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Traveling back to Waterfall was just as wet as traveling through it. It was no wonder Undyne lived here, and she walked up to the house that looked a lot like a fish with Papyrus in front of it.
"Hey, Papy." She smiled.
"HUMAN! YOU ARRIVED! ARE YOU READY TO MEET UNDYNE AND HANG OUT WITH HER! I HAVE THE BEST PLAN TO GET YOU GUYS TO BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS!"
Frisk put on her best smile for the tall skeleton, "I'm sure it's a great idea. So yeah, I'm ready." She tried to sound convincing as she watched Papyrus's eyes light up as he knocked on the door. She was surprised that voice in her head hadn't said anything.
Even I don't have to tell you how risky this is…
"JUST STAY BEHIND ME!" Papyrus looked at Frisk, and she nodded as she went behind him. If she didn't feel short before, she did now. Papyrus had to be at least seven feet tall, she was sure of it. She wasn't the tallest person, but the skeleton monster put an emphasis on her shortness.
Good thing Sansy is your height, huh? Frisk turned red, not sure if that was the voice or herself. At the snicker that came next, she realized which one.
"PSST!" Frisk came out of her thoughts and felt sure that the concept of a whisper was lost on Papyrus. "GIVE HER THIS! SHE LOVES THEM!" He held up something that looked like a wrapped bone with a bow, Frisk didn't feel too sure that Undyne was that in love with them. Though she could understand how telling Papyrus that would make anyone feel bad. He knocked louder and at the sound of the door opening, Frisk felt her nerves getting the better of her.
"Hi, Papyrus!" Undyne smiled and Frisk was surprised to see the woman in just a black tank top and fitted jeans. Definitely a model in another world… "Ready for your extra private, one on one training?"
Extra private, one on one…? Was she interrupting something?
"YOU BET I AM! AND GUESS WHAT! I BROUGHT A FRIEND!" Papyrus laughed and moved, revealing her as Frisk gave a nervous wave. Worst case scenario, Undyne makes a spear appear and shish kabobs me in front of Papyrus…
Yet Undyne was still smiling. "Really? That's great Papyrus!" She laughed. "I don't think we met, I'm Un-" Her expression slowly changed, once Undyne looked down at her and truly noticed her. "Why...don't...you two...come in…?" She smiled more and Frisk could tell it was forced as the fish monster spoke with her teeth clenched, moving only slightly so they could come in.
Frisk was feeling more unsure of this plan by the minute as Papyrus went in first and she followed. She looked at Undyne's place, surprised by the size of the open area. There wasn't many rooms or stories, but she Frisk liked the openness of the place.
Especially when she noticed the piano, and the space allowed her to keep a far distance from it.
"HERE UNDYNE! MY FRIEND BROUGHT A GIFT FOR YOU ON THEIR OWN! WASN'T THAT NICE OF THEM?" Papyrus held it out and Undyne took one look at Frisk, not believing one word of it as she went to get it.
"Yeah, thanks…" Undyne tried to sound thankful, but her Frisk could tell she really didn't like the gift. Or it might be Frisk she just didn't like as well that made the gift worse. "I'll...put it with the others." Undyne opened a drawer in her kitchen area, and Frisk saw it was full of the same present. "So…" She turned back around. "Are we ready?"
Frisk opened her mouth to say something just as Papyrus gasped. "OH NO! WHOOPSIE! I FORGOT I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! YOU TWO TALK AND HAVE FUN!
Frisk stared as Papyrus ran, then vaulted out the window leaving her staring after him. Frisk looked over at Undyne to see the woman stare at her, and she felt pretty sure this would all go downhill fast.
"Why are you here?" Undyne folded her arms. "Let me guess, you want to rub your victory in my face?" Frisk quickly shook her head as Undyne continued. "Then you're just here to humiliate me more?" Her voice rose and Frisk shook her head.
"No! Of course not." She frowned and Undyne looked puzzled.
"Then why? Why come here?"
"I just...I mean…"
"Wait...I get it!" Undyne let out a loud laugh. "You want to be friends! Is that it? You really think I'm going to do that?" Her brow raised and Frisk wondered was she supposed to answer, but gave a small nod.
"Oh, really then! Then fine let's be friends! We can frolic in the field of friendship while smiling and hugging each other to solve all our problems!" Her voice became higher and higher until she sneered at Frisk. "Not. Going. To. Happen." Undyne shook her head. "Why would you even think I would be friends with you? If you weren't my house guest, I'd beat the crap out of you right now! You think I'm going to be friends with the one person standing in the way of EVERYONE'S happiness? Really?"
