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Hi!
So, I forgot to say it on the first chapter, but credit where it's due.
Undertale belongs to TobyFox.
Underfell belongs to the fandom of Undertale in general.
And the cover for this story is mine XD.
So, with that out of the way, enjoy! Please take into account that any discrepancies with Underfell are caused by the AU of an AU thing and are just my headcanons for this characters.
Undyne sat at the edge of the river in Waterfall, just looking at the recruits doing their usual training regimen. RG01 and RG02 were still buddy-buddy, and it pissed her off! But, well, as long as they were doing their jobs, she couldn't say anything. No one said she couldn't have a bit of fun, though.
"You run like kids! What is this?! A KINDERGARTEN! NO!" Raising her fist, she felt something inside of her, a warm feeling that overcame her from time to time, something indescribable, something…" WE'RE THE ROYAL GUARD! I'm going to show you losers how it's done!"
With that said, Undyne lunged at them with incredible speed and intent. RG01 and RG02 didn't have the time to get out of the way before their helmets clashed against each other. The captain's famous noogies at their best! Only the best! NGAAAAAH!
While messing around with that duo was fun, the rest of the guards had stopped to watch the incident. Not exercising, not moving to help either Undyne or the duo of monsters under her powerful grip! It pissed her off even more!
"And just tell me, what are you doing just standing there and staring? If I was a human, you would all be dead already!"
A trembling RG01 raised his arm, just moving it out of the way to have enough breath to speak:
"If you were a human…" panting, RG01 tried to keep going, struggling "… all the Underground would be… in flames… already…"
Silence overcame the training grounds in Waterfall, everyone just looking dumbfounded at RG01. To have the guts to tell that to the captain while being given a noogie as aggressive as hers…
Suddenly, a predatory smirk made its way into Undyne's face.
"DARN RIGHT, MAN! In fact, why don't we do a play spar? You are all monsters, pretty sure you know what it means…"
Everyone gulped in fear.
"I'M GOING THE HUMAN WHO KICKS ALL YOUR ASSES! NGAAHAHAHAHA!"
Undyne was pretty sure RG02 started to sweat from nervousness alone. They were fun to mess with, she thought while doing good on her statement and start beating them all single handedly. Fun, but not as fun as messing with the lanky and loud skeleton from Snowdin. She thought of what Papyrus would be up to right now, probably dragging his lazy brother around.
A chill crawled up her back.
Yeah, no, Papyrus could do whatever he wanted in Snowdin while being there in time for their seemingly random but carefully scheduled spars and trainings. She was not scared nor worried about that numbskull and she was certainly NOT afraid of the lazy and laid back skeleton that always seemed to hang around any area Papyrus was in. Not in the least!
Oh, screw it. Messing with the guards would take up a bit of her time, but she is sure she could manage a visit to Alphys before her meeting with Papyrus. Eh, positive. It would have to be enough, she is going to need her cool for later.
Asgore's request to see her for her monthly report could wait for a bit longer still. Is not like the old boss monster is going anywhere anytime soon.
She decided to just focus in the moment, seems like RG01 had escaped her noogie while she was thinking and was now trying to help RG02 to break out of her grip.
-Fuhuhuhuh- and with her shining yellow eyes, menacing and predatory, she went into an attack.
Alphys struggled to get the dog food to the, apparently, bathroom door. In reality it was a lift to her True Lab, the gore thing from above just a front for anyone who could break into what she uses as her house nowadays. The outside part was filled with chains and leather sofas. The mechanic stairs that were supposed to go up were made in a hurry and only went in one direction now.
Well, it's not like she couldn't try to fix that later, right? Right.
…
She really wasn't going to do that, apparently. At least not today. The Angel knew that dealing with the Amalgamates was hard enough, Alphys was exhausted. But she couldn't really show that now, could she?
