Asriel padded in, yawning. "Hey Frisk. This is the ninth chapter right? So, what game are we playing today?"
"Whatever it is I'm not playing it!" Chara shouted from the other room.
Frisk sat up in her bed, blinking the sleep from her eyes. "I don't know. What do you want to play, Azzy?"
"We could play Arrow Roulette," the goat-monster teased.
"Unless you're playing that! I'll play that with you!"
Frisk stretched. "Sorry, I like being alive. How about..."
"i have an idea," Sans offered, hearing that Frisk, Asriel, and Chara were awake and deciding to suggest something that wouldn't send them doing stupid stuff.
"Sure, I'm kinda out. What you got, Sans?"
"we could invite everyone, and i mean everyone, and play undertale."
She threw her legs over the bed, smiling. "We could get Mettaton, Alphys, Undyne, Napstablook, heck, we could even invite Muffet!"
"Do you even have Muffet's phone number?" Asriel asked.
"Of course. She gave it to me after we got to the surface."
"Sounds fun! Hey Chara! Get in here! We're playing something fun!"
"No!"
"Chara Dreemurr, you will get in here or I will turn you into a bloody pulp!" Asriel screamed, turning fully into his adult form to intimidate the human.
"Come fight me, goat-bro!"
"No!" Frisk shouted at them. "We don't need to destroy the house again!"
Grumbling, Asriel turned back into his child form and Chara appeared from his room, scarlet eyes flashing with anger at being woken up. "Come on, we're going down stairs. I'll call up everyone and we should be down there in an hour."
-1 hour and 1 minute later
"Frisk! They're late!" Chara exclaimed.
"By one minute for crying out loud, Chara, calm down!" She hissed as she opened the door for Alphys, Undyne, Mettaton, and Mufffet. "Wait, didn't I also call up RG01 and RG02, and Snowdrake?" Napstablook was in there long ago, scared that he came too early.
"RG01 and RG02 were doing... whatever bunnies and dragons do, and Snowdrake was at the Monster's Pun Shack," Undyne explained.
"Ah, thank you. So anyway, I have a very special game today!"
"WOWIE! IS THE GREAT PAPYRUS IN IT?!"
She chuckled. "Yes, Paps."
He pumped his fist in the air.
"THIS HAD BETTER NOT BE WHAT I THINK IT IS," Gaster muttered.
"Yep! We're playing Undertale! Who wants to go first?"
"What is this, 'Undertale', my child? Is it appropriate?"
"Perfectly," she answered. "I'll go first, I think."
-1 minute
"Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. Many years later..." Asgore read. "MT. EBOTT 201X. Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return."
The game started, and the screen read: "Name the fallen human."
"Ooh! What should we call them?" Frisk asked.
"Of course, go by what you called yourself at first," Undyne answered matter-of-factily. "Chara."
Nodding, she typed in 'Chara', and the screen read, "The true name."
"I vote we read our own quotes," Asriel said.
"Great idea, Dearie!" Muffet praised.
"Who plays Flowey?" Frisk asked.
"I will, since you guys are boring and doing the pacifist run," Chara offered. "Asri will get his time." He cleared his throat. "Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower!" He read, his voice high-pitched and imitating the Flowey grin perfectly. "Hmm... You're new to the underground, aren't you? Golly, you must be so confused. Someone ought to teach you how things work around here! I guess little old me will have to do. Ready? Here we go!"
-Five minutes
"Goat-Mom!" Frisk, Asriel, and Chara exclaimed simultaneously as a fireball appeared on the screen, flicking the flower away with a screech.
"What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth. Ah, do not be afraid, my child," Toriel read, smiling. "I am Toriel, caretaker of the RUINS. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down. You are the first human to come in a long time. Come! I will guide you through the catacombs."
-Ten minutes
"Three out of every four grey rocks recommend you push them," Our narrator, Frisk, said. "Hmm, strange. Oh, a Whimsun approached meekly. Aw, poor thing, I'll SPARE you."
