The Warners came across a blue bunny-like creature standing next to a cart.
"I don't understand why these aren't selling...It's the perfect weather for something cold..."
"Hello?" said Wakko, getting the bunny's attention.
His ears shot up like a rocket.
"OH! CUSTOMERS! Hello! Would you like some Nice Cream? It's the frozen treat that warms your heart! Now just 15G! Instead of a joke, the wrapper says something nice."
"Sure!" said Yakko, giving him forty-five pieces of gold. The Nice Cream Man gave them three Nice Cream bars, happy that they bought his treat.
"Here you go! Have a super-duper day!"
The Warners left before his enthusiasm could start getting on their nerves. Crossing a bridge, they found a gigantic snowball in a snow patch. Instead of a puzzle, however, it seemed more like a game. The field the snowball was on led to a hole. Dot kicked it, making it bounce against the boundaries. It started shrinking rather quickly, so she tried to hurry up, but her aiming was awful. Finally, when the ball almost turned into a puddle, it fell into the hole and a light blue flag came out with a message.
"'Ball' is 'Small.' You waited, still, for this opportunity...then dethroned 'Ball' with a sharp attack. Sweet, four gold."
She took the gold out of the hole as the game reset.
"Let me have a go at it!" said Wakko.
He quickly kicked the snowball over and over again until it landed in the hole, staying large compared to Dot's tiny ball. This time, an orange flag came out.
"You are the kind of person who rushes fists-first through all obstacles. Ooh, five gold!"
He smirked at Dot as he had the bigger amount.
"My turn!" said Yakko.
He pushed the snowball instead of kicking it, getting a blue flag.
"Hopping and twirling, your original style pulled you through."
He grimaced as he got two pieces of gold.
"Hey, no fair! I'm trying again."
He used the same strategy, but didn't hit the edges of the field this time. He got a purple flag.
"Even when you felt trapped, you took notes and achieved the end of 'Ball.' Two gold again?!"
"Maybe we broke it," said Wakko.
He tested it again, pushing the snowball across a patch of ice to put it into the hole. He got a green flag.
"Your concern and care for 'Ball' led you to a delicious victory."
He only got one piece of gold this time.
"Nope, it's not rigged."
Dot tried one more time, this time getting the ball in the hole with one kick. Her flag was yellow.
"Your sure-fire accuracy put an end to the mayhem of 'Ball.' Ha! Three gold!"
After each had their two turns, they decided to spice things up a little and play as if it was soccer. Yakko kicked the ball towards the hole, Wakko and Dot scrambling to get it.
"I got it! I got it!" Wakko shouted, shortly slipping on the ice afterwards and falling onto his side.
"Mine!" said Dot, kicking it to the hole.
Yakko delivered one final kick. A red flag, the last of them all, appeared. They read the message.
"Bravery. Justice."
"Integrity. Kindness."
"Perseverance. Patience."
They read the last sentence at the same time.
"Using these, you were able to win at 'Ball game.'"
"Whoa, fifty gold!" said Yakko. "I'd say we're pretty good at this game."
Going backwards to see what they missed, they ran into Sans...again.
"i've been thinking about selling treats too," he told them, thinking about the Nice Cream Man. "want some fried snow? it's just 5G."
"Sure!" said Wakko.
"did i say 5G? i meant 50G."
"No," said Dot.
"you're right. that's still too low."
"Yeah," said Yakko, "you should go for 500G!"
"i would if i actually had fried snow."
They chuckled and went back down.
"Another snowball...actually, it's a snowdecahedron," said Yakko.
Sans and Papyrus were straight ahead, this time noticing the Warners immediately.
"HUMANFOLK! I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR...SANS! WHERE'S THE PUZZLE!"
"it's right there. on the ground. trust me. there's no way they can get past this one."
"A piece of paper?" said Dot, not impressed.
They walked forward, Yakko picking it up to find out that it was a word search.
"Wakko, got a pen?"
He pulled one out of his Gag Bag.
"Thanks."
He went to work and crossed out words, finding "fall", "monster", "cigars", "winter", "skeletons", "cig", "spring", "mermaid", "summer", "robot", and "hot". Yakko grimaced as he found Sans to be right.
