Two Worlds, Two Souls
Chapter 68: Boys Will Be Boys
Angel's Point of View:
I groaned as I rolled over on my bed. I vaguely remembered that Papyrus had put me there after I had fallen asleep. I wasn't dizzy anymore after I'd slept off all the echo flower essence.
Granted... I will say I slept well...
I could hear laughter and a lot of noise from the first floor. I'm sure that must have been the reason for me waking up. I stretched and noticed a bowl of hot soup and a couple of biscuits that Papyrus must have left for me from before. With the nerves much calmer in my stomach, I hurried to eat it. I was pretty hungry, and it felt like I'd slept at least twelve hours since I was last awake.
Once I was finished, I grabbed the dishes and headed out into the common areas of the house. Looking over the edge, I saw that we weren't alone. Besides my family, I saw there was Wher, Undyne, Alphys and Vinnie. Beside him was the dragon royal guardsman that I'd yet to meet, but had spoken to once or twice over the phone. Ryu, I think was his name.
I stepped down the stairs and Frisk's eyes instantly narrowed when she heard the creek of the stairs. She flew from the couch to meet me halfway up the stairs.
"Sis! You're doing better?"
"Yes, I am, I'm sorry about leaving you to handle Mettaton on your own." Holding the dishes in one hand, petted the top of her head. "You do okay?"
"She did way better then okay, Angel!" Undyne loudly laughed before she pointed at the TV. "Damn idiot Mettaton was dumb enough to let the show be live!"
"What?" I shoved my dishes at Frisk before hurrying to see the screen. On it showed Mettaton getting arrested by the royal guard and Undyne with a serious eager face while reading her rights. "Oh my God... I'm really glad I wasn't there then..."
"It certainly was a riot." Vinnie snickered from beside his partner. "When Mettaton didn't surrender at the captain's orders, we got to tackle her."
His partner, Ryu, let out some hissy like snickers. "I'm sure we made a lot of her fans very angry. While Mettaton is very annoying, she is very beautiful. I know hundreds of her fans were very jealous at what we did."
I let out a deep breath. "I missed a lot..."
"Y-yes... but i-its pr- probably for t-the best." Alphys noted from where she sat on the old couch. "Y-you w-were t-too stressed as i-it was. Y-you d-drank too m-much. I-I know i-it h-helps, b-but it r-rendered you... u-unconscious.."
"I hated that I drank so much..." I groaned and held a hand to my head. "I thought I was taking it slowly."
"Slowly, yeah, but consistently. But... Mettaton was really makin' ya stressed. Happens." Sans snickered from his spot. "Good ta see ya up, Precious."
"Good to be up, Darling." I stretched my arms over my head. "How long was I out? I feel like a slept too long..."
"Eh... bout eighteen hours."
"Eighteen?!" I was flabbergasted at the number.
"You really were tired Sis. Papy took the food he left you yesterday and heated it back up for you only a little while ago." She pouted at me slightly. "We weren't sure when you'd wake up."
"Sorry... I think the stress and the alcohol got to me. But I hopefully won't do that again." I sighed. "I've had enough for the year."
"Well, now that you're up, perhaps you could help us with something?" Papyrus pointed me over in the direction of Wher who sat in a chair in the corner. He looked rather down on himself. Papyrus came in close to whisper to me. "Mettaton's company was shut down without their boss, but while Mettaton was being taken away, she let go everyone in the company. Wher's been down on himself since."
"I see..." I looked over to the poor cat man who seemed very lost in those moments. With only a few seconds to think, I made my way over and sat beside him. "Wher?"
He didn't respond to me as he cast his gaze over to the empty space before him.
"What am I going to do?"
I wasn't sure if he liked physical contact, so I didn't touch him. "What do you mean?"
"I'm out a job, I'm gonna lose my apartment! I'll never be an actor!" The male shot up off the couch. It was the most infuriated I'd seen him in the entire time I knew him. Which wasn't long... "Damn it... my sister was right... I can't do anything without her..."
"You're sister?"
