Hiccup was not used to heat like this. Cold, he could handle. Berk was the kind of place where you could get frostbite on your spleen. Wet, no problem. He lived on an island, surrounded by ocean. He had no issue against being warm, it was every Berkian's dream to be warm some day. But not THIS warm. He was trudging along on hot volcano rock, sweat dripping from his face. It was HOT.

"They named these places very aptly." Hiccup wheezed out the sarcasm.

He passed by two figures dressed in armor, ignoring them since they weren't attacking him. He continued and nearly wacked straight into a white building he hadn't noticed until it was inches from him.

"I must really be slipping..."

The wall moved open much to his surprise, and it was dim inside. Hiccup made his way inside, hoping he didn't trip on something. After a while, the lights suddenly flickered on, and Hiccup had to blink a few times before his eyes adjusted.

"Oh my gosh."

Hiccup started at the voice. He looked around, then saw what looked like a short yellow lizard with an overbite in a white shirt. It stared at him through fogged up glasses, and was blushing.

"Oh my gosh! You're here!" She paused as if fighting an internal battle, then walked forward and stared up at him, being only two thirds his height. "I'm Alphys. And you're here!"

Hiccup snorted softly. "Yes, I'm here, nice to meet you, Alphys."

Alphys didn't get the sarcasm, obviously. "Oh, it's really you!" She began to make excited squealing noises.

"Uh, I don't mean to interrupt whatever you're doing, but, who are you, and how do you know who I am, and where is this?"

Alphys blushed more, looking embarrassed. "Yeah, I'm Alphys, the royal scientist. This is the Lab, and you.. well, I've been watching you since you came into Snowdin. Oh, and you're amazing! The way you get through the Underground so easily.. oh, and you're so hot!"

Hiccup blushed despite the fact he was a little creeped out that she had been watching him. 'Easily. Huh.' "Okay, that's a little weird... er..."

Alphys did a little dance. "Oh! This is awesome! I gotta take a picture!" She grabbed out a device that looked much like Hiccup's phone, and turned to stand next to him. She held out the phone. "Smile!"

Hiccup smiled awkwardly. He heard a noise, then Alphys began to fiddle with the phone. Hiccup rolled his eyes and began to move to the other side of the Lab, seeing an exit.

He stopped when he heard a clang.

"Uh oh. He's here."

Hiccup turned to Alphys. "Who?"

Alphys stuttered with a nervous smile. "I should have told you..."

The wall crumbled next to Hiccup. A large grey thing with a red and yellow face and black arms showed up.

"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the underground!" It spoke with a metallic voice as if to an audience.

Hiccup was too stunned to move.

"Welcome to our quiz show! I'm your host, Mettaton!" The thing turned to Hiccup. "And this, is our wonderful actor here to play the part of the human in the underground!"

Bits of paper fell from the ceiling, falling over Hiccup and landing on his armor. Alphys looked as though she was trying really hard not to notice what was going on.

"Uh..." Hiccup stuttered. "What is going on?"

Mettaton waved a finger at him. "Now, now, darling. I ask the questions here."

Hiccup began to back up. This was just... weird. Almost as weird as the "Temmies".

"Alright, rule number one! Failure to answer a question correctly... will end in your death!" Mettaton held up a gloved hand.

Hiccup turned and ran.

Hiccup continued running for quite a while, despite the heat. He was hoping to stay away from that grey talking thing as much as possible. He finally stopped and fell over part way, hunched over with his hands on his knees, panting.

"I can't take much more of this..."

He continued after a while, nearly walking over a ledge. He stopped and backed up. "Whoa."

Hiccup felt dizzy. Could this place get any hotter? He collapsed onto the hot rock behind him.

After what was probably a few hours, Hiccup woke up and blinked at the ceiling above him.

He groaned and sat up. His back was very sore. It hurt to move. Then he realized he had been lying on hot rock. He sighed and nibbled a little more of the half eaten food bar. He wouldn't do very well with a burned backside. Checking himself over quickly, he continued to walk onward, carefully avoiding any drops to lava. He knew he could reset, but still, the pain of being burned alive didn't appeal very much.

