One month later, we were all just about as happy as we were in the underground. The dream before didn't come back, and I felt great. Everything settled down, and no one looked at us as if we were foreign creepy spies or complete psycho murderers (except that little annoying kid… he's a different story) and life was great.
The humans let us stay and sleep in their own houses for a little bit until they realized "Wow! I didn't realized that monsters lived somewhere!" and they decided to get their lazy butts to work on building cute litte homes for us. For the past couple days I've been lazily sleeping in people's houses (they didn't complain if I didn't complain… they tended to stay away from me) and today the humans finally finished the houses they promised for us.
So of course, as I was unpacking my stuff (which included a bag of rubbish I managed to scavenge from my burnt down house that wasn't covered in spaghetti) I hear a song start playing. I look around, and find that my phone was ringing, and playing the Mew Mew Kissy Cutie theme song that Alphys installed for me days before. I grumbled, and held the phone up to my ear.
"HI UNDYNE! IT'S ME, THE GREAT PAPYRUS!" I heard Papyrus loudly from the phone.
"What Papyrus? I'm kind of in the middle of unpacking here-" I started.
"RIGHT! UNDYNE, WE KIND OF NEED A LITTLE BIT OF HELP PACKING HERE IN SNOWDIN… SANS IS REFUSING TO GET OFF HIS BUTT AND HELP ME OUT. COULD YOU HELP ME?" Papyrus said enthusiastically. I groaned, but then realized that there was no way I could say no to such a happy face like Papyrus.
"Fine." I put the phone on speaker phone and talked when I was putting my little fish mugs in the cabinet in order like usual: Piranha, Salmon, Cod, Pike and Anchovy. "You'll have to promise me some spaghetti when I get there, okay? Cause that run is a long run," I snorted, done putting my fish mugs in the right order and back near the phone on the table.
"ALRIGHT! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL HAVE SPAGHETTI DONE FOR YOUR ARRIVAL!" Papyrus said in the most enthusiastic voice he could muster. I smiled at his confidence, as I heard him bound off to probably the kitchen.
"SEE YOU SOON, PUNK!" I laughed loudly into the phone, and shut the lid. I shoved it into my back pocket, and before you knew it I was running off up the hill at top speed to get there as fast as I could.
One of the pains of going back to Snowdin from the human village is because of how long the trip is. You'll spend a lot of your time racing through everything, but the few things that are slow (which includes that determined bird that I always have to use… he always takes a long time, and I can't bare it). You're probably thinking 'Wow, Undyne! Didn't you know you could always use the River Person to get to Snowdin faster?' Well let's just say, that's against my rules. No offense, but all people who use the River Person to get around are lazy and are complete nerds. So, for a well balanced diet, the run makes me feel great despite the distance of the run. But, in a way, it's incredibly boring. Running through the waterfall with nothing but blue and more blue and more blue annoys you so much, and makes you want to paint it all over in a red like color or something like that. Like me! They could use me as a model.
So finally, I got to Papyrus' house. I knocked on the door, tired, but determined, and Papyrus opened with a huge bowl full of the godly food, spaghetti, and some sauce.
"COME ON IN, UNDYNE! WE GOT YOUR SPAGHETTI READY!" Papyrus said joyfully, as he turned around and handed me some spaghetti. We both plopped on the coach, which was the only thing not boxed, and I started wolfing it down happily. Sans was sitting on the ground next to his rock, and he just sat there watching it.
"SANS! YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY PLAY WITH A ROCK IF YOU WANT IT TO BE YOUR PET! IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KEEP IT IN THE HUMAN VILLAGE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF IT YOURSELF!" Papyrus stopped eating and looked at Sans, frowning. Sans looked up at Papyrus, and blinked.
" do you have any suggestions?" Sans questioned back to Papyrus steadily.
"WELL, BROTHER, I GUESS I DO… WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Papyrus asked back. I stopped eating my spaghetti, and watched the brothers.
" well i don't really want my pet skills hitting rock bottom you know…" Sans grinned happily up at his brother, and I frowned as I realized the pun. Papyrus didn't seem to realize it, so we both let the conversation continue.
"UM… I GUESS I SHOULD TELL YOU THAT YOU SHOULD FEED IT A LITTLE-" Papyrus frowned, and thought about what his brother said. He frowned, probably realizing that Sans comment before was a pun, and started to look annoyed. "SANS! THAT WAS NOT A GOOD PUN!"
" that took you a little bit," Sans looked pleased at his jokes. Papyrus frowned, and didn't say anything probably because he knew his brother would say another pun back. I turned back to my food, as Papyrus stood up and brought his bowl (he was eating it out of the bowl he made it in… surprisingly it was vaguely bumped in some places as if Papyrus wore it as a hat before) into the kitchen, as I heard some water running. A couple minutes later, Papyrus was standing in front of me, with his bowl as a hat. I grinned as I finished my spaghetti, put it down on the couch, and jumped up.
