Chapter 15: My answer
Naruto's hand compressed into a white-knuckle fist, he threw his arm back, adrenaline surging through his veins almost instantaneously. "THIS IS FOR EVERYTHING YOU DID TO US!"
Right when his fist was mere seconds away from shattering Pyrope's head, he was suddenly yanked back, downgraded to seeing Mettaton's lopsided 'face'. Naruto pulled at his tight hold. "LET ME DOWN!"
"So you can kill him?! What the hell has gotten into you?!"
"He's the reason why everything's so messed up right now! Now let me—" Mettaton's clutch weakened, allowing Naruto to scramble towards Pyrope who was running for his life.
"N-n-no! Wait please, I didn't do anything, I have no idea what you're talking about!" Naruto's movements started getting inhuman, his eyes slitting and his teeth bearing to that of a canine. Having Kurama's power overweight his own, not a single pleading word phased Naruto. "My name...my name...isn't even Pyrope! That's my brother's name...we're...we're twins! I have no idea where he is! My name is Ignis...I swear...!"
Naruto's eyes softened and his impending rage calmed into a small spark. He walked past Ignis' cowering body, continuing to walk down the orange tinted ground as if he didn't exist.
Mettaton shivered. 'I can't believe I almost let him kill that guy.'
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'That was...intense...I can't believe the human's...I mean, I heard him say it before...but, I never knew how scary he could get. I have to tell the king about this, or something, I have to do something!'
"Alphys..."
"Y-y-yes Undyne?" Alphys stuttered.
"You don't have to be scared, Alphys, he's never killed anyone before like the other humans. He's...really cool like that."
"I-I guess you're right..." She reached for her cellphone.
*ring
*ring
"...yeah?" Naruto said in a voice that almost made Alphys think she called the wrong number.
"Um, are you okay?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
'That was a quick rebound.' "Ahem, well, anyways about Mettaton...I kind of don't have any materials left to rebuild anything and I'm afraid to order online so, tell him he can resort to using his humanoid form."
"-Humanoid form?! Is that the awesome human killing version you were talking about?!" Undyne excitedly asked, then added. "Um...not that I approve of the killing part or anything!"
"Um, maybe...you know, you probably shouldn't tell Mettaton about his humanoid form after all, or he'll have the weapons to kill you and everything."
"Oh, ok, I won't tell him then."
"A-and I wouldn't of called just to waste your time with Mettaton's box instructions, do you see the switches over there, next to the conveyer belt."
Another conveyer belt laid waiting in front of Naruto and just hugging the edges were a line of switches. "I see it."
"HUMAN! Look at what I found, it's just your size too!" Mettaton hollered. Hanging from his hand was a frilly orange apron with a giant pink heart scribbled on the front, although, the heart was mostly shrouded out by brown food stains. "You should definitely consider wearing this!"
Naruto waved him off then turned around.
"If you won't wear it, I'll choke you with it!"
"What did you say? I didn't hear yo—GAH!" Naruto's cellphone slipped from his grasp and plopped inside the magma.
"Oh...uh...yikes."
"METTATON!" Naruto pounced onto Mettaton and started punching his fried monitor. "You...IDIOT!"
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"Oh my god." After witnessing his cellphone drop into the magma Alphys finally hung up. She then decide her next choice of action was to look to Undyne for guidance. "T-the phone had a very important function and..and..." Her words quickly deformed into blubbering. "I don't know, wh-wh-what if he dies! I can't let tha-that happen!"
Undyne rubbed Alphys, which always calmed both of their nerves. "They're heading to the news station, right?"
Her head bobbed up and down.
"So," She jumped off the couch making Alphys' head fall on the cushion. "We go there ourselves and you give him a brand new phone!"
Undyne's sudden enthusiasm was contagious among Alphys and she too scooted off the couch. Well, more like she didn't want Undyne to think badly of her. 'Somehow, I'm positive this'll still end up in disaster.
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Mettaton and Naruto's fighting took them past the conveyer belt and into a conjunction of steam powered puzzles. "You're the worst, human! I'd tear your head straight off if I could!"
"It's a good thing your head's already, off!" Naruto kicked straight through Mettaton's body. "Ha! Take that!"
*BOOM
Naruto was suddenly shrouded by clouds of pink dust. 'What's happening?*cough*is this...glitter?!'