Hiccup also had to deal with moving floors, lasers, shooting puzzles, which weren't all that hard for a brainy young viking who rides a fire spitting dragon. He thought he had been done with Mettaton. He was very wrong.

"About time you got here. You know it's very rude to walk out of a game show?" Mettaton was there, gloved hands on the sides of his body in a pose that looked almost scolding.

Hiccup looked around. He had no clue whatsoever where he was. He grumbled and began to walk right past the killer robot. "Done. So done. Goodbye."

"Hey!"

Hiccup ignored the grumpy Mettaton and walked faster. "Done!"

Could the Underground get any worse? Apparently so.

Spiders.

Giant Spiders.

Huge spiders in the shapes of baked goods.

Hiccup was stuck in a web, staring at the hugely monstrous beast that was about to swallow him whole. He struggled helplessly. He did not want to be swallowed by an eight legged muffin with an attitude.

"I have absolutely nothing against spiders, I swear! Please!"

Muffet only laughed.

The creature grabbed Hiccup out of the web and began to swallow him.

"No!"

Hiccup grabbed a canister of Zippleback gas and opened it down the muffin spider's throat. It coughed him out onto the purple floor, and he ran.

As soon as he was far away enough, he began to clean off the spider slobber.

"Okay, now I do hate spiders."

Hiccup walked right past what was probably another Mettaton show. He couldn't care less. He heard an indignant 'Humph' from the robot as he stormed by.

Hiccup saw Sans at yet another of his Sentry stations. Hiccup walked up to him, only partially ignoring Sans's surprised look.

"You weren't kidding. You do get around."

Sans shrugged noncommittally. "You look terrible."

"I almost got eaten by a giant spider muffin, I have almost died to some sort of grey talking thing name Mettaton, and the heat is getting to me. I think have heatstroke or something. Which is unheard of on Berk."

He sighed and leaned heavily on the wooden structure. It wiggled a little, and something cold fell on Hiccup's head. He was surprised, taking a hand and brushing off the quickly melting snow, shooting Sans a bewildered look.

"I'm just too lazy to clean it off."

Hiccup saw a large building of some sort, not giving it a second thought as he trudged in, exhausted. There was a huge puddle on the floor, being created by a statue of Mettaton that was spraying water like a Scauldron. He walked up and put his head underneath the spray, ignoring any looks he got.

"Ah."

The cold water felt good. Or, it was cold compared to what he had walked through. After he had gotten cool enough, he sat down on the edge of the rim around the statue and unhooked his armor for the first time since the Ruins and Home. Toriel popped into his mind, making him ache to talk to her. His phone rang, making him jump a little. He grabbed it and fiddled with it, putting it to his ear.

"Er.. hello?"

"Heya, punk!"

The loud voice made Hiccup wince.

"Not so loud. Who is this?"

"Undyne. I'm with Papyrus. When I asked him how I could contact you, he gave me your phone number."

"Phone..? Never mind. Why do you want to talk to me?" Hiccup sighed as he heard some noises.

"Yeah, I thought about what you said, and I think.. You're totally right! So, I want to apologize for almost killing you a bunch of times! Okay?"

Hiccup smiled. "Totally forgiven. Don't give it another thought."

He heard some more noises. "Hey, wanna come to my house, punk?"

Hiccup stopped his train of thought. "Uh.. where is it?"

"It's in Waterfall, near the garbage dump. You can't miss it, it looks like a giant scowling fish."

Hiccup remembered the house. Couldn't ever forget it. But it was way over there... "I'm in Hotland. I don't know.."

"I'll give you directions."

"Uh, no thanks."

"Suit yourself. You're still awesome, Viking man!"

'Click.'

Hiccup walked towards the Core, scared out of his mind. What could be inside something so big?

A long and treacherous journey later, Hiccup walked out the other side of the Core. He was exhausted, and looking forward to resting. Instead, he saw Mettaton.

"Oh, wonderful."

"Human. You have been very, very rude, ignoring my fabulous game shows."

Hiccup growled under his breath. "Yeah, sorry, I have somewhere to be."

