"Shortcut? We're in the middle of nowhere.".
He said that, but he blinked, and when he opened his eyes, they were standing in the middle of a snow covered town.
"What the-".
"I love shortcuts.".
'A teleporting skeleton. That isn't weird.'.
"Hold up, this doesn't look like a place that would be called Hotlands, and where's Asriel?".
"Oh, the lil' puff was coming with you?".
"Yeah, you couldn't tell, he was with me.".
"I just assumed, since Hotlands is so hot, he wouldn't be coming.".
"So you just left him back there?".
"Kinda, I'll be back.".
He dissapeared again then reappeared alongside Asriel.
"You left me!".
"I know that.".
"How could you?".
"Spare me the drama.".
"Hold on, why are we in Snowdin?".
"You're gonna have to prepare if you want to head over to Hotlands. You know, there are monsters on the way there that would try to kill you if they met you.".
"I already thought of that.". Alvin said. "I borrowed Chara's knife just in case, though I don't plan on fighting every single monster I see.".
"You stole Chara's knife? Now you're going to have both Frisk and Chara out to get you later.".
"I don't even care. Let's just go find this person and go back home.".
'"By the way, where are the other humans going to stay after we find them?".
"Wherever they are now. We're only going to find them, and once we've found all of them we'll bring them together, break the barrier, and then we're done.".
"So we're leaving the human at hotlands?".
"Yeah, I mean, if they were able to survive there for as long as they have, they should be able to do so for a little longer.".
"Or.". Sans chimed in. "They could stay at that inn over there.".
He pointed his thumb behind his back towards a large building called 'snowed-inn'.
"That could also work. So could you take us to Hotlands now?".
"Sure.".
Once again, he blinked and was now standing in a barren, rocky, mountainous wasteland. Waterfalls of lava fell from cliffs and pooled below. Rock formations acted as bridges over them and they were currently standing on one. A few moments later a heat wave hit him.
"Well here ya go, now I gotta bounce, work and all that.".
Sans disappeared, like, just disappeared.
'Well, I guess we're walking home.'.
"So where should we start?". Asriel asked, while sweating so much his fur sagged.
"Probably over there.". Alvin said, pointing to the entrance of a large laboratory, which also happened to be the only way to go.
"Oh a lab, it probably has some super high-tech radars that can scan for human life forms.".
"That, and it's probably air conditioned.".
"Yeah that too.".
They began making their way up the path and towards the laboratory, but halfway there, a plane flew in from literally out nowhere.
You encountered a wild tsundere plane.
"What's with those floating words?".
"What's with that blushing plane with bonnet?".
Suddenly, a box appeared around Alvin and his body was replaced by a small, glowing, light white heart.
'Oh so I'm a heart now.'.
Soon, little airplanes started flying down from the sky. He dodged them all by floating out of the way, because that's what hearts do, you know, float.
'This place is weird.'.
After a few moments, the 'attack' stopped, and a few options popped into his head.
Fight. Act. Item. Mercy.
So he had four random words to work with, oh well, fighting did seem like the best way to go anyways. Just one problem, he was pretty sure it would be pretty hard to hold a knife while he was a heart, thought it seemed he wouldn't need a knife, or hands for that matter, as a bar appeared with a line moving horizontally through the center. Now he knew how this worked, he was supposed to stop the line on the center point of the bar for the highest score or whatever, but seriously, what was this? He was attacked by an airplane, turned into a heart, and his way of defending himself was to play a timing game. It felt like he was living a video game. Anyways, back to the fight, ge stopped the mark on the center point of the line, don't know how he did it, being a heart and all, but he did. A slash mark appeared over the plane and its health bar decreased by about a tenth.
'Yeah, this isn't gonna work.'.
After going through the plane's "turn", he "decided" to go with item. A... textbox? appeared, listing everything he had on him, water, food items, and an item titled "Chara's Knife". He equipped that, then on his next turn, attacked. This time, he dealt enough damage to finish it off.
You gained 28 gold. Exp increased by 8.
So he was playing an rpg?
"Hey Alvin, where were you?".
"Huh? Oh, I was that floating heart battling a plane.".
"Uh, what?".
"Nothing, come on, let's get to that lab before more planes swoop down.".
"Yeah, we should hurry, I think the heat is getting to you.".
