AN:Beauty takes time people sorry this is late, I made it longer than I had anticipated and its still going even after the Dog Marriage bit. But I decided to stop it there so you wouldn't have to read another oops big amount like Chapter 3 ended up being. So enjoy what I have given you, because I am trying to hurry along to get to the super cuteness that is getting Sora and the gang to interact with Monster Kid. ^.^

The group moved away from the save point a smidge and came across a box next to a sign. The sign simply read, "This is a box. You can put an item inside or take an item out. The same box will appear later, so don't worry about coming back. Sincerely, a box lover."

Frisk took a look inside the box and took out the lone pink leather, Tough Glove that was inside and equipped it, then they put the toy knife into the box for safe keeping.

They all headed up the north path that was just before the box and came to a river with a fishing pole all by its lonesome. Reeling it in, all they found attached to the end of the line was a photo of a weird looking monster…in the white space underneath the picture itself were the words, "Call me! Here's my number!" and the number that supposedly belonged to the monster in the picture. They unanimously decided not to call.

So they went back the way they came and continued on the path that went past the box, and happened to run into the skeleton brothers again.

"SO AS I WAS SAYING ABOUT UNDYNE," Papyrus then cut himself off as he felt the presence of others besides his brother. He looked to his left and couldn't believe his eye sockets, two figures that were potentially humans standing in front of two monsters and a smaller monster that was perched on the shoulder of the smaller potential human. He looked to his brother who was looking at the group, so he himself looked back to the group, but his curiosity was getting the better of him so he looked to his brother again. Rinse and repeat until both of the skeleton brothers did this so quickly they just simply spun out, both of them facing the mismatched group. He decided to talk to his brother privately for a moment. "SANS! OH MY GOD! IS THAT…A PAIR OF HUMANS IN FRONT OF THOSE MONSTERS WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE?!"

"uhhhh…actually, I think those are rocks." Sans answered him with a shrug. There was some space between the humans and Donald and Goofy, and in that space there were indeed some rocks.

"OH." Papyrus said dejectedly and looked quite crestfallen. Sans felt a little terrible that his brother didn't notice that as a joke and egged him on with something to get his hopes back up.

"hey, what are those in front of the rocks?"

"OH MY GOD!" Papyrus shouted excitedly. And turned to his brother and whispered with all of his might. "Are…Are those humans?"

"yes." Sans whispered back.

"OH MY GOD!" Papyrus shouted excitedly again. "SANS! I FINALLY DID IT! UNDYNE WILL… I'M GONNA…I'LL BE SO…POPULAR! POPULAR! POPULAR!" The tall skeleton shouted to the heavens. Then he composed himself with a loud "AHEM…" before he continued in his heroic looking manner, but to the group it made him look like an old fashioned villain, the kind that would tie a maiden to some train tracks. "HUMANS!...AND FRIENDS…YOU SHALL NOT PASS THIS AREA! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, SHALL STOP YOU! I WILL THEN CAPTURE YOU! JUST THE HUMANS TO BE PRECISE. YOU WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CAPITAL! THEN… THEN!" He lost steam as he haphazardly admitted something in his next sentence. "I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S NEXT." But he still kept up his gusto as he continued. "IN ANY CASE! CONTINUE…ONLY IF YOU DARE! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" With that he continued on down the path in the direction they were all going and went out of sight.

"well, that went well." Sans quipped. "don't sweat it, kids. I'll keep an eye socket out for ya." Then he too left to follow his brother.

"The capital, huh?" Jiminy mused aloud. "Isn't that where we're going anyway?"

Frisk nodded and started signing a small explanation, which Jiminy translated. As Jiminy had just said, the capital was where they were all going anyway, so it wouldn't matter much if they got captured for real. When asked to elaborate on the 'for real' bit by Jiminy, Frisk happily explained that Papyrus is going to set up a bunch of puzzles and its best that everyone plays along, as it will make Papyrus warm up to them and either way, he's just too nice to really capture anyone. Plus, it's best to make Papyrus happy for Sans' sake, and Frisk warned them that Sans should never be underestimated, but didn't elaborate why. Thankfully, the others have seen enough things to know when someone is not to be underestimated, and take that kind of advice to heart, so they didn't question the warning.