"OOHHHHHH YES!"
Mettaton combed through his newly stitched gloved hands through his jet black fringed hair. His other hand was busy feeling his black, metal tight leggings and sharp edged pink boots. 'I was saving this for my premiere on the surface, but this is even better.' "If I were you kid, I'd start running," He said.
Naruto was stagnant from Mettaton's glamourous transformation, he shook his head, trying to quickly form coherent thoughts. 'Oh man...I'd hate to run from this guy but...' The cunning grin Mettaton modeled encouraged him to jump on the steam induced platforms. 'I know there's a puzzle here, but it be quicker if I jump.'
'Looks like Alphys updated some of my old attacks...and added new ones. This should be fun!' "Here's a little something I just figured out I could do!" Mettaton announced.
A small, figure head of Mettaton's original calculator form plopped into Naruto's sweat saturated hands. Without wasting as much as a heartbeat, he flung it into the magma.
'Hm, well, that did nothing.' "Try this on for size, or should I say, demise!" Mettaton threw a bomb marked with '+' on the human's platform, expecting an impactive explosion, he bounded onto the neighboring platform.
The bomb blinked a few times, but instead of having properties like a regular bomb, it shot laser beams from all sides to try and look like the plus sign once embed on the front. Naruto's foot got caught directly in the crossfire and his foot started sizzling.
'Damn, that hurts like HELL!' He chose not to dwell on the pain and focused his attention on reaching the next platform.
'That was semi-successful, even if it did burn a part of my boot off. Oh well.' "This one will be my most fabulous attack to date!" Mettaton raised his leg and it rocketed from his socket, a replacement filling in shortly after.
His leg drove into Naruto's back, easily, sending him flying over the edge. "That's no good." Mettaton caught Naruto before he could end up like his cellphone. "Let's not end the fun so quickly, human."
*poof
"...! A log?! But then where is..."
Naruto hopped out from underneath the platform. Smiling at his own triumph. "Better not hold that for too long!" 'Hehe, I've been waiting for so long to use that explosion tag!'
"Wha—"
The log exploded, taking out Mettaton's arm along with it. Mettaton gritted his metal teeth. 'Shit, that was my good arm too, he'll pay for this.' "Advanced leg attack!" A continuous barrage of legs homed in on his back, this time, he flew clear past the puzzle.
'I can't see him anymore, good,' Mettaton's leg replenished from the latest attack. "Now it's only a matter of seconds until my legs detonate."
*CRASH-CLANK
"...wait...my legs aren't supposed to do that."
*BAAAAAAM
"There we go."
Mettaton shot the conveyer belt next to the steam puzzle and run across it when it a screeching halt. 'I really wish I still had the option to fly. Running like this is not attractive.'
'Although the human's weak, I have to admit he has an abundance of determination to get him this far. I wonder what's been his motivation this entire time?' He stopped when he saw Naruto, two beefy royal guards, and the blasted remains of his legs sprawled across the burnt ground. "At least the human died fabulously." As Mettaton stepped over their smoldered bodies, he fell straight down.
"I'm not dead yet," Naruto growled, his hand tightly clasped on Mettaton's now smudged pink boots.
"Now you are." His leg ejected into Naruto's stomach. Mettaton smirked while he got himself up, which soon made itself into a slight frown at the site of seeing his blood sprayed across the wall. 'It's not too late to find out now, is it?'
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'You don't really believe your sacrifice will be the perfect solution, if you ever die, then war will once again break out between monsters and humans and then...well, I'm not so sure after that. If you won't settle for killing them, then what?'
'I don't know. I don't know the answer, I don't know what I can do for them...or for me.'
'Maybe you should start by waking up.'
'Huh?'
'Wake up.'
'What...'
'Didn't you heard me the first time, I said WAKE UP!'
Naruto's eyes slowly peeled open to Undyne with the same angry expression he was already accustomed to seeing. "Uh...un...Undyne? Wha-what're you doing here...I'm doing f-fine on-my-own."
"Fine?!" She shook him back and forth. "We thought you were actually dead!" She turned him around so he could take note at the disgusting amounts of blood staining the walls.
"How d-did the bleeding stop?"
"It might be because you're a cockroach."
"Ima what?"