Frisk winced, as the fish monster woman glared at her. "I just…" She was unsure what to say because it was true. Why would Undyne be friends with her?
"You just what? Enjoy watching us suffer?" Undyne yelled.
"Of course not!" Frisk yelled back, feeling her frustration grow. She did want to help them. She did want to save them.
They'll never last out there...let me help you…
What?
"I will never be your friend!" Undyne's yell came, and Frisk's brows furrowed trying to keep her own head together. She looked over at Undyne, then at the door unsure what else she could do. Her head was starting to hurt.
"DANG! TOO BAD!" Frisk's eyes were watering and she glanced over to see Papyrus's face in the broken window. "HERE I THOUGHT UNDYNE COULD BE FRIENDS WITH YOU! BUT I GUESS I OVERESTIMATED HER"
"What!" Undyne shrieked.
"SHE'S JUST NOT UP TO THE CHALLENGE!" Papyrus let out a loud sigh. "COME ALONG HUMAN! I WILL FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN HANDLE THE CHALLENGE OF BEING YOUR FRIEND!" Papyrus laughed as he walked off and Frisk was no longer sure what she was supposed to be doing.
"Challenge? Papyrus! Darn it! Wait...You!" Undyne pointed at Frisk. "He really thinks I can't be friends with you, does he? I'll show him. We'll be friends! In fact, we'll be besties! I can make friends with a wimp like you anytime I feel like it! That'll show him!"
"We will?" Frisk stared at Undyne.
"Of course, we will human! I'll make you like me so much, you won't be able to think of anyone else!" Her hands went to her face as she grinned. Frisk was starting to feel like being friends with Undyne was just as dangerous as being enemies maybe. "It's the perfect revenge! So..." She cleared her throat. "Have a seat." Undyne smiled and Frisk looked over at the lone chair at the table.
One look over at the giant sword near the table and Frisk carefully made her way to the seat and plopped down. Her eyes still went to the sword.
"Oh, do you like my sword human? Me and Alphys made it, we watched her human history tapes and realized humans could hold over 10 times their weight. It was so cool!" Undyne smiled. "That's right isn't it?"
"Um..." Frisk saw the woman looking at her intently, she was starting to feel like this was very important to the woman. She honestly had no clue how much a normal human could hold, and she'd seen knights with heavy swords but felt pretty sure they were wearing tech in their armored gloves to allow it. Her mother had brute strength but that was because she was an orange soul mage. "Yes…?" It was sorta the truth.
"I knew it! I had to have one as soon as I found out." Undyne laughed. "Alphys figured out all the specs for it. She's real smart, right?"
Frisk paused and looked at Undyne, feeling pretty sure this Alphys person was really important to Undyne. There was still even a hint of a blush there on the woman's cheeks, she was glad her head was no longer hurting with how loud Undyne could get.
"So, are you comfy?" Undyne had a huge smile that was slowly creeping Frisk out, but she gave a small nod. "Good! How about a drink?" Undyne went over to her fridge and pulled different drinks out of her fridge, then set them down on the counters. "Now! What would you like?"
Frisk looked from the drinks to that creepy smile on Undyne's face as the fish woman monster put her hands together.
"Um...okay..." Frisk moved to get up until suddenly a spear shot out and the table was in half. She was sure she was going to have a heart attack before this hangout was over.
"No getting up! You're a guest! So just relax and point to what you want." She gave that creepy smile again. "I'll even let you use one of my spears."
Frisk took one look at the spear and glanced towards the window a moment. "Okay..." She looked at the spear longer, not feeling sure how well she could handle monster magic. As a soul mage, she could adapt to using other magic but this as a magic spear created by a monster. But it's only pointing…
She looked over at Undyne again, about to put her hand around it until noticing the whole thing turned without her touching it and was moving with her barely touching it. There was a blue shimmer around it along with its natural shimmer, she had an idea who was doing it and she was glad for the help. Her energy was still low from handling Green Soul Magic, and she had no clue about a Monster's.
She moved her hand slowly so that her secret helper could figure out where she was pointing. She could see soda, hot chocolate, but when her eyes landed on the tea she saw Undyne's smile widen more. It was obviously the right choice. She gave a nod while pointing at it.
"Tea, huh? That's a great choice! Coming right up!" Undyne hummed, moving around the kitchen in such a happy state that Frisk wasn't sure what to think of it. Soon the water boiled and she came back with a cup of tea. "Here you go, bestie!" She smiled as she went to the other side of the table.
Frisk started to move her hand towards it.