However, Donald being skeptical as ever and keeping his guard up when the others obviously refused to, was still worried over the 'Capital' detail, only the other part that somehow got left out of the conversation. The capturing the humans part. If Papyrus was as nice and innocent as the kid claimed him to be, then the detail about what happens after sending a human to the capital must've been for a bad purpose. Donald then recalled on the legend Frisk told them, humans put the monsters down here…with a spell to keep them here…but magic, no matter what world its rules and properties could be used in, could easily go both ways. So if humans put them down here…maybe humans were the answer to getting them out. How was the million munny question, and that just put Donald even more on edge.

As they continued down the path following where the skeleton brothers went, they got a phone call from someone who obviously had the wrong number as they bashfully ordered pizza but they got so flustered that they decided to text what they wanted on the pizza, the only problem was that the phone was so ancient it couldn't receive texting so out loud the phone said in an automated tone, character-by-character, "ASCII art of an anime cat-girl." It was evidently heard by the person on the other end because they quickly hung up out of embarrassment. Then they encountered Snowdrake, a teenage comedian who fought to keep an audience. They made terrible ice puns and Frisk and Sora chose to laugh at the pun. Snowdrake appreciated this particular audience, and so he was spared. The group then came across a pretty shabby looking cardboard box, but the narration note posted on it surprised them because of who made it. The narration read, "YOU OBSERVE THE WELL-CRAFTED SENTRY STATION. WHO COULD HAVE BUILT THIS, YOU PONDER… I BET IT WAS THAT VERY FAMOUS ROYAL GUARDSMAN! (NOTE: NOT YET A VERY FAMOUS ROYAL GUARDSMAN.)" Obviously it was built by Papyrus. It just baffled them that the craftsman ship was so shoddy for the sentry station, and though Sans' sentry station was littered with condiments, it was better built than this. Frisk was right. Don't underestimate Sans. Plus, they gave Papyrus credit for being proud of his achievement, even if no one told him that it was unsuitable.

Moving on they came to a sign that warned them to not move, and further along from it was a dog centric sentry post. They took the sign's warning somewhat to heart and tried to tiptoe past it…but to no avail. They froze when a head popped up from behind the counter of the sentry post, looking only with their eyes, they saw a shifty eyed dog slide all the way up and speak in a skeptical and confused tone.

"Did something move? Was it my imagination? I can only see moving things. If something was moving…For example, a human…I'll make sure it never moves again!"

With that, the group ended up in the weird white wall perspective again. Frisk automatically chose the Act option and then check. Doggo here was easily excited by moving things. Hobbies includes: squirrels. Doggo then warned what he couldn't see to not move an inch. Sora took that as a hint and carefully kept his heart in place right along with Frisk's as a blue sword passed right over them and they didn't take any damage from it. Doggo couldn't seem to find anything. Then Frisk chose to pet Doggo. Doggo got excited and loudly wondered how it got pet. "Pet! Pot! Pot! Pat!" Frisk then went to the Items option and scrolled until they got to the stick. They threw the stick and the dog ran to get it. They played fetch for a while. "Huh! A fun stick appears!" Doggo was then spared.

"A stick appeared out of nowhere, then disappeared. Was it a ghost stick? Did I just return it to the afterlife? I need some dog treats to think about this." Doggo said mostly to themselves, and slunk back down into the sentry post and out of sight.

The group continued to tiptoe down the path and stumbled upon a small pile of proof that someone's been smoking dog treats. Jiminy didn't like the implications of them one bit and quickly hopped down from Frisk's shoulder and kicked snow to cover the stubs of smoked dog treats. When they were fully covered he whipped around to face the two humans, spouting advice, almost furiously, on how smoking was very bad. His conscience job was kicking in again. No one had seen the cricket this angry looking before, and all four of the taller (than Jiminy) companions simply just nodded, with slight fear in their eyes. Thankfully, Jiminy was quite pleased with this response, and hopped back on to Frisk's shoulder.

