Frisk laughed at Chara's naming of their save point and approached the next room. Undyne had warned her that two royal guards patrolled that area, and as it turns out they were both apparently friends. As Frisk tries to progress through the two guards catch her and try to escort her to safety until the dragon like monster stopped.
"Like, What's up bro?"
"...the description…"
"What?" Both guards turned to look at Frisk once more.
"Oh, bro….looks like we found 'em. Bummer, this is like...MEGA embarrassing. We like, actually have to kill you and stuff." With that the world faded to black as the battle started.
(Hm ..let's check them out.)
*ACT *CHECK *RG01
( ATK: 30 DEF:20 Royal guard with shiny polished armor….but 02 is sweating through his.)
The guards announced their team attack, and Frisk moved side to side in an attempt to dodge, only getting hit once. Frisk checked the other guard, and Chara noted that HIS armor happened to be very stuffy, and that next turn she should try cleaning it. After the next attack Frisk does so.
"Armor….too hot…." *CLUNK* "Much better."
*Hot damn you can wash cloths on those abs!"
(Holy crap….something seems to be bothering 01…..ooooohhh myyy.)
*ACT *Whisper
Frisk whispered to 01 about him being honest with his feelings.
"I-I….."
"What?"
The next attack was easily dodged, and RG01 decided to tell RG02 everything. He gushed about how nice it was to be with him, how he loved doing patrols, bouncing in sync with their swords, everything.
"..."
"What? I mean woah, bro! That human...put me under uh, mind control! What was I just saying? It's all a blur dude! whoops! "
"...01"
"Y-Yeah, dude?"
"Do you….want to get some ice cream later?"
"Sure dude! Haha…."
(Both the RG's look happy now, I NOW PRONOUNCE THIS SHIP SET FOR SAIL!)
*AGREED!* Frisk thought as she slammed her hand on the spare button, ending the fight.
(May wanna warn Undyne that those two are not going to be so 'platonic' anymore.)
*Maybe….nahhh let her figure it out*
Frisk walked into yet another dark room and sighed.
*I wonder what Mettaton has this time. Im still gonna crash this one though.*
(Alright.)
All Frisk saw was a giant cardboard set up floating around with Mettaton Inside addressing the viewers, until she heard his voice direct to her.
"And now my lovely correspondent, please find something newsworthy to report!."
Frisk looked around, she saw a dog, a script, a videogame, basketball, a cake, a present, and a simple glass of water. She hummed in thought as to what she wanted to report on, and chose the video game.
"Attention viewers, my correspondent has just found a videogame! This game is sure to blow you away! Strange enemies, strange allies, attractive robots! Featuring up to six arbitrary dialog options at once! Correspondent, let's look inside the case!"
Frisk's eyes widened as she saw that inside the case, was a literal freaking bomb.
"What the hell Mettaton?!"
"Oh no I guess they were right! Video games DO cause violence! Or at least, this one's about to! But wait! There's more!"
"Oh god, all of these are bombs aren't they?"
Frisk watched as the cardboard background fell away, allowing the camera to fully see the room.
"Oh my! It seems everything in this area is a bomb! And if you can't diffuse all of them in TWO MINUTES this BIG bomb will explode and you won't be reporting 'live' anymore!"
"D-Don't worry, I put in a b-bomb diffusing app on your phone! Just get them in the diffuse zone, you g-got this!"
*I freaking knew it.*
(So how are we gonna mess this one up? )
*You know what? I think Alphys will just use her hacking to diffuse that big bomb anyway, it will look more like Mettaton's mistake than hers, plus…..she just wants to seem helpful, so lets just do this one, plus I don't feel like being blown up. Those tsunderplanes hurt, i'd hate to see actual bombs.*
(Fair enough.)
Frisk went around the room, diffusing all the bombs, finishing off witht he extremely agile glass of water.
"Well done darling! You diffused all the bombs, and so the big bomb won't explode in two
minutes…..IT WILL EXPLODE IN TWO SECONDS INSTEAD! GOODBYE DARLING!"
Frisk just rolled her eyes, crossed her arms qand tapped her foot, waiting for the call from Alphys.
" It seems the bomb isn't going off."
" "T-That's because while you were monologuing I hacked the bomb and d-diffused it!"
"Curses, foiled again! Curse you human! Curse you Dr. Alphys for helping so much! But I don't curse my wonderful viewers for tuning in!"
After finishing the call with Alphys Frisk sighed.
(Wow...you know she does sound like she's feeling better about herself…..maybe a point will come where she will just come out and admit it.)
*I hope so. She seems like a good person, but like Papyrus, she needs to learn that she dosent have to play games to get people to like well, Papyrus was more just his general love for puzzle making anyway.*
Frisk continued to walk through Hotland, and called Papyrus in front of the L2 elevator.
