***Here I am, back with another chapter! I wasn't quite sure where to go initially after putting up the last chapter, but I know now. Anyways, what belongs to Toby Fox belongs to Toby, the story belongs to me, and let's roll!
Chapter Three: The Search Party
Toriel paced the living room floor the next morning, constantly checking her phone. Sans could only watch from where he was sitting on the couch. "Tori, maybe you should take a seat," he finally suggested.
"I just can't. I've texted and called Frisk about a thousand times, and they've yet to reply. They should have come back last night after their meeting with Mayor Wagner. What if he did something to them? What if they were injured on the way home? What if... what if..." Toriel sighed, unable to find an end to her sentence. She finally did sit down, putting her face in her hands. "I just wish that they would say where they are. I'm worried sick over them," she said simply.
Sans rubbed her back. "I get that you're worried," he said, too concerned to make the pun he could have made then.
"No, honestly, I am worried sick. I feel a little nauseous," Toriel said.
"One sec, then," Sans said. He teleported away, then came back with a trash can from the bathroom. "Here. I usually say can it in the sense of shutting up, but this time, just can it if breakfast decides to make a return trip," he said, dropping it in front of his wife.
"Thank you," Toriel said. She pulled her phone out and saw a screen with no messages. She sighed. "Of course," she said.
Sans frowned. "Y'know what, T? I've got an idea. Let's call the others, and we're gonna find out where the kid is," he said. He took out his phone and called a number.
"Yo, Fish Face! You and Alphys get over to my place. I'm getting Paps to call Metal Head," he said. He was silent for a few moments. Toriel could hear Undyne cursing at the nickname.
"Well, you don't gotta be rude about it."
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Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton EX, and Asgore were all over in no time. "Have any of you seen or heard from Frisk? I dropped them off at the Town Hall for a diplomatic meeting last night, and I haven't seen them since," Toriel explained. "Oh my God, they're missing?! I'm gonna kill whoever took them!" Undyne vowed.
"C-calm down, y-you won't kill th-them," Alphys said. Undyne shut her mouth reluctantly and nodded.
"We don't need to concern ourselves with what the consequences the kidnapper will face right now. What we have to focus on is where Frisk is," Asgore intervened. "Yes. Then we'll destroy the one who took my darling showstopper afterwards," Mettaton decided.
"Don't you normally goat a thing against people getting all fired up and violent, T?" Sans pointed out. "Not this time. Whoever took Frisk will face the fiery consequences," Toriel promised. Sans couldn't help but smile at that.
"Regardless, we must locate Frisk! The Great Papyrus needs his best friend and favorite human, after all," Papyrus said. Everyone agreed on the terms of finding the one who'd saved them.
As they went silent in thought of how to do so, the sound of a cell phone buzzing was audible. Alphys took out her phone. "Th-that's just a game n-notification," she said. Then, one could practically see the lightbulb go off in her mind. "Th-the phone tracker!" she exclaimed.
"The what?" Undyne asked.
"Whenever I u-upgraded Frisk's phone in H-Hotland, I told them a-about things like th-the key chain a-and the boxes. Wh-what I didn't tell them a-about was things like...th-the, uh, the t-tracking device," Alphys explained, only realizing how embarrassing it was to say that until it came out of her mouth.
"We all know that you had cameras. Why a phone tracker?" Sans asked.
"I-in case my c-cameras got d-d-destroyed, I'd still h-have a way t-to keep track of th-them," Alphys replied. She buried her face into Undyne's shoulder as she added, "I-I was alone."
Undyne put an arm around her shoulder. "Honey, it's okay. Don't focus on that right now because the others won't judge you and I'll kill them if they do. We got bigger things to deal with right now," she said.
Everyone decided just not to comment.
Alphys turned back to her phone. "L-let me check," she said. Everyone was excited; finally, they would see where Frisk was and know where to go to get them back. "A-alrighty, and I j-just gotta..." Alphys said more to herself than anyone else. She held her phone to where would hypothetically be.
After a few moments, there was a blaring beep sound. Alphys yelped and dropped her phone in surprise. "J-jeez..." she said. She picked up her phone. "W-well, whoever took Frisk d-disabled the tracker and decided t-to pull that move o-on me," she said.
"I guess that's our surefire way of finding frisk out the window," Mettaton said sadly. Everyone was silent for a few moments.
"Determination."
The voice came from Papyrus. "Pardon?" Sans said.
"Frisk was always determined. They told us to stay determined, no matter what. And we can't give up on this. We can't give up on them!" Papyrus elaborated.
Everyone looked around at each other. They hadn't even thought of that. Frisk had always helped them stay determined over the time they'd known each other. And now, it was their time to return the favor.
No matter how long it took, they would find Frisk. They would stay determined.
***I figured it was time for a chapter about how everyone else would react to Frisk disappearing. Anyways, be sure to leave a review on the way out and I'll see you all in the next one! Bye!