They then got another phone call, and the voice was eerily familiar, it didn't help that the caller asked if their refrigerator was running, they answered yes to amuse them, and the caller responded that they'd be over soon to deliver the brewskis. Whatever the heck that meant, the foreign quartet had no clue. Frisk didn't bother to sign anything to explain. As there really wasn't an explanation. All Frisk knew was that if they had said 'no' the caller would send over a repair man, and would thank you for letting them know. Jiminy had a vague idea, and loudly announced and advised that if anyone offered them a drink called alcohol, they should deny it immediately, unless they're at least the age of twenty-one in which case, drink responsibly and most certainly not too much.

Moving on, they bumped into Sans again who had some advice to give. Of course, really his advice was just reiterating what they had just learned while fighting Doggo. But at least he came up with a silly way to remember it, by thinking of blue stop signs for blue attacks. They were also warned that Papyrus had a special attack, but the way Sans had worded the mention of it made it sound like the blue attacks were his special attacks. Frisk wanted the others to find out for themselves what Papyrus' special move was, even if it wasn't his real special, special attack.

Then some Heartless showed up. Three of which were Large Snowmen, a subspecies of Large Bodies that Sora had never seen before but have actually been around since before the Keyblade war. There was also a Strange Tree Heartless, which was also from before the Keyblade war, and oddly enough it looked like a stack of Heartless trying to disguise themselves as a Christmas tree. There were also plenty of Icy Cube and Snowy Crystal Heartless to smack around for good measure.

"Hey, Sans. Mind if we cash in our favor?" Sora started as he summoned his keyblade and got into his battle stance, glancing at the skeleton and hoping that Sans heard him and wouldn't mind.

"save that favor for a rainy day. ya don't even need to ask, bucko. I'll keep the kiddo here outta harm's way." Sans said with a shrug, then he grabbed Frisk with one arm, Jiminy quickly stuffed himself into Frisk's collar, and Sans vanished within a blink of an eye.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy didn't have time to question it, they had Heartless to deal with. It wouldn't be as easy as all the Heartless battles had been at this point, there was a huge ice patch surrounding a lone sign, and the Heartless were right on it slowly skating their way toward them.

The trio decided to use the ice to their advantage, Sora summoned up the Tea Cups and all three of them went for a ride, squashing bucket loads of Icy Cubes and Snowy Crystals in their wakes. Once those miniscule Heartless were dispatched, all that was left were the three Large Snowmen and the Strange Tree Heartless. Some well-timed Firas and a few good whacks finished them off easily after the magic dispersed from summoning the Tea Cups.

Since they were all Emblem Heartless, hearts floated away after the vanquished puffs of darkness. Then a slow bone on bone clap rang out throughout this whole little area, soon followed by a faster, normal sounding clap. The trio followed their ears of where the sounds were coming from and found Sans and Frisk sitting precariously on a tree. Precariously indeed if Jiminy shouting with all his tiny might that hiding up here from the Heartless was a terrible idea and incredibly unsafe for a child Frisk's age. Sans didn't respond to Jiminy but he did grab the kid in one arm and in the blink of an eye they were on the ground, and not on the huge icy patch.

"i take it you boys aren't from this world, huh? and neither are those things I take it. so riddle me this, what are they and you fellas doing here in the first place?" Sans asked, dimming the lights in his eyes to make himself more intimidating.

His intimidation worked, but the trio before him looked over in Frisk's direction as if they wanted a confirmation or something. He could practically feel the kid beside him nod at whatever was being silently asked through eye contact alone. Surprisingly to him, they explained what they could and what was easiest to grasp. The Heartless were after the heart of this world, and this taller human, Sora, had the key to lock the heart of the world so that the Heartless can't get to it and everything can go back to normal. It oddly enough made sense to Sans, but he was confused for other reasons, scientific reasons, timeline reasons. This quartet and those Heartless had never been in any of the timelines before, and somehow they managed to end up in a very lucky timeline, a timeline where the young kid wasn't covered in dust and just didn't respond like a normal person would at his whoopee cushion in the hand joke. However they did explain that Heartless, the pure blooded ones that didn't have fancy red emblems on them at least, were born from the darkness in people's hearts. So maybe it was a manifestation of a buildup of the darker worse off timelines. Regardless, that lamp that was in Sora's height did come out of nowhere in the garbage dump this time around, and two lamps did look a little more natural even if Papyrus never cared about the lamps for the life of him. Sans turned to Frisk himself, returning the lights to his eyes and raised a brow at the kid.