-Twenty minutes
"This cheese has been here quite a long time. It's stuck to the table," Frisk looked up at Toriel. "Hey Mom, did the mouse get the cheese?"
"Yes, my child."
"Cool! And... on to the next room. Oh! It's Napstablook!"
"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... (are they gone yet) zzzzzzzzzzzz..."
"This ghost keeps saying 'z' out loud repeatedly, pretending to be sleep. Move it with force? Sorry, Blooky," she apologized, clicking 'yes'. "Here comes Napstablook!" She acted, selecting 'cheer'.
"heh," Napstablook read.
The bullet box filled with, Really not feeling up to it right now, sorry, and she cheered again.
"heh heh..."
She cheered once more. "Napstablook wants to show you something."
"let me try..." he then turned the acid tears upside down to form a hat. "i call it 'Dapperblook'... do you like it?"
Flirt.
"It looks sexy on you, Blooky," she grinned.
"oh no..."
-Forty-five minutes
"You naive child... If you leave the RUINS... They... ASGORE... Will kill you."
"I didn't," Asgore pointed out.
"I'm just reading it!" Toriel protested, blushing as she remembered saying those very words. "I am only protecting you, do you understand? … Go to your room."
Frisk wiped tears from her eyes, moving forward.
"Do not try to stop me... This is your final warning."
She continued on.
"You want to leave so badly? Hmph. You are just like the others. There is only one solution to this. Prove yourself... Prove to me you are strong enough to survive."
"Toriel blocks the way," Frisk whimpered.
At that very moment, Chara leaned over and hit fight, attacking Toriel with a painful crunch.
"Chara!" Frisk cried. "What did you do that for?"
Chara received a cuff around the head by Toriel, Asriel, and Frisk at the same time.
-Fifty minutes
"If you truly wish to leave the RUINS. I will not stop you. However, when you leave, please do not come back." Toriel bent down, both in-game and out, and embraced Frisk tightly. "Goodbye, my child."
Chara, Asriel, and Frisk all held back tears, and Frisk left the Ruins. She shoved the laptop at Asriel. "You play it, she choked.
He walked up the hallway leading out of the Ruins, up into the forest of Snowdin. It was silent, minus the occasional footsteps and the snap of a heavy branch. They got to a wide gate when a shadowed figure walked up behind them.
"Human." Sans read. "Don't you know how to greet a new pal? Turn around and shake my hand."
-One and a half hours
"Eh, what's this? There's 30G in this one," Frisk examined, watching Asriel finish the field of snow poffs. "Okay, and... tiny mound, giant dog, hello Greater Dog!" She smiled.
"Um, Frisk, how do I do this one?" He asked.
"Beckon, pet, play, pet, pet," she answered, confused on how she knew it so well.
"Okay, got it..." he murmured, doing as she said, smiling as the tiny dog popped out of his armor and licked Frisk's sprite.
-One hour and forty-five minutes
"HUMAN. ALLOW ME TO TELL YOU SOME COMPLEX FEELINGS. FEELINGS LIKE... THE JOY OF FINDING ANOTHER PASTA LOVER. THE ADMIRATION FOR ANOTHER'S PUZZLE-SOLVING SKILLS. THE DESIRE TO HAVE A COOL, SMART PERSON THINK YOU ARE COOL. THESE FEELINGS... THEY MUST ME WHAT YOU ARE FEELING RIGHT NOW! I CAN HARDLY IMAGIVE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO FEEL THAT WAY. AFTER ALL, I AM VERY GREAT. I DON'T EVER WONDER WHAT HAVING LOTS OF FRIENDS IS LIKE. I PITY YOU... LONELY HUMAN... WORRY NOT! YOU SHALL BE LONELY NO LONGER! OOH! I LOVE THIS GAME!" Papyrus cheered. "I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL BE YOUR... . . . NO... NO, THIS IS ALL WRONG! I CAN'T BE YOUR FRIEND! YOU ARE A HUMAN! I MUST CAPTURE YOU! THEN, I CAN FULFILL MY LIFELONG DREAM! POWERFUL! POPULAR! PRESTIGIOUS! THAT'S PAPYRUS! THE NEWEST MEMBER... OF THE ROYAL GUARD!" And he nearly screamed in delight when his theme started playing.
