Kennedy

Everyone is too shocked or speechless to saw anything, caught up in their own thoughts.

Except for Alyssa, who's staring down at the floor, hand still on head.

Us? Protecting people?

"Wait, Alyssa?" I ask.

Alyssa's head comes up to look at me. "Yeah?"

"Do you know where we were at?" I ask.

Alyssa looks up to the ceiling and there is a long gap of silence.

I hold my breathe, not knowing what to expect.

Alyssa turns to me again. "It kind of looked like we were at the park."

With that, everyone breaks into commotion and I can hear little things that people are saying and who's saying it.

"But monsters can't go up there unless the barrier is broken!" I hear Annaka exclaim.

"Why would we be protecting them? What were the monsters doing?" I hear Nya puzzle.

"If we have to protect them, I'll protect them with my life!" I hear Kealani yell.

At Kealani, I give a small giggle. But everyone is quickly shushed by Alyssa, who is holding her head and closing her eyes.

"Guys!" Alyssa yells. "Stop! I'm getting a headache!"

Everyone goes quiet and looks back at Alyssa.

Alyssa looks up at us and exhales a big breath.

The silence drags on for a while, everyone staring at Alyssa, Alyssa holding her head in her hand.

Alyssa finally takes a big breath and looks up at us.

"Guys, look," Alyssa starts. "I don't know anything about it. I just saw an image with us in our other selves, humans behind us, and monsters in front of us. That's all."

"But how?" Lily asks. "It's just..." Lily shakes her head. "I don't even know."

Alyssa shakes her head and starts to get up. "Can we just try and take our minds off of this? How long have we been asleep?"

I shrug. "No idea. But do you want to try and get out of the Inn?"

Alyssa nods and stands up. "Where are we going to go?"

"Wherever," I reply. "We can split up in groups or something."

"Ok, sounds good," Alyssa says.

And with that, we all go out of the room, down to the lobby.

Annaka

"DO YOU WANT TO TRY, HUMAN?"

I shrug and stand up from the rock(the same rock from before when I came out to watch Papyrus practice).

"Sure," I reply, pulling out my blue bone. "I'll try."

I hold my blue bone up, transforming into my papyrus self.

"MAY I ASK WHY YOU WANTED TO COME OUT HERE?" Papyrus asks me, as I hold my bone up in an attack position.

"We wanted to take our minds off things," I reply.

"LIKE WHAT?"

I sigh and drop my arms to my side, explaining everything that happened with the dream, Alyssa, you get the gist.

After I am done explaining, Papyrus's eyes light up.

"WOWIEE! THAT MUST BE AMAZING!"

I sigh once more. "But like I said, I don't know what it is or if it will happen or what."

"DO YOU THINK IT WILL HAPPEN?" Papyrus asks.

I shrug. "I don't know. I as clueless as everyone else." I hold my bone up again in an attack position. "I wish I did." I hold the bone above my head, making other blue bones come forth. "Then I wouldn't be so helpless." I point to a tree and the bones slam into the tree with a loud BANG in my frustration.

I am gritting my teeth, frustration filling my whole body. I continue to grit my teeth until a hand touches my shoulder.

I look up to see Papyrus smiling at me.

"DON'T WORRY, HUMAN," he says to me. "I BELIEVE IN YOU AND KNOW YOU'LL ALWAYS DO GREAT. I MEAN, YOU ARE A GIRL VERSION OF THE GREAT PAPYRUS. OF COURSE YOU'LL BE GREAT."

My frustration melts away and is instantly replaced with confidence and gratefulness.

I smile up at Papyrus. "I am pretty great, aren't I?"

Kennedy

"What do you think is on tv?"

Sans shrugs. "probably just the usual."

All of us are sitting on the couch in Sans and Papyrus's living room, trying to find something to do.

"Can we go out and explore Snowdin?" Juliana asks.

I shrug. "Sure. Why not?"

Juliana pumps her fist and they start to get up until I stop them with one last statement.

"But, if you get lost," I say. "I think you can call me with the phone, like in the real game. Ok?"

They all nod and walk out of the house, closing the door behind them.

Silence.

I look towards the ceiling, exhaling a breath.

"hey kid," Sans says.

I jump a bit, not expecting him to talk.

Sans chuckles. "sorry."

I shake my head and relax again. "No problem. What's up?"

"when do you think you'll get the powers?" he asks.

"To turn into my other self?" I ask.

He nods.

I shrug. "Beats me. I'm not even sure what you have to give me in order to transform. Why? Have you been thinking about it?"

"haven't stopped thinking about it," he replies.

"Neither have I." I shake my head and look at the ground. "It's all so unbelievable."

"you still have to get back to the overworld, right?" Sans asks.

I nod. "Soon, too. I haven't even thought of that until you brought it up. I don't know what time it is, though, in the overworld."

There's more dragging on silence, until Sans breaks it, once again.

"so where is annaka and papyrus?" Sans asks.

I think for a moment. "I think they went out somewhere so Papyrus could practice."

"why'd you split up today?" he asks.

I shake my head. "To get our minds off things."

"like what?"

I sigh and start to explain everything that happened. Once I finish, Sans looks pretty surprised.

"wow, kid. that's unbelievable," Sans remarks.

I nod. "Very. I guess I'm just kind of ticked off I can't offer any help to the situation. All I can do is sit here."

"nobody else has any idea, either."

"Except for maybe Alyssa," I point out.

"well besides her, everyone else can't do anything about it," Sans says.

"I know," I reply. "But I haven't even received the powers. So I feel extra useless."

"you'll receive them soon," Sans replies.

There is another gap of silence.

Sans looks like he's thinking, until he says, "wanna go to my room?"

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