It had been weeks since the meeting that Aster had with the captain and king. Aster was right outside the blizzard area, thinking of the possibilities of success and failure. In total there was a ten percent chance of success with defects in the timeline. the other percent was not affecting the blizzard at all with the chance of death by magic fatigue.
However not trying at all will eventually lead to purging of monsters to prevent overcrowding. So with a deep sigh and opening his eyes for the first time that day, he infused his hands with the magic.
The blizzard was wailing as it glowed a silver light slowly going forwards in time. The pain Aster felt from using all of his magic reserves was unbearable. However before he blacked out and subsequently failed, he felt more magic going into him. Looking back he saw the king and Gerson giving him their magic.
"Did ya think you would do this alone, bone doctor!?" Joked Gerson even though the wails of the blizzard muffled his voice.
"Focus Gerson, we need Aster's spell to work!" Order the king as he and the turtle gave the doctor nearly all of their magic. The output was consuming much more then all of them produce and failure seamed imminent.
Just when they were about to run out the blizzard pushed them all back. To the prying eye it looked like it failed, but to Aster it worked despite the low possibility of success. The explosion was deeper in the timeline. That meant in a few minutes the blizzard would rise to the ceiling of the next area due to a new upstream in the mountain.
After that Aster blackout, a smile of victory on his face.
In the barracks near the entrance of the underground, Muffet was still having trouble training. She wasn't used to a two armed fighting style, especially due to muscle memory of still having six instead of two arms. Which is why Muffet got trounced by Undyne, whom since the maiming of both of them unlocked her magic potential.
There was about six spears near Muffet and one right in her face by Undyne. Undyne then gave her a hand and Muffet took it with respect.
"Your getting better, last time I only needed two spears!" Undyne Proudly proclaimed to Muffet, despite the compliment Muffet felt worse.
Muffet sheathe her two swords awkwardly into place. "I feel like it's getting worse, even my reactions are terrible and I have six eye-" Muffet cringed because of the obvious insult to her fish friend. "Sorry."
Undyne gave Muffet a hard pat on the back. "No prob, it's not what makes a fighter like eyes or arms. That's what Gerson taught us, remember?" Indeed Gerson did teach them it's the experience and spirit the makes a fighter powerful and respected. "Why don't we stop and relax a bit to get you're mind relaxed?"
Muffet nodded as Undyne's magic spears vanished. "Where to? please say not to prank Asgore, I know how much you want to 'beat him up'." Muffet pointed an accusing finger at Undyne, who whistled away from the finger.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Undyne muttered as she walked away. "Okay, fine. so what do we-!?" She stopped as a loud rumbling filled the entire underground.
"What is this, an earthquake!?" Muffet yelled over the sound the gigantic sound nearly muffled her voice.
"I don't know, but it's coming from the royal area!" Undyne yelled as she summoned the spear. "Come on, we have to find the sound and put it to submission!" The fish warrior ran off from her spider friend.
Muffet looked at her two arms before running off as well towards the sound.
The two guards made it to the royal area where dozens of royal guards quarantined the area. However, Gerson wasn't there and it worried the two late guards.
"What happened here!?" Undyne commanded one of the guards in urgency.
"We don't know, all we heard was rumbling coming from the king's home!" The guard yelled back at the fish. "Gerson went in there for something, but that's all I know!"
After hearing Gerson's name, Undyne had enough and pushed the guard out of the way. "We need to back him up!" She protested as she charged in there before any guard had the chance to grab her.
The guard who told Undyne looked for Muffet, but she was gone as well. "Sneaky bastard." The guard muttered as he thought of a soon demotion as a gardener.
Inside the royal home the rumbling was so intense it almost made Undyne fall over. If Muffet wasn't there to hold her up. "Thanks, Muffet!"
"Don't mention it, right now we have a sound to silence!" Muffet yelled as she helped keep Undyne steady.
"The sound is coming from the basement!" Undyne yelled at muffet, but despite being so close to her the voice is nearly muffled.
Muffet nodded and went to the basement where no monster besides the king could go. inside the sound from the rumbling was getting so loud even Muffet had a hard time staying up.
Undyne help Muffet be steady as well as they ventured deeper into the basement. What they saw shocked them, a secret area with a huge blizzard at the entrance. At said entrance was the doctor, the captain, and the king himself trying to dispel the blizzard. After a few seconds of deafening sound it stopped and Aster fell backwards.
"That...was...Awesome!" Undyne yelled as the turtle captain snapped his head back at them. "Oops."
"Why are you two here!" Gerson snapped at them. "Did you not see a quarantine of guards!?" Gerson's words were stopped by the king's hand on his shoulder.
"Gerson, let us hear what they had to say before you yell at them." Asgore's face showed compassion for the two guards.
Undyne and muffet bowed in respect. "Your highness-" Muffet who was talking was silenced by Asgore's waving hand.
"Please, you played prank on me for so long. Just call me Asgore." The king solemnly sighed, after all it took a majority of his magic to accomplish that spell. He was tired and would like a normal talk for the rest of the day.
Muffet and Undyne nodded. "Asgore, we came because we feared for your safety as well as Gerson's." Muffet stated as a matter of fact for the problem.
Asgore nodded in thought. "I see. You did your job well, even if it was not needed." Asgore looked at Gerson who just shrugged. "You will not be punished, but you do know the truth about the next area." Asgore sighed as he needed to rest real soon. "As such you will be on an expedition to find a place to expand our kingdom." Asgore walked past the two guards with sleepy eyes before turning around. "just keep this a secret, we don't want the kingdom in an uproar."
The king left and so did Gerson, who was carrying an exhausted Aster.
After that the two guards saw the next area which was full of snow. Muffet inwardly gasped for breath in fear for the first time.
"Muffet, what's wrong?" Undyne shook her friend, who was bluntly string at the snow with sweat.
Muffet broke out of the stare and fasly smiled at Undyne. "N-noting at all, let's go back."
Before Undyne could ask anymore questions the spider speedwalked away. "Nothing my ass." Undyne followed suit as she had to find out what scared Muffet so badly.