"SO YOU WON'T FIGHT. THEN, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE MY FABLED 'BLUE ATTACK!'." The bullet box filled with blue bones, and Asriel stayed perfectly still, not expecting the SOUL to turn blue and be hit with a low bone.
"YOU'RE BLUE NOW. THAT'S MY ATTACK! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!"
-Two hours and fifteen minutes
"EVERYTHING YOU DO... EVERYTHING YOU SAY... IT'S ALL BEEN FOR MY SAKE. HUMAN. I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY, TOO. IT'S TIME FOR ME TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS. IT'S TIME THAT I TOLD YOU. I, PAPYRUS... HMM... WELL, I'M FLATTERED YOU CARE SO MUCH. BUT MAYBE COOL IT A LITTLE BIT...? YOU ARE A VERY NICE PERSON. I'M GLAD WE'RE FRIENDS. BUT I THINK YOU CAN REACH YOUR MAX POTENTIAL... IF YOU LIVE MORE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, RATHER THAN JUST FOR MINE," Papyrus gave his signature grin.
"Why didn't you choose to flirt?" Frisk asked.
"Because! That's just weird!" Asriel exclaimed.
"NYEH, BUT-BUT FRISK AND I DATED!" He exclaimed.
"OH, DID YOU?" Mettaton asked. "YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME, DARLING! THAT WOULD'VE MADE A FANTASTIC SHOW!"
"HMM, PERHAPS... WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME, PAPYRUS?" Gaster wondered.
Frisk blushed. "We hanged out!"
"IT WAS A DATE!" Papyrus protested.
-Two and a half hours
"H... HI, UNDYNE! I'M HERE WITH MY DAILY REPORT... UHHH... REGARDING THAT HUMAN I CALLED YOU ABOUT EARLIER... ...HUH? DID I FIGHT THEM?"
"Hey Paps, why are you so scared of me here?" Undyne asked.
"YOU'RE SCARY!" he exclaimed.
"Fuhuhuhu, that's right!"
"Y-YES! OF COURSE I DID!" He went on. "I FOUGHT THEM VALIANTLY! …WHAT? DID I CAPTURE THEM...? W-W-WELL... NO. I TRIED VERY HARD, UNDYNE, BUT IN THE END... I FAILED. ...W-WHAT? YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE THE HUMAN'S SOUL YOURSELF... BUT UNDYNE, YOU DON'T H-HAVE TO DESTROY THEM! YOU SEE... YOU SEE... … … I UNDERSTAND. I'LL HELP YOU IN ANY WAY I CAN."
Asriel blinked, then forced the laptop into Undyne's lap. "You take it," he muttered.
She grinned, then started to move. In game, she took a few steps forward then summoned her magic spear, staring down at the moving grass for a few moments before stepping back and disappearing into the shadows. "Well, that's freaky..." she murmured. "Cool!"
-Three hours and fifteen minutes
"It sounds like it came from over here... Oh! You've fallen down, haven't you... Are you okay? Here, get up... … Chara, huh? That's a nice name. My name is-" The screen cut to white as the narrator, Frisk, read the line. She blinked. "Wait a minute... that was you! Wasn't it, Asriel!"
"Yeah, when I feel," Chara added.
"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe," Asriel smiled. "Anyway, moving on."
"Psst, hey, Undyne, how come you seemed to change so much when you took your helmet off?" Frisk asked.
"Because, it makes me look cooler if I act mysterious," she whispered back, before realizing she said 'look cooler'.
Frisk grinned. "You've spent too much time around Papyrus, haven't you?"
"Yep!"
-Three hours and twenty minutes
"Hahaha... It's just like you to run away," Chara grumbled. They had him play Mad Dummy, and he didn't like it. "I am a ghost that lived inside a DUMMY. My cousin used to live inside a DUMMY, too. Until... YOU...! You... Shucks! You were really boring! They got annoyed and flew away like any self-respecting spectre. Well then. Well then! WELL THEN! Boring people are crumbs sticking to the face of this world."