"S-So I'm guessing Mettaton did this to you?" Alphys spat out.
"Uh-huh."
"I see, well, that was mean of him. H-here." Naruto descried a brand new phone perching in the graphs of her claws. He unraveled his arm and grabbed it. "There're these cool features on the phone th-that can help you not die."
He gave her a crooked smile in return. "Thanks,"
"No problem!"
"Ca-Captain Undyne! Like, what're you doing here with the human?!"
Everyone turned their attention to two guys clad in giant, hefty amour. Both of them held a sword in hand and the instinct to attack on a dime.
"Brah, and the Royal scientist is there too! The human's totally holding them hostage!"
Undyne rolled her eye. "01 and 02, we're standing right beside him. We're not even tied up or anything."
They huddled to reach a clear and concise descion. "We'll protect you, Cap! Team attack!" Obviously there was some miscommunication during the huddle. Together, the two charged for the human in hopes to rescue his 'hostages'.
"Oh great, now I have to—"
"Wait," Naruto said, getting his phone out. "I wanna try something." He jammed the large yellow button that up most of the phone's area and it reassembled itself into something Naruto had never seen before.
"Wha-what is this thing?" Naruto asked, marveling at the weapon he was holding.
"A t-type 11 gas operated light machine gun." Alphys sputtered.
"A GUN?!" Undyne yelled.
"Umm..."
Naruto unknowingly pulled the lever sticking out on the front and the gun fired like crazy. Bullets went everywhere and as Undyne was wrangling the gun from Naruto's accident prone hands, one of them hit RG 02's armor, somehow making the entire torso piece fall apart.
Undyne reverted the gun back to its simple cellphone function the threw it, along with a glare, back to Naruto. "Well uh.." Undyne muttered.
"Yeah.." Alphys finished, blinded from the light bouncing off 02's body.
RG 01 broke out into a nervous sweat when he witnessed his friend's overly toned body practically shining from the buckets of sweat he produced in the armor. "Br...bro...you...r...a...!"
"...Much better." RG 02 happily sighed. 01 froze when he turned towards him with those beefy, beefy abs. "...wanna finish the team attack, dude?"
"I...I ac...tu...al...ly...I.."
"COME ON! Say whatever you're going to say already or finish fighting me!" Naruto yelled.
"The human's right...D-dude...I can't take it anymore! 02...I like you, like LIKE you...I like everything about you! The way you fight, the way you talk...and doing team attacks with you...and waving our weapons in sync. I love every single second of it...and, like, I want it to stay like this forever with...you."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
All eyes were on RG 01, time seemed to stop around them until he opened his mouth to say another word. "...I mean. Haha, that human, man, must of put me under some kind of mind control spell thing before the fight and...and..."
"01..."
"Y-yeah bro?"
"...do you...want to get some ice cream?"
"Sure dude, of course!"
RG 01 held his hand out and RG 02 took it, the two walked away never stopping to look at anyone else but each other. Undyne and Alphys glanced at the Royal guards then to each other.
"I...I would've never imagined those two were like...that...it was kind of, really..." Undyne lowered her voice enough so Naruto wouldn't hear. "...cute."
"Yeah...do you..."
Undyne held her hand out and Alphys took it without hesitation. Undyne smiled. "I'd do anything with you."
'I didn't expect that to happen. Whatever. I'm definitely gonna use this on Mettaton!' "Alright, bye gu—ah—you too?!"
"Don't you dare say anything, kid, or I'll kill you on the spot," Undyne threatened, her face as well as Alphys' hand, turning as red as her hair.
"R-right!"Naruto decided a simple wave as goodbye would be safer and ran off to the news station.
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Mettaton tapped a pencil on his Mettaton shaped coffee mug. "So, as a recap, the one responsible destruction of my beautiful body, cooking studio, and...Tsundereplane, is the human. Which is why I, your dashing host, will be terminating the human once and for all on national, live-televison!"
"So, how was that?"
The cameraman nodded in approval.
"Like I'd even had to ask." He adjusted his bright yellow tie. 'Good, good, the human's here.' "It's about time to start the real performance right about...now."
MTT Highlight News!