He groaned and let himself fall to the ground in frustration, landing on his tail. He hissed out in pain, but otherwise sulked. "My sister, Whisk, she told me when I moved out of her place that I wouldn't be able to make it with a boss like Mettaton... I wanted to be an actor. Not like her, but some of the old-fashioned ones we had in the underground before she took over the spotlight."
"Well, she wasn't wrong about Mettaton. That terrible woman seemed to love making you miserable."
"I know... but she was going to help me become an actor! She promised when she hired me!"
"Did you have lessons with her?"
"Uh... no...?"
I raised an eye brow at him. "Didn't it seem strange that she never helped you get better and just put you down?"
The feline male went to speak up, but he quickly lowered his paw in dejection. He knew I was right, even if he didn't want to believe it.
"What did you do for Mettaton when you worked for her?"
"I... I worked in the burger joint... serving customers."
I gave him an irritated look. "That has nothing to do with becoming an actor. I don't think Mettaton was ever planning to help you."
"Maybe she wasn't... but I still need a job..."
"Certainly, there must be something nearby that would take you in?"
"After Mettaton trash talks me? And all the bad footage I got on the news? No one will hire me..."
"Hm..." I paused for a moment to think before I turned back to him. "Work for me."
"What?!" It wasn't just Wher that yelled out like that, it was also the others in the room as well.
"What do you mean 'what'?" I retorted at them. "It wouldn't hurt, and I need help with that stupid website. I can't run it and I can't keep asking you guys to do it for me."
"Y-you want me to run a website?" Wher questioned me hesitantly.
I smiled at him. "Have you ever heard of Ravie's Gallery?"
It took the cat man a few seconds to register what I'd said before he gasped and flew from his chair. "Oh shit! You're Ravie? The skeleton? The artist?"
"That would be me." Just to show the poor male some proof, I showed him my most recent picture I was working on.
It was a lovely painting a husband wished for his wife. It was a woman who looked much like a siren who sat at the edge of a watering hole. The wife had an eager look upon her face while she watched the glow of the echo flowers around her in waterfall under the light of the glowing crystals. Across from her was her husband who was bent down on his knee as he proposed. The ring he gave her glittering in the distance. Apparently, it was a special moment for the two of them.
"Holy shit…" Wher actually looked so surprised by my statement and the proof that he fell to the floor. "You- your like- famous!"
"Perhaps. But I do need some help."
"H-help?"
"I am in desperate need of an assistant. You see, right now it's me doing the artwork, traveling to deliver the work, and managing the website where requests come in and payments. It's way too much for me to handle. Just making the artwork is difficult, and I'm financially stable enough now where I think I could hire someone." I gave him a quizzical look. "You any good with computers?"
"Uh… yeah. I help my sister all the time with her reports and fixing her computer when it breaks."
"Do you think you'd be good at setting up a schedule? For both yourself and me?"
"I-I bet I could, once I knew more about how you like things done."
"Do you mind traveling across the underground?"
"I… I do that daily anyway. I live in the capitol and travel to Hotland. Coming to Snowdin I just need to plan to catch the ferry."
"Perfect. Then I say your hired." I giggled at his stunned face. "If you can help me with all the things we've gone over, I bet you could spend some time with my younger sister. Mischief and acting are her calling. I bet she could teach you some tricks to help you one day become the actor you want to be. But at least this will keep you afloat until then."
"I-I can't believe it… the great Ravie is hiring me…"
"Great Ravie…" My sister snickered. "You really are worshiped, Sis."
"Oh hush." She stuck her tongue out at me. I returned my attention to Wher. "But I think what would be best is having a training week for you. That would give us time to get another computer that would be solely for our website and communication with our clients. One that you could carry around would be best… since you would man the accounts. It would also provide me some time to show you how I do things, and maybe you can suggests a few things that would make things easier or faster? I'm always open to suggestions."
"O-okay… um… is… is it rude… to ask…?"
"Hm?"
"Precious?" Sans wiggled his boney brows. "How much ya gonna pay him?"
"Oh right!" I couldn't believe I'd forgotten that. "How about… um, Sans, you have a better grasp on money, what do you think I should pay him that would be fair?"
He snorted and shook his head. "You're offerin' him a job and don't know what ta pay him?"