"Careful it's hot!" Undyne warned and Frisk gave a nod, picking it up and blowing over it. "It's not that hot!" She yelled louder and Frisk looked at the steaming cup. Taking a quick small sip, and trying to ignore the burning as it went down.
"It's ...good." She gave a smile once it was down, feeling glad that it was actually pretty good.
"I know! Nothing but the best for my bestest most precious absolute greatest most treasured friend!"
"Yeah…" Frisk was starting to look towards the window again. She felt tempted to jump out herself just to escape the weirdness.
"It's...kinda weird you picked that though." Frisk looked up and watched Undyne lean forward with her arms on the table. "That's Golden Flower tea, it's Asgore's favorite. Or maybe it's not that strange, you remind me a lot about him…"
"I do?" Frisk looked confused as Undyne nodded.
"Yeah, kinda. You both are total weenies" She laughed and Frisk couldn't help but laugh herself. This felt more natural, and from Undyne the insult didn't even sound like one. "Well...sort of anyway. Would you believe I was a real hot head as a kid? Even tried to prove I was the strongest by fighting Asgore" She laughed and Frisk listened carefully, feeling intrigued by the woman's story. "Couldn't even land a punch on him" Undyne chuckled. "I don't know what was worse, that or the fight he refused to fight back. I felt..."
"Humiliated?" Frisk asked softly and Undyne nodded.
"Yeah, did. But afterward, he apologizes. Then says the craziest thing, he asks me if I want to know how to beat him. Course I agreed, and he trained me. Took a long time but one day, I finally knock him down. And I always thought the day it happened I would feel on top of the world. Instead, I just...felt bad. But he just smiled at me, looking all proud after I kicked his butt. Even after that, he kept training me...and now I'm head of the Royal Guard." Undyne beamed, and Frisk could feel happiness rolling off her as she took more sips of her tea. She could honestly understand it. Frisk thought back to Shyren, she was risking her own dignity and life but it was amazing to see the singer come out of her shell.
"So, you train them now?" Frisk thought of Papyrus as Undyne gave a nod.
"Yep, all those dorks get trained by me." She laughed then paused. "like...Papyrus…" She went quiet and Frisk sighed softly thinking of Pap even in that.
"You think the same, huh?"
"What do you mean?" Frisk looked at her.
"I'll just be honest…" Undyne let out her own sigh. "I don't know if I can ever let Papyrus in the Royal Guard."
"Wait...so he's doing all this for nothing?"
"Don't tell him that!" Undyne frowned. "It's just...He's...don't get me wrong. Papyrus is really strong, he's definitely not weak. And he's very determined. He's smart and one of the toughest monsters I know …"
"But?" Frisk had a feeling she already knew the answer.
"He's just too innocent and nice! I mean just…" She quickly gestured to Frisk. "He was supposed to capture you, but instead he's making friends with you. How do I send that into battle? He'd have an enemy in front of them, and would probably hold out his arms to them, telling them he believes they can change. Or how's there's good in them. He'd get ripped into little smiling shreds while saying how he believes in them still or something! So, I just...can't…" Undyne's hands went over her face and Frisk honestly agreed with everything said.
"Then what are you guys doing…?"
"Would you believe cooking lessons?" Undyne laughed a little. "I thought if I teach him to cook, he'd do something else with his life."
Frisk smiled hearing that, putting down her empty cup as Undyne glanced over at it. "Darn it! I was talking so long I forgot to get you more tea." She quickly got up and Frisk giggled.
"It's okay." She smiled thinking of how much Undyne cared about Papyrus but noted how the woman went still.
"If you're here, and Papyrus isn't. That means he's missing his lesson! So that means you have to have it!" She laughed, jumping up and Frisk blinked as the woman kicked off everything from the counters.
"But…"
"No buts! Nothing has bought Papyrus and I closer than cooking! So, if I give the lesson to you, we'll be the closest ever!" Undyne grinned and Frisk was back to being creeped out by the woman. She barely had time to say anything before Undyne grabbed her and she was dragged to the kitchen area.
She could immediately tell it was a spaghetti lesson but with the way Undyne told her to beat up the vegetables to make the sauce she was getting afraid. Then there was the moment Frisk was told to stir the pot until the woman started using her magic spear to do it. It was safe to say the pot barely survived and next came boiling the water with the noodles. The fire that was starting had Frisk wonder when the woman was going to tell her to stop making it hotter. That moment never came and Frisk now confirmed that friends with Undyne was deadly. Fun but deadly.
The fire was getting worse and she heard Undyne laugh and she couldn't help joining in. Though now she was worried since the whole house was burning down.
