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Event 4: Holding Hands

Papyrus wasn't the best at understanding people's feelings, but that wouldn't stop him from helping out a friend in need. Just a little while ago, he noticed when he brought a tired Alphys back to her lab, she seemed obviously distracted by something. When he asked, she said she was fine, though Papyrus wasn't sure. Thankfully he had a stroke of genius and called Frisk to go check up on her, if anybody could solve her problem, it was Frisk.

About 40 minutes later, his flower friend appeared again and told him to head to Asgore's Castle, and to bring everyone else as well. He became more confused when he was told that Frisk was heading there. "WHY WOULD FRISK HEAD BACK TO THE CASTLE ALL OF A SUDDEN?" He pondered.

Despite his worries, he still trusted his flower friend and called Alphys, Undyne, Toriel, and Sans. He would of called Muffet, but he was still in Hotland at the time, so he stopped by her place and they left for the castle together.

Papyrus was visibly nervous about the whole ordeal, and when Muffet noticed this, she grabbed his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. Papyrus gave her a smile and griped her hand in return, making sure to not let go.

By the time they got there, Alphys, Undyne, Toriel, and Sans had already arrived.

"HEY! NOBODY FIGHT ANYONE! IF ANYONE FIGHTS ANYONE…..! THEN I'LL! BE FORCED! TO ASK UNDYNE FOR HELP! Papyrus exclaimed as he made his presence known.

"Ahuhuhu~ No one is fighting anyone, sweetie~ No need to get excited." Muffet said, making her presence know as well.

After hearing her words, he noticed that Frisk was not in fact fighting with Asgore, but was instead sitting with him, sharing some butterscotch cinnamon pie they still had.

"OH, WHOOPSIE! I GUESS I GOT A BIT CARRIED AWAY, MY DEAR!" He responded, feeling a bit embarrassed for making a silly mistake.

"It's alright, sweetie~. Just try to be more aware of what's happening next time." Muffet said, lightly scolding him.

"OH MY GOD! WILL YOU TWO JUST SMOOCH ALREADY!? THE AUDIENCE IS DYING FOR SOME ROMANTIC ACTION!" Exclaimed Mettaton, clearly impatient despite that fact that he just arrived.

"W-WHAT?!" Exclaimed both Papyrus and Muffet in shock, a blush becoming very visible on both of their faces.

"I-It's not n-nice to tease people like that!" Muffet said to Mettaton, more embarrassed than angry. "C-Can you believe the nerve of this guy, sweetie~?" She asked Papyrus.

"...YOU KNOW WHAT? NO. HE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. LET'S DO IT!" Papyrus responded, sounding very confident despite his previous embarrassment as he took one of Muffet's hands into the free hand that she wasn't holding before.

"W-Well, alright then. If you really want to, sweetie~" Muffet said as they both closed their eyes and leaned closer to each other, inching closer and closer, only a few more inches of space between them. Said space quickly becoming smaller and smaller as everyone in the room watched on…

Only for everything to immediately be interrupted as many vines suddenly appeared, quickly and forcefully wrapping around everyone in the room, minus Frisk.

Suddenly an all too familiar flower popped up from the ground. "Hee hee hee! You IDIOTS. While you guys were having your little pow-wow...I took the human SOULS!" Flowey explained.

"And now, not only are THOSE under my power...But all of your FRIENDS' SOULS are gonna be mine, too! Hee hee hee! And you know what the best part is? It's all your fault. It's all because you MADE THEM love you. All the time you spent listening to them… Encouraging them… Caring about them...Without that, they wouldn't have come here. And now, with their souls and the humans' together… I will achieve my REAL FORM." He said, taunting Frisk.

"Hee hee… Huh? WHY am I still doing this? Don't you get it? This is all just a GAME. If you leave the underground satisfied, you'll 'win' the game. If you 'win,' you won't want to 'play' with me anymore. And what would I do then? But this game between us will NEVER end. I'll hold victory in front of you, just within your reach… And then tear it away just before you grasp it. Over, and over, and over… Hee hee hee…" He finished explaining.

"Listen. If you DO defeat me, I'll give you your 'happy ending.' I'll bring your friends back. I'll destroy the barrier. Everyone will finally be satisfied. But that WON'T happen. You…! I'll keep you here no matter what!" He finished, trapping Frisk's soul in a small square. "Even if it means killing you 1,000,000 times!" Flowey said as he started attacking Frisk's soul with an unavoidable barrage of bullets, laughing while doing so.

Just as the final wave was about to kill them for good, a ring of fire magic surrounded Frisk's soul, deflecting the bullets.

"What?" Flowey asked, very confused.

"Do not be afraid my child… No matter what happens… We will always be there to protect you!" Declared Toriel.

Angered, Flowey sent a wall of bullets from the left and right, only for them to be blocked by a bone and spear.

"THAT'S RIGHT, MY FRIEND! YOU CAN WIN! JUST DO WHAT I WOULD DO… BELIEVE IN YOU!" Papyrus proudly exclaimed.

"Hey! Punk! If you got past ME, you can do ANYTHING! So don't worry! We're with you all the way!" Undyne stated with pride.

"huh? you haven't beaten this guy yet? come on, this weirdo's got nothin' on you." Sans said encouragingly.

Even more angry this time, Flowey once again sent a wall of bullets from the left and right, only to be blocked again, this time by fire magic as well as electric magic.

"Technically, it's impossible for you to beat him… B-But… Somehow, I know you can do it!" Alphys said, trying as hard as she can to sound encouraging.

"Human, for the future of humans and monsters…! You have to stay determined…!" Asgore declared.

Outright furious and desperate now, Flowey once again tried the circle of bullets, only for a group of spiders to appear and block the bullets with a wall of webs they somehow managed to put up before the attack hit..

"Don't let this hideous weed stop you, you've GOT to win, dearie!" Muffet said, confident that Frisk would prevail.

Suddenly, many different monsters from all over the underground started to show up to give their support.

"La la la la!" "We're with you too!" "C'mon, you got this!" "You can do it!" "Ribbit." Exclaimed all of the monsters.

"Urrrgh… NO! Unbelieveable! This can't be happening…! You… YOU…!" Flowey started to panic, until his trademark sinister smile came back. "I can't believe you're all so STUPID. ALL OF YOUR SOULS ARE MINE!" Flowey said as he started to absorb all of the monster's souls and regained his true form.

Despite all the events that transpired, not once did Papyrus and Muffet ever let go of the other's hand. Even with their memories clouded by Asriel's powers, they still held onto each other's hand despite not knowing why. And when everything had finally come to an end, the two woke up, still holding the other's hand. Not even the powers of a god could separate the two.

Chapter 4 is now done and over with!

I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. With the exception of literally typing out the event's at Asgore's castle as they are in game with only a few differences. Though I can't deny the smile on my face when I came up with Mettaton using the same line, but have it directed towards Muffet and Paps instead of Undyne and Alphys (At this point in this story, Alphys and Undyne have been dating for a bit now and have kissed, so no need for him to help those two.)

Hope you all enjoyed this one, see you in the next chapter. A chapter that I am looking VERY forward to writing.

That's all for now, Apolleh OUT!