Chapter 8
There was a hall, less than dim to say the least. An encounter with Undyne resolved itself somehow. And the team of four neared a large cave, a red sky.
"This is where things get exciting. You all ready to run?" Chara asked.
"Yes"
"Yeah"
"Nod"
"Let's go."
They walked forward, nearing the entrance to the cave leading to hotlands. Then they froze, they were somehow locked in place. Utop the peak of the entry way was a figure, clad in silver and black. Shadows covering one side of their body. With the only splash of color being a ponytail on the back of the helmet, Undyne The Undying spoke.
"Seven. Seven human souls, and King ASGORE will become a god. Six. that's how many we have collected thus far. Understand? Though we only need one more, three more will do us greater than we ever dreamt of. Through your four souls, this world will be transformed. First, however, as is customary for those who make it this far…"
During this monologue, much like that of a superhero/supervillain, Ib was curious.
"Hey, why does Undyne always have shadows on here it's not like there's any sun down here."
"Don't remind me" Mary muttered to herself.
"Oh, s-sorry Mary."
"I don't know really. She has them sometimes and other times she doesn't" Chara stated.
"...Hey!" Undyne shouted. "Are you even listening!? I was about to spare you a few seconds, but, WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT STORY WHEN YOU'RE ALL ABOUT TO DIE!"
A flash, Undyne was faced backwards, helmet removed revealing a blue shaded scalp, red ponytail remaining.
"You! You're standing in the way of everybody's hopes and dreams! Alphys' history books made me think humans were cool with their giant robots and flowery swordswomen, BUT YOU! You're just a coward! I haven't forgotten your wimpy goody-two-shoes-schticks! You know what'd be more valuable to everyone? IF YOU WERE DEAD!"
Much monologuing later
"I'll show you how determined monsters can be! Step forward when you're ready!"
Undyne didn't move…
"So do we go in now?" Mary asked.
"First Frisk needs to save, I'm not taking any chances."
The howling wind fills you with determination
Frisk LV1
Chara LV1
Ib LV1
Mary LV1
Waterfall
"Ready" Frisk announced.
"Alright, listen up Ib, Mary, when we start moving, we'll enter a fight. Once that fight ends, follow Frisk and I, run faster than you've ever run before, and don't stop unless we say so. You stop, you're good as dead. In the battle, prepare to defend your SOUL, because undyne will be throwing everything she's got." Chara explained.
They stepped forward. Undyne leaped down and initiated a battle. With a swipe of her spear, their SOULs turned green, they were locked in place. Ib and Mary behind Frisk and Chara
ACT
Plead
Nothing happened
"Here it comes."
From the four vertical and horizontal directions, arrows had appeared and headed straight towards the four shielded children.
Left right right right up up down left left left
"Block the shots with those shields." Chara shouted, the two inexperienced girls held their shields forward frantically, blocking the attacks in the nick of time.
ACT
Plead
Nothing happened
A second volley came shortly.
Left left up down right right right left down down down down down
Every arrow blocked with the guidance and assistance of the experienced Frisk and Chara.
Suddenly their SOULs turned red
MERCY
Flee
The battle ended and Undyne was left dazed for a minute.
"RUN!"
The four sprinted into the cave as Undyne came to her senses and followed. They were faster than previous runs, but Undyne was always faster, she eventually caught up and started another battle.
ACT
Plea
Nothing happened
Left left right down up up up up up right down down left
More arrows fired, faster but were still dodged.
"Fine. let's see you take this!" Undyne declared.
Countless arrows tinted yellow appeared, but came from eight directions rather than four. This had never occurred before, so they were unprepared.
Up up upleft upright upright down down downleft down down downright right up up up up upleft downleft down downright right right down down down down up uplefr right left left right upleft left left left
One arrow made it threw, striking Ib and taking 2 HP.
Another penetrated their defenses, piercing Frisk's for 3 HP
RED
"Run!"
They got another 20 meters,
Ring Ring
"Hey! What's up!?" Papyrus on the other side spoke. "I was just thinking, you me and Undyne should all hang out sometime! I think y-"
Ib had to take the phone from frisk and cut Papyrus off mid speech
"Thanks Papyrus but right now we're doing something we'll be there whenever we can bye~!"
click
the cycle continued, fight run fight run. They finally made it to hotlands. Nearby, to their left, Sans was resting his head on a sentry station.
"Sans! Help!" Ib shouted stopping at the station.
"He's useless, keep running!" Chara complained, Ib understood and followed.
Undyne as well stopped by the station
"Hey! Bonehead, a little help will ya?!"
"ZZZ... ZZZ... ZZZ…" Sans was very good at deep sleeping, or at least looking like he was sleeping. Some might ask why he's able to sleep in such a hot area, simple, the heat goes right through him.
Buh dum tss
"Rrg, whatever,"
The second half of the bridge, there was a water dispenser right to the left of the lip of the other side. Only centimeters from another barrage, Undyne ceased chase and collapsed on the bridge.
"...is she dead?" Ib asked.
"nope."
Dead no, thirsty maybe, dehydrated, probably
Frisk walked to the dispenser and filled a small cup with water, then drank it…
Then they filled it and gave it to undyne.
By giving, Frisk poured it on her head.
Undyne stood up, turned around, and walked back presumably to her home.
"What do we do now?" Mary asked
"We have to go to Undyne's place,"
"But won't she just attack us?"
"No,"
One, long, walk, later
The four reached a large house shaped like a fish's head. Rather weird, Papyrus stood in front, and there was the dummy from the dumb of a fish skeleton style mat on the floor. Half of the house was black of course.
"Welp, have fun Frisk." Chara said pushing Frisk forward.
Frisk looked confused
"You're best at this stuff, these two don't need to see it, I've never done it."
Frisk walked to Papyrus and after a small exchange of "words", the door was open. Undyne had been wearing a tank top and jeans. She let the two in with a forced smile.
Ib walked over to the dummy on the fishbone mat and poked it.
"What. What? WHAT!? It's a living!"
"...huh?"
"NEVERMIND!"
A few seconds later
Papyrus came barreling out the the window and ran into a bush to the side of the house, leaving the three onlookers speechless. After a minute of silence Papyrus stuck his head into the broken window and shouted some inaudible chatter.
A few minutes later
The house bursted into flames. Spontaneous combustion as it would be.
Battle music plays… for about 20 seconds
Then Frisk and Undyne walked out of the house, both smiling. Undyne ran off even faster than when she chased the four, maybe because she wasn't wearing armor. Regardless, it was time to move onto Hotlands. The four started walking out of the area when.
SWHH FFPH
The comically long sword from within Undyne's house had planted itself right in front of Mary almost skewering her.
"Hyaaa!"
Mary jumped back and fell.
"That's new" Chara commented.
Frisk and Ib stared at it blankly.
"Seen it before Ib?"
"We-well, I think My cousin has one of those, it looks different but just as huge. His was a single edge also. he loves cosplaying. I think he dressed as some blonde guy with a huge sword; Fog or mist or something?"
"Oh my god this is real, what has the surface become?" both Chara and Frisk thought.
Very clearly nobody here was going to be picking it up, so they continued to leave.
END