"We should get some more food… (at Grillby's)" Dogamy said to Dogaressa quickly when they entered the room.
Greater Dog, Dogamy, Dogaressa, Doggo, Asgore, Lesser Dog, and I were in a small room off of the throne room. Dogamy and Dogaressa quickly silenced their voices and ran over to their seat, conveniently next to each other. Asgore had a stern expression, and I looked at the group with a serious expression. The last person in our party- A small white dog- slowly walking in as I started talking.
"You all know that one of us has gone missing, yes?" I said to the group. Everyone nodded, and Asgore frowned.
"We've gotten some intel from Papyrus that Sans turned into our long gone friend W.D Gaster who was the royal scientist before Alphys," Asgore explained to the dogs, and they all looked at the king surprisingly. "We know you've looked around a whole lot already, but I want you to search in places we've never searched before like the true lab and around the waterfall. Ask everyone questions." I cleared my throat and Asgore stopped and waited for me to talk.
"I've talked to Alphys about what happened, and she said that she barely knew the doctor and his intentions, and supposedly the two haven't even met each other. Papyrus did say that the doctor was a bad man, however, and that he was horrible to Sans and Papyrus when they were little. So we should assume that this mission can become dangerous. I want you to wear full armor at all times when you're in your area… I've already talked to the royal guards in Hotlands and talked to them about working with you guys to take care of the waterfall area since I can't be down there at all times anymore." I explained to the dogs patiently. The dogs looked at me like I was crazy, but even though I knew they hated going into anywhere else except Snowdin, they'd have to live with it.
I only heard about the truth yesterday, and I went right to Asgore. I told him about WD, not Rons predicament even though it bugs me so much and the only one who might understand would be Asgore himself. Afterwards I talked to Alphys and some of the few people who might know about him, but it all failed and I didn't get any more intel.
"Why can't we- STOP MOVING I HAVE TO THINK" Doggo yelled at the little dog that was jumping around everywhere as usual. It stopped for a second and Doggo sighed. "Why can't we just patrol in Snowdin?" he said when the little annoying dog… I think his name's Toby… started poofing around again.
"Because you can't just expect everything to be in Snowdin, Doggo. Barely anythings in Snowdin anyway, and the sentry station isn't being used anymore since we are no longer looking for humans. You all should feel lucky that I feel you are great scouts unless I would have fired you from the job a long time ago," I paused for a dramatic effect. "I want you guys to actually be doing something again and that's why I put you in the waterfall area. I know you all hate the humidity over there but it will all be for the better." I explained. The dogs finally took me seriously and looked at me with their eyes wide as I spoke. "If you'd like, bring Endogeny because that might help find some clues. Just try to make it so it doesn't swallow the clues in goo, okay?"
"Yes (Yes)" Dogamy and Dogaressa said. The Greater and Lesser dogs nodded enthusiastically, Doggo nodded grimly and Toby continued to poof around as before.
"If you don't do your job I might enlist Jerry and make him go with you," I suggested. Asgore gave me the weirdest look, as all of the dogs, in sync, shook their heads.
"NO," Doggo said sternly as I smiled.
"Okay, then," I stood up. "Meeting adjourned." I got up and left before anyone could complain. I briskly walked to the elevator, and realized that since I got out around a hour early from that meeting that was only around 2 minutes long, and I stopped and thought. Alphys was doing some work at the lab and was playing around with some theories with the Gaster dude that I told her about (even though I feel we all know that she'll be watching anime anyway and wasting her time with some more rewatches of the "My neighbor totoro…?" thing that she's become obsessed with). I cracked my knuckles as I heard Dogi and Dogaressa talking to each other, and I decided to briskly walk to the end of the hallway and out towards the elevator to the surface so I could avoid conversation. I clicked the elevator button and walked into the elevator, and was only completely sure that I would avoid the dogs when I felt the elevator shift and go up.
Oh, and about the rocket powered elevators from a while ago? I mentioned it to Alphys and she thought it was a great idea. But the humans thought it was stupid and decided to take the idea down.
They're not cool. They're not nerds. Some nerds are cool.
I'm still amazed that I'm actually saying this but I might be turning into a nerd…? It's a scary transformation, by the way. Alphys might be getting me into anime.
Before I could think of anything else, the door beeped and opened to a non scenic view of the surface. The line that would usually be in front of a door was now nonexistent because it was around 2:00 in the afternoon, which I found to be the most silent time on the surface. I walked out of the elevator and continued down the main road which was lined by a whole lot of wooden houses with small flags with the person family rune on it, and I ended up running through the whole town to the tall green forest where I met Flowey the day before.