Everything needed to be in perfect order. Just in case, just in case… Low lights that flicker from time to time? Check. Weird red and gray stains, that were purposefully and carefully added to the corners of the room and in some tiles in between, to look like dust and blood? C-c-c-ch-check. Chains with some moss on it on the farthest wall? Check. Mew Mew Killing Cutely posters and figurines? CHECK!
Eh…
Well, she just needed to get the food down for Endogeny if that was all taken care for. The Underground wasn't as safe as it used to be nowadays and one couldn't be sure of anything. But, nevertheless, she was positive that the rumors she had been spreading around with Mettaton's help, her reputation as the Royal Scientist and the recording she got from some of the amalgamates that she sometimes played upstairs… No one should bother her.
In fact, they may even ran away!
...
Not good for socializing, but it was better this way. She was still trying to get over the stuttering she developed from being socially awkward and all and, it's not like she couldn't fight! It's just… Well, Alphys wasn't particularly strong in magic terms or even stats.
Electric magic could be dangerous, Alphys knew, but it just wasn't strong enough to actually dust someone. Just to stun them and run away. But that would be a blow to her reputation that would make her free EXP for some out there.
She wasn't the best at being mean or scary, but… With all the cameras Underground in her network, she could bribe, threaten or manipulate monsters. She could even try to imitate the scariest out there! Like U-U-Undyne! She was so cool, so strong, so ho-
Anyways! There were lots of scary monsters out there she could emulate! Sadly, Undyne usually was in the training grounds which were off limits because of the King or at her home where, she could not! She was not a stalker!
…
Well, not that MUCH of a stalker… yet.
She could settle for another scary one? There were lots to pick!
She was particularly unnerved by the skeletons from Snowdin. They were so spooky. Maybe it was for the fact that they were that particular type of monster? But, thinking on it, it didn't really add up. That uncomfortable feeling always crawled up her back anytime the older skeleton, Sans, was passing her by in the corridors of the castle or in his (illegal?) hot dog stand in Hotland. The guy was EVERYWHERE. Alphys was pretty sure he would sell fried snow if he could, like, actually fry it!
Yet, the nagging feeling she had that she knew him from somewhere else didn't leave her.
With the food for Endogamy on the lift, she pressed down.
She would put that feeling away… again. For being everywhere, he never really showed up in any of her cameras except that one in the Ruins' door. Almost like he knew where they all were.
Alphys could almost recall having showed the locations to a lab partner, but that was ridiculous, right? She had never worked in the labs before being appointed as the new Royal Scientist, let alone with someone else!
The lift reached its destination and Alphys resumed her struggles with the dog food. She needed to review those old blueprints in one of the rooms of the True Lab. It was all written in some kind of coded language that was, thankfully, translated in some useful parts like the maintenance of the Core with a rather round font. Again, that seemed familiar.
Alphys shrugged it off.
Again.
The Great and Terrific Papyrus was not having a good day. Not only had the snow messed up his carefully done puzzles, but his brother wasn't on his station!
He carefully checked the area, looking into the white snow for even a dot of gray. Dust mixed with snow was not that uncommon, so he couldn't be sure yet. He kept on searching.
There was no black and yellow coat anywhere near the station, at least.
This was troubling.
IF SANS WAS NAPPING AT HOME, HE SWEARS HE'S-
Actually, no. That was the first place he checked for his lazy brother. He didn't see him in the way, so he could probably be at the Ruins' door again or in, ugh, Grillby's. It was probably the latter, the more he thought about it. He stomped on the ground, frustrated, before catching himself and stopping the nervous tic.
What did his brother do at the Ruins' door anyway? It had been sealed off for a long time and no one answered when the local teens tried to mess with it, so it was probably empty on the other side too.
Probably.
He did not like the idea of someone on the other side interacting only with his brother or anything like that. Even though Papyrus himself talked to Flowey every once in a while. AGH! This kind of thing wouldn't happen if Sans just told him what he was doing or, anything at all!