"Wait! I know what L means! It's lime!
"LIMES? I HATE LIMES…"
"What? Limes rule! I eat them whole all the time!"
"WELL, ONE TIME I WAS GIVING MYSELF THE SPA TREATMENT, I PUT THE LIME SLICES ON MY EYES LIKE IN T.V!"
"What? Papyrus those were cucumbers, not limes!"
"Oh my god...Papyrus thats hilarious."
"THE STING WAS NOT HILARIOUS! I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE REJUVENATING, SO I JUST KEPT PUTTING MORE LIMES INTO MY EYES!"
"Ew…"
"Gross! Why did you even do that?"
"I JUST WANTED SEXY BISHONEN EYES! LIKE METTATON…"
"(He doesn't even have EYES?!)"
(Yeah that's pretty weird.)
After the cal Frisk passed by a spider bake sale with outrageous prices, and another vent room with two puzzle rooms. She solved the northern puzzle and called Undyne and Papyrus in the southern puzzle. Alphys also called to ask her if she wanted to see Mew Mew Kissy Cutie.
"Absolutely, its been ages since i've seen the original!"
"Oh my god you like the show too?! ITS SO AMAZING AND ITSAGREATMESSAGEABOTUFRIENDSHIPANDHOWDIFFERANCESCANBEGOODAND….oh oops I started rambling, haha! A-Anyway th-that's great! M-Maybe I can get Undyne to bring some popcorn!"
"That sounds amazing!"
Frisk smiled as the call ended. She completed the last puzzle, and stopped to smell the flower sitting on a cactus, such a lovely scent.
(Here, we should set a savepoint, we made some decent progress since the last one.)
*Alright.*
Frisk focused her determination into another save.
(After all the conversation with your new friends, your desire to have them feel the sun, and taste fresh air, to let Sans use that silly telescope for more than staring at a ceiling….Fills you to the brim with determination! GAME SAVED)
*Hell yeah, let's do this.*
The next room was filled with cobwebs and spiders, parts of the floor were covered in webbing, and an entire section was nothing but web. As Frisk moved forward she heard a strange female voice speaking from somewhere.
"Ahuhuhuhu….Did you hear what they said? They said a human with a purple shirt would come through here. I heard they hate spiders.
"What? No!"
(Ummmm…..this might be a bad time to mention my arachnophobia.)
*Wait really*
(Yup, i'm gone, I'll be back when you're done with this…..Because my first reaction is stomping otherwise.)
*Fair enough.*
"I heard they love to stomp on them, to tear their legs off. I heard….."
Frisk walked across the webbed floor, the webbing seemed to be moving upwerds on it's own, slowly entrapping her until she was in the center. It was then that the spider woman from the bake sale appeared before her.
"That she was awfully stingy with her money. Ahuhuhu you think that your taste is to refined for our pastries? Nonsense, I think your taste….is exactly what the next batch needs!" the world faded to black, as a catchy tune filled the air.
"Like the music? A strange ghost brought by some mixtapes, he calls this one spider dance, I rather enjoy it!"
{Pick your favorite spider dance remix!}
"It is really good."
(The spiders are clapping to the beat.)
*I thought you were gonna hide.*
(Na...but I can't help guide you around, too freaked out….that you are on your own on.)
*Alright.*
*ACT *CHECK
(Muffet, ATK: 38.8 DEF: 18.8 If she invites you to her parlor, excuse yourself, don't be the fly.)
"Ahuhuhu, why do you look so blue deary?" Suddenly the area was covered in purple, when it cleared, Frisk's soul was now purple and she found she could only move along strange lines. She coudl only move up and down through the lines, and run along them left and right.
"I think purple is a better look on you!"
(You are trapped in a strange purple web!)
*ACT *Struggle
(Muffet giggles at your attempt.)
"Why so pale? You should be proud, you will make a fantastic cake!"
The first attack was simple enough for Frisk to test out the new soul mode she was exposed to.
*ACT *Struggle
( Muffet laughs and claps her hands, these webs are incredibly strong!)
"Let you go? Don't be silly, your soul is going to make every spider very happy!"
Frisk deftly dodged spiders with quick reflexes, however she did get hit by a few stray doughnuts, taking out twenty HP
*ACT *STRUGGLE
(Muffet is so amused with your antics she gives you a discount!.)
"Oh I forgot, it's almost time to introduce my pet, it is breakfast time isn't it? Have fun you two!"
"Wait what?!"
Suddenly the battle box began to move, thought eh pattern was simple, up down up down up down, until a huge spider/cupcake monster appeared ont he side.
(WHAT THE FRICK IS THAT?!)
*Oh crap….*
Frisk found herself being dragged downwards by the webs she kept moving up but continued to be hit by attack after attack, putting her at 180 HP.
*MERCY * SPARE
"The person who warned us about you…."