Suddenly, I heard some muffled voices. I breathed in quietly, and summoned a spear in case I would need to scare off some human children who aren't supposed to be in the forest anyway. I stopped, and turned around, and let a brisk breeze pass by before I started to walk again. The leaves ruffled violently as I heard another sound farther away and I turned suddenly towards a small crashing noise. I walked quietly through the undergrowth until I saw some small footprints going towards a large bushy area.
Quickly I walked towards the noise. The human children that were in the area were talking loudly to themselves as if they didn't realize that people might just be in the forest? Like you know, that might just be a possibility? If the people here in the town would use some common sense that it might just be more common for people to come into the forest when there's monsters around. Like what about us punks (to be more specific, Flowey and me) who usually go traversing the forest mapping things, while people tend to stay in the town for some weird reason that's complete superstition. Don't they realize that there's some more brave people in the world then them?
Suddenly, I heard a voice that could be recognized instantly as Chara. And the rest of the little kids that were with them… they seemed to have the same snake like hiss to their voices. I shivered at the memory of that day, when I was at Mount Ebott, when Chara tried to kill us monsters and Sans turned out to be who we didn't think he was. Could Chara and their henchmen turn out to be just like W.D? I closed my eyes and let the thought pass, as I heard a loud shriek from a monster who is my best friend.
Papyrus?
Faster than you could see, I bolted into the clearing and punched Chara across the clearing. I saw that Papyrus was tied up to a large tree on one side, and the children there all were wearing the colors of the rainbow associated to their souls. How appropriate for children who are mean and unruly to be wearing the colors of the rainbow. The kids looked at me, seemingly innocent, while Papyrus, defeated, was looked at me with a rare, sad expression in his eyes.
"What did you do to Papyrus?" I said in a low and threatening voice to the children. I held my spear at Chara, their leader, and Chara griminced.
"I told you that she was a monster! No other innocent monster would threaten a child!" Chara yelled at me. I stood there, eyeing the children, nervous of what they would accuse me of next.
"I'm here to save my friend from what you were doing. If you were smart enough, you would get out of my way so I can get Papyrus back to his house where he should be resting anyway." I retorted back to the little children.
"Did you just call me dumb?" Chara said up to me, frowning and still recovering from that punch.
"YEAH did you just call my best friend dumb?" The orange child swung his little orange headband around, and the yellow one nodded. I blinked at the sound of their voices… and I might have gotten a small amount of deja vu.
How do I remember these children? I thought deeply for a moment. I shook my head because there was no possible way that I would have met them before. They're too young and we've been on the surface for so little time that there was no possible way that I could have met them. But then… I still felt a really awkward edge while talking to them all.
"Let go, guys. We won't win this battle.'' The green child said slowly. Chara blinked their eyes slowly and started to run in the woods. I let them go.
"Papyrus! Are you okay?" I ran over to him and started untying the rope that bound him to the tree.
"UNDYNE…" he said slowly. He was still recovering from his wounds from earlier at the hospital, and it was still hard for him to talk. I stood him up, and started walking towards the village.
After a while we got to Papyrus' house by the edge of the woods. I opened the door and lead Papyrus in, and he collapsed on the coach that brought back memories of when Sans used to do the same on that coach.
"Are you okay, Papyrus?" I asked again.
"THE.. THE HUMANS. THEY SAID THAT SANS WILL NEVER COME BACK," Papyrus started tearing up. I stopped before exiting the house.
"They really said that?" I turned around and looked at him.
"Y.. YES THEY DID," Papyrus started crying, staring at the ceiling with a blank look in his eyes. I walked over to him slowly, and looked at him in his sad state that i've never seen before.
He's never been this upset before… I thought sadly, and frowned. Tears ran out of his eyes like a river, and he curled up in defeat.
"Papyrus… those kids are bad kids. Even though they're just like Frisk, they aren't nice. And they want you to be sad… they try to make your life miserable," I tried my best to explain the situation.
"THEY… THEY CAN'T BE THAT BAD…" Papyrus stopped crying as much, but still looked sad.
"They dont know whats right and wrong… it's a horrible position to be in." I struggled to explain the problem to Papyrus. "It's like the opposite of Frisk. There's no MERCY for them." I paused for a moment to let the situation sink in.
"HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO MEAN?" Papyrus wasn't crying anymore, but he still looked hurt from their words.