"Wow, what an analogy," Frisk murmured to Asiel, who nodded.
"Human! I'll wipe you away with the dainty handkerchief of vengeance!"
"As I said."
-Three hours and forty-five minutes
"Well, after twenty-five fricking minutes, I've finally beat the Mad Dummy," Undyne muttered, making her way out of the trash zone.
"hey... my house is up here... in case you want to see... or in case... you don't..."
"BLOOKY! LOVE YOURSELF!" Mettaton exclaimed. "SMILE!"
The ghost forced a half-smile, followed up by his cousin hugging him happily. "THAT'S BETTER!"
-Four hours
"You feel... something," Frisk narrated. "You're filled with detemmienation, wait, what?" She blinked, rereading it. "deTEMMIEnation? How in the world did I not notice this before?"
-Four and a half hours
"... Seven. Seven human souls. With the power of seven human souls, our king... King ASGORE Dreemurr... … will become a god. With that power, ASGORE can finally shatter the barrier. He will finally take the surface from humanity... And give them back the suffering and pain that we have endured. … Understand, human? This is your only chance at redemption. Give up your soul... Or I'll tear it from your body."
Frisk gulped. "U-Undyne, you are so freaky."
In-game, she summoned her spear and charged at Frisk, the screen fading to black into the attack screen when suddenly, Monster Kid burst from the bushes. Even though she remembered the even, Frisk shivered.
-Four hours and forty-five minutes
"You got sooooooo lost," Frisk grinned.
"So!" Undyne spat. "Here!" She shoved the laptop to Alphys. "You take it!"
"O-Okay."
"Yo! Yo, I know I'm not supposed to be here, but... I wanna ask you something. … Man, I've never had to ask anyone this before..."
"Okay, cool, no one cares,"Chara growled, skipping the dialogue to Kid falling off the bridge.
"Hey!" Asriel exclaimed.
"I wanted to read that!" Frisk pouted.
"Yo, w-w-wait! Help! I tripped!" Undyne took a few steps towards the sprite, and Alphys moved quickly enough to help up Monster Kid.
He turned to glare at Undyne. "Yo! If... If y-you wanna hurt my friend... You're gonna have to get through me, first."
She took a few steps backwards and walked off screen.
"She's gone... Yo, you really saved my skin. Guess being enemies was just a nice though, haha. We'll just have to be friends instead. … man, I should REALLY go home... I bet my parents are worried sick about me! Later, dude!"
She went forward, just a few rooms away was the arena to fight Undyne. She cautiously walked up to the cave.
"Seven," Undyne said mysteriously. "Seven human souls, and King ASGORE will become a god. Six. That's how many we have collected thus far. Understand? Through your seventh and final soul, this world will be transformed. First, however, as is customary for those who make it this far... I shall tell you the tragic tale of our people. It all started, long ago... … believe it or not, the whole reason I didn't tell you is because I forgot," she admitted. "But that's not the point! No, you know what? SCREW IT! WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT STORY. WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO DIE ANYWAY!? NGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Her helmet came off. "YOU! You're standing in the way of everybody's hopes and dreams!"
Asriel started humming 'Hopes and Dreams'.
"WRONG HOPES AND DREAMS!" She exclaimed. "Alphys's history books made me think humans were cool..."
"You mean, 'history'," Frisk giggled.
"ALPHYS'S MANGAS MADE ME THINK HUMANS WERE COOL!" Undyne corrected loudly. "... with their giant robots and flowery swordswomen. BUT YOU? You're just a coward! Hiding behind that kid so you could run away from me again! And let's not forget your wimpy goody-two-shoes-schtick! Oooh! I'm making such a difference by hugging random strangers! Wait, I don't remember saying that!" She protested. "Frisk, did you kill me in a previous run? I don't think that matters but now I'm curious."
"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe?"
"Oh my God Frisk I will kill you!" She exclaimed, summoning a spear.
"Anyway!"