Frisk lost ten more Hp from one of the doughnuts
*ITEM *Hot Cat
(20 HP restored!)
" Offered us a LOT of money for your soul."
The attacks were getting faster, Frisk lost the twenty Hp she gained.
"Oh come on!"
*ACT *Pay 5G
(Muffet reduces her attack for this turn.)
"They had such a sweet smile, ahuhuhuhu…."
This time Frisk got hit by a barrage of attacks, including a croissant, bringing her HP to 140. She ate another hotdog, reminding herself to thank Sans later.
"It's strange, I could have sworn i saw them in the shadows? Changing shape?
(Flowey?)
*Maybe.*
Frisk was only hit once this time.
*Alright, that spider sign shows that we get that muffin beast again….but I really don't want to lose all my G here….naaaah I'll be fine.*
*ITEM *HOTDOG
(Brought back to 150 HP!)
"Oh it's lunchtime, and I forgot to feed my pet….
The pattern was different this time and much faster, Frisk got hit three times in the first phase. The muffin monster attacked, and Frisk was brought down to 100 HP.
*Crap that hurt.*
(Heal up!)
*ITEM *HOTDOG
"With so much money, the spider clans can be reunited!"
*MERCY *SPARE
"After all, the Spiders in the ruins have been trapped for generations!"
Frisk couldn't get the handle on the bouncing doughnuts and was hit twice, bringing her back to 100 Hp.
*ITEM * NICECREAM*
(It's an illustration of a hug! 15 HP restored!)
"Even if they go under the door….Snowdin's cold is impassable alone, they would die not five feet from it."
The croissant boomerangs were a somewhat easy pattern, Frisk only got hit once bringing her down to 105 HP
*ITEM *CINNABUN
(20 HP restored! You got this Frisk, stay determined!)
"With the money we get for your soul, we can get them a heated limo!"
This time spiders filled the lines and Frisk couldn't nail the pattern, getting hit three times, bringing her down to 75 HP.
*Crap Im running out of healing items….I left the pie in the box!*
*ITEM *HOTDOG
(HP Restored, no healing items left.)
"And with the left overs we could get ourselves something special! Like a spider baseball field!"
Frisk was brought down to 85 HP
"Oh my pet, it's time for dinner!"
Frisk barely survived what would be the final encounter with 20 HP left.
"Ahuhuhu, still alive deary? I guess it's time for dessert….wait what is this? A telegram?" Frisk saw a small spider run up holding a piece of paper for Muffet.
"Oh…..From the spiders in the ruins...they report that while you may be stingy...you never hurt a single spider! This was all a big misunderstanding! I thought you were someone that hated spiders…"
*I might start soon….god damn that hurt.*
" That person who wanted a soul, must have been talking about a different human! I'll spare you now, deary."
*MERCY *SPARE (YOU WON! You gained 0EXP and 0G)
"Ahuhuhu, that was fun, see you again dearie." The spider woman faded back in withthe dark background as Frisk quickly bit into her last hotdog.
*Holy crap we nearly died.*
(Let's save so we don't have to do that again.)
*Agreed*
(The thought of never doing that fight again, fills you with determination! Hp restored, and GAME SAVED!)
The next room was still purple, and Frisk spotted a Mettaton poster.
( A tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers kept apart by the tides of fate….looks liek it's almost time for the performance…..and we're part of it i bet.)
*Alright….screw it im gonna own the scene.*
(Heck yeah.)
Frisk walked ou8t onto a stage, the camera crew was set and Mettaton was up in a prop castle.
"Oh… that human…..could it be? My one true love?" Mettaton came into view of the window wearing a fabulous blue dress.
"Nice dress Mettaton."
"Why thank you darling!"
The music began to play as Mettaton sang. Frisk decided to move with Mettaton as he sang, stopping herself from laughing and at the same time being disturbed by the song.
"So sad, so sad that you are going to the dungeon. Welp, toodles!" and with the press of a button, Frisk found herself falling onto a platform below with a greyed out puzzle that looked very familiar.
"Oh no! What ever shall I do? My love has been cast away into the dungeon with a puzzle so dastardly that my paramour will surely perish! Oh heavens have mercy, the horrible colored tile maze! Each color with it's own dastardly function! But wait...didnt we see this puzzle about a hundred rooms ago?"
Meanwhile In Snowden….
Papyrus gasped as the puzzle showed on T.V
"UNDYNE! SANS! LOOK, METTATON IS USING A PUZZLE IDEA I CREATED! THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!"
" wow bro, you're so cool."
"Heck yeah, the punk has this in the bag!"
Back in Hotland…
"However you better hurry, If you do not pass this puzzle in 30 seconds, you will be incenerated by jets of fire!" Frisk looked behind her as a wall of flames sprouted upwards.