"There's something you need to know, darling. Those lasers, the conveyor belts, my shows? It was all a plan by Alphys. She reactivated the puzzles so she could 'help' you. She asked me to play 'killer robot' for her. This was supposed to be our final showdown."

Hiccup stared at Mettaton in disbelief. "Alphys is so nice.. weird, but nice."

"Ah, she does have feelings for you, darling, she's rooting for you to get out of this underground alive. But she wanted to be a part of your adventure."

Hiccup sighed and face-palmed for no particular reason. "I guess I should tell her I have a girlfriend already."

Mettaton's lights blinked. "Human, I would have fought you... but... I don't really care about killing you. I care about ratings. I want to make my audience happy, and they want to see a human and a robot face off. So, will you help me give them a show to remember?"

Hiccup thought for a moment. "Will it result in my death?"

"Of course not, darling. It'll be a staged fight."

Hiccup nodded. "Fine. I guess I can go with that."

Mettaton reached back and flipped a switch on his back. "Then let's make this a show everyone will love, darling!"

Hiccup watched as lights came on, and the entire area was lit up with lights that moved. A bunch of monsters sat in seats below, cheering for Mettaton. Hiccup's eyes flitted back to the robot, who no longer looked like a cube on a wheel. He looked like a pink and black armored human, with a grey face and black hair dramatically draped over one eye.

"Let's go, darling."

Hiccup readied himself for attacks, but Mettaton simply began dancing. The crowd went wild. Mettaton pointed to Hiccup, and he was unsure of what to do. He began dancing to the strangely catchy music that was playing, beginning to dance more and more. They continued in the dance-off, Hiccup doing some of his acrobatic stunts here and there, and finally ending the show by pulling out Inferno and lighting it ablaze, spinning around on his metal foot. The resulting light show was rather spectacular, a fire trail appearing to chase Hiccup's sword as he spun around. Even Mettaton seemed impressed.

"Oh wow, look at these ratings!" Mettaton pointed to a board above them featuring moving colored lines.

Hiccup smiled and did another spin before taking his remaining canister of gas and spinning that around himself, ducking as he lit it. The result was a huge 'ooh' from the crowd. Mettaton and Hiccup finished the dance-off by dancing on sync, Hiccup doing his best to mimic the robot's moves. They finally ended by doing a bow, and the crowd left. The lights turned off, and Mettaton smiled at Hiccup.

"For a guy who wears braids, you sure can shake a leg, darling."

Hiccup smiled and nodded. "Thank you. I think."

Mettaton pointed to Inferno. "How does that work, darling? Magic?"

"No, I put Monstrous Nightmare saliva on the blade, and spark it, and it'll ignite. It can cut through rock. As for the gas? Same story, but I can use it to light explosions from afar and such."

Mettaton smiled. "Quite interesting, darling." He looked thoughtful for a moment. "I know you're looking for a big black dragon."

Hiccup nodded, it hadn't occurred to him to ask Mettaton. Or Alphys. "Yeah, you seen him?"

"I have seen him. But.."

"Where?"

"Last I saw him, he was with Alphys."

Hiccup stormed into Alphys's Lab. He didn't see the yellow lizard anywhere.

"Alphys?"

No answer.

He snorted in irritation.

Then he saw a paper on the floor. He picked it up, and there was a bunch of writing, which again, he couldn't read. There was an arrow on the top of the note, and before he had picked it up, it had been pointing to a door with a sign next to it. Putting the note back down, he began to walk towards the door. It opened.

"Toothless?"

He walked inside, and the doors closed. The room jerked, and began to move. Hiccup panicked, looking around wildly.

"Toothless? Alphys? Anyone?"

He had the feeling he was falling. Fast. The room jerked to one side, throwing him against the wall. He let out a yelp of pain, and everything went dark. He began to look around, wondering if he had died again and would have to reset. But he heard noises still. He walked toward the opening, disoriented from the fall.

He came out into a darker area with dark blue walls and floors. He heard a roar. A very familiar roar.

"Toothless."

Yup cliffhanger again.

Toothless is in true lab. And we know what Alphys did to the monsters. What did she do to toothless?

*dun dun dun*

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