"Let's do this!" I jumped up enthusiastically. Papyrus hooted in happiness, and started grabbing boxes left and right and brought them outside.
" hey paps? all of my stuff is already up in the human village…" Sans walked up behind Papyrus, who was holding 3 boxes in a row and could barely hold them straight. "so can i go to grillby's?" Sans asked, as Papyrus' eyes narrowed.
"i just want to talk to grillby before he heads out too," Sans looked up at Papyrus innocently.
"FINE!" Papyrus sighed. "JUST DON'T STAY THERE TOO LONG, OKAY?" Papyrus walked outside so Sans could exit the house, put his boxes down outside, and walked back in.
The whole cycle of putting boxes in the front of the house took around 30 minutes, and by then Sans still wasn't back. Papyrus stood outside, looking for his brother, as I sat on his coach that was now outside, without any plates on it.
"WHERE IS SANS," Papyrus wondered to himself, as he gazed around Snowdin. There were fluffy bunnies and cute little mice around, but there was no sign of the short skeleton.
"He went to Grillby's , remember?" I sighed, as Papyrus drooped. He then straightened up, and looked at me.
"LET'S GO, THEN!" Papyrus started walking confidently towards Grillby's. I sighed in defeat… even though I've never liked the pub, the confidence in Papyrus' stride made me feel happy. We entered the pub, as the door swung shut with a clunk.
"Hello, Papyrus! And… Undyne?" Grillby regarded me with a mysterious stare, probably wondering why I was here. We walked up to the bar, as I looked at Grillby with the same expression.
"IS SANS HERE?" Papyrus looked around, frowning. Papyrus turned back to Grillby as he sighed and shook his head.
"He came in here a little while ago, and left. Did you lose him again?" Grillby looked at Papyrus, as Papyrus sighed.
"IT SEEMS SO," Papyrus frowned. "AND RIGHT WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE!" I noticed a weird spear that was lodged right in the middle of some glasses on the shelf behind Grillby, and I remembered the quest that Revetan sent me on. I narrowed my eyes and frowned.
"Grillby? What is that spear doing there?" I asked questioningly.
"I have no idea. Supposedly it appeared yesterday night… I have no idea when. Why?" Grillby looked back at me questioningly.
"Revetan, the leader of the human village, sent me on a quest to find out about spears like these. One of these showed up lodged in the side of his house somehow…" I questioned Grillby. He frowned and shook his head.
"I have no idea about anything about it," He said, confused about who in the world this guy was. Grillby hesitated and looked down at the table and back up to me. "Well… I do realize that you're a good monster and everything but…"
"What?" I frowned at his orange flame.
"The spear kind of looks like the ones you use it battle… the energy spears, right?" Grillby said, pondering if he should be saying what he's saying. "Could you possibly be involved in this case?"
I slammed my fist hard on the table, making Grillby and Papyrus jump. "NO WAY! The only reason I'm part of this STUPID case is because I was ASSIGNED it! If I was in it, I would be DONE with it by now!" I stood up, furious to ever be accused like that. "This whole entire town is full of drunkards," I said under my breath as I stormed out. Papyrus quickly followed after me, confused.
"ARE YOU OKAY, UNDYNE?" Papyrus asked politely.
"I'm fine, Papyrus," I said to Papyrus, mad at Grillby for making a comment like that. Then I realized. Why would I be so upset about something small as that? I wondered, my mind like burning fire. I shrugged off the whole idea, and smiled wide at Papyrus.
"Let's go find Sans!" I exclaimed happily.
After looking everywhere, out of Snowdin and in, we were hot and roasted. We stopped at the cooler in Snowdin, which was half it's original height because of people drinking it, and drank some water. I took three cups of the delicious stuff and poured it over my head, sweady and sweltering.
"LAST STOP:: ALPHYS' LAB!" Papyrus jumped back into action after a quick drink. I frowned in exhaustion.
"You sound like you could be a mini Mettaton," I smiled as I crumpled up the cup and threw it into the lava-y depths below.
"AWW! DARLING, YOU'RE SO SWEET!" Papyrus attempted to imitate Mettaton in a well done robot like voice. I laughed as I stood up.
"LAST ONE INSIDE IS A ROTTEN EGG!" I jumped into action and started running to the lab. Papyrus ran after me, probably confused. I knocked on the lab door, ready to shove myself into the air conditioning as fast as humanly possible, and Papyrus did the same.