Frisk signed to him, and Sans nodded with a relieved sigh and shrugged. "well, it seems that it is what it is. guess i've got a secondary part of a promise to keep." With that he walked over to a tree and leaned against it and seemingly took a nap. The group decided not to bother him, neither did they ask Jiminy to translate what Frisk said to Sans, they assumed that it was a simple, 'you can trust them' sort of thing.

They all looked at the sign finally, but only after they skid across the ice with Goofy constantly stumbling into them, though the sign wasn't much help. North was ice, South was ice, West was ice, but hey, East was Snowdin Town…and more ice. They followed Frisk up the North path, and came upon a regular snowman, a talking regular snowman. He wanted to see the world but couldn't because he was a snowman that wasn't built with legs, like a certain other snowman that may or may not have already been met in a different world.* So the Snowman offered that they take a piece of him to carry around the world. The group complied since it was only fair to the snowman.

As they left, ending up in the spot where they fought the Heartless with an audience, they noticed Sans wasn't by that tree anymore. So they carried on, heading East, and ran into the skeleton brothers again though for the moment only Sans slightly took notice of them.

"YOU'RE SO LAZY! YOU WERE NAPPING ALL NIGHT!" Papyrus complained at his brother.

"i think that's called…sleeping." Sans replied. Well it was a plausible response, but Papyrus wouldn't have any of it.

"EXCUSES, EXCUSES!" Then he turned and noticed the group. "OH-HO! THE HUMANS HAVE ARRIVED! IN ORDER TO STOP YOU…MY BROTHER AND I HAVE CREATED SOME PUZZLES! I THINK YOU WILL FIND THIS ONE…QUITE SHOCKING!" He nearly giggled at his own joke, but refrained for the moment and instead smiled quite smugly, and then proudly continued. "FOR YOU SEE, THIS IS THE INVISIBLE…ELECTRICITY MAZE! WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WALLS OF THIS MAZE, THIS ORB WILL ADMINISTER A HEARTY ZAP!" He explained as he held out a pretty blue and decently sized, little orb. "SOUND LIKE FUN? BECAUSE! THE AMOUNT OF FUN YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE, IS ACTUALLY RATHER SMALL I THINK." He sounded like he was going for a joke but it probably sounded better in his head. "OK, YOU CAN GO AHEAD NOW."

Frisk held their arm out to stop the others from doing anything, as they themselves took a couple steps, and Papyrus got shocked, presumably by the orb. He looked mighty crispy after that, but he quickly shook it off and blamed his brother.

"SANS?! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"i think the humans have to hold the orb." Sans replied thoughtfully.

"OH, OKAY." Papyrus quipped cheerfully, and then proceeded to walk the exact path of the invisible walled maze, leaving footprints in the snow and everything. "HOLD THIS, PLEASE." Papyrus told them as he tossed in the air and quickly speed-walked back through the maze over to his spot on the other side of it. While the orb landed safely on top of Frisk's head. Jiminy, Donald and Goofy gave the orb a 10 from each of them for the landing, and Sans snorted on the other side, ignoring his brother's offended glare. "OKAY, TRY NOW." Papyrus called from the other side of the area. Sora simply placed a finger on the orb so at least he was somehow participating, and Goofy held on to Sora's shoulders, and Donald held onto Goofy's side, careful not to tickle him. They were going to choo-choo train it through this maze together.

Somehow they made it through without Goofy's clumsiness ruining it for them, as they had followed Papyrus' footsteps exactly to the letter.

"INCREDIBLE! YOU SLIPPERY SNAILS! YOU SOLVED IT SO EASILY…TOO EASILY!" Papyrus shouted in shock. But it didn't deter his speech momentum. "HOWEVER! THE NEXT PUZZLE WILL NOT BE EASY! IT IS DESIGNED BY MY BROTHER, SANS! YOU WILL SURELY BE CONFOUNDED! I KNOW I AM! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" With that, he moon walked to the next area and completely out of sight, while Sans remained.

"hey, thanks…my brother seems like he's having fun." Sans told them in appreciation. "by the way, did you see that weird outfit he's wearing? we made that a few weeks ago for a costume party. he hasn't worn anything else since…keeps calling it his 'battle body.' man, isn't my brother cool?"

