed up in front of the heroes just as the other three were joining them.
Badd frantically shook his hands, worried that the melancholy ghost would break into tears.
"Oh, no. That guy wasn't out friend, he was trying to take our souls! You actually helped us out Napstablook!"
"Oh... well that's a relief. Not that he was trying to take your souls, I mean!"
Badd chuckled. "I get what ya mean, man."
Seito looked at his fellow hero with mild curiosity.
"You know this monster?"
"Yeah, me and Zenko met em back in the ruins. Nice guy, if a bit hard on himself."
"I see. Well, it's a pleasure to meet you Napstablook."
"Oh gee... thanks. Well, I better be going. M-maybe you could come with if you want. My house is just a straight path from here. It's ok if you don't want to, no pressure. Well, bye..."
Napstablook floated off before they could give him a response.
"Let's go hang out with Napstablook! It'd be nice to catch up."
Seito shook his head at Zenko as they walked. "Sorry, but we've wasted enough time already."
as they came into a clearing, they heard a familiar voice coming from their left.
"Damn humans, keep running away from me, making me chase after em instead of fighting like men."
"...On second thought, going to see Napstablook might be a good idea after all."
The group sprinted through the clearing before Undyne could notice them.
"Yooo, you two were so cool when you were fighting that dummy dude! You took an explosion head on and just brushed it off! And then when you made his own attacks hit him? That was so awesome!"
"Heh, cool your jets kid, it was nothing special."
"Nothing special?! You mean you dudes do stuff like that all the time?"
"Well, when you're a hero, you gotta get into fights to protect the citizens. So yeah, that was a pretty normal occurrence for us."
"Fights like THAT are normal for you?! Life must be pretty eventful up on the surface!"
"...I guess that's one way to put it."
As they were talking, the group came upon a couple of houses that looked like they were ripped out of a Dr. Suess book.
Badd walked up and knocked on the door to the right, before waiting for a response.
After about half a minute, The door creaked open to reveal the cartoonish looking ghost that resided in the house.
"Oh... you actually came. Well, come in. Sorry, but my house isn't really that special."
The group entered the house. If there was one word they could use to describe Napstablook's abode, it would be barren. The first story consisted of a single room, with only a TV, refrigerator, and laptop in it.
"Sorry about the lack of stuff... I just spend most of the time on my computer making music..."
Seito looked surprised at that. "You make music?"
"Well, nothing with vocals or anything... just things I think sound nice. It's just a hobby really. You can listen if you really want to."
Seito gave a genuine smile at the ghost's bashfulness. "I think I just might."
As Seito went over to Napstablook's computer, the ghost floated over to the others.
"Um... I'm sorry there's not much to do here. I have a snail farm out back if you want to look."
Zenko nodded enthusiastically, while Sid shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Zenko turned to Badd as she was walking out the back door.
"Aren't you coming Badd?"
"Nah, I'm gonna relax for a bit, you go on ahead."
"Oh, ok. Hey guys, wait up!"
Badd laughed, laying down. "This is still so surreal to me..."
Napstablook came back in after introducing the kids to snail racing, which he was surprised to find out they actually enjoyed, before seeing that Seito was over at the computer tapping his finger rhythmically to whatever he was listening to.
"Huh? Y-you actually like it?"
Seito looked over towards Napstablook, and gave him a smile.
"Of course! This is actually really good! You're not giving yourself enough credit."
"O-oh, well thanks. It's really just a hobby though, I don't know if I could make a career out of it."
"Well, why not? You like doing it right?" At that Napstablook nodded.
"Then there's no reason not to give it a shot!"
"Y-yeah, I guess..."
Napstablook floated over to the computer to look at what Seito was listening to.
"Oh... It's showtime? I made that one for my cousin. He likes stylish and flashy things, so I tried to incorporate it into the track."
"Well, I say you did a pretty good job at it."
Napstablook just blushed as Seito scrolled through the playlist, clicking another track.
"Ah. Spear of Justice. I made that one to reflect Undyne's personality: Extreme and heroic. She's my neighbor you know."
Seito froze up. "Like... next door neighbor?"
"No, she lives about a mile down the way. She tries to be nice, but she scares me sometimes. I don't think she gets that wrestling isn't my thing."
Seito had to stifle a laugh at that. So even Napstablook views her as a hero. Maybe we can convince her not to kill us after all.
As Seito and Napstablook bonded over music, Badd was thinking.
I don't know why, but I keep getting this foreboding feeling. Must be something's about to go down soon. Well, as long as the kids stay safe, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Chara Floated over to Badd and sat down next to him.
"What 'ca thinking about?"
"Eh, just worrying about how we're gonna handle Undyne. She really doesn't seem like the type to talk things out, and I get that. I'm usually like that myself, having my sis around usually mellows me out though."
Chara nodded wordlessly, seeming to be reflecting on something.
"You know, you guys have aren't actually too bad. I expected the worst, what with you being humans and all, but you've really surprised me. If all humans today are like you, then I might be able to have peace of mind."
"Trust me, there are some shitty humans out there, but for every one of them, there's usually ten good ones. I just think that you had the unfortunate luck of being around a lot of shitty ones."
Chara looked aimlessly at the wall, reflecting on that.
"...Maybe."
The human and the spirit sat there in silence, for a moment.
"I hope you're right. I've been angry far too long, and that's dangerous for anyone."
"Yeah, once we get to the surface, you can see for yourself."
Chara chuckled.
"That'd be great."
She looked over at Seito, who was smiling at Napstablook, who appeared to be somewhat less melancholy than usual.
"It really would."
Yes, I had Napstablook compose Undertale's soundtrack, I thought it was a fun little idea.