"Oh, I give up, I'm taking the game!" Chara exclaimed.
"Don't you dare! Asriel! Take the game!" Frisk snatched the laptop and shoved it towards the goat monster, who took it.
"You know what would be more valuable to everyone?" Undyne went on. "IF YOU WERE DEAD! That's right, human! Your continued existence is a crime! Your life is all that stands between us and our freedom. Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts pounding together! Everyone's been waiting their whole lives for this moment! But we're not nervous at all. When everyone puts their hearts together they can't lose! Now, human! Let's end this, right here, right now. I'll show you how determined monsters can be! Step forward when you're ready! Fuhuhuhu!"
-Seven hours
"I was supposed to run the whole time!?"
-Seven and a half hours
"Hi, Papyrus! Ready for you extra-private, one-on-one training?"
"Oh God, Undyne, that sounds so weird!" Frisk exclaimed.
"NOT LIKE THAT!" She screamed.
"YOU BET I AM! AND I BROUGHT A FREIND!" Papyrus answered happily.
"Hi, I don't think we've... … ..."
"..."
"Why don't. You two. Come in?
"HERE, UNDYNE. MY FRIEND BROUGHT A GIFT FOR YOU ON THEIR OWN!"
"She didn't really, did she?" Undyne asked.
"WELL, NO, BUT IT HELPED!" he protested.
"Uhh... thanks. I'll, uh, put it with the others. So are we ready start?"
"WHOOPSY DOOPSY! I JUST REMEMBERED! I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! YOU TWO HAVE FUN!" They all shared a smile as Papyrus jumped out the window with a crash.
"... So why are YOU here? To rub you victory in my face? To humiliate me even further? IS THAT IT?"
"Yeeeeees," Asriel grinned. "Oh-ho-ho-ho-"
"Merry Christmas!" Frisk laughed.
"Well I've got news for you, BRAT. You're on MY battlefield now. And you ARENT going to humiliate me. I'LL TELL you what's going to happen. We're going to hang out. We're going to have a good time. We're going to become "friends." You'll become so enamored with me... YOU'LL be the one feeling humiliated for your actions! Fuhuhuhuhu! It's the perfect revenge! Err... Why don't you have a seat?"
-Eight hours
"OHHHH YES! WELCOME, BEAUTIES... … TO TODAY'S QUIZ SHOW!"
Dancing lights filled the screen as Mettaton showed himself for the first time in the game.
"OH BOY! I CAN ALREADY TELL IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT SHOW!"
"And I can already tell I won't care," Chara grumbled.
-Eleven hours
"So, Hotland is hard," Asriel mused, standing in front of Muffet. She had defeated him for the thirty-second time.
"Ahuhuhuhuhu~~!" Muffet giggled. "If only Frisk had eaten a doughnut during our battle! It might not have lasted as long!
Asriel face-pawed. "Oh, you, are, joking!"
-Thirteen hours
"Finally!" Asriel shouted, clicking the switch on Mettaton's back. "I've finally gotten past Hotland and the Core!"
"Yay?" Frisk answered.
"Here! You take it then!" He pushed the computer towards Frisk. "Have fun!"
-Thirteen and a half hours
"Die Mettaton EX!"
-Fourteen hours
"Okay, at New Home, about to fight Asgore. Who thought we'd get this far?" She asked.
"I didn't!" Undyne volunteered.
-Fifteen hours
"Die Photoshop Flowey!"
-Nineteen hours
"You know what!?" Frisk hissed, raging at Photoshop Flowey, who had killed her for the one-hundredth-thirty-second time. "I am so done!" She glared at everyone around her, before realizing they were asleep. With a sigh, she closed the computer, then got up and walked away, leaving a pile of monsters and Chara in the living room.
A/N: I am setting up a poll on my profile page for the next game the Undertale characters play. The options will be 1) Arrow Roulette or 2) Monopoly. Any other ideas I might add for a later chapter, but I need to be able to know what the game is. Don't think I don't like your idea if I don't feature it, it just probably means I don't know the rules. Cya, peeps!
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