His lazy brother was so troublesome! Papyrus knew his health wasn't the best, even though he never got the opportunity to check it. It wasn't that Sans didn't get in fights, Papyrus knew he did. It's just, he never got to see it!
His brother doing something that was not napping, punning or going to Grillby's seemed surreal, and yet, all the evidence pointed to it. The tears on his jacket, some random dust even if in small doses, which meant he at least hadn't killed his opponent. Shouldn't he hope for it? Papyrus just didn't want to let go of the image of his older brother when they were younger, alone in a dark world but still refusing to dust anyone else. He did dust someone, though? His head hurt. Whatever.
That lazybones was going to get the lecture of the year!
…
Because he was still alive and kicking, punning his way out of encounters and unpleasant monster out there somewhere, right?
When the snow crunched behind him, Papyrus quickly summoned a bone with his blue magic, pointing and aiming towards the sound. He quickly let go with a gasp when the hollow eyesockets of his brother stared at him, his creepy smile still up.
Trying to steady the horrified rhythm of his soul, he quickly made the blue bone disappear without a trace. He almost hit his brother! He knew that Sans' health wasn't the best! How would a blue attack even affect him? Would it be too much?
"So, uh, I noticed you were happy to see me" said Sans, shrugging.
With terror in his soul and still shaken of his brother almost dying because of him, Papyrus glared.
"WELL, YOU WEREN'T AT YOUR STATION, WERE YOU? YOU JUST HAD TO BE THE USUAL LAZY BAG OF BONES AND SKIP YOUR WORK TO, WHAT? DELUDE YOURSELF AT GRILLBY'S THAT YOU HAVE FRIENDS?!" Wait, that didn't sound right. Papyrus didn't mean to say that, he was just worried that-
"Heheh, well. You've made your point of view very clear. Ice to be here to bug ya and all that. If you don't want me around, then don't. Come."
Papyrus was speechless for a moment. Dumbfounded with himself. His brother just wasn't seeing reason and kept being purposefully spiteful again!
"YOU FIND THIS FUNNY OR SOMETHING?! I CAN'T LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR A SECOND WITHOUT YOU MOCKING SOMEONE, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE ASKING TO BE DUSTED!" Papyrus was shaking. With fear, with anger, he didn't even know. His brother was just so frustrating, sometimes. But it was still his brother, the one who took care of him, the one who used to tell him bedtime stories, the one who taught him how to talk himself out of a fight, the one who-
"Papyrus, I'm not in the mood. Just leave me alone."
"WHAT? SO YOU COULD WASTE AWAY AND ROT LIKE THE WEAKLING YOU ARE! YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT I, THE GREAT AND TERRIFIC PAPYRUS, IS EVEN BOTHERING WITH YOU AT ALL!"
…the one he just kept upsetting over and over again, pushing him away.
Words were never his forte, were they?
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. The situation is clear now. I'm going to the Ruins' door. Later" said Sans, waving his right hand before carefully putting it back in his coat "… or not, Great and terrific Papyrus."
Papyrus just stood there, his brother Sans so upset he didn't even notice his magic pupils were not manifested in his eyesockets yet. Maybe it was for the best he didn't summon them. Papyrus probably wouldn't be able to deal with what he would see, all those negative emotions he caused his brother again and again.
Another crunch of snow, smaller this time. More like something popping out of the ground.
"Wow, you really suck at this, don't you?"
Irritated, Papyrus just sighed, his figure slumping slightly.
"Shut up, Flowey."
Gosh, I love Undyne and Alphys, but they are so hard to write. Like, I want to be cannon but at the same time not. And good old Papyrus, interacting with a nice Flowey for a change. Honestly, their interactions are heavily implied in the game itself, why don't people use that more if it's not for the normal Undertale?
Also, warning: when I say that this is filled with my headcanons, I really mean it. Like, I have a headcanon for just about anything! This will make itself known with time.
Please tell me what you think. Reviews and constructive criticism is always welcome!