Chapter 9: Determination

Grillby jumped slightly when both of the skeleton brothers landed at the bar and Sans gave him a serious look. "Grillbz, do you have any customers right now?" He asked.

"No," the fire monster answered. "The last one just left a moment ago."

"You need to lock the door and not let anyone in," Sans said. "For their sake."

Grillby quickly locked the door and pulled the blinds. "What happened?" He asked.

"Gaster appeared with the same dancer we saw the first time," the short skeleton answered. "Alphys had stormed in and demanded to know where Frisk was."

"Demanded?" The bartender asked in surprise.

"She was under someone's control," Papyrus said. "They found a device on her that put her under control of someone they said was another follower."

"Follower?"

"Another follower of Gaster's," Sans explained. "They've figured that the follower thinks Gaster is still trapped and the only way to get him free…is to get to Frisk and…RESET the whole Underground."

Grillby's eyes widened. "RESET?" He asked in horror, remembering when Sans had told him about the RESETs that would put them all in the Underground and wipe their memories. But Sans' memory wasn't altered somehow and he had seen too many RESETs to count. Thankfully, Frisk had never done that, getting them free, but she still had that power. "Would Frisk…? No, she wouldn't do that ever. She promised."

The short skeleton nodded. "She was looking to have that button destroyed, but Asgore said she'd have to be in a fight with him for him to do that and he really doesn't want to engage her in a fight."

"And neither does she," Papyrus said.

Just then, someone appeared, but it looked like a head with no body and had big eyes and a smile that curled upwards in an unsettling way. Sans stiffened and lifted Papyrus with his telekinesis and placed him behind the bar. "That's who they were talking about," he said. "He's the follower."

"Yes, Sans," said the follower. "And now I know where Frisk is, I can RESET this time and get Gaster out of the void for good."

"You'll have to get past us first," said a familiar voice and they looked to see the two girl dancers and their eyes were already glowing brightly with the same colors the others had seen before. "Sister, are you with me?"

"I'm with you, sister," the younger girl said.

The follower growled. "You can't stop me!" He declared.

Music began playing and the monsters instantly recognized the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson as the two dancers began their dance, gracefully launching attacks and making it look like part of the dance. However, it seemed that they had been right to expect this battle to be much different.

The follower was prepared, moving more precisely and with better accuracy than the blobs they had faced and the dancers were soon back to back. "Another set of eyes would be good right now," Laura said, grabbing her skirt and lashing out a kick, but just missing by a few inches.

Amber spotted Grillby and Papyrus behind the bar and she remembered what their friend Tala had said about them including the two into the dances. "Sister, follow my lead," she said and performed a leap that would have made her worthy to play the lead role of any ballet. Laura followed without question, performing a similar leap and twirling as her sister did, watching the younger girl very carefully.

Seeing this, Amber quickly twirled behind the bar and into Papyrus' arms gracefully, her hands sliding up fluidly to hold his skull gently as she raised herself to be on tiptoe and kissed the tall skeleton right on the mouth. Laura, instantly seeing that her sister was taking Tala's advice, twirled up to Grillby, gently falling forward and forcing him to catch her. Leaning up, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her mouth to his.

The two monsters were quite shocked by this, but the girls gave them no time to ask questions as they pulled them into the dance and though Papyrus and Grillby had not practiced with them before, they had seen the girls dancing many times and quickly adapted while Sans watched curiously, but the reason soon became apparent when the follower tried to attack the girls from behind, but Papyrus ducked, scooping Amber into his arms and gracefully spinning as if he was ice-skating near the floor, coming up just as gracefully, which allowed Amber to throw a kick out at the follower and land the attack solidly.

Grillby lifted Laura up over his head, which allowed her to do a perfect split in the air before swinging her back leg around, one hand grabbing the fire monster's wrist so that she didn't fall before her hands slid to his shoulders and he spun her around as she stuck both legs out in a kick that also landed solidly before she gracefully pulled her legs in, bending them as Grillby slid his arms more solidly around her and leaned her back in a dance dip and keeping her balanced perfectly as the song began to softly end, but the battle was far from over.

Shaking himself from the pain he had received from the two dancers successfully landing attacks on him, the follower glared and his eyes glowed pure white, but before his attack could build up, four others appeared in the form of Frisk, Gaster, a still-bound Alphys, and Dylan, who was recording. Frisk raised her hands, which were glowing red before the other three dancers reached out, their traits mixing with the young girl's determination and right behind the child, Hurricane appeared, blasting the follower with a beam of all the combined traits.

The hold on her now fully gone, Alphys woke up in surprise. "What…What happened?" She asked.

Before anyone could answer, the follower screamed and unleashed his power, which targeted Grillby and Papyrus and they were teleported away before the follower did the same. "NO!" Sans cried out and Gaster echoed his cry.

"He took them!" Frisk exclaimed in horror.

Gaster growled. "I should have known he'd target them," he said, angry with himself. "His obsession…Alphys, did you help him?"

She looked ashamed. "Yes, I did," she said softly. "But…I didn't know…that he was…,"

Frisk went over and hugged her. "It's okay, Auntie Alphys," she said softly. "I knew you wouldn't ever hurt me."

"No, never," the small dinosaur said. "I'm so sorry, though. He made me…nearly hurt you."

The young girl hugged her harder. "I forgive you," she said readily, not blaming her aunt as she had been under mind-control.

"She is right, Alphys," Gaster said gently. "You are not to blame, my dear friend."

Just then, a crackling sound was heard and the follower returned, throwing an injured Papyrus and Grillby to the floor as he began growing, become larger and into a familiar form they had all seen once before. "He's going into Omega form!" Sans exclaimed in shock.

Gaster had helped the two injured monsters into chairs and Alphys assisted him on helping to heal them. Laura and Amber, seeing the two monsters that they truly liked injured, were upset and furious, glaring at the follower. Dylan turned to the girls and nodded. "Are you girls ready?" He asked.

They nodded. "Brother, will you join us?" Laura asked.

"It will be better, cousin," Amber said.

The young man nodded, his eyes now glowing and he joined them, facing the real enemy while the others also were ready to join in, all of them knowing what to do.

"Alright," said Dylan. "Let's get the job done."


Next chapter: will the dancers and the monsters be able to stop the follower for good? Will there be another RESET? Stay tuned to find out! :)

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