"Hush Darling, now help me."
"I'd say… forty an hour is pretty fair."
The color drained from Wher's face. "F-forty!?"
I blinked at him. "Is that not enough?"
"N-no! That's beyond amazing!" Wher jumped in amazement. The amount of emotions that cat filtered through within half an hour flabbergasted me. "T-that's nearly three times what I was paid by Mettaton! That would cover all my bills and I could pay back my sister! And some loans! I'd actually have money to save up for classes and what not!"
"I'm glad, just try to keep them to a weekend day if you can. I prefer not to work on weekends to spend time with friends and family. But if you have an up coming class that can't be moved, chat with me and we'll work it out where'd you work late or something like that to make up the hours."
"S-sounds good Boss."
"You don't have to call me that." I showed a slight frown at the cat. "If you want to, that's fine, but you can call me Angel when you're here with me working, or Ravie in public."
And then the tension in his shoulders deflated. He finally looked at ease. "Thanks Angel."
It was only then that a sharp knock came at the door. We were all stunned since none of us were expecting anyone. Sans walked over to the door to peak outside before he almost flinched at who was there.
"I ain't openin' that."
I furrowed my brows at him. "Sans, who is it?"
"Brother! Its rude to leave someone at the door in the cold!" Papyrus snapped at attention and hurried over to open it.
"No-wait! Pap-!"
But it was too late.
Papyrus had opened the door and out there stood the very monster we weren't expecting at all. I assumed she was in jail and wouldn't be coming back. He gasped and many of us tensed as we saw the body of silver and pink walk into our living room with a strut.
"Hello darlings. Thank you for opening the door."
Mettaton was in our house…
The lively and hopeful atmosphere turned stagnant in a moment. Poor Wher wished he could curl into himself while he fearfully looked at his old boss. I quickly stepped before him, providing myself as a barrier for the poor guy.
"What do you want Mettaton?"
"Relax Darling, as much as I want to cuss you and your sister out for not making my show as lively as it could be, I'm not here for you." Mettaton rolled her metallic eyes. "Granted, it would have been amazing to reveal to the entire underground that you were getting drunk off of echo flower essence during my show! Don't think I didn't see you taking sips of that every so many minutes."
I narrowed my eyes at her. "Then why are you here?"
"I'm here for my supposed best friend!" Alphys squeaked under the gaze of Mettaton. The robot was infuriated and her eyes actually glowed red from it. "You gave someone that footage Alphys! I know better than to assume otherwise. I know for a fact that it was you! No one else had access to your lab!"
"How do we know someone didn't break in like you did?" Vinnie growled out at the female.
"Relax, Vin." Undyne crossed her arms, but held up one of her hands to tell him to cool it. "Robot can be mad at me. I'm the one who got the footage."
"WHAT?!" That was not something anyone was expecting, especially Mettaton who we could hear the gears of grinding in her body in rage. "How in the world did you get it?!"
"I was with Al when she was going through footage and saw you break in. She tried to keep it quiet, but you broke some serious laws there, tin can. Broke into the fucking royal scientist lab for starters. That's crimes that the king couldn't over look when I showed him the evidence." Undyne struggled to hold back the growl in the back of her throat, but her sharp teeth darted out from below a lip quivering in anger. "Then for harassing your employees that also got added. Don't know where that footage came from, but once the king saw that on your live broadcast, which you promised Angel would be presented at a later time, he knew he had to crack down on you. You revealed just how two faced and what not you were to the entire underground. You fired all your staff. What'ja think was gonna happen?"
All Mettaton could do was stare in disbelief and rage. The constant whirling of her functions and what not were a white noise compared to the shouting that was going on in our home.
"Whatever." Turning on her heels, Mettaton strutted toward the door, showing off her knew body and all its attractive features, I guessed. "If you plan to knock me down to the bottom to start up once more, I will darlings. You won't hold me down forever. My acting might be hold for now, but I still have my hand in many businesses to keep me afloat until it's my time to shine again!"
And with that, Mettaton took off out the door, slamming it shut behind her. Everyone released a collective sigh once she was out of sight and I hurried to turn to the two shaking figures in the room. My sister was already whispering kind words to Wher while I hurried with Undyne to help Alphys.