The group took Frisk's earlier advice to please him and smiled as they nodded. The smiles were genuine, they were just collectively ignoring the fact that Papyrus wanted to capture two of them, but Sans showing brotherly love for his brother was what had them sold.

They then continued on and found a kiosk run by a blue bunny looking monster. He was blue both figuratively and literally. And they decided to listen in on what had him down in the dumps.

"I don't understand why these aren't selling…It's the perfect weather for something cold…" Then he looked up and took notice of them, instantly brightening up. "OH! A CUSTOMER! Hello! Would you like some Nice Cream? It's the frozen treat that warms your heart! Now just 15G!" Jiminy declined the offer, so Frisk got themselves and Sora, Donald, and Goofy some Nice Cream instead. "Here you go! Have a super-duper day!"

It was too cold to eat the Nice Cream so they stored it in their own respective inventories. Instead of a joke the wrappers say something nice. They crossed over a little bridge and saw a kickable snowball on a pseudo miniature golf course. They found the hole towards the southern end of the area and worked together to kick in in the hole. With great success of the snowball not melting much, they got a yellow flag, they're sure-fire accuracy put an end to the mayhem of "Ball." They also got 3G for it. Then they noticed Sans standing off to the side and went to go see what he had to say.

"i've been thinking of selling treats too. want some fried snow? it's just 5G." It was cheap enough so they all said yes, but then Sans had the gall to up the price. "did i say 5G? i meant 50G." The group knew that he was pulling their legs so they humored him and said yes again. And again he upped the price. "really? how about 5000G?" They all said yes again. "5000G. that's my final offer." They said yes even though they didn't have the money. "what? you don't have the money? hey, that's okay. i don't have any snow." Donald and Goofy just chuckled like school children after hearing a dirty joke, and Sans ever appreciating his ever faithful audience, clicked his non-existent tongue twice while pointing friendly finger guns at the chortling duo.

After having a good chuckle, they headed off to Sans' side and came to a small area that had two dog-centric sentry posts, one was labeled 'his' and the other, 'hers'. In between the sentry posts was a sign that read, "SMELL DANGER RATING: Snow Smell – Snowman WHITE Rating, Can become YELLOW Rating. Unsuspicious Smell – Puppy BLUE Rating, Smell of rolling around. Weird Smell – Humans GREEN Rating, Destroy at all costs!" Though the word green was highlighted in red, because these dogs are apparently red-green color blind. There wasn't much else here so they went back the way they came, passing by Sans who was still there this time, and by the hole. Frisk waved at a camera hidden in a snowball when the others were preoccupied by a snowball that was actually a snowdecahedron, once they were finished admiring it and listening to Goofy spout some random nonsensical mathematics, they headed into the next area. Only to find that Sans had mysteriously teleported again as he was across the way with Papyrus.

"HUMANS! I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR…" Papyrus trailed off, he was about to say 'my brother's puzzle', but there wasn't really anything up to Papyrus' caliber of puzzles in sight. There was a piece of paper in between the group and the skeletons though. "SANS! WHERE'S THE PUZZLE!?"

"it's right there. on the ground. trust me. there's no way they can get past this one." Sans replied, looking quite smug as if he were hiding an inside joke about something.

Again, taking Frisk's advice to heart they actually sat down around the piece of paper and went about to solve the puzzle. It was a Monster Kidz Word Search on the paper, Goofy pulled out a pencil from his hat…after other assorted and random objects fell out beforehand such as a bowling ball, and they all started to circle the words they could find. There was however one huge problem, the biggest word which wasn't even really a word, was misspelled by one letter in comparison to what needed to be found. Donald then grabbed the pencil and changed the 'i' in the word that needed to be found into a 'u' so they could circle the word anyway, even though everyone chided him for cheating, he had a plausible defense, if Sans could cheat by teleporting every which way he went and gave them a printed out puzzle that cheated on its own by having one measly letter wrong, then what's the harm in cheating, just this once, themselves right back at a piece of paper? They went ahead with that and declared themselves done.

"SANS! THAT WAS TOO EASY FOR THEM!" Papyrus complained at his brother.

"whoops. i knew i should have used today's crossword instead." Sans replied with a laid back shrug. Papyrus however, looked insulted at the notion.