"I WILL NOT BE A ROTTEN EGG!" He frowned at the thought. "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
"You lose if you get in there last!" I looked furiously at the door as Alphys was taking a long time to unlock it. When the door opened, Papyrus and I shoved forward with all of our might, as I cheered as I entered. Alphys stood next to the door, smiling.
"What was it this time, U… Undyne…?" Alphys looked at me, curious.
"I BEAT PAPYRUS TO THE DOOR!" I exclaimed loudly with a big smile. "FUUUU!" Alphys smiled in amusement, as Papyrus sighed in defeat.
"What do you n… need, Undyne?" Alphys asked me, interested.
"WE NEED TO FIND SANS! HE WENT MISSING!" Papyrus told Alphys, as she frowned. "WE LOOKED EVERYWHERE! WELL, EXCEPT HERE," Papyrus frowned and rubbed the back of his neck as he looked down at Alphys.
"I… I don't know where he could be…" Alphys looked around. "Y… you don't think he went up to the human village without you, r… right?" She had a puzzled look on her face, and sweat started forming on her forehead.
"SANS WOULDN'T! HE PROBABLY COULDN'T EVEN GET CLOSE TO THE HUMAN VILLAGE WITHOUT MY HELP!" Papyrus puffed up in pride, as I frowned.
"Hmm… T… there is one place he just might be…" Alphys frowned and looked to the ground. "I… I have no idea how he could get down there, b… but it's worth a shot!" Alphys stopped frowning.
"WHERE, ALPHYS?" Papyrus wondered.
"The… the true lab," she said, as I inhaled deeply. The true lab was one thing she didn't talk about ever, and the fact she even said that to Papyrus was unbelievable. She doesn't even mention it when I'm around, and I'm her girlfriend.
"Can we and check there, Alphys?" I wondered, interested in what her response would be. She inhaled and sighed.
"Fine," she said without stuttering. "F… follow me," she walked towards the elevator.
We all walked in, as she pressed a button, as the elevator started to move. We were all silent the whole way down, and the elevator slowly came to a stop.
We walked down a long hallway. Journal entries showed up on the wall, and I neglected to read them. I shivered as icy cool air as cold as the water in Snowdin was whispered around my legs, and the whole entire place felt like it was from a horror movie. We turned and saw a big door with four circuits of color going towards the middle.
"W… WOW," Papyrus said, voice shivering.
"I… I really wished the heat worked down here," Alphys sighed out water vapor out of her mouth. "Let's check down here first, Alphys went to the right and opened a door with a symbol like the other door before but in red. We walked through, and ended up at a room full of beds.
So this is where the Amalgamates stayed, I thought, shivering. She went through a passageway at the top of the room, and went to the right. She walked in, and turned on a fan that blasted even more cold air on top of the cold air already there. If we were Ice caps, we would be a-okay. But sadly we're not.
"A… Alphys?" I shivered. "How did you work in this?!" I wondered, still amazed.
"The amalgamates needed cold air for them to stay more solid," she shrugged. "Warmer air means more work," she walked past Papyrus and I, as we started walking back. I nodded at her sensibility, and followed her.
Instead of turning to the left like before, we kept going straight. The air was still oddly foggy like before, but Alphys was completely unfazed so I believe that's normal? We entered a room with a huge, bug like machine in it, and Papyrus blinked, confused.
"WHAT IS THAT?" Papyrus said to Alphys.
"It's the determination extractor," she stopped, frowned, and still was looking at the ground. "I… I've always hated using that thing," she kept walking forwards. Papyrus still had his confused look on him as we entered another room which was more foggy than the others.
"Check here-" Alphys started when we heard something clatter onto the floor. We all froze in fear, standing close to the wall on our right.
"Hello?" I said out, as another wisp of coldness hit me. I tried to ignore it, but sadly the only goal that that helped me out was just making harder for my body to make my scales not freeze. I shivered again when no one answered.
"HMM…" Papyrus said to us, trying to make us more confident. "M… MUST BE THE WIND…"
"L… let's go check out a different room first," Alphys sounded more spooked than all of us. I put my hand on her shoulder in fear, which made her relax a little bit more.
"Beep boop a beep boop," we heard from the darkness. All of our hearts stopped beating for a second.
"WHO'S THERE?!" Papyrus said loudly. "CAUSE YOU DONT SCARE ME," the mist seemed to get thicker and thicker in the room as he spoke. I summoned a energy spear and guarded Alphys, who seemed terrified.
I turned around to head back.
But
There
Was
Someone
Standing
Right
There.
I screamed and bolted off past the figure. Alphys and Papyrus must have seen this weird figure as well, because I heard their screaming. We all, in complete terror, ran back into the elevator, pushed the button around a thousand times, and waited for the elevator to open.
The door opened.
And there stood Sans.
"Boy. You guys looked spooked," if Sans could have frowned, he would have. "Are you okay?"