STOP! WAIT A MINUTE! Fan my fics, put some Alphyne in it! WOO!
So hey I'm back yay. I had some free time and I decided to write. There's a hurricane passing through, so I figured I'd do some homework before the storm hit. I'm not finished with all of my homework, but I can put it off a little longer.
Anyway, some Alphyne! Yay! And some maternal Linda, as well. Also yay! I hope you like when she's a little kinder. I know I do. Anyway, see you at the bottom of the page.
Chapter 25: Sigh-ence Fair
"Where the heck is Dr. Dumb-little?" Flowey hissed behind the curtain of the stage.
"He already went on, Flowey—" Linda began to hiss back.
"No, not Gaster! I mean Dr. Alphys! You know, Dumb-little?"
Linda rolled her eyes. "Didn't she say she was waiting for someone?"
"Like I pay attention to what she says—"
"Where is Dr. Alphys, Flowey?" Toriel hurried quietly up to the two of them and peeked through the curtain. A small crowd of monster and human parents, teachers, and students were sitting in the theater seats, looking at their phones or whispering to each other. "She was supposed to go on stage half a minute ago!"
"That's what we're trying to figure out, Mom! Linda, did you check the bake sale area?"
"Muffet said she didn't see her there," Linda replied. "We need a distraction. I can look for her in the bathroom in the cafeteria if you can get someone to keep the crowd busy."
"I can do that." Linda jumped and turned to see Sans behind her in a white lab coat.
"You?"
"You seem to forget that I have several PHDs. I can work some magic, figuratively and literally."
Linda sniffed. "Fine, just do it. Oh, she is so going to get it once this is over…"
Sans put his hands in his pockets and walked out onstage. Linda opened the side door to the stage and hurried to the cafeteria. She sped past Muffet's bake sale table and opened the girl's bathroom door. One of the stalls was closed.
"Dr. Alphys?" Linda called, knocking on the stall. "Dr. Alphys, you were supposed to go on stage two minutes ago! Why aren't you-?"
Sniff…sniff…
Linda paused. "…Dr. Alphys? The stall door opened and Alphys peered out at the mother. She was crying.
"I can't go on, Linda," she sniffled.
"Why not?"
"Undyne called me. She was supposed to go to the hospital because her eye was getting infected. It's taking them way longer than they thought to clean it up, and she won't be here for another hour! I-I can't go on without her in the crowd! I-I'm scared…!"
"…Monsters can get infections?" Was all Linda could think.
"W-well, yes, the bacteria on the surface is different from what would be the monster equivalent, and—!" Alphys' tail thumped on the floor. "Y-you're missing the point! I can't go on the stage! She always makes me feel safe when I have to give speeches or seminars! If she's not there, I'm… I'm gonna mess up!"
Linda put her hand to her chin and pondered a moment while Alphys wiped her glasses on her lab coat.
Alphys had agreed, after much pushing from Undyne, to give a speech on monster and human biologies as the final event of the science fair. If Linda couldn't get Alphys on that stage, it would look really bad on the PTA, which would mean she would look bad. Linda didn't have a lot in her life, so the PTA was her proudest role besides that of being a mother. If Undyne couldn't come to the fair, could she bring the fair to Undyne? Wait…
Lidna snapped her fingers. "That might be it!"
"H-huh?"
"Give me your phone. Open it first, obviously! Now let's see…" Linda plucked the phone from Alphys' claw and opened the Skype app (which The Author doesn't own), scanning for Undyne's name.
"O-of course!" Alphys exclaimed as Linda returned the phone.
The screen blinked blue, then white. Undyne was lying in a cot with some bandages over her bad eye. "Hey, babe, how are you—wait, are you crying? What happened?!"
Linda peeked over Alphys' shoulder. "There's no time for hellos. Dr. Alphys needs to be on stage, and you need to be her guardian angel or whatever the monster equivalent of that is! Now hurry, Sans has been stalling for nearly three minutes now! Go, I'll catch up with you!"
"R-right!" Alphys squeezed past Linda and hurried to the theater. Linda watched her go. It was… strange, to say the least, seeing two women love and rely on each other like that. Her religion didn't really condone this, yet this didn't seem wrong. Then again, there were a lot of things her religion didn't allow that were happening all the time. Linda shook her head and walked out of the bathroom. Religion had its own day. Today was a day for science.
Head Canon I Don't Actually Think #30: Monsters who moved up to the surface were exposed to new germs, as most people tend to do when they go somewhere new. Usually, since monster bodies are mostly magic, the germs don't affect them that much. However, there can be some exceptions, such as open or old wounds like Undyne's eye.
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the Head Canons I Don't Actually Think are becoming more and more actually what I think. Some are obviously silly, but others are not. Interpret that as you will.
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