"Come on Al, don't worry 'bout that tin can. She's been using ya for far too long." Undyne tried to cheer the woman up as she sat there with shaking hands.
"I-I-I'm s-so sorry…"
"You have nothing to be sorry for, Mettaton was manipulative." I slowly kneeled before the yellow woman. "This would have probably happened sooner or later anyway. Maybe she'd been doing it for a while and you knew and didn't say anything or she just finally got caught by the right person. You don't need someone like that in your life."
"Damn…" I lifted my head long enough for Vinnie to whistle by the door with the three other men in the house. "Too bad Mettaton was such a whack job, she's friggin' hot otherwise."
"I know!" And with that Papyrus fell to the floor as a sobbing mess. "Mettaton will forever hate me now that I'm associated with those she despises! But I can't abandon my friends and family!"
As the number of sane residents went down in the house, I could only sigh. Was it bad that I wanted to drink again from the insanity?
Witch's Note:
Alright! Folks we have hit the end of another arc! Mettaton and Gaster have both been completed! All that we have left is the drug circle and Asgore! I hope you really enjoyed these chapters because I can NOT wait until next week. Neither can Mystic Girl!
Mystic Girl: Are you serious!? Is it finally time for THAT chapter?
Me: Next week! You and I have a TON of work to do! So, no slacking off! Naps are going to have to be kept to a minimum. And I'm saying that for both of us because I've been falling asleep after work the last four days…
Mystic Girl: OH! MY! GOD! Sleep you idiot! This is one of the most important chapters in this story! We can't have you slipping at all! Its easily in the top three! You HAVE to be ready!
Me: I know! I know… Sorry, works been picking up and I have no energy when I get home… Anyway, let me move onto reviews before I die…
Dasansi: You have no idea how much I appreciate the honestly you gave me for the first of the Mettaton chapters. Just like I'd mentioned before, I'd been worried for that chapter for a handful of reasons, and I expected some backlash. I'm glad that it warmed up to everyone in time with the two following chapters to help smooth a lot of things out, but I am really glad you liked a more… mean Mettaton rather then goodie-goodie. That's more of the way I picture them. Perhaps they had been a good person once upon a time, but stardom can change everything… So continue to be honest with me okay? Its really appreciated and helps. And I hope when I get some other material ready to post you might be willing to read it soon too! Not sure when yet, but I have a few other stories that have been in the makings for a LONG time. One of them that once I get the first book edited (since it needs it badly…) Mystic Girl can't wait for me to post it.
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Me: You better believe it. I've gotten so much of it written. She'd be the next one I'd want to post, if I can ever get some time to edit those chapters…
Mystic Girl: Yes! Friggin' YES!
Me: Calm down there, lady. Still, I don't know when I'm gonna post. Its gonna be a while…
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Thechaosmaster: Chaos, I just tried to copy what you do for us and add a bit more. You had commented that you needed a bit of a boot in the butt as well as some suggestions on how to keep yourself going. And that my friend, can be really hard. Mystic Girl nagging down my back helps me to keep typing. But sometimes even I need a break. I find that having more then one project going at once helps me depending on what mood I am to type for. I've been heavy on a big kick with the second book of this story, but I also have two-four other projects that I can dive between. Two of them I plan to post, the other two… debatable.
But I'm so glad you enjoyed the chapter! Don't you just love Frisk being an absolute little demon? I have a feeling you're going to love/hate the first third of my second book. And if you do stick around with us that long, I'm going to be very eager for those reviews! And you must stick around for next week my good sir! As it has been hinted-
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Mystic Girl: (She shrinks a bit sheepishly.) Sorry, I'm excited.
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Mystic Girl: Oh! My turn! So, like Halloween said, I friggin love the chains! But… if you won't let me choose them, I'd say control over air and water would be second. My emotions… I can cause storms! When I'm upset or angry, a storm rolls in. When I'm calm, clear friggin blue skies! So, it HAS to be that. Like Halloween, I'm in tune with water and wind where she's more of the earth and nature kind of girl.
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