*well then….guess it's time to make Papyrus proud eh Chara?*
(Let's do this, I'll set a save point in case we mess up and want to reload. Knowing Papyrus is watching you do this puzzle, makes you determined to complete it, GAME SAVED!)
"Good luck darling!"
Frisk dashed across the conveyor, but unfortunately she made the wrong path choice.
"Damn it!"
"Hey now this is a family friendly show!"
Chara brought up the load option, which Frisk punched and attempted again. And again. And again. She nearly made it on the 8th try, but time ran out then too.
"SON OF A BITCH! RELOAD!"
Chara laughed (ok next time for sure)
But it was the tenth time that was the charm, and Frisk crossed the end with one second remaining. Sans watched the whole show with his brother, feeling a heavy sense of deja'vu. He felt like he could sing Mettaton's song before he even started singing, he felt like Frisk was going to fail…..actually wait...why didn't she? there's no way Frisk could have passed that on her first try!
"THE HUMAN DID IT! SHE PASSED MY PUZZLE! NYEH HEH HEH! SHE HAS LEARNED WELL!"
"I told ya the punk had it in her!"
Sans chuckled and went back into thought. The heavy deja'vu he felt may have been the effects of loading, in fact, he was now sure that Frisk was an anomaly. However one thing didn't add up. If she was THE anomaly that was messing with time, why did she look honestly surprised at meeting Papyrus or himself? There was something he was missing.
Frisk was sweating looking at the flames ahead of her, and breathing heavily.
*I did it! I freaking did it!*
(HAHA HELL YEAH! Finally, thank god I saved RIGHT THERE. It would have been super freaking annoying to go through that play ten times.)
*I know right? Thank god for portable saves!*
"Congratulations! For making it through the puzzle the flames will now be deactivated!"
"No! More! Fire! But it is as the phrase goes , out of the fire, and into the frying pan! That's right darling, even if you manage to beat the heat, You will never be able to stop my hot metal body! Prepare yourself t-"
Alphys' voice came from over the phone " Watch out! I'll save you! Flames, deactivate! …..uh?
"The human finished the puzzle. I already turned off the flames. In fact I was about to fight the human."
"W-W-What? T-That puzzle? I mean uh….great job! We've got him on the ropes now!"
"On the ropes? Hah! I only deactivated the flames because I knew Alphys would anyway! Now where were we….ah yes, human eradication!" The world faded to black, and a catchy tune sounded.
"This music was submitted by an anonymous fan! I find it really fitting!"
(Mettaton attacks.)
*ACT *CHECK
Mettaton ATK:30 DEF:255 his metal body STILL makes him invulnerable.
"This is it darling, say goodbye!" however Alphys' voice was heard again, suggesting that Frisk hit the yellow button on her phone. When she did, Frisk felt magic overtake her soul as it was turned upside down and yellow.
"Now concentrate and shoot at him!"
For a moment Frisk was confused until Chara spoke.
(Yellow magic lets you shoot projectiles to take out some forms of attack!)
*Oh!*
Frisk then unloaded on Mettaton, bullets hitting him repeatedly. He then spoke, though Frisk noted a heavy hint of sarcasm in the robot's voice.
" Ooooh, you have defeated me! How could this be, you were stronger than i thought ETC. whatever." The world faded back in, with Alphys still on the other end of the call.
"Y-Yeah you did great out there! You sure showed him! You're really doing well!"
"Thanks Alphys, but really it's because I have a certain friend helping me out, you really are a cool person Alphys."
"Oh n-no! You're the one doing the cool stuff….I just wrote some phone progerams…"
"You made a phone defy physics and turn into a freaking jet pack. That is awesome."
"Heh….well….would...would it be okay if I told you something?"
"Sure!'
"B-Before I met you...I d-didn't really...I never really liked myself very much. For a long time I felt like a t-total screw up. L-Like I couldn't do anything without letting everyone down. B-But...being able to help you...made me feel a lot better about myself, like I can actually succeed at something. So, Thanks for letting me help you. A-Anyway we are close to the core, just past MTT resort! C'mon and let's finish this!"
The call ended as Frisk sighed. *I knew it. She really did need the self esteem boost, alright, when it comes out in the open, I'm not really holding anything against her, what about you Chara?*
(Yeah she just needs people to support her. She seems like a great person. Alright, let's save before we continue on. Getting closer to the castle and the end of your journey, fills you with determination. GAME SAVED!)
Authors note: Alright people, we are approaching the last bits of the underground portion of Frisk's journey! Soon we will deal with the tragic backstory that always manages to make me tear up every time i see it! SOON WE WILL HAVE OMEGA FLOWEY, WON'T THAT BE FUN?! Also do you guys want me to do the dinner with Sans as a separate chapter like I did with Undyne's date, assuming that I might be able to add a few key things to make it a decently sized chapter like that chapter?