"WHAT!? CROSSWORD!? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT! IN MY OPINION…JUNIOR JUMBLE IS EASILY THE HARDEST."

"what? really, dude? that easy-peasy word scramble? that's for baby bones." Sans gently retorted.

"UN. BELIEVABLE." Papyrus sighed exasperatedly, but then got a brilliant idea. "HUMANS AND FRIENDS! SOLVE THIS DISPUTE!" Still taking Frisk's advice, they all went with Junior Jumble, despite knowing that Crosswords could be quite tricky if one didn't know what the hint given was referring to. Needless to say, Papyrus was quite happy about this response. "HA! HA! YES! HUMANS AND THESE MONSTERS MUST BE VERY INTELLIGENT! IF THEY ALSO FIND JUNIOR JUMBLE SO DIFFICULT! NYEH! HEH! HEH HEH!" Satisfied with everything he walked on ahead to wherever his next puzzle would be. Again Sans stayed behind.

"thanks for saying 'junior jumble' just to appease my brother. Yesterday he got stumped trying to 'solve' his horoscope."

"That's nothin'! You should see Sora trying to fly our Gummi ship to get to a world!" Donald couldn't help but blurt out.

"Hey, it's been a while, my flying isn't that bad!" Sora shot back at the duck. "Not to mention Heartless always get in the way."

"Each star in thuh sky is a different world, and lately they've been blinkin' out 'cause darkness overtook 'em. That's also why we're doin' what we're doin'." Goofy explained to Sans, that was one small part that they left out of their explanation earlier.

Sans' eyes lit up and subconsciously shaped themselves into little white stars. "cool." Was all he could say in a very impressed tone. He loved science, and the stars especially. That much Frisk knew would be obvious to the others later on when they all reached the next section of the Underground.

The group decided it was time to keep on going and said their quick little goodbyes to Sans, knowing they'd see him again very soon for whatever set of puzzles lay ahead of them. They came upon a set of save points near a note, a plate of spaghetti on a table and an unplugged microwave next to the spaghetti, and it was all in front of another mouse hole. They read the note first, they recognized the handwriting from a certain shoddy looking sentry station they had encountered earlier. Obviously it was from Papyrus.

"HUMANS AND FRIENDS! PLEASE SHARE AND ENJOY THIS SPAGHETTI. (LITTLE DO YOU KNOW, THIS SPAGHETTI IS A TRAP…DESIGNED TO ENTICE YOU ALL! YOU'LL BE SO BUSY EATING IT…THAT YOU WON'T REALIZE THAT YOU AREN'T PROGRESSING! THOROUGHLY JAPED AGAIN BY THE GREAT PAPYRUS!) NYEH-HEH-HEH, PAPYRUS." The note read honestly.

Well, it was a very nice gesture even for someone who was supposed to be capturing humans. They looked over at the plate of spaghetti, and unsurprisingly in this strange for a cave weather, the plate of spaghetti was frozen to the point that it was quite stuck to the table. The microwave next to it would have also been very nice if it were possible to lift the spaghetti off of the table, and if the microwave was even plugged in, which it wasn't. Humorously enough, all the settings on the microwave said 'spaghetti'.

"Hey, Frisk. How good is Papyrus' cooking?" Donald asked out of the blue. He had an idea to actually heat the spaghetti, a simple Fira should do the trick, but he wanted to see if it was even worth the effort first. "Be honest now."

Frisk visibly cringed, shook their head, and formed their arms into an 'x' as a universal signal. Papyrus wasn't that good, but according to Sans, he was getting better.

"Figures, he doesn't look like the type to be very good at cooking, even if that spaghetti wasn't frozen, I don't think I'd be able to eat it." Donald said knowingly. Before he could be reprimanded he added loudly in case Sans happened to be listening in, "But I'm sure he's trying his best to cook. That's what matters."

"Tempting as that spaghetti is, I sure could go fer a bologna sandwich right about now." Goofy said sadly as a grumble from his stomach sounded. "I could even go fer more of Miss Toriel's pie, but that ain't even an option anymore."

"Aw, don't worry, Goofy. I'm sure there's gotta be a town somewhere." Sora told him cheerfully. Then he turned to their youngest friend. "Right, Frisk?"