"I don't know, Papyrus. I don't know." I sighed and left Papyrus in the room. I walked outside, let the bustling town greet my senses, and briskly walked to the elevator to the king's castle. People, as always, looked at me as I walked past, but I didn't have any reason to dwell upon their thoughts and I had something to get done.
When I got to the elevator, it was absolutely abandoned because people were working usually around 11:00 in the morning. I walked in, clicked the button, and waited patiently for the stupid waiting music to be quiet. I started tapping my fingers against the side of the elevator impatiently when the door opened, and I walked out as fast as possible.
I walked into the Throne Room where the chirping of birds and the yellow flowers greeted me as if I were their friend. Little did they know that I usually take samples of other flowers in my extra time. I sniffed the pollen in disgust as I saw the large blundering figure of Asgore on the other side of the throne.
"Asgore?" I said. He jumped because he clearly didn't hear me come in, and looked over.
"Oh, hello Undyne! Would you like a cup of tea?" He said happily. He walked over, his cape dragging behind kind of like Alphys' oversized shirt, and loomed over me with the great height of 7 ½ feet next to my puny 6 foot 3.
"I have something to report, Asgore," I told him seriously. His happy smile melted into a sort of frown, as he sipped his already made tea concerned.
"The children kidnapped Papyrus, and thank goodness for me being there to kick them out." I frowned. "They brought him into the forest, and I was out there and heard them. Papyrus… he's really really depressed." I tried to explain it to Asgore. Asgore paused for a moment.
"If I was in that situation, I would too. Besides, Papyrus and Sans have such a brotherly connection to each other because of W.D, that they wouldn't be able to survive without each other," Asgore explained. "Did the children attack him?"
"It seems so. I healed him, however. It was minor damage," I looked seriously up at Asgore before he started pacing the room again.
"... Undyne. Do… do you sometimes feel that you remember those children? The rainbow colored ones?" Asgore said cautiously. I nodded, absolutely confused about what Asgore just said.
"It's because they're the souls. I didn't tell anyone, but when Frisk broke the barrier, we lost the souls. They were just gone." Asgore sighed.
"WAIT WHAT?" I froze and looked at Asgore. "Do you mean…?"
"Yes, Undyne. Those children are the fallen children. Frisk even revived Chara, my other child." Asgore coughed. "You better not tell Tori about this, okay? I don't know if she'd take it a good or bad way." I didn't respond.
"That's why they hate me. Because I fought them…" and killed some of them. I looked down at the ground, now absolutely terrified of my own self. Asgore nodded painfully, as I realized that he also killed some of them too.
"That's why LOVE is dangerous, Undyne. Tori was right," Asgore sighed, clearly trying not to cry.
"In your case, yes. Both ways," I tried to make a joke out of the conversation.
"Wait, what?" Asgore asked, confused.
"Toriel left you because of love and LOVE," I shrugged. "You should tell her. I think it would make her feel better about you."
"Really?" Asgore smiled, and stretched. "Ah, okay. I will."
"Oh right!" I thumbled with my bag over my shoulder, and protruded a DVD case that Alphys told me to give to the king a couple days ago. I handed the "My Neighbor Totoro…?" case to him and smiled. "Alphys told me to give this to you."
"Is it some more anime?" Asgore asked.
"Yes, it is. She thought it was really well done," I smiled the biggest smile I could. Asgore laughed and smiled.
"Um… I'll figure out the situation at hand. Thanks for telling me Undyne," Asgore smiled.
"Seeya Asgore!" I started to walk away and ended up tripping on something hard on the ground. I fell and landed on my arms, and I slowly stood up.
"Oh yeah! Those things have been appearing everywhere," Asgore pointed at the spear that I tripped over. "I've only seen around 2 of them so far."
"Where?" I asked.
"There was one that was lodged in the side of one of the human houses… and this one. This one showed up a couple days ago, but it seems that it was always there, it's quite a phenomenon isn't it?" Asgore said curiously.
"... Yes it is…" I frowned.
"I kind of looks like your spears, doesn't it?" Asgore looked slightly concerned. I sighed as I remembered the conversation with Grillby I had a while before, and looked at him.
"Yes it does… but it's not me, I swear! I was sent to learn about the spears from Revetan," I told Asgore. He gave me a weird look before smiling.
"Tell me when you learn more about it, then!" He said happily. I nodded, and smiled back.
"Of course!" I told Asgore. I turned around, warily stepped over the spear and walked back.
The flowers seemed to whisper in the wind as I walked back.