"There was this giant turtle! He was green, had red hair and wore a ton of spikes. He smelled like sewage." Frisk ran through his memories trying to recall everything that happened, he continuously kept looking at the ground. "He didn't make his objectives clear, but he was really rude, he came right after me and… Well, I blacked out."
He rubbed his head and looked back up to Mario and Luigi.
"Bowser," Both of the brothers said as they looked at each other.
"That first attack must have been a distraction! He's taking over another kingdom Mario, we have to stop him!" said Luigi. Mario nodded, "The princess can wait, we gotta get to Bowser's Castle!"
They turned to Frisk, Mario stepped forward and signaled everyone to follow.
Mario pointed to another direction in the forest, "That's-a the way."
He began walking, Luigi following behind him. "Come on Frisk lets save your kingdom!"
Frisk felt worry gnaw at his stomach, everything felt too different here. He trusted these two but he wondered how they would react to helping a kingdom of monsters out. They'll understand, they have to, he assured herself. He dug deep within himself mustering that feeling he always used to feel, it wasn't coming up, but it was there. That little spark of determination.
…
The underground was in disarray, Bowser had managed to make his way to the throne room and what came after was an explosion of chaos. He reassembled his army and had captured New Home. Kamek rendered the royal guard useless with his magic, including Undyne who was locked away from using her abilities and spears. Bowser tried recruiting some of the monsters into his army, but nobody wanted in. He instead held them captive in the different areas, all under constant watch as they now had to live under his new reign.
What was once called the MTT Resort, an over the top and exuberant Hotel, hosted by the underground's, only, self proclaimed celebrity. Adorned with nothing but his face everywhere, Mettaton was knocked from his perch, of course he complained, actually, there was no way to get him to shut up about it. The hotel was his pride and joy, stationed between the Hotlands and the Core it was a perfect vacation spots for all the residents. Now it was renamed Bowser's Resort, the front that was once adorned with a glittering fountain built in his likeness, was now replaced by a statue of Bowser, room were for the soldiers, everyone else that was at the resort was now being held in the diner.
Within the diner sat the crew around the MTT shaped table, Undyne felt her rage brewing, she clutched her fist and pressed it against the table.
"I can't take this anymore, why are we just sitting here while a giant turtle runs rampant around OUR home! All that work we did waiting for those souls and now were just about to lose them!" She shouted as she slammed her scaly fists on the table.
She was stripped of her armor, left with nothing but her black sleeveless shirt, jeans and boots. She felt completely exposed and enraged, I'll get my stuff back, and they can expect a whopping of a thousand spears when I get my hands on them!
Her face held the expression of an angered shark, and her ears were pointed upright, tensed up. She looked ready to explode.
"Watch it, those custom tables cost a lot of gold!" Mettaton EX jumped in, "The nerve of that fashion mess, he dares waltz in and announce that this resort is his?! I could care less of his upbringing and utter lack of respect to people like me, but I doubt he knows how to run a resort properly and be a TV star!" He hunched over the table, pouting, with one arm to his metallic face.
Sitting beside Mettaton EX was Sans who shrugged, "could be worse, we could all be dead."
Undyne and Mettaton EX both looked at Sans, "If that was an attempt at a joke, it was horrible." She remarked as she furrowed her brow.
Papyrus was sitting next to Sans and looked lost in thought, "I THINK… I THINK I MAY HAVE LEFT THE OVEN ON, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER." He said. Undyne shouted, "Seriously Papyrus?! A time like this and all you can think of is cooking?"
Papyrus jumped in his seat and quickly looked over from his interrupted thoughts, "WELL IT WAS MY GREATEST CREATION YET, WITH THIS I WAS FINALLY HOPING TO GET ON THAT COOKING SHOW! PAPYRUS'S PATENT PENDING QUICHE-CAKE…THING!"
"Your what? Quiche-Cake… isn't that a Pie or something?" Undyne said confused, "Wait I never taught you that-"
"I FOUND A RECIPIE IN OUR KITCHEN! WRITTEN IN THE WORST HANDWRITING, BUT NONE THE LESS READABLE AND TOTALLY MY SHOE IN FOR THE COOKING SHOW!" Papyrus said giddy.
Mettaton EX sneered as he looked over to the side, "Even if you cook something different darling your probably gonna have to cook something actually edib-" he was immediately cut off by Undyne who jabbed him in the side and hissed over to him silently "Crush his dreams, and I'll turn you into a can!"
"Well excuse me darling!" he said as he leaned back on the chair and crossed his arms, slightly annoyed expression. His metal sides were partially fragile, in fact in his second form he was completely fragile but equipped with speakers, a makeshift heart and everything that made you think of some sort of robot anime star, but beauty over stability was more important to him, no matter how silly he looked, thought Undyne. His black hair fluffed over the side of his face as his gaze shifted elsewhere, he was looking around the room, frustrated. Everyone was frustrated.
There was a comedian on the stage trying to crack jokes in light of the grim situation, but nobody laughed. All the exits were blocked by the Goomba henchmen.
Undyne leaned over the table and whispered, "We need to get out of here, make it to the Lab, does anyone know what happened to Alphys?"
Everyone else leaned in, Mettaton EX was the first to speak, "I haven't seen her at all since the commotion happened, you think they captured her first?" he said as his face turned serious.
"HOW IS A DOG GOING TO HELP US?" Papyrus asked.
"she means laboratory, but i think a dog could help us out since were in a ruff spot." Sans said as he held a smug look on his face.
Papyrus gave a gentle push to Sans, "THAT'S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU!"
"We could start there; maybe we can find something that can help us take back the resort, anything new Alphys might be working on should be there!" Mettaton EX seemed convinced of the idea to make it to the lab, his goals were more personal, but the issue still remained, "How do we escape?" Undyne said as she raced through her thoughts and removed anything that didn't involve spears.
"WE COULD TRY ASKING NICELY!" Papyrus chirped quietly.
Undyne got a grin on her face, "No Papyrus, but we can use a distraction."
"HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THAT?" He asked.
"Easy!" at once Undyne lifted the table that they were discussing over and threw it across the room. The place erupted into chaos and everyone started running around and yelling, the guards were trying to get everything in order but the room was too crowded.
"Let's go you three!" she said as she sifted through the crowd.
Papyrus and Mettaton looked at each other, partially in shock, "Well that's one way to make an exit~." Mettaton EX got up and followed after Undyne.
"W-WAIT FOR ME METTATON!" Papyrus got up and grabbed Sans by his hood, "COME ON SANS!" he said as he dragged him through the crowd.