Frisk nodded and then signed. Jiminy was more used to translating from across from Frisk, but since the cricket was still in the warmth of the turtle neck of Frisk's sweater, he had to adjust himself a little.

"Uh, Frisk says there is a town around here, but it's still a ways a way and we have more puzzles to get through before we get there." Jiminy translated to the best of his ability at this angle.

"Welp, we better get going then. Those puzzles aren't going to solve themselves. Besides, maybe the mouse in that hole will eventually get to the spaghetti and appreciate it more than we would have." Sora encouraged them all. The others nodded in unison. They saved before they continued onward. Knowing the mouse might one day find a way to heat up the spaghetti…It filled them all with determination.

Moving into the next area, they instantly came across a sign that read "WARNING: DOG MARRIAGE." It was such an odd warning that no one but Frisk knew what to make of it. So they continued on, encountering Lesser Dog, who wielded a stone dogger made of pomer-granite, as they explored. They threw the stick that Frisk still had and played fetch for a while, and noticed Lesser Dog's neck grew longer by a few inches. They then pet Lesser Dog numerous times and found that its neck elongated a little more each time it was pet. They pet it so much that its head had gone where no dog had gone before, so they finally spared him.

After they all got out of the white walled perspective, Donald had one heck of an idea to break the whole system of things. "Hey, if that dog's neck can grow so long, why doesn't anyone try to use them to climb up and out of the hole at the very beginning of the Ruins?"

"That's a pretty good idea." Goofy complimented.

Everyone looked to Frisk. Frisk shrugged and signed that they hadn't thought of that before.

"That is a fairly good idea, Donald. Except that there's a few things wrong with it…I'm sure as vague as the legend is about the spell that's keeping everyone down here, there aren't any loop holes. Surely even if it were possible to climb back up and outta that hole, there's something magical preventing folks from leaving. I'm sure they might have already tried it when they first got stuck down here, and nowadays Toriel keeps that door locked so there isn't any way to test it out now. Even if we use the Keyblade to open it, there might be a barrier over the entrance too, and I don't know about the rest of you, but I certainly don't want to walk all the way back just to test it. We just gotta keep moving forward." Jiminy said, trying not to dishearten the duck too much. Donald nodded with an exasperated sigh of agreement. It was an idea that was worth a shot at mentioning.

They continued on until Goofy stumbled into a small layer of freshly placed snow, the layer of snow was hiding something underneath. It turned out to be a map of the general area. There was an x supposedly in between three objects. The only objects around really were three trees. There were spikes nearby this map, so they figured that they were looking for a switch. They all wandered in between the three trees and came to this little patch of dirt. They had to poke around here and there, as it was half buried in dirt and snow. The resounding click was quite satisfying to hear to let them know that the spikes were down. They wandered back and went past where the spikes were, crossing over a little bridge. Then, they were approached by two dogs wearing black hooded robes.

"What's that smell?" Asked one.

"(Where's that smell?)" Asked the other.

"If you're a smell…"

"(…identify yoursmellf!)" The two dogs scanned the little plateau they were standing on with their noses, before their noses brought them right back to the group.

"Hmm…Here's that weird smell…It makes me want to eliminate."

"(…Eliminate YOU!)"

The dogi assaulted them. Dogamy was the husband of Dogaressa, and knows only what he smells. Dogaressa was the kind of puppy who finds her hubby lovely. SMELLS ONLY?

Within the white walled perspective, Frisk and Sora dodged the axes that belonged to the dogi by going under them. They also dodged blown kisses by two little white dogs, and had to weave through blue and normal white hearts. When the chance to act came upon them again, Frisk took the opportunity to roll around in the dirt, Sora mimicked, knowing Frisk must've had a plan. Then Frisk let the dogs re-sniff them. The dogi got confused as now they smelled weird puppies before them, but that was okay with them. Then the dogi had their minds blown and their horizens widened when these puppies pet them. Dogs petting dogs? Amazing! Their minds expanded. They were then spared.

"Dogs can pet other dogs?"

"(A new world has opened up for us…)"

"Thanks weird puppies!" The two dogs said together in unison, and then left.

Thus, the group carried on, remarking very briefly on how weird that whole experience was.

*A reference to not knowing the order of the worlds when I wrote this. -edit 2/2/2019