"No wonder Papyrus sucks at cooking!" Undyne laughed harder. "So, uh...how about scrapbooking? Bracelets?" She laughed more until it started to become that creepy smile.
"Undyne…" Frisk sighed, that smile officially had to go and she didn't like the idea of them being burnt to a crisp.
"Yeah...I know. Who am I kidding. I really screwed this up...I can't make you like me human. Either you do or don't, that's just how life works. Some people just don't get along. "She looked away and shrugged. "And I get it if you don't really like me. So, if we can't be friends, that's okay."
"But Undyne…"
"No! If we're not friends...then that means I can destroy you without regret!" She yelled, a spear appeared in her hand and Frisk covered her mouth to keep out the smoke. "I've been defeated...my house is in shambles...I can't even make friends with you...so that's it. I don't even care you're my guest now." She laughed, but Frisk was starting to get the feeling she didn't mean it. "This will be our final match! We'll go all out! Now hit me with all you got!"
Frisk looked at the fire surrounding them, then at her friend as her eyes narrowed. She could tell there was no other way out of this, so she stepped forward and swung back. Frisk barely nudged her with her fist and Undyne stared at her.
"That's your best?" She looked at Frisk longer, "You...really don't want to hurt me...do you?"
"No... I don't." Frisk was muffled behind her hand and Undyne let out a laugh.
"I don't know what's worse, that you don't want to hurt me. Or that I don't even want to hurt you anymore...I even hated you for that stupid saccharine shtick of yours but...the way you hit me right now reminded me of someone I used to train with. "She started to make a real smile. "So maybe you aren't just a wimpy loser."
"Thanks, Undyne." Frisk smiled.
"Yeah, you're a wimpy loser with a big heart" She laughed after a bigger smile and Frisk rolled her eyes. "Listen…." Frisk looked up hearing the seriousness in her voice. "You and Asgore are fated to fight, I can see that now. But knowing him he probably doesn't want to and knowing you…" She just shook her head. "Just...talk to him. I'm sure he'll let you go home."
"But what about you guys…" Frisk frowned, that wasn't the plan. She wanted to save them, not leave them here.
Undyne smiled," Meh. Some mean human will come down here eventually...and I'll just take their soul instead. That makes sense, right?" She laughed and Frisk still frowned, thinking of how they'd be stuck waiting. "But human, if you do hurt Asgore...I'll take the souls we have myself and cross the barrier just so I can beat the hell out of you! Got it?"
"Got it." Frisk laughed, she smiled and understood Undyne being protective.
"Good, because that's what's friends are for! But um...let's get the hell out this flaming house. Sounds good?" She laughed.
"Sounds perfect." Frisk followed the woman as they left the house quickly.
"You have to admit it was fun, right?" Undyne grinned, stopping once she was far enough from the house and they both could see it burning.
"Yeah, it was." Frisk nodded.
"We definitely should hang out again, but probably someone else's house…" Undyne looked thoughtful.
"What about Sans?" Frisk looked over and the woman beamed.
"That's perfect! Then I can just hang out with Papyrus! So, if you need me, just drop by Snowdin. Okay?" Undyne smiled as Frisk nodded in agreement as Undyne started to leave.
"Oh!" She turned back to look at Frisk. "If you need me, just call Papyrus. We'll be in the same area, so I'll be able to talk to!"
"Okay! Thanks, Undyne!" Frisk laughed and waved.
"Later, punk!" Undyne waved and Frisk laughed, waving again before leaving the area herself. She thought about the walk back she'd have to make and groaned at the thought. She was pretty sure she needed to get back to the Hotlands, with a deep breath she steeled herself. She was sure she could do it, she felt determined.
Going down and taking some turns, she noticed a path she hadn't tried. There was someone in a cloak, and she tilted her head seeing them on a boat.
"Um...hi?"
"Tra la la la. I am the river man. Or am I the river woman? It doesn't really matter, I love to ride in my boat. Care to join me?"
"I… yes?" Their voice was odd, she couldn't place the gender or nothing else about it. "Can... you take me to Hotlands?"
"Of course."
The boat moved suddenly and Frisk sat down, watching the scenery as they passed by it. "Tra la la la" It sung and Frisk glanced over at the River Person. "Beware of the man who speaks in hands…"
"What?" Frisk looked confused as the boat stopped, the area felt hot and she already knew where they were. "But who is that…"
"I would say...but it's rude to speak of someone who is listening." Its voice sounded distorted a moment and Frisk started to move, deciding that was one mystery she rather leave alone.