"OHHHHH YES! Welcome beauties and gentlebeauties, mind the fact I look like a god right now, because on today's latest installment we begin our last chapter on the human. I'm sure all of you Hotland dwellers have heard the sad news of what happened to my cooking studio and Tsundereplane's demise. So who, you ask, should you direct all your anger towards?"
Right on cue, the giant monitor behind him flickered onto a giant image of Naruto walking about. "The human!"
[Volcano monster tries its very best, recieves tiny applause from co-workers]
Naruto approached a semi-large, strangely lifeless area. Around its perimeter were assortments of random items he could care less about. 'Doesn't look like there's anything here..'
*BEEP
*BEEP
Thinking it was Alphys, he made the mistake of holding the cellphone close up and nearly got his eardrums ruptured from Papyrus' unnaturally loud voice. "What's up?" Naruto asked.
"I'm seeing you on TV right now and on one of my most favorite shows! You're so infamous now!"
"In...famous?"
"Yeah, he was blaming you for killing someone called Tsundereplane, not anymore, now he's talking about how much of a brat you are for being on the phone. Don't fret, human, it's a part of Mettaton's act to add tension, he knows you wouldn't do that!"
[Incomimg call]
"H-hey, human, um, I should probably tell you there's another function on the—"
"Who is this?" Papyrus asked.
"Wha...oh I'm Alphys...Dr. Alphys. Remember, I shipped you that puzzle?"
"Dr. Alphys! Oh my god! Undyne talks about you all the time during our club days, well, sometimes the human too, but 99.876% you!"
"PAPYRUS!" Undyne yelled. "...Alphys, Alphys are you okay?"
"...well...uh, kid, just hit the yellow button twice, and it'll turn into something EXTRA cool!"
"Like what?' Naruto said.
"Like a...bomb defuser." Alphys mumbled.
"What I'll need that for?"
"Everyone, Mettaton just made everything a bomb!"
"WHAT?!"
Naruto took a second look at the lifeless area and found all the random items he found mundane were bombs in disguise. Even being completely surrounded by ticking bombs, Mettaton still found a way to make him the center of attention.
"Nice surprise, huh? Literally everything's a bomb!" Mettaton exclaimed. "My MTT-brand fashion balls are bombs, that dog is a bomb, why, even this chapter is a bomb."
"This...what?!"
Chapter 15: My ans-BOOM
Naruto saw the letters 'W' 'E' 'R' fall in the distance, he looked back at Mettaton who was twirling the mic. "Mettaton! What the hell is going on?!"
"Fantastic question my brave friend. Right now you're participating in the main event of MTT news! If you don't defuse all these bombs," He extended his arm to a massive pink bomb on the island across from them. "Then in two minutes this thing right here will blow you into smithereens. If that happens, well, let's just say you won't be reporting in 'live' anymore, will you?"
"How awful, how disgusting, how...exciting! Mr. Uzumaki, our beautiful ten viewers will eat up the chance to witness your gruesome tragedy firsthand!"
"...But won't you blow up along with me since you can't fly anymore!"
"No, no. Whenever I start the bomb, I'll be far, far away from here." Mettaton pulled out a remote from his sleeves. "Good luck, darling! Not that I want you to have it!"
*click
WE/R: Please Undyne, Naruto's killed you before. Tsk.
I'm slightly tweaking the first battle between Undyne and Naruto to have a bit more action so look forward to that.
Second Underswap short for late update below
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Menma: "Why are you wasting my time, again?"
Papyrus: "Heh, take a wild guess."
Menma: "...I give up."
Papyrus: "Thought you'd say that. Right now you're on NTT's legally required news channel, apparently he blames himself for murdering Tsundereplane, which I doubt that's true, and the fact that you personally give him nightmares."
Menma: "...what?"
[incoming call]
Undyne: "Human, I know I'll regret telling you this later, but—"
Papyrus: "Dr. Undyne?"
Undyne: "Hey, Pap...!"
Alphys: "Is that you, Papyrus?"
Papyrus: "Oh, Alphys, you're with Undyne and she didn't pass out yet?"
Alphys: "PAPYRUS!"
Undyne: "I-I don't do that ALL the time!"
Menma: "Shut up! You three idiots wasted enough of my time already, say what you're going to say already Undyne or—" *sees Napstaton standing right in front of him*
Napstaton: "You know, the show's waiting for you, Uzumaki."