"They misspelled 'giasfclfebrehber'," he whispered to his siblings.
It had a "u" where an "e" should've been.
"They don't need to know," said Wakko.
Dot was too busy staring at Papyrus to pay attention.
"WHAT ARE THEY, ANYWAY?" Papyrus asked his brother.
"they're cartoons, pap."
"CARTOONS...? OH, LIKE WHAT UNDYNE WATCHES!"
"more or less."
Yakko put the word search in his pants as they reached the skeletons.
"SANS! THAT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"
"whoops. i knew i should have used today's crossword instead."
The Warners snickered.
"WHAT!? CROSSWORD!? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT! IN MY OPINION...JUNIOR JUMBLE IS EASILY THE HARDEST."
They covered their mouths to hold in laughter.
"I can't tell who's the bigger idiot," said Wakko.
"Papyrus; Sans knows what he's doing," said Yakko.
"But he's my idiot," said Dot.
"what? really, dude? that easy-peasy word scramble? that's for baby bones."
"UN. BELIEVABLE. HUMANFOLK! SOLVE THIS DISPUTE!"
"Crossword's harder," said Wakko.
"I'm good at both," Yakko bragged.
"BOTH?! WOWIE, THAT TAKES SKILL!"
"If you think that's impressive, you should hear me sing the nations of the world!"
He turned his attention to Wakko and Sans.
"AS FOR THEM...YOU TWO ARE WEIRD! CROSSWORDS ARE SO EASY. IT'S THE SAME SOLUTION EVERY TIME. I JUST FILL ALL THE BOXES IN WITH THE LETTER 'Z'...BECAUSE EVERY TIME I LOOK AT A CROSSWORD...ALL I CAN DO IS SNORE! NYEH HEH HEH!"
"I, on the other hand,agree with Papyrus," said Dot. "Besides, I haven't done a word scramble in forever!"
Papyrus' face lit up with joy.
"HA! HA! YES! HUMANFOLK LIKE YOU MUST BE VERY INTELLIGENT! IF THEY ALSO FIND JUNIOR JUMBLE SO DIFFICULT! NYEH! HEH! HEH HEH!"
"Awww, ya flatter me."
Papyrus walked away, happy that Dot sided with him.
"papyrus...finds difficulty in interesting places. yesterday he got stumped trying to 'solve' the horoscope."
Yakko and Wakko chuckled.
"and dot?"
"Yeah?"
"thanks for saying 'junior jumble' just to appease my brother."
"No problem, hon. I meant it."
Passing Sans, they arrived at a table with a plate of frozen spaghetti and an unplugged microwave, with all the settings on it saying "spaghetti". A mouse hole was located not too far away. There was also a note from Papyrus beside the table.
HUMAN! PLEASE ENJOY THIS SPAGHETTI. (LITTLE DO YOU KNOW, THIS SPAGHETTI IS A TRAP...DESIGNED TO ENTICE YOU! YOU'LL BE SO BUSY EATING IT...THAT YOU WON'T REALIZE YOU AREN'T PROGRESSING! THOROUGHLY JAPED AGAIN BY THE GREAT PAPYRUS!)
NYEH-HEH-HEH,
PAPYRUS
Dot couldn't help but giggle at Papyrus' lame, yet entertaining attempts to capture her and her brothers. Wakko, on the other hand, only cared about the spaghetti. He tried to pull it off, but it was stuck to the table.
"It's frozen," he mumbled.
A light bulb went over his head as he got an idea: he chomped a hole through the table, attempting to digest the spaghetti, plate, and fork, but they got stuck in his throat and he started choking. Yakko and Dot approached him from behind as his face turned blue, performing the heimlich maneuver.
"You ok, Wakko?" Yakko asked as Dot patted Wakko's back.
"Yeah," he panted.
Knowing the mouse might one day find a way to heat up the spaghetti...it filled them with determination.
A/N: For some of Papyrus' (and the Nice Cream Man's) dialogue, I ended up having less exclamation marks/question marks than he actually does due to some kind of glitch every time I save. This also happened when I tried to put more space in between the words "my" and "child" during Wakko's nightmare about Toriel. I don't know how to fix it, so